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*** Also in Season 3, Monti ended up as team captain in a challenge to cook for 101 cowboys and cowgirls, with her team consisting of herself, Josh, Felix and Becky (not her choices, as the judges decided to switch the teams that the captains picked). Her team ended up losing the challenge, and before the pressure test, the judges ask the four team members to decide between themselves which one of them would be saved and not have to take part in the pressure test. Josh, Felix and Becky all used their vote to save themselves, but Monti felt that, as team captain, she was responsible for the team's loss and she would take on the pressure test, so since only her vote would count, she chose to save Felix.
*** In the 8th episode of Season 5, Willie was the blue team captain in a challenge where the contestants had to work the line at a popular diner in L.A., and his team (narrowly) lost. He was then given a choice for the pressure test: either he could save himself, and let all six of his teammates compete, or he could elect to compete, and save three of his teammates. He chose the latter option (ultimately saving Daniel, Francis L, and Victoria), saying that he was a man of integrity and he felt responsible for the team's loss. Considering how Willie had [[NiceGuy presented himself]] up to that point in the competition, it wasn't surprising that he made this decision.
*** In Season 6, the first team challenge ended in a loss for Darah's team. After several questionable picks for team members to be safe (according to Katrina, she put friendships ahead of performance), Darah's last choice for immunity was to Hetal. Hetal promptly said that she was not comfortable accepting the immunity, since she felt she didn't perform up to the standard needed to accept immunity, and passed her immunity on to Derrick, one of the stronger performers in that challenge. She then proceeded to excel in the pressure test, putting up the best cinnamon buns out of the 5 people in the challenge.
*** In the 8th episode of Season 5, Willie was the blue team captain in a challenge where the contestants had to work the line at a popular diner in L.A., and his team (narrowly) lost. He was then given a choice for the pressure test: either he could save himself, and let all six of his teammates compete, or he could elect to compete, and save three of his teammates. He chose the latter option (ultimately saving Daniel, Francis L, and Victoria), saying that he was a man of integrity and he felt responsible for the team's loss. Considering how Willie had [[NiceGuy presented himself]] up to that point in the competition, it wasn't surprising that he made this decision.
*** In Season 6, the first team challenge ended in a loss for Darah's team. After several questionable picks for team members to be safe (according to Katrina, she put friendships ahead of performance), Darah's last choice for immunity was to Hetal. Hetal promptly said that she was not comfortable accepting the immunity, since she felt she didn't perform up to the standard needed to accept immunity, and passed her immunity on to Derrick, one of the stronger performers in that challenge. She then proceeded to excel in the pressure test, putting up the best cinnamon buns out of the 5 people in the challenge.
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** In the 8th episode of Season 5, Willie was the blue team captain in a challenge where the contestants had to work the line at a popular diner in L.A., and his team (narrowly) lost. He was then given a choice for the pressure test: either he could save himself, and let all six of his teammates compete, or he could elect to compete, and save three of his teammates. He chose the latter option (ultimately saving Daniel, Francis L, and Victoria), saying that he was a man of integrity and he felt responsible for the team's loss. Considering how Willie had [[NiceGuy presented himself]] up to that point in the competition, it wasn't surprising that he made this decision.
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*** In Season 8, Yachecia was given the choice to either save herself from the pressure test or save all bar herself and one other. She picked the latter and chose to compete against Jennifer, who struggled coping under pressure. After Jennifer lacked a lemon for her fish, Yachecia gave her one despite Jennifer boasting about defeating her (her coping mechanism to said pressure problem).
** In the episode after Willie from Season 5 above chose to save his own team member, he created a very disappointing dish using ingredients selected by Joe (tomato soup with an egg and flatbread), that Ramsay stated was a one out of ten. However, Cutter brought up a small, terrible "artisan" pizza, while Elise served a tiny, bland ravioli that she openly admitted was terrible, and after tasting everyone's dishes, the judges, rather than select the bottom three dishes, told the contestants who made the two worst dishes to raise their hand. It was obvious they were implying Cutter and Elise, and they both raised their hands...as did Willie. Gordon repeated the worst ''two'', and Willie kept his hand raised, while Cutter ''put his down''. The judges eventually had to tell Willie that he was safe.
** In the episode after Willie from Season 5 above chose to save his own team member, he created a very disappointing dish using ingredients selected by Joe (tomato soup with an egg and flatbread), that Ramsay stated was a one out of ten. However, Cutter brought up a small, terrible "artisan" pizza, while Elise served a tiny, bland ravioli that she openly admitted was terrible, and after tasting everyone's dishes, the judges, rather than select the bottom three dishes, told the contestants who made the two worst dishes to raise their hand. It was obvious they were implying Cutter and Elise, and they both raised their hands...as did Willie. Gordon repeated the worst ''two'', and Willie kept his hand raised, while Cutter ''put his down''. The judges eventually had to tell Willie that he was safe.
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** In the episode after Willie from Season 5 above chose to save his own team member, he created a very disappointing dish using ingredients selected by Joe (tomato soup with an egg and flatbread), that Ramsay stated was a one out of ten. However, Cutter brought up a small, terrible "artisan" pizza, while Elise served a tiny, bland ravioli that she openly admitted was terrible, and after tasting everyone's dishes, the judges, rather than select the bottom three dishes, told the contestants who made the two worst dishes to raise their hand. It was obvious they were implying Cutter and Elise, and they both raised their hands... as did Willie. Gordon repeated the worst ''two'', and Willie kept his hand raised, while Cutter ''put his down''. The judges eventually had to tell Willie that he was safe.
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* CurbStompBattle: In the first season of the Canadian Version, one team won a overwhelming ''107 votes'' out of 15.
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** US Junior season 2's Abby, during a challenge where they had to cook a restaurant-worthy dish, and she can only use two ingredients to do it. She never lets that deter her and she pushes on, managing to have one of the two best dishes of the night.
** US Junior season 7's Reid, after being burned on the hand by hot oil during a team challenge, decides to head back into the kitchen rather than sitting the challenge out after receiving first aid. He not only provides motivation for his teammates, but also manages to perform several smaller tasks one-handed while keeping his injured hand in an ice bath.
* DisappointedInYou: In the American version of ''Junior'', the judges say this when the semifinalists fail to produce a perfectly soft-boiled egg.
* EverybodyLives:
** ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Season 5 plays with this trope with Franchise/TheMuppets' help as guest star. In top 6's steak frites challenge, Miss Piggy also participated as contestant alongside the young cooks. She tricked Gordon into cooking the dish for her, resulting in her disqualification since she didn't present her own dish. In one sense, one contestant did go home, but not one of the original young homecooks.
* {{Flanderization}}: The first season of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' featured a challenge in which bowls of more-or-less whipped cream were inverted over the judges' heads.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_H1-UhPm2A]] This was a legitimate -- if messy -- test of the kids' ability to whip the cream to stiff peaks. But since then, ''every'' season has had the judges getting dumped on, after skill tests only loosely related to the goop being dumped.
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Goes without saying.
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Gordon Ramsay, who is often a ClusterFBomb waiting to happen, has to come up with creative alternatives for ''[[SpinoffBabies MasterChef Junior]]''. He does let one slip when the kids are challenged to whip cream into stiff peaks and hold it over the judges' heads[[note]]the idea being that if they did it correctly it would stay in the bowl[[/note]] and he gets covered in half-whipped cream as a result.
* GratuitousSpanish:
** Junior Season 5 has Gonzalo who originally comes from Peru and Aarón Sanchez exchanging some of this during Episode 3's mystery box challenge. In elimination challenge, Aarón calls Gonzalo forward in Spanish.
* InSeriesNickname: Alexander "Big Al" Weiss in the American version.
* InstantCostumeChange: This is what the show implies to happen when the judges in Junior US after a messy team challenge. It's not really apparent until the kids comment how they were able to change so fast in later seasons.
** US Junior season 7's Reid, after being burned on the hand by hot oil during a team challenge, decides to head back into the kitchen rather than sitting the challenge out after receiving first aid. He not only provides motivation for his teammates, but also manages to perform several smaller tasks one-handed while keeping his injured hand in an ice bath.
* DisappointedInYou: In the American version of ''Junior'', the judges say this when the semifinalists fail to produce a perfectly soft-boiled egg.
* EverybodyLives:
** ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Season 5 plays with this trope with Franchise/TheMuppets' help as guest star. In top 6's steak frites challenge, Miss Piggy also participated as contestant alongside the young cooks. She tricked Gordon into cooking the dish for her, resulting in her disqualification since she didn't present her own dish. In one sense, one contestant did go home, but not one of the original young homecooks.
* {{Flanderization}}: The first season of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' featured a challenge in which bowls of more-or-less whipped cream were inverted over the judges' heads.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_H1-UhPm2A]] This was a legitimate -- if messy -- test of the kids' ability to whip the cream to stiff peaks. But since then, ''every'' season has had the judges getting dumped on, after skill tests only loosely related to the goop being dumped.
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Goes without saying.
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Gordon Ramsay, who is often a ClusterFBomb waiting to happen, has to come up with creative alternatives for ''[[SpinoffBabies MasterChef Junior]]''. He does let one slip when the kids are challenged to whip cream into stiff peaks and hold it over the judges' heads[[note]]the idea being that if they did it correctly it would stay in the bowl[[/note]] and he gets covered in half-whipped cream as a result.
* GratuitousSpanish:
** Junior Season 5 has Gonzalo who originally comes from Peru and Aarón Sanchez exchanging some of this during Episode 3's mystery box challenge. In elimination challenge, Aarón calls Gonzalo forward in Spanish.
* InSeriesNickname: Alexander "Big Al" Weiss in the American version.
* InstantCostumeChange: This is what the show implies to happen when the judges in Junior US after a messy team challenge. It's not really apparent until the kids comment how they were able to change so fast in later seasons.
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** US Junior season 2's Abby, during Khaya from the SA version is pregnant but continues to outclass all of her fellow contestants.
** In the Chilean version, most contestants are still working at their regular jobs. Ignacio works nights as achallenge where they had garbage collector, so he almost doesn't sleep when he is cooking for the show. He also took the trope UpToEleven when he went in a wheelchair with a broken leg. And he is the most probable winner and the only one who already has an offer to cook a restaurant-worthy dish, and she can only use two ingredients to do it. She never lets that deter her and she pushes on, managing to have in one of the two best dishes of the night.
** US Junior season 7's Reid, after being burned on the hand by hot oil during a team challenge, decides to head back into the kitchen rather than sitting the challenge out after receiving first aid. He not only provides motivation for his teammates, but also manages to perform several smaller tasks one-handed while keeping his injured hand in an ice bath.judge's restaurants.
* DisappointedInYou: In ** Canada season 2's Jennifer, who after forgetting a key, must-have ingredient for a difficult dish and having a bit of a meltdown, pushes on and decides to, on the American version of ''Junior'', fly, make up a substitute for the judges say this when ingredient she lacked. She works non-stop and the semifinalists fail most focused she has so far and manages to produce a perfectly soft-boiled egg.great dish, stunning the judges. Other contestants lampshade how much she falls into this trope during that challenge.
** A more extreme version of US Season 9's Taylor is Josh from Canada Season 6 who went through ''every season's [=MasterChef=] Canada auditions'' until he got an apron.
* DistractedByTheSexy: The main reason Vicky, from the Spanish version S2, will be remembered. Because [[EatingTheEyeCandy "I can't cook with a hot guy in front of me."]] Because ''"Is he hot?"'' is probably her catchphrase. But mostly because of her hilarious teenager-like reactions to [[LustObject one of the judges]] ([[PuppyDogEyes doe-eyes]], giggling, [[CrushBlush blushing]], [[GibberishOfLove babbling]], almost burning food to a crisp,...). Obviously, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt everyone and their cat can see (and laugh about) it]]... even the [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage jury himself]]. Yeah, watching ''[=MasterChef=] Spain'' is almost like watching a [[LoveDodecahedron flipping soap-opera]].
* DrillSergeanrNasty:
** Judge Andrew Ratkinson in the SA version.
** And judge Alvin Leung from the Canada version. He is loud, strict, demanding and will get in contestants' faces if they produce crap food. That being said, he is very supportive towards contestants who do well and will never fail to give high praise to a good dish.
* TheEeyore: Eric from ''[=MasterChef=] Canada.'' He shows happiness whenever he does well, but the rest of the time, the look on his face is that of a sad, scolded puppy.
* EmotionlessGirl: ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' Season 5 contestant [[spoiler:and eventual winner]] Beccy, who was both still a teenager and rarely showed any emotion but cool calm. She sometimes crossed this with DeadpanSnarker.
* EverybodyLives: In ''[=MasterChef=] Indonesia'' Season 2, all five contestants survived the dish replication challenge because of different reasons than examples above; none of them successfully replicated the dish and each of them made equally fatal mistakes ranging from using wrong cooking technique to serving raw lamb chop the judges couldn't determine who had to go home.
* EvilWearsBlack: The Black Team in Indonesian version, as the name implies, wears black to show they are antagonistic toward the remaining contestants, trying to usurp their place. Some of them even go so far as [[EvilCostumeSwitch wearing Gothic-esque getup]].
* {{Fingore}}: Poor Zaq in the UK series 15 managed to cut the end of his pinkie off while peeling an apple within a minute of his introduction, and Jon Torode immediately sent him off to hospital. We never even learned what he was planning to cook. After recovering he was invited back for the final heat of the series, [[spoiler:but was eliminated in the first round.]]
* {{Flanderization}}: Averted in the case of Gregg Wallace, who's been co-presenting the British version with John Torode since 2005. Gregg has ''always'' been a bald Cockney who really, ''really'' likes pudding.
* GentleGiant:
** Matt Preston from the Australian version towers the other two judges, standing at a 6'3'' height.
** Antonino Cannavacciuolo, the fourth judge of ''[=MasterChef=]'' Italy from Season 5 onwards, has a quite intimidating body shape; however, he rarely ever gets angry, instead delivering very spicy remarks when confronting the contestants.
* GuestStarPartyMember: Both Joe and Graham from the US version have each made an appearance in the Canada version. Joe guest starred in Season 1 for an Italian themed Mystery Box Challenge, while Graham guest starred in Season 2 for an small ingredient Mystery Box Challenge.
* HaggisIsHorrible: Subverted in the Austalian version, Fiona, the Scottish participant made a haggis for her audition dish in Season 7. Even though judge Matt Preston was initially disgusted by the idea of eating haggis, he liked Fiona's dish enough that he gave her the Master Chef apron.
* HeroicSacrifice: Rodrigo, who was one of the most probable to win the Chilean version, resigned from the show to save Daniela who was eliminated. He also claimed that he wanted to focus on his career as a teacher.
*HonorBeforeReason:
** In Canada Season 4, after losing team challenge, Alisha decided to save Barry who worked the hardest in said challenge from pressure test with Matt also agreeing with the decision. Even though she later produced a dish that could potentially send her home (and she did go home), when asked by Chef Alvin whether she regretted the decision she made had she known what would have happened, she firmly said "No" and Chef Alvin praised her for that.
** In the 6th episode of ''[=MasterChef=] Argentina'', contestants were divided into two teams to cater for a wedding. An unexpected change of schedule put them far behind when it came to the main dish, to the point that two of the judges had to jump in and create dishes of their own so the guests would get to eat without too big a delay. Based on early dishes and teamwork in general, the red team won. Juan, the captain of the blue team, was given the choice to save himself or a member of his team from the pressure test, and he chose teammate Pablo. And then the judges pull off the twist, noting that teams needed the judges' help in completing the challenge, so they tell the captain of the winning team, Natalie, that she had to put a member of her team into the pressure test. Natalie said her team performed admirably, and then promptly put herself into the pressure test, which one of the judges mentioned was what a true Master Chef would do.
* EverybodyLives:
** Cody from ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Canada'' Season 5 plays with this trope with Franchise/TheMuppets' help 2 eerily goes and suffers similar route as guest star. In top 6's steak frites challenge, Miss Piggy also participated as contestant alongside the young cooks. She tricked Gordon into cooking the dish for her, resulting in her disqualification since she US Season 2's Jennifer. Between three choice of ingredients, he chose savory black truffle and forfeited his immunity because he didn't present her own dish. In one sense, one contestant did go home, but not want to pass the chance of cooking with this ingredient and said that the risk was worth it. His dish was also deemed one of the original young homecooks.
* {{Flanderization}}: The first season of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' featured aworst in that challenge in which bowls of more-or-less whipped cream were inverted over the judges' heads.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_H1-UhPm2A]] This was a legitimate -- if messy -- test of the kids' ability to whip the cream to stiff peaks. But since then, ''every'' season has had the judges getting dumped on, after skill tests only loosely related to the goop being dumped.
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Goes without saying.
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Gordon Ramsay, who is often a ClusterFBomb waiting to happen, has to come up with creative alternatives for ''[[SpinoffBabies MasterChef Junior]]''. He does let one slip when the kids are challenged to whip cream into stiff peaks and hold it over the judges' heads[[note]]the idea being that if they did it correctly it would stay in the bowl[[/note]] and he gets covered in half-whipped cream as a result.
* GratuitousSpanish:
** Junior Season 5 has Gonzalo who originally comes from Peru and Aarón Sanchez exchanging some of this during Episode 3's mystery box challenge. In elimination challenge, Aarón calls Gonzalo forward in Spanish.
* InSeriesNickname: Alexander "Big Al" Weiss in the American version.
* InstantCostumeChange: This is what the show implies to happen when the judges in Junior US after a messy team challenge. It's not really apparent until the kids comment how they were able to change so fast in later seasons.just like Jennifer's.
** In the Chilean version, most contestants are still working at their regular jobs. Ignacio works nights as a
** US Junior season 7's Reid, after being burned on the hand by hot oil during a team challenge, decides to head back into the kitchen rather than sitting the challenge out after receiving first aid. He not only provides motivation for his teammates, but also manages to perform several smaller tasks one-handed while keeping his injured hand in an ice bath.
** A more extreme version of US Season 9's Taylor is Josh from Canada Season 6 who went through ''every season's [=MasterChef=] Canada auditions'' until he got an apron.
* DistractedByTheSexy: The main reason Vicky, from the Spanish version S2, will be remembered. Because [[EatingTheEyeCandy "I can't cook with a hot guy in front of me."]] Because ''"Is he hot?"'' is probably her catchphrase. But mostly because of her hilarious teenager-like reactions to [[LustObject one of the judges]] ([[PuppyDogEyes doe-eyes]], giggling, [[CrushBlush blushing]], [[GibberishOfLove babbling]], almost burning food to a crisp,...). Obviously, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt everyone and their cat can see (and laugh about) it]]... even the [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage jury himself]]. Yeah, watching ''[=MasterChef=] Spain'' is almost like watching a [[LoveDodecahedron flipping soap-opera]].
* DrillSergeanrNasty:
** Judge Andrew Ratkinson in the SA version.
** And judge Alvin Leung from the Canada version. He is loud, strict, demanding and will get in contestants' faces if they produce crap food. That being said, he is very supportive towards contestants who do well and will never fail to give high praise to a good dish.
* TheEeyore: Eric from ''[=MasterChef=] Canada.'' He shows happiness whenever he does well, but the rest of the time, the look on his face is that of a sad, scolded puppy.
* EmotionlessGirl: ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' Season 5 contestant [[spoiler:and eventual winner]] Beccy, who was both still a teenager and rarely showed any emotion but cool calm. She sometimes crossed this with DeadpanSnarker.
* EverybodyLives: In ''[=MasterChef=] Indonesia'' Season 2, all five contestants survived the dish replication challenge because of different reasons than examples above; none of them successfully replicated the dish and each of them made equally fatal mistakes ranging from using wrong cooking technique to serving raw lamb chop the judges couldn't determine who had to go home.
* EvilWearsBlack: The Black Team in Indonesian version, as the name implies, wears black to show they are antagonistic toward the remaining contestants, trying to usurp their place. Some of them even go so far as [[EvilCostumeSwitch wearing Gothic-esque getup]].
* {{Fingore}}: Poor Zaq in the UK series 15 managed to cut the end of his pinkie off while peeling an apple within a minute of his introduction, and Jon Torode immediately sent him off to hospital. We never even learned what he was planning to cook. After recovering he was invited back for the final heat of the series, [[spoiler:but was eliminated in the first round.]]
* {{Flanderization}}: Averted in the case of Gregg Wallace, who's been co-presenting the British version with John Torode since 2005. Gregg has ''always'' been a bald Cockney who really, ''really'' likes pudding.
* GentleGiant:
** Matt Preston from the Australian version towers the other two judges, standing at a 6'3'' height.
** Antonino Cannavacciuolo, the fourth judge of ''[=MasterChef=]'' Italy from Season 5 onwards, has a quite intimidating body shape; however, he rarely ever gets angry, instead delivering very spicy remarks when confronting the contestants.
* GuestStarPartyMember: Both Joe and Graham from the US version have each made an appearance in the Canada version. Joe guest starred in Season 1 for an Italian themed Mystery Box Challenge, while Graham guest starred in Season 2 for an small ingredient Mystery Box Challenge.
* HaggisIsHorrible: Subverted in the Austalian version, Fiona, the Scottish participant made a haggis for her audition dish in Season 7. Even though judge Matt Preston was initially disgusted by the idea of eating haggis, he liked Fiona's dish enough that he gave her the Master Chef apron.
* HeroicSacrifice: Rodrigo, who was one of the most probable to win the Chilean version, resigned from the show to save Daniela who was eliminated. He also claimed that he wanted to focus on his career as a teacher.
*HonorBeforeReason:
** In Canada Season 4, after losing team challenge, Alisha decided to save Barry who worked the hardest in said challenge from pressure test with Matt also agreeing with the decision. Even though she later produced a dish that could potentially send her home (and she did go home), when asked by Chef Alvin whether she regretted the decision she made had she known what would have happened, she firmly said "No" and Chef Alvin praised her for that.
** In the 6th episode of ''[=MasterChef=] Argentina'', contestants were divided into two teams to cater for a wedding. An unexpected change of schedule put them far behind when it came to the main dish, to the point that two of the judges had to jump in and create dishes of their own so the guests would get to eat without too big a delay. Based on early dishes and teamwork in general, the red team won. Juan, the captain of the blue team, was given the choice to save himself or a member of his team from the pressure test, and he chose teammate Pablo. And then the judges pull off the twist, noting that teams needed the judges' help in completing the challenge, so they tell the captain of the winning team, Natalie, that she had to put a member of her team into the pressure test. Natalie said her team performed admirably, and then promptly put herself into the pressure test, which one of the judges mentioned was what a true Master Chef would do.
* {{Flanderization}}: The first season of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' featured a
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Goes without saying.
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Gordon Ramsay, who is often a ClusterFBomb waiting to happen, has to come up with creative alternatives for ''[[SpinoffBabies MasterChef Junior]]''. He does let one slip when the kids are challenged to whip cream into stiff peaks and hold it over the judges' heads[[note]]the idea being that if they did it correctly it would stay in the bowl[[/note]] and he gets covered in half-whipped cream as a result.
* GratuitousSpanish:
** Junior Season 5 has Gonzalo who originally comes from Peru and Aarón Sanchez exchanging some of this during Episode 3's mystery box challenge. In elimination challenge, Aarón calls Gonzalo forward in Spanish.
* InSeriesNickname: Alexander "Big Al" Weiss in the American version.
* InstantCostumeChange: This is what the show implies to happen when the judges in Junior US after a messy team challenge. It's not really apparent until the kids comment how they were able to change so fast in later seasons.
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** Miranda from ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' Season 4 won a challenge and was told she was able to switch other contestants' baskets in the following five-ingredient elimination challenge while having the option to keep her own basket. Being a competitive person, she chose to keep hers. Despite having the advantage, she was the one eliminated in that episode after serving borderline raw flank steak.
** In the Brazilian version, Season 5, there was an Aphrodisiac challenge, in which the only ingredients the chefs could use were considered to be aphrodisiacs, or at least usually related to romance (shrimp, escargot, strawberries, chocolate, etc.). The winner of the challenge turned out to be the ''priest'' of the competition, who was actually teased about the possibility of being the worst; the one who said the priest was probably going to fail ended up being in the bottom 3 that competition.
** In Canada Season 1, Dora saved Pino from a pressure test because while he was a good cook, she thought he was a one-trick pony for relying on his Italian heritage too much. She went home in the following week, the same week Pino won an elimination challenge after cooking Jamaican-style food.
* IsntItIronic: In the 2021 UK series, the "triumphant" music for the announcement of the winner was "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)" by Music/PhilCollins. A histrionic song of desperation over lost love. It's not as if the producers didn't realise how inappropriate it was, since someone had actually gone to the trouble of editing together the vocal and instrumental versions to eliminate all the lyrics except for the two phrases in the title.
* {{Jerkass}}: A non-US example, we have Gonzalo, from the Season 2 of the Spain version. He spent all his time on the show insulting his fellow competitors and picking fights with them and sometimes even with the judges (mainly with Jordi). He constantly whined and complained, and at one point he refused to take part in a task for a team challenge (this after having won the mystery box challenge) and promptly decided to quit the competition, to the astonishment of the judges and viewers, but noticeably, to the delight of the other contestants.
* LargeAndInCharge: Paola Carosella, one of the judges of the Brazilian ''[=MasterChef=]''. After two season, it's still to appear anyone, contestant or otherwise, who is taller than her.
* LaughingMad: Jennifer from Canada season 6 had a mild case of this in ConfessionCam when she and her fellow teammates had to bake one savory and one sweet plate-sized cheesecakes in 80 minutes.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: In the Spanish version S1, Pepe and Maribel. He criticized her artichokes to make her mad. [[MrsRobinson She flirted with the other judge to make him jealous]]. They argued, and seconds later, they were laughing. [[PlayedForLaughs It was awesome]].
* LighterAndSofter:
* ManipulativeEditing:
** Elin's team's performance on [=MasterChef=] Indonesia Season 5's Top 3 fine dining challenge might not be the best, but one (poorly hidden) action from a judge in that round (taking a stack of unused bowl from another team's station and put them messily on hers, causing them to drop into the floor) had a shade of this to make it look like her team did way worse than it was.
* {{Melodrama}}:** The South African version seems to have followed in the US versions footsteps, with Khaya seeming always managing to screw up at least one aspect of her dish and finishing at the last minute. Despite this, she's only been in one Pressure Test and is always winning challenges.
* MotorMouth:
** Spain season 3 has contestants Antonio and Andrea, who if left unchecked, can go on long rambles of non-stop talking, especially Andrea.
** Canada season 2 has Jennifer, who admits during her audition that she talks a lot when she's nervous, often going on and on to the point of annoying some of the other competitors. However, during the poutine Team Challenge, the Green team turned this to their advantage by sending her out to advertise their poutine to the crowd, which helped them win by a narrow margin.
* MyGreatestFailure: The first Mystery Box of Canada Season 7 (which features contestants from previous seasons; see MyGreatestSecondChance below) tasked the contestants with recreating the worst dishes that they cooked during their season, many of which sent them home:
** Andre's uni dish from Season 6, which was too light on the star ingredient though it didn't send him home
** Andrew's poached egg from Season 2, which was completely overcooked and kept him from being brought back
** Andy's lobster dish from Season 5's budget vs. luxury Pressure Test, which was overly salty
** April Lee's Piña Colada dessert from Season 3, which melted and led to her elimination
** Barrie's Wagyu beef dish from the Season 3 semifinals, which was undercooked and sent him home despite his advantage in that challenge
** Christopher's ground pork dish from Season 2
** Dora's beef cheek stew from Season 1, which was under-seasoned and visually unappealing
** Jen's Salisbury steak dish from Season 5
** Jeremy's monkfish dish from Season 3
** Mai's poached salmon dish from a Season 4 Mystery Box
** Marissa's Asian street food platter (which she had made with Nadia) from Season 5, the failure of which the judges blamed on her lack of communication during the Pressure Test
** Thea's pork belly and pork cheek tamale from the Season 4 finale.
** Season 7 of the Canadian is subtitled as ''Back to Win'', featuring 12 former contestants from the first six seasons coming back for another chance at winning the title.
* NamesTheSame:
** In Canada season 3 there was Sean and Shawn, with different spellings but the same pronunciation. The latter was often referred to as "Doctor Shawn" because he was also a practicing MD. Even though Sean was eliminated three weeks in and Shawn lasted considerably longer, the full title stuck until the end.
* NiceHat: Shawn from Canada season 3 was rarely seen without his backwards baseball cap.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' Season 4's tag team challenge, Thea who won the first challenge tried to help Matt and Justine who was in chaos by giving them instruction since they saved Thea in earlier episodes. Unfortunately, having too many voices (Thea was joined by Mai whom she saved earlier in the episode) in the latter two's station end up jeopardizing their teamwork even further resulting in them producing the worst replication that night, something that Mai acknowledged in ConfessionCam. This trope also happened to Matt and Justine during the tasting. They tried to share all the blame and credit given to their dish which the judges praised as they stayed as a team. Because of this, however, the judges couldn't tell who performed the worst, ultimately sending both home.
* NonGameplayElimination:
** Season 3 of the Italian version had Beatrice, who was disqualified for using someone else's sponge cake to make her own dish after her sponge cake didn't cook properly. She was later readmitted after winning a challenge where eliminated contestants could return...only to lose the next Pressure Test.
** Season 2 of Indonesian version has Nuuril, who was automatically disqualified after failing to complete her dish on time in a pressure test. While Andrea above failed to bring her dish to black table on time, three components Nuuril had to cook were still on pan when the time ran out, rendering them unservicable.
*** Several episode later, one contestant named Adeline withdrew from competition because of family reasons.
** For the seventh season of the Canadian version, April Lee was forced to withdraw due to a back injury off screen. Barrie, the person who was eliminated prior to this incident, was brought back as the team challenge needed equal numbers.
* OhCrap: Adriano Zumbo walking into the ''[=MasterChef=]'' kitchen with a covered dish is enough to scare any contestant. Particularly the [[http://adrianozumbo.com/shop/the-v8-cake/ V8 cake]].
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: On the 2019 UK series of ''Celebrity [=MasterChef=]'', Dom Parker from ''Series/{{Gogglebox}}'' was introduced as "one of the country's most famous armchair television critics".
* PatrioticFervor: Played straight and invoked in ''[=MasterChef=] Brazil'' Season 4. One elimination test was to use some of the most culturally relevant ingredients of the north of Brazil. One of the judges even made a speech in regards to the beauty of the variety in Brazilian gastronomy when talking about the ingredients that drove some participants to tears and to try their hardest to honor their nation's cuisine.
* ProductPlacement:
** The SA version would like to remind you that it's sponsored by ''"Robertsons -- The Spice People"'' at least ten times an episode.
** There was an entire episode in the SA version dedicated to being a ProductPromotionParade for Nederburg wines.
** ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' follows the tradition by shilling for Alexander Keith beer and "German-made Miele Appliances," the latter of which is oddly mentioned alongside things contestants need for their challenge.
** A very interesting example in the Spain version, where the show does product placement for itself, several times per 2 hour episode. This is because in Spain, ''[=MasterChef=]'' has been so successful that they have a magazine, online cooking classes with professional chefs, and even a summer camp for children and teenagers where they can learn how to cook.
* TheQuietOne: In SA, Brandon was shaping up to be one until he entered the top 18, then he started [[ReferenceOverdosed referencing classic western animation and soccer in literally every one of his sentences.]]
* RedBaron: Alvin Leung, the "head" judge of ''[=MasterChef=] Canada''. You'd think [[CanadaEh he'd have some nice title about politeness or moose]], right? Nope. "Demon Chef".
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem:
** In the 2010 season of the UK version, the judges were faced with a heat where two of the three contestants performed brilliantly. Forced to choose which one went through to the quarterfinal...they opted to let both of them through. It's happened a few times since.
** Happened twice in the 2012 UK Professionals version. Not only did two chefs dodge an elimination in a heat as described above, but the same pair of chefs ended up winning the season together as well because the judges couldn't decide between them.
** And occasionally reversed, including the spring 2013 UK series, when the judges decide to kick an extra contestant out if several don't perform well enough to earn a place.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Cody from Canada Season 2 was this sometimes. Especially the time he forfeited his immunity to cook with black truffles to show how ''great'' he was. He ended with one of the [[EpicFail worst dishes that night and was nearly eliminated.]]
* StupidStatementDanceMix: Greg Wallace likes the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfeyUGZt8nk buttery biscuit base]].
** Incidentally, that song actually made the UK Top 40.
* SuckinessIsPainful: In the Spanish version, judge Pepe Rodríguez punished a contestant who had cooked a really bad meal by forcing him to eat it.
* TooCleverByHalf: The contestants in a Canadian pressure test had to make a box of doughnuts, in at least three varieties. The others predicted that Eric would make four. In fact, he made ''eight''. But some were failures, and Alvin Leung reamed him out for going overboard.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** A meta example in the Australian season 7. The judges were impressed at how high the contestants' standards were, and, by the end of the first audition, told the remaining contenders for the Top 24 that, had they been in the previous seasons, they would have won an apron already. When 2014 Master Chef Brent Owens were brought back to observe the first round, he, too, was amazed to see how much more organized, and professional, the contestants were compared to his own experience.
** Eric in Canada Season 1. He was seen as one of the weaker and unsure chefs in the kitchen and was also criticized for his ComplexityAddiction. However, he was able to gain his confidence and surpass his rivals, Kaila and Mike. [[spoiler: And just like Luca and Gerron, he ended up winning]].
* TookALevelInKindness:
** Judge Alvin Leung was DrillSergeantNasty in the first season of the Canadian version, to the point of many viewers considering him worse than Ramsay at times. Come Season 2 he's still tough, but has softened up considerably and is more willing to joke with and encourage the contestants.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Kaila from the Canada version is the epitome of this trope. She was thought of by others as the weakest contestant and she was constantly underestimated and sometimes even insulted. She went on to prove herself as one of the fiercest, strongest contestants and made it to the final 3, where she was eliminated by the narrowest of margins.
* WhatTheHellPlayer: One chef on the UK edition (''[=MasterChef=]: Professionals'') bringing forward a dish that consisted of quail and chocolate cake. Facepalms all around.
** In the Australian version Season 3, Sun made toffee using the "completely wrong way", at least according to the judges, putting the sugar on foil and using a blow torch[[note]]From a technical standpoint, this isn't toffee at all, it's molten-and-re-crystallized sugar.[[/note]]. But it worked, and she was saved from elimination.
** In one UK season, a contestant made sausage, beans on toast followed by potato dumplings with plum for dessert. This trope ensued, ''hard''.
** Paolo from the fourth Italian season tried to fry his sea bream ''without flour'', and when he borrowed some from his neighboring contestant, judge Barbieri forced him to throw it away, because he was violating the rules. This huge misstep caused him to make the worst dish and be eliminated. Also, for reasons even he or the judges couldn't explain, he took ''a sausage'' from the pantry to put on his plate.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Subverted in Brazilian ''[=MasterChef=]'' season 5. The very first winner, Elena, could save five people, she picked people she wanted to form alliances with and left behind the man who got second place in the task, Dalvio. The challenge was to make french omelet, which, as it turned out, he was really bad at, managing to be the first one to leave that season.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' judge Alvin colo(u)rs his hair blue.
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[[folder:Masterchef Junior]]
* {{Determinator}}:
** US Junior season 2's Abby, during a challenge where they had to cook a restaurant-worthy dish, and she can only use two ingredients to do it. She never lets that deter her and she pushes on, managing to have one of the two best dishes of the night.
** US Junior season 7's Reid, after being burned on the hand by hot oil during a team challenge, decides to head back into the kitchen rather than sitting the challenge out after receiving first aid. He not only provides motivation for his teammates, but also manages to perform several smaller tasks one-handed while keeping his injured hand in an ice bath.
* DisappointedInYou: In the American version of ''Junior'', the judges say this when the semifinalists fail to produce a perfectly soft-boiled egg.
* EverybodyLives:
** ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Season 5 plays with this trope with Franchise/TheMuppets' help as guest star. In top 6's steak frites challenge, Miss Piggy also participated as contestant alongside the young cooks. She tricked Gordon into cooking the dish for her, resulting in her disqualification since she didn't present her own dish. In one sense, one contestant did go home, but not one of the original young homecooks.
* {{Flanderization}}: The first season of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' featured a challenge in which bowls of more-or-less whipped cream were inverted over the judges' heads.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_H1-UhPm2A]] This was a legitimate -- if messy -- test of the kids' ability to whip the cream to stiff peaks. But since then, ''every'' season has had the judges getting dumped on, after skill tests only loosely related to the goop being dumped.
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Goes without saying.
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Gordon Ramsay, who is often a ClusterFBomb waiting to happen, has to come up with creative alternatives for ''[[SpinoffBabies MasterChef Junior]]''. He does let one slip when the kids are challenged to whip cream into stiff peaks and hold it over the judges' heads[[note]]the idea being that if they did it correctly it would stay in the bowl[[/note]] and he gets covered in half-whipped cream as a result.
* GratuitousSpanish:
** Junior Season 5 has Gonzalo who originally comes from Peru and Aarón Sanchez exchanging some of this during Episode 3's mystery box challenge. In elimination challenge, Aarón calls Gonzalo forward in Spanish.
* InSeriesNickname: Alexander "Big Al" Weiss in the American version.
* InstantCostumeChange: This is what the show implies to happen when the judges in Junior US after a messy team challenge. It's not really apparent until the kids comment how they were able to change so fast in later seasons.
* {{Irony}}:
** In the Brazilian version, Season 5, there was an Aphrodisiac challenge, in which the only ingredients the chefs could use were considered to be aphrodisiacs, or at least usually related to romance (shrimp, escargot, strawberries, chocolate, etc.). The winner of the challenge turned out to be the ''priest'' of the competition, who was actually teased about the possibility of being the worst; the one who said the priest was probably going to fail ended up being in the bottom 3 that competition.
** In Canada Season 1, Dora saved Pino from a pressure test because while he was a good cook, she thought he was a one-trick pony for relying on his Italian heritage too much. She went home in the following week, the same week Pino won an elimination challenge after cooking Jamaican-style food.
* IsntItIronic: In the 2021 UK series, the "triumphant" music for the announcement of the winner was "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)" by Music/PhilCollins. A histrionic song of desperation over lost love. It's not as if the producers didn't realise how inappropriate it was, since someone had actually gone to the trouble of editing together the vocal and instrumental versions to eliminate all the lyrics except for the two phrases in the title.
* {{Jerkass}}: A non-US example, we have Gonzalo, from the Season 2 of the Spain version. He spent all his time on the show insulting his fellow competitors and picking fights with them and sometimes even with the judges (mainly with Jordi). He constantly whined and complained, and at one point he refused to take part in a task for a team challenge (this after having won the mystery box challenge) and promptly decided to quit the competition, to the astonishment of the judges and viewers, but noticeably, to the delight of the other contestants.
* LargeAndInCharge: Paola Carosella, one of the judges of the Brazilian ''[=MasterChef=]''. After two season, it's still to appear anyone, contestant or otherwise, who is taller than her.
* LaughingMad: Jennifer from Canada season 6 had a mild case of this in ConfessionCam when she and her fellow teammates had to bake one savory and one sweet plate-sized cheesecakes in 80 minutes.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: In the Spanish version S1, Pepe and Maribel. He criticized her artichokes to make her mad. [[MrsRobinson She flirted with the other judge to make him jealous]]. They argued, and seconds later, they were laughing. [[PlayedForLaughs It was awesome]].
* LighterAndSofter:
* ManipulativeEditing:
** Elin's team's performance on [=MasterChef=] Indonesia Season 5's Top 3 fine dining challenge might not be the best, but one (poorly hidden) action from a judge in that round (taking a stack of unused bowl from another team's station and put them messily on hers, causing them to drop into the floor) had a shade of this to make it look like her team did way worse than it was.
* {{Melodrama}}:** The South African version seems to have followed in the US versions footsteps, with Khaya seeming always managing to screw up at least one aspect of her dish and finishing at the last minute. Despite this, she's only been in one Pressure Test and is always winning challenges.
* MotorMouth:
** Spain season 3 has contestants Antonio and Andrea, who if left unchecked, can go on long rambles of non-stop talking, especially Andrea.
** Canada season 2 has Jennifer, who admits during her audition that she talks a lot when she's nervous, often going on and on to the point of annoying some of the other competitors. However, during the poutine Team Challenge, the Green team turned this to their advantage by sending her out to advertise their poutine to the crowd, which helped them win by a narrow margin.
* MyGreatestFailure: The first Mystery Box of Canada Season 7 (which features contestants from previous seasons; see MyGreatestSecondChance below) tasked the contestants with recreating the worst dishes that they cooked during their season, many of which sent them home:
** Andre's uni dish from Season 6, which was too light on the star ingredient though it didn't send him home
** Andrew's poached egg from Season 2, which was completely overcooked and kept him from being brought back
** Andy's lobster dish from Season 5's budget vs. luxury Pressure Test, which was overly salty
** April Lee's Piña Colada dessert from Season 3, which melted and led to her elimination
** Barrie's Wagyu beef dish from the Season 3 semifinals, which was undercooked and sent him home despite his advantage in that challenge
** Christopher's ground pork dish from Season 2
** Dora's beef cheek stew from Season 1, which was under-seasoned and visually unappealing
** Jen's Salisbury steak dish from Season 5
** Jeremy's monkfish dish from Season 3
** Mai's poached salmon dish from a Season 4 Mystery Box
** Marissa's Asian street food platter (which she had made with Nadia) from Season 5, the failure of which the judges blamed on her lack of communication during the Pressure Test
** Thea's pork belly and pork cheek tamale from the Season 4 finale.
** Season 7 of the Canadian is subtitled as ''Back to Win'', featuring 12 former contestants from the first six seasons coming back for another chance at winning the title.
* NamesTheSame:
** In Canada season 3 there was Sean and Shawn, with different spellings but the same pronunciation. The latter was often referred to as "Doctor Shawn" because he was also a practicing MD. Even though Sean was eliminated three weeks in and Shawn lasted considerably longer, the full title stuck until the end.
* NiceHat: Shawn from Canada season 3 was rarely seen without his backwards baseball cap.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' Season 4's tag team challenge, Thea who won the first challenge tried to help Matt and Justine who was in chaos by giving them instruction since they saved Thea in earlier episodes. Unfortunately, having too many voices (Thea was joined by Mai whom she saved earlier in the episode) in the latter two's station end up jeopardizing their teamwork even further resulting in them producing the worst replication that night, something that Mai acknowledged in ConfessionCam. This trope also happened to Matt and Justine during the tasting. They tried to share all the blame and credit given to their dish which the judges praised as they stayed as a team. Because of this, however, the judges couldn't tell who performed the worst, ultimately sending both home.
* NonGameplayElimination:
** Season 3 of the Italian version had Beatrice, who was disqualified for using someone else's sponge cake to make her own dish after her sponge cake didn't cook properly. She was later readmitted after winning a challenge where eliminated contestants could return...only to lose the next Pressure Test.
** Season 2 of Indonesian version has Nuuril, who was automatically disqualified after failing to complete her dish on time in a pressure test. While Andrea above failed to bring her dish to black table on time, three components Nuuril had to cook were still on pan when the time ran out, rendering them unservicable.
*** Several episode later, one contestant named Adeline withdrew from competition because of family reasons.
** For the seventh season of the Canadian version, April Lee was forced to withdraw due to a back injury off screen. Barrie, the person who was eliminated prior to this incident, was brought back as the team challenge needed equal numbers.
* OhCrap: Adriano Zumbo walking into the ''[=MasterChef=]'' kitchen with a covered dish is enough to scare any contestant. Particularly the [[http://adrianozumbo.com/shop/the-v8-cake/ V8 cake]].
* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: On the 2019 UK series of ''Celebrity [=MasterChef=]'', Dom Parker from ''Series/{{Gogglebox}}'' was introduced as "one of the country's most famous armchair television critics".
* PatrioticFervor: Played straight and invoked in ''[=MasterChef=] Brazil'' Season 4. One elimination test was to use some of the most culturally relevant ingredients of the north of Brazil. One of the judges even made a speech in regards to the beauty of the variety in Brazilian gastronomy when talking about the ingredients that drove some participants to tears and to try their hardest to honor their nation's cuisine.
* ProductPlacement:
** The SA version would like to remind you that it's sponsored by ''"Robertsons -- The Spice People"'' at least ten times an episode.
** There was an entire episode in the SA version dedicated to being a ProductPromotionParade for Nederburg wines.
** ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' follows the tradition by shilling for Alexander Keith beer and "German-made Miele Appliances," the latter of which is oddly mentioned alongside things contestants need for their challenge.
** A very interesting example in the Spain version, where the show does product placement for itself, several times per 2 hour episode. This is because in Spain, ''[=MasterChef=]'' has been so successful that they have a magazine, online cooking classes with professional chefs, and even a summer camp for children and teenagers where they can learn how to cook.
* TheQuietOne: In SA, Brandon was shaping up to be one until he entered the top 18, then he started [[ReferenceOverdosed referencing classic western animation and soccer in literally every one of his sentences.]]
* RedBaron: Alvin Leung, the "head" judge of ''[=MasterChef=] Canada''. You'd think [[CanadaEh he'd have some nice title about politeness or moose]], right? Nope. "Demon Chef".
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem:
** In the 2010 season of the UK version, the judges were faced with a heat where two of the three contestants performed brilliantly. Forced to choose which one went through to the quarterfinal...they opted to let both of them through. It's happened a few times since.
** Happened twice in the 2012 UK Professionals version. Not only did two chefs dodge an elimination in a heat as described above, but the same pair of chefs ended up winning the season together as well because the judges couldn't decide between them.
** And occasionally reversed, including the spring 2013 UK series, when the judges decide to kick an extra contestant out if several don't perform well enough to earn a place.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Cody from Canada Season 2 was this sometimes. Especially the time he forfeited his immunity to cook with black truffles to show how ''great'' he was. He ended with one of the [[EpicFail worst dishes that night and was nearly eliminated.]]
* StupidStatementDanceMix: Greg Wallace likes the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfeyUGZt8nk buttery biscuit base]].
** Incidentally, that song actually made the UK Top 40.
* SuckinessIsPainful: In the Spanish version, judge Pepe Rodríguez punished a contestant who had cooked a really bad meal by forcing him to eat it.
* TooCleverByHalf: The contestants in a Canadian pressure test had to make a box of doughnuts, in at least three varieties. The others predicted that Eric would make four. In fact, he made ''eight''. But some were failures, and Alvin Leung reamed him out for going overboard.
* TookALevelInBadass:
** A meta example in the Australian season 7. The judges were impressed at how high the contestants' standards were, and, by the end of the first audition, told the remaining contenders for the Top 24 that, had they been in the previous seasons, they would have won an apron already. When 2014 Master Chef Brent Owens were brought back to observe the first round, he, too, was amazed to see how much more organized, and professional, the contestants were compared to his own experience.
** Eric in Canada Season 1. He was seen as one of the weaker and unsure chefs in the kitchen and was also criticized for his ComplexityAddiction. However, he was able to gain his confidence and surpass his rivals, Kaila and Mike. [[spoiler: And just like Luca and Gerron, he ended up winning]].
* TookALevelInKindness:
** Judge Alvin Leung was DrillSergeantNasty in the first season of the Canadian version, to the point of many viewers considering him worse than Ramsay at times. Come Season 2 he's still tough, but has softened up considerably and is more willing to joke with and encourage the contestants.
* UnderestimatingBadassery: Kaila from the Canada version is the epitome of this trope. She was thought of by others as the weakest contestant and she was constantly underestimated and sometimes even insulted. She went on to prove herself as one of the fiercest, strongest contestants and made it to the final 3, where she was eliminated by the narrowest of margins.
* WhatTheHellPlayer: One chef on the UK edition (''[=MasterChef=]: Professionals'') bringing forward a dish that consisted of quail and chocolate cake. Facepalms all around.
** In the Australian version Season 3, Sun made toffee using the "completely wrong way", at least according to the judges, putting the sugar on foil and using a blow torch[[note]]From a technical standpoint, this isn't toffee at all, it's molten-and-re-crystallized sugar.[[/note]]. But it worked, and she was saved from elimination.
** In one UK season, a contestant made sausage, beans on toast followed by potato dumplings with plum for dessert. This trope ensued, ''hard''.
** Paolo from the fourth Italian season tried to fry his sea bream ''without flour'', and when he borrowed some from his neighboring contestant, judge Barbieri forced him to throw it away, because he was violating the rules. This huge misstep caused him to make the worst dish and be eliminated. Also, for reasons even he or the judges couldn't explain, he took ''a sausage'' from the pantry to put on his plate.
* WrongGenreSavvy: Subverted in Brazilian ''[=MasterChef=]'' season 5. The very first winner, Elena, could save five people, she picked people she wanted to form alliances with and left behind the man who got second place in the task, Dalvio. The challenge was to make french omelet, which, as it turned out, he was really bad at, managing to be the first one to leave that season.
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' judge Alvin colo(u)rs his hair blue.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Masterchef Junior]]
* {{Determinator}}:
** US Junior season 2's Abby, during a challenge where they had to cook a restaurant-worthy dish, and she can only use two ingredients to do it. She never lets that deter her and she pushes on, managing to have one of the two best dishes of the night.
** US Junior season 7's Reid, after being burned on the hand by hot oil during a team challenge, decides to head back into the kitchen rather than sitting the challenge out after receiving first aid. He not only provides motivation for his teammates, but also manages to perform several smaller tasks one-handed while keeping his injured hand in an ice bath.
* DisappointedInYou: In the American version of ''Junior'', the judges say this when the semifinalists fail to produce a perfectly soft-boiled egg.
* EverybodyLives:
** ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Season 5 plays with this trope with Franchise/TheMuppets' help as guest star. In top 6's steak frites challenge, Miss Piggy also participated as contestant alongside the young cooks. She tricked Gordon into cooking the dish for her, resulting in her disqualification since she didn't present her own dish. In one sense, one contestant did go home, but not one of the original young homecooks.
* {{Flanderization}}: The first season of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' featured a challenge in which bowls of more-or-less whipped cream were inverted over the judges' heads.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_H1-UhPm2A]] This was a legitimate -- if messy -- test of the kids' ability to whip the cream to stiff peaks. But since then, ''every'' season has had the judges getting dumped on, after skill tests only loosely related to the goop being dumped.
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Goes without saying.
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Gordon Ramsay, who is often a ClusterFBomb waiting to happen, has to come up with creative alternatives for ''[[SpinoffBabies MasterChef Junior]]''. He does let one slip when the kids are challenged to whip cream into stiff peaks and hold it over the judges' heads[[note]]the idea being that if they did it correctly it would stay in the bowl[[/note]] and he gets covered in half-whipped cream as a result.
* GratuitousSpanish:
** Junior Season 5 has Gonzalo who originally comes from Peru and Aarón Sanchez exchanging some of this during Episode 3's mystery box challenge. In elimination challenge, Aarón calls Gonzalo forward in Spanish.
* InSeriesNickname: Alexander "Big Al" Weiss in the American version.
* InstantCostumeChange: This is what the show implies to happen when the judges in Junior US after a messy team challenge. It's not really apparent until the kids comment how they were able to change so fast in later seasons.
* {{Irony}}:
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* [[BackFromTheDead Back From Elimination]]: A few times, the show would bring back a few eliminated contestants for another shot in the competition.
* BerserkButton:
** Serving the judges raw food is pretty much a one-way ticket to elimination. Justified considering that the worst case scenario for this happening in the real world is someone getting severely ill and/or dying.* BerserkButton:
** Gordon in some versions will get absolutely ''livid'' if that happens during the team challenges, where the contestants are serving the public. And if Gordon catches you about to serve raw food to, say, the military, or firefighters, or ''[[ChildrenAreInnocent children]]''? God help you.
* CamelCase: The font style for the logo.
* CookingDuel: Happens in the British and Australian versions.
** In the US Season 6 and onwards, the casting has been replaced by Cooking Duels, with the Top 40 against each other in diverse themes, pairing the contestants according to common backgrounds or specialties.
** When a pressure test involves only two people, it becomes this.
** In earlier seasons of US version, the last episode is a showdown between two finalists.
** The aptly named Black Team Duel in first two seasons of Indonesian version works like this. Homecooks with second chance in the competition are brought back to the show as "Black Team". In every two episodes starting from the team's appearance, worst performer that day will have to face one of the Black Team members in a cooking duel. If said Black Team member wins, they will swap place with the worst performer; said member will be in the competition while said worst performer will be in Black Team. However, if said member lose, they will be eliminated instead.
** Season 5's entry competition was entirely composed of a series of duels between participants. The winner got an apron and was in the competition, the loser leaves, simple as that.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: There are different types of aprons. First the White Aprons, those are given to the ones who pass to the Top 40/20. For team challenge aprons, Colors primarily used when contestants are divided into two are red and blue. Yellow and green are the most frequently seen colors used when more than two teams are involved (most versions have three with Australian version having four teams at once competing). And then the Black Aprons, which only the contestants in the Pressure Test wear.
** ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' did one exception during Season 4's first team challenge. In that challenge, they traded blue for white possibly to match Canadian flag colors since contestants were cooking for soon-to-be Canadian citizens.
* ComplexityAddiction: The judges have noted many times that perfecting basic and simple recipes is the safest way to survive a challenge, and since many want to avoid being BoringButPractical, they try to add their own spin to classics to stand out more. Best case scenario, [[CrazyEnoughToWork they succeed]], but mostly will result in EpicFail if executed badly.
* CoolTeacher: Applied for contestants who are teachers in their day jobs, like Season 7 Brandi, a Elementary School teacher, and Season 8 Jason, a High school music teacher.
** Also Rodrigo from the Chilean version.
* CordonBleughChef: ''Generally'' averted for the main contestants on the show (although usually they will unintentionally cook something worthy of this title, which also usually gets them eliminated), but there will always be a handful during auditions for the sake of comedy. Note that making it to the Auditions means that the cooks do have the ability to make normal food, but some choose the weirdest things as their "signature" dishes. The beer-cheese soup comes to mind. Some of them do work out, however, like US Season 4's Johnny B's lobster crackerjacks.
* BerserkButton:
** Serving the judges raw food is pretty much a one-way ticket to elimination. Justified considering that the worst case scenario for this happening in the real world is someone getting severely ill and/or dying.* BerserkButton:
** Gordon in some versions will get absolutely ''livid'' if that happens during the team challenges, where the contestants are serving the public. And if Gordon catches you about to serve raw food to, say, the military, or firefighters, or ''[[ChildrenAreInnocent children]]''? God help you.
* CamelCase: The font style for the logo.
* CookingDuel: Happens in the British and Australian versions.
** In the US Season 6 and onwards, the casting has been replaced by Cooking Duels, with the Top 40 against each other in diverse themes, pairing the contestants according to common backgrounds or specialties.
** When a pressure test involves only two people, it becomes this.
** In earlier seasons of US version, the last episode is a showdown between two finalists.
** The aptly named Black Team Duel in first two seasons of Indonesian version works like this. Homecooks with second chance in the competition are brought back to the show as "Black Team". In every two episodes starting from the team's appearance, worst performer that day will have to face one of the Black Team members in a cooking duel. If said Black Team member wins, they will swap place with the worst performer; said member will be in the competition while said worst performer will be in Black Team. However, if said member lose, they will be eliminated instead.
** Season 5's entry competition was entirely composed of a series of duels between participants. The winner got an apron and was in the competition, the loser leaves, simple as that.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: There are different types of aprons. First the White Aprons, those are given to the ones who pass to the Top 40/20. For team challenge aprons, Colors primarily used when contestants are divided into two are red and blue. Yellow and green are the most frequently seen colors used when more than two teams are involved (most versions have three with Australian version having four teams at once competing). And then the Black Aprons, which only the contestants in the Pressure Test wear.
** ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' did one exception during Season 4's first team challenge. In that challenge, they traded blue for white possibly to match Canadian flag colors since contestants were cooking for soon-to-be Canadian citizens.
* ComplexityAddiction: The judges have noted many times that perfecting basic and simple recipes is the safest way to survive a challenge, and since many want to avoid being BoringButPractical, they try to add their own spin to classics to stand out more. Best case scenario, [[CrazyEnoughToWork they succeed]], but mostly will result in EpicFail if executed badly.
* CoolTeacher: Applied for contestants who are teachers in their day jobs, like Season 7 Brandi, a Elementary School teacher, and Season 8 Jason, a High school music teacher.
** Also Rodrigo from the Chilean version.
* CordonBleughChef: ''Generally'' averted for the main contestants on the show (although usually they will unintentionally cook something worthy of this title, which also usually gets them eliminated), but there will always be a handful during auditions for the sake of comedy. Note that making it to the Auditions means that the cooks do have the ability to make normal food, but some choose the weirdest things as their "signature" dishes. The beer-cheese soup comes to mind. Some of them do work out, however, like US Season 4's Johnny B's lobster crackerjacks.
to:
* [[BackFromTheDead Back From Elimination]]: A few times, the show would bring back a few eliminated contestants for another shot in the competition.
* BerserkButton:
DeafComposer:
**Serving the judges raw food is pretty much a one-way ticket Those who have allergic reaction to elimination. Justified considering that the worst case scenario for this happening in the real world is someone getting severely ill and/or dying.* BerserkButton:
** Gordon in some versions will get absolutely ''livid'' if that happens during the team challenges, where the contestants are serving the public. And if Gordon catches you about to serve raw food to, say, the military, or firefighters, or ''[[ChildrenAreInnocent children]]''? God help you.
* CamelCase: The font style for the logo.
* CookingDuel: Happens in the British and Australian versions.
** In the UScertain ingredients. Thea from Canada Season 6 4 is allergic to shrimp and onwards, she unfortunately has to cook one as a result of basket swap. As a result, she can't either taste or devein her shrimp properly. Fortunately for her, Miranda who assigned the casting has been replaced by Cooking Duels, with the Top 40 against each other in diverse themes, pairing the contestants according basket to common backgrounds or specialties.
** When a pressure test involves only two people, it becomes this.
** In earlier seasons of US version, the last episode is a showdown between two finalists.
** The aptly named Black Team Duel in first two seasons of Indonesian version works like this. Homecooks with second chance in the competition are brought backher not knowing she had allergies felt guilty and offered to the show as "Black Team". In every two episodes starting from the team's appearance, worst performer that day will have to face one of the Black Team members in help her for a cooking duel. If said Black Team member wins, they will swap place with the worst performer; said member will be in the competition while said worst performer will be in Black Team. However, if said member lose, they will be eliminated instead.bit.
**Season Muslim contestants when asked to cook pork suffers almost the same problem as those with allergies; They can't taste and touch the ingredients [[note]]they technically can touch, but cleaning spots touching pork surface requires tedious steps involving soil, seeing Samira was willing to touch the brioche bun[[/note]]. Australian season 5's entry competition Samira El Khafir was entirely composed of eliminated over a series of duels between participants. The winner got an apron pork brioche bun.[[note]]She won a second chance challenge the following week and was in returned to the competition, the loser leaves, simple as that.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Therefinishing in third place.[[/note]]
** Averted in Canada Season 5's Black Forest Cake pressure test. Reem, a Muslim contestant was allowed not to use kirsh syrup, an alcohol, in her cake considering Muslims aredifferent types of aprons. First the White Aprons, those are given forbidden to the ones who pass drink or serve alcohol.
* EnemyMine: Tag Team cooking challenges, as they will often be rigged tothe Top 40/20. For team challenge aprons, Colors primarily used when deliberately put two contestants are divided into two are red and blue. Yellow and green are the most frequently seen colors used when more than two teams are involved (most versions who do not get along or have three with Australian version having four teams at once competing). And then the Black Aprons, which only the different working ethics together.
* EpicFail: Now has [[EpicFail/MasterChef its own page.]]
* EverybodyLives: Every time contestants produce flawless soufflés in [[EndangeredSouffle soufflé pressure test]], thePressure Test wear.
** ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' did one exception during Season 4's first team challenge. In that challenge, they traded blue for white possibly to match Canadian flag colors since contestants were cooking for soon-to-be Canadian citizens.judges won't send them home.
*ComplexityAddiction: The judges have noted many times that perfecting basic and simple recipes is FoodPorn: Kinda goes without saying, really.
* GenreBlind:
** Nobody ever seems to prepare for thesafest way to survive a challenge, and since many want to avoid Food Science/Molecular Gastronomy challenge despite it being BoringButPractical, they try in almost every single version of the show.
** Pretty much every single contestant that goes into the show without bothering toadd their own spin to classics to stand out more. Best case scenario, [[CrazyEnoughToWork they succeed]], but mostly will result in EpicFail if executed badly.
* CoolTeacher: Appliedpractice making desserts, as these are an integral part of the competition, especially for Pressure Tests. More often than not, those who haven't practiced baking desserts end up struggling in these Pressure Tests and are eliminated.
* HonorBeforeReason: Any time team captains choose to save his/her team members from pressure test instead of themselves count as one. Bonus point if the one receiving immunity decided to stay cooking and pass it to someone else.
* ManipulativeEditing: Considering this show is reality TV first and foremost, it's not surprising that several contestantswho reveal that the end result is a product of careful editing of what the producers want to show, although the truth is anyone's guess.
* {{Melodrama}}: "Cooking doesn't get tougher than this!" said repeatedly in the series.
* ProductPlacement: The fact that almost every celebrity chef's restaurant is featured when they're introduced says something in itself.
* RealityTelevision: The examples not from Britain areteachers examples of this. The British show is a lot older, so follows a more standard cookery contest format.
* RecurringElement: This competition has several challenge formats that are present throughout the seasons. Sometimes, these concepts are implemented in tandem.
** MysteryBox: Contestants are given a box in theirday jobs, like station containing ingredients they have to cook in that challenge. In US Season 7 Brandi, a Elementary School teacher, 1 and 2, they only have to cook using ''only'' what's in the box until Season 8 Jason, 3 where they were also given a High school music teacher.
staple or limited pantry depending on the condition. It also contains non-ingredients, either kitchen equipment (they have to cook only with that equipment) or other random things like loved one's letters, an iconic-eating utensil, or even a blindfold.
**Also Rodrigo Team Challenge: Contestants are divided into color-coded teams, mostly two, in order to cook for a group of people with similar backgrounds or people in celebratory events (cowboys and cowgirls, elderlies, first responders, children, lifeguards, vegetarians, people attending weddings or birthday parties), serving foods to critics, or selling food items. The winning team is usually decoded to public votes.
*** Another type of team challenge which becomes common starting fromthe Chilean version.
* CordonBleughChef: ''Generally'' averted for the mainUS season 3 is TagTeam. Contestants are divided into teams of two in order to replicate a platter which consists of multiple small dishes.
** Pressure Test: Usually after losing a team challenge, contestantson have to create a dish (or sometimes multiple dishes) in a very short amount of time, with very limited ingredients, or with high technical difficulties. To emphasize those contestants' chances at becoming the winner are in danger, they are required to wear black aprons.
* {{Spinoff}}: Oh boy. You won't believe how many international spin-offs this show(although usually has. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterChef This wiki article will explain how many there are.]]
* SpinoffBabies: The ''Junior'' spin-off, with kids ranging from 8 to 13 years old.
* SupremeChef: All the judges are considered some of the best chefs in the world. Also, the goal of the entire competition is to be the best cook of the 24.
* SpringtimeForHitler: It would probably be easier to count the times the Mystery Box winners ''don't'' shoot themselves in the foot with their "advantage."
* WarmupBoss: The preliminaries of the US and Australian versions of ''Junior'' seem to act as this, as the kids are grouped by the food category theywill unintentionally cook something worthy do best in.
** By Season 6 of the US ''[=MasterChef=]'', thistitle, becomes the process to earn a white apron either in pairs or a group of four battling out on a certain group (be it either a certain dish or main protein).
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Every trailer of an episode in whichalso usually gets them eliminated), but there a team challenge happens will always be a handful during auditions show you the ensuing Pressure Test as well... and from the people you see cooking in that, you can tell which team lost the challenge.
* ViewersAreGoldfish: Repeats almost exactly what happened in the previous 20 seconds after every commercial break, leading to an episode that counted down the seconds remaining for thesake Pressure Test twice. The British version does this, at points where commercials would be.
** Several contestants also like to remind viewers about [[{{Cliche}} their occupation, where they come from, or what their single most defining characteristic]] are in ''almost every episode,'' which is one ofcomedy. Note that making it to fans' subjects for contention. Case in point.
* WrongGenreSavvy: When theAuditions means that winner of a previous contest is given an advantage, they are encouraged, by the judges no less, to attempt to set up stronger opponents for elimination. For the team challenges this typically works well as the advantaged team captain can sabotage the opposing team (which is bound to include some skilled rivals) and force them into a pressure test. However winners of Mystery Box challenges will often sabotage ''all'' of their opponents equally, instead of disadvantaging the more skilled opponents and advantaging the less skilled ones. Equal disadvantage turns out to be no disadvantage at all since only the single worst performer is eliminated.
** Picking up teams in adult Tag Team challenge is mostly filled with this. While pairing the strongest cooksdo have the ability to make normal food, but some choose the weirdest things with those who are not compatible with them as their "signature" dishes. The beer-cheese soup comes to mind. Some deadweight may result in the team performing the worst, those sent home are usually the deadweight because they are the cause of them do work out, however, like US Season 4's Johnny B's lobster crackerjacks.the team's horrible performances. Even worse, there are sometimes cases when the leftover teams are the one performing worse than those set up for failure.
* BerserkButton:
**
** Gordon in some versions will get absolutely ''livid'' if that happens during the team challenges, where the contestants are serving the public. And if Gordon catches you about to serve raw food to, say, the military, or firefighters, or ''[[ChildrenAreInnocent children]]''? God help you.
* CamelCase: The font style for the logo.
* CookingDuel: Happens in the British and Australian versions.
** In the US
** When a pressure test involves only two people, it becomes this.
** In earlier seasons of US version, the last episode is a showdown between two finalists.
** The aptly named Black Team Duel in first two seasons of Indonesian version works like this. Homecooks with second chance in the competition are brought back
**
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: There
** Averted in Canada Season 5's Black Forest Cake pressure test. Reem, a Muslim contestant was allowed not to use kirsh syrup, an alcohol, in her cake considering Muslims are
* EnemyMine: Tag Team cooking challenges, as they will often be rigged to
* EpicFail: Now has [[EpicFail/MasterChef its own page.]]
* EverybodyLives: Every time contestants produce flawless soufflés in [[EndangeredSouffle soufflé pressure test]], the
** ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' did one exception during Season 4's first team challenge. In that challenge, they traded blue for white possibly to match Canadian flag colors since contestants were cooking for soon-to-be Canadian citizens.
*
* GenreBlind:
** Nobody ever seems to prepare for the
** Pretty much every single contestant that goes into the show without bothering to
* CoolTeacher: Applied
* HonorBeforeReason: Any time team captains choose to save his/her team members from pressure test instead of themselves count as one. Bonus point if the one receiving immunity decided to stay cooking and pass it to someone else.
* ManipulativeEditing: Considering this show is reality TV first and foremost, it's not surprising that several contestants
* {{Melodrama}}: "Cooking doesn't get tougher than this!" said repeatedly in the series.
* ProductPlacement: The fact that almost every celebrity chef's restaurant is featured when they're introduced says something in itself.
* RealityTelevision: The examples not from Britain are
* RecurringElement: This competition has several challenge formats that are present throughout the seasons. Sometimes, these concepts are implemented in tandem.
** MysteryBox: Contestants are given a box in their
**
*** Another type of team challenge which becomes common starting from
* CordonBleughChef: ''Generally'' averted for the main
** Pressure Test: Usually after losing a team challenge, contestants
* {{Spinoff}}: Oh boy. You won't believe how many international spin-offs this show
* SpinoffBabies: The ''Junior'' spin-off, with kids ranging from 8 to 13 years old.
* SupremeChef: All the judges are considered some of the best chefs in the world. Also, the goal of the entire competition is to be the best cook of the 24.
* SpringtimeForHitler: It would probably be easier to count the times the Mystery Box winners ''don't'' shoot themselves in the foot with their "advantage."
* WarmupBoss: The preliminaries of the US and Australian versions of ''Junior'' seem to act as this, as the kids are grouped by the food category they
** By Season 6 of the US ''[=MasterChef=]'', this
* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Every trailer of an episode in which
* ViewersAreGoldfish: Repeats almost exactly what happened in the previous 20 seconds after every commercial break, leading to an episode that counted down the seconds remaining for the
** Several contestants also like to remind viewers about [[{{Cliche}} their occupation, where they come from, or what their single most defining characteristic]] are in ''almost every episode,'' which is one of
* WrongGenreSavvy: When the
** Picking up teams in adult Tag Team challenge is mostly filled with this. While pairing the strongest cooks
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* HundredPercentAdorationRating:
** America's Season 3 winner Christine, a blind cook who defied everyone's expectations with her sophisticated palate and remarkable composure in the kitchen; her big heart naturally won a lot of people over in the audience and in the kitchen.
** American's Season 4 had Luca- the happy go lucky Italian restaurant manager with an underdog story of failing to get an apron in Season 3 and finally winning Season 4.
** America's Season 8 had the three finalists, [[spoiler: Dino, Jason, and Eboni]] the three of them seemed pretty universally loved among the viewers, with many proclaiming it was the first time they liked every finalist and wanted any of them to win.
%%** America's Season 7 brought us Nathan Barnhouse, a young {{Keet}} with a propensity to wear suits (bowties included). His personality was warmly received by the judges, his fellow contestants, and the audience, and his elimination, like Gleice above, was incredibly emotional for everyone involved. **Note: Not really. Nathan was more of a Base Breaker between both the contestants and the viewers.
* TheAce: In Season 7, the final seven are asked who they thought was the biggest competition, to which each and everyone answered Shaun. Gordon then said to him "No pressure." [[spoiler:He ended up winning the entire season.]]
* AlliterativeName: Season 8's Brien O'Brien.
* AlphaBitch:
** Natasha is set up this way at first in US season four, but while she continues to be haughty and occasionally mean to her competitors, the general tendency of many of that season's contestants towards JerkAss behavior leads to her never really achieving this status and she is overshadowed in the "villain" role by her initial rival Krissi.
** Courtney in season five. Astrid and Ahran were initially being set up this way, but the former crashed and burned early on, while the latter's repeated apologies and acceptance of her mistakes got her out of it.
* AmericansHateTingle: An in-universe example with regard to Molecular Gastronomy, which is a part of the show in nearly every version -- except for the US version, where Gordon Ramsay and Joe Bastianich have made no secret of their disdain for the technique, saying that they don't consider it "real" cooking and that it encourages chefs to show off rather than focusing on making something that tastes good.
** Finally averted in the finale of Season 8, in which both Gordon and Joe (who came back as a guest) were intrigued by Dino using molecular gastronomy to create a pseudo-caviar out of espresso.
* AscendedExtra: Aarón Sanchez, who was a guest judge for U.S. Season 7, fills in as a permanent judge for Season 8 and replaced Christina from Season 9 onwards.
* AsHimself: Joe Bastianich, who's also one of the judges in ''[=MasterChef=]'' Italy, dubs himself alongside professional voice actors for the Italian airing of the US version.
* AwesomeMcCoolname:
** Season 3's Monti Carlo names her son "Danger".
--->'''Monti:''' "He's gonna love me for that when he's in college."
** Season 5 has Joshua "Cutter" Brewer.
* BackForTheFinale: Wolfgang Puck appears as a judge in the third episode (the first day of top 20 contestants in the kitchen). He then reappears as judge alongside Daniel Boulud in the season finale.
* [[BackFromTheDead Back From Elimination]]:
** U.S. Season 3 had Josh (originally eliminated in the top 8)
** U.S. Season 4 had Bri (originally eliminated in the top 8)
* BaitAndSwitch
** A serious version of this trope happens in a challenge where contestants' ingredient baskets are swapped among each other by winner of previous challenge.
** One Mystery Box challenge in Season 2 has Gordon warning the contestants ''very seriously'' to be careful when opening their boxes, and what inside may bite them. Instead of some kind of live creature for them to kill, it's just ingredients to make a vegetarian meal.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: This show is very fond of this trope to build tension, and Gordon is the biggest offender in US series.
** "I have one big complaint about your dish... I can't stop eating it!" shows up a few times.
** "I don't like your dish, I ''love'' it!" also pops up a few times.
** Or a comment along this line: "I'm sorry, but ({{beat}}) you're not going home yet! Come up here and get your apron! [=\=] go up to the balcony!"
** Conversely, the first episode of the third US season had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di30Cn3GyLk this little exchange:]]
-->'''Gordon:''' Congratulations...\\
'''Contestant:''' [[NoIndoorVoice THANK YOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--]]\\
'''Gordon:''' ...on the worst dish in this competition so far.
** In season three to Felix when she's one of the bottom two: "It's time to say good-bye... to Scott."
** Also in season 3, Josh was the captain of a team of seven that lost the earlier challenge. The judges decided that three people performed well enough in the challenge to be deemed safe and would not need to cook in pressure test. After choosing two, Gordon Ramsay turned to Josh, and said, "The person I'm saving... Josh... it's not you." Josh's reaction was just priceless.
** Once again in season 3, after Christine landed in the bottom 3 after overcooking her salmon, Gordon tells her how much of an inspiration she had been, before going on to say "Your time in MasterChef... is not over".
** In season 4, Gordon was choosing one person of three to save from a pressure test. He says "Lynn..." and as Lynn starts moving forward to go upstairs, Gordon proceeds to reprimand him for sweating on plates (and even wiping the plates with the same towel he used to soak up the sweat from his forehead) during the team challenge, tells him to get back in line, and says who he's actually saving.
** Season 4 also had a pressure test involving cooked chicken breasts. Gordon says "And the person who will be leaving ''[=MasterChef=]'' tonight is... Bri", and then he continues with "It's not you, head upstairs."
** Also in Season 4, the result of éclair pressure test has come down to Jessie and Bri. Gordon tells Jessi, "Take off your apron, and say goodbye." Jessi, on the verge of tears, takes her apron off, and then Gordon says, "Because you won't be seeing Bri again."
** US season 5 has Gordon use the exact same line he used on Season 3's Josh for declaring the safe team in the surf-and-turf challenge. "The team that is safe from that dreaded pressure test is... Christian and Francis B... it's not you."
** Similarly to Bri's elimination above, US Season 6's birthday cake pressure test has this when it comes down to Shelly and Amanda. Gordon tells Shelly, "Take off your apron, and say goodbye to Amanda." After spending 10-20 seconds with Shelly hugging Amanda and then crying, Gordon then said "and head upstairs."
** US Season 7 has also had at least possibly more than once, "The person leaving ''[=MasterChef=]'', X... it's not you. Head up to the balcony."
** US Season 8's scrambled egg elimination challenge has the same Felix-Scott from season 3 above, this time it's Sam and Heather filling their position respectively.
** US Season 8's Top 10 paired cooking challenge, the two worst foods were produced by Adam-Caitlyn and Gabriel-Yachecia. The worst pairing had to participate in a pressure test. Gordon then says "The one saved from pressure test is, Adam and Caitlyn..." The two of them breathed sigh of relief for a couple of seconds until Gordon said "It's not you! And you know it!"
* BatmanGambit:
** In Season 4, Eddie used his Mystery Box advantage to ''deliberately'' give [[TheAce Jordan]] the high-quality fresh wild mushrooms, rightly expecting him to get cocky and overwork them. Gordon even referred to it as a "precision strike", and Jordan only stayed that episode because Bethy added way too much sesame oil to her mushrooms and got eliminated.
*** Krissi would attempt a Batman Gambit against Jordan again later in the season, having immunity from elimination, and tasked with assigning her competitors a specific bird to cook. Krissi set Jordan up with quail for the exact same reason that Eddie gave Jordan the fresh mushrooms, and it ultimately led to his elimination.
** Later that season, Jessie wanted to set up an all-female final with Natasha and picked Kobe beef as her ingredient, hoping that Natasha would pick Grana Padano cheese, leaving Luca with crab, which he wasn't too hot at cooking. However, this backfired when Luca pulled his ''own'' Batman Gambit and said that even as an Italian he wouldn't want to work with the cheese (which, of course, he actually did). Natasha then decided that rather than sitting around and being played by the other two, she'd just pick the ingredient she personally wanted -- the crab. Jessie subsequently got eliminated that episode, though not for reasons directly related to her failed gambit, oddly enough.
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** In US Season 4, Bri was one of the nicer contestants overall, until loud, confrontational Krissi finally got on Bri's last nerve and the mousy, bespectacled vegetarian shows her inner badass when she delivers an epic verbal smackdown to Krissi.
** While the nicest judge on the panel in the American version (which is really saying something, considering Graham Elliot is on the same panel) Christina Tosi isn't afraid to lambaste people. She ripped into Christopher twice for his arrogance, and expressed anger at Darah when she tried to point out the positives of her team's performance, despite them being dominated by the opposing team.
** Do NOT insult the palates of the three judge's mothers. When Giuseppe, the Red Team captain in a Season 2 episode, implied that they lost because of different "tastes" (as the judges were Gordon, Graham and Joe's mothers), Gordon exploded at him. No one insults his mother like that. It was probably only the fact that Giuseppe spoke English as a second language and possibly chose his words poorly that prevented him from being tossed off the show there and then.
** This is a small one and it rarely happens, but the judges hate it when contestants leave their station in a mess as it shows a lack of professionalism.
** While the U.S. judges generally don't like it when contestants monkey around with traditional recipes too much anyway, the absolute worst way of going about this is to try and "improve" a guest chef's dish when asked to cook it themselves, which the judges consider a sign of disrespect to their guest. This was demonstrated most spectacularly when Howard from Season 4 presented a Mexican-inspired twist on guest judge Lidia Bastianich's pasta dish, causing the judges to really unload on him.
* BigFun: Graham is rather portly, something he and others poke fun at. He's also typically the most likely of the crew to remain pleasant even when criticizing a dish, crack jokes, and remain optimistic.
* BodySushi: In Season 2 of the US version, a contestant attempts to impress the judges by serving the ''nyotaimori'' variety of this in the auditions. It doesn't work.
* BreakOutCharacter: From the US Version, there are three cases of success after the show.
** Season 3's Monti Carlo (placed 5th) became the host of "Help My Yelp" and as a judge in some Food Network shows.
** Season 4's Eddie Jackson (placed 8th) became host and personality at Food Network after winning "Food Network Star".
** Season 10's Nick became the most prominent contestant from his season, with a Youtube channel of 2 million subscribers, and became even more known than the actual winner of the season.
* BrutalHonesty:
** Gordon and Joe will verbally tear a contestant apart when their dish is horrible or raw. Joe takes it a step further by [[KickTheDog throwing really horrible tasting dishes in the trash, right in front of their cooks.]]
* TheBusCameBack: Joe Bastianich left as a judge for the U.S. ''[=MasterChef=]'' at the end of Season 5, but returned as a guest judge for the finale of Season 8. He officially comes back as permanent judge starting from Junior Season 6. He returned for Season 9, taking Christina's place.
* {{Camp}}: Dino, from Season 8.
He's a quirky, theatrical, wise-cracking {{Keet}} who enjoys playfully bantering with the other contestants and the judges, and makes equally quirky dishes that don't sound good based on their individual parts, but, when prepared, end up being phenomenal enough[[spoiler: to win him the entire season]].
* CatchPhrase:
** In the US version:
*** Almost every episode has one of the judges saying someone will have to face "the dreaded pressure test."
*** If a dish is served with an exceptionally good presentation, Gordon will very likely say "Visually, it's got that wow factor". If the dish was a disappointment from an otherwise excellent cook, he'll frequently end his remarks by saying "Pity," "What a shame," or "Damn damn damn!"
*** Also, if Gordon is especially disappointed about a dish turning out worse than he expected, he'll mutter "Damn!" under his breath.
*** Joe Bastianich: Whenever confronted with a moderate-to-bad mistake, he usually tells the contestant "That's a very severe technical error." When a contestant ''really'' screws up, he tells them "Thanks for nothing," usually on the back of a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
*** Graham Elliot: "I wish I could think of something positive to say about this."
*** Aarón Sanchez: "Textbook Example" and "This ___ is dynamite!" whenever he had a really good dish.
*** This rarely appears, but when a contestant presented a terrible dish, one of the judges will say "Maybe the only one who will like this is X" with "X" referring to someone who previously presented another terrible dish.
* CharacterDevelopment: In the U.S.A. version during Season 5, Ahran and Leslie spent several episodes in a rather immature feud with each other. But after being [[TeethClenchedTeamwork forced to work together]] (thanks to Courtney) in episode 7, they both worked incredibly well as a team. They listened to each other's ideas, didn't bicker even once, and even hugged each other after their dish was praised by the judges. Ahran later admitted she'd love to work with Leslie again. [[spoiler: Come the next Team Challenge, where Ahran was a captain due to her performance in the previous challenge, she made good on her words.]]
* CharacterTic:
** Many times, when US judge Graham Elliot takes a bite of something, he'll shift his eyes upwards to the left when he starts chewing. A contestant from the third Junior season lampshades it when she also looks up to try to see just what he's staring at.
** Joe Bastianich ''always'' scrapes his teeth on forks when he takes a bite.
** A not often seen tic from Gordon Ramsay is he will unexpectedly chuckle whenever he tastes a dish that he expects to be a mess and yet it ends up being delicious, such as season 3's Monti's scotch eggs breaded with canned crab meat, season 5's Francis Legge's donuts with prosciutto, stout, and maple syrup, and season 6's Veronica's messy looking apple pie.
** Every time Dino from US Season 8 receives compliment for his dish, he will bow down, join his palms together, and say thank you.
* ChekhovsSkill:
** In US Season 4, during his audition, Jordan brings up the fact that he often rolls dough with a wine bottle instead of a rolling pin because oftentimes fancier tools aren't available where he cooks. This comes in handy by allowing them to actually make pasta in the wilderness challenge using this method.
** In US Season 7, there're two examples:
*** Brandi told in her audition that she has been cooking with a cast iron skillet from her grandmother. Episode 14 had a challenge with only a skillet, a knife and a wooden spoon, [[spoiler:which she ended up winning.]]
*** David was already well known as a professional Poker player before auditioning for the show. By Episode 15 during the "Pop-Up Restaurant", he uses his ability to count and memorize numbers to keep up with his order tickets and saving his team from the Pressure Test.
* CoolOldGuy: US Season 8 has Newton (53 at the time), who was a Texas cowboy, a DeadpanSnarker, good sport and very skillful. [[spoiler:His elimination came as a shock after he gave an impressive performance, ultimately losing against Yachecia in Las Vegas.]]
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* HundredPercentAdorationRating:
** Brazilian ''[=MasterChef=]'' season 3 had Gleice a sweet 20 year old student with a DarkAndTroubledPast. She was loved by the audience, judges and contestants alike, even though she never really stood out during the competition. Her elimination was one of the most emotional moments of the show's run, bringing even the judges to tears. [[spoiler: When she came back, the other participants were chanting her name.]]
* ArousedByTheirVoice: Everyone with a pulse after hearing the youngest judge of the Spanish version, Jordi Cruz, talking for the first time. His amazing baritone voice only helps to enhance his other appealing physical attributes, so much that nowadays he is the not-so-unofficial MrFanservice of the programme -- ShirtlessScene included.
* [[BackFromTheDead Back From Elimination]]:
* Canada Season 2 had Cody (originally eliminated in the top 10)
** Canada Season 4 had Alice (originally eliminated in the top 12)
** Canada Season 5 had Kaegan (originally eliminated in the top 11)
** In Brazil, this is a RecurringElement:
*** Season 1 had Sandra (originally eliminated in the top 13)
*** Season 2 had Izabel (originally eliminated in the top 13)
*** Season 3 had Gleice (originally eliminated in the top 14) and Fernando (originally eliminated in the top 20)
*** Season 4 had Nayane (originally eliminated in the top 13) and Vitor B. (originally eliminated in the top 14)
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** The judges in the Spain version are this in general. They are amicable, supportive, and can be prone to kid around and have a good time. That being said, they tend to be very strict about things and won't accept any bad behavior from contestants (as season 2's Gonzalo found out when judge Jordi ripped him a new one). They will also never hesitate to punish contestants who perform exceptionally poorly in team challenges and send them into elimination even if their team won (and by contrast, save a contestant from the losing team who performed admirably).
* BerserkButton:
** We have seen in the US version that contestants who are safe from pressure tests will try to help others in them by offering suggestions, reminding them when they have something cooking for certain periods of time or if they forgot an ingredient, but the judges in ''[=MasterChef=] Argentina'' really, really don't like it when safe contestants try to help out those participating in pressure tests.
* BrutalHonesty: None of the judges in the Brazilian version are fond of pulling punches, they have always a stern outlook, give praise only when earned and will chew out any mistakes. Horrible tasting dishes are met with a combination of disdain and snarky commentary.
* CatchPhrase:
** In the UK: "Cooking doesn't get tougher than this!", "Whoever wins this, it's gonna [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Change. Their. Lives!]]" and "They're/You're fighting for their/your ''Master Chef'' lives!". All since dropped, but MemeticMutation had already done its work.
** In the Canadian version, expect "Taste is king" to pop up often.
* ChekhovsSkill: In Canada 2, David was able to ice his cake with precision and cleanly since as a concrete worker, he can pave concrete in a smooth way.
* CoolOldLady: Sister Flor, from the Mexican version, a nun and TeamMom who was loved by everybody in the season.
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[[folder: Masterchef Junior]]
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Some of the ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' contestants can be this.
** Sarah Lane, the most grounded and tough-minded of the youngest season 1 contestants.
** 8-year-old Abby and 9-year-old Oona from Season 2 most definitely count as well.
** Riley, the youngest contestant so far (8). Once, he said Gordon was his favorite cook, and Gordon said right back that Riley was his favorite.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: In the first episode of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'', ten-year-old Gavin explained to the judges how he learned how to make tortellini from scratch -- he had it at a cafe and decided he could make it just as well at home. So he did.
* [[BackFromTheDead Back From Elimination]]:U.S. Junior Season 5 had Jasmine (originally eliminated in the top 12) and Gonzalo (originally eliminated in the top 16)
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** Not even the children in the ''Junior'' version are exempt from this, as season 2's Victor, age 12, found out after a team challenge, when during cleaning the work tables, he commented that "girls clean better than boys because it's in their genes". Immediately the judges punish him by making him clean the whole kitchen all by himself. As he's carrying out his punishment, he says he didn't mean any harm, that it was just his opinion that girls clean better than boys, and this repeat offense caused the judges to take off a point from his overall amount (the Junior version works in that the contestants receive points by how well they perform in challenges and the ones with the least points are eliminated after a set number of challenges).
* BigWhat: Shayne from ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Season 5, a meat lover, delivered this followed by BigNo after knowing he had to cook a vegan burger for Creator/MayimBialik.
* CoveredInGunge: Happens to the judges in the ''Junior'' version. Usually, the substance is food-related. It initially started with a Season 1 whipped cream challenge.
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* HundredPercentAdorationRating:
** America's Season 3 winner Christine, a blind cook who defied everyone's expectations with her sophisticated palate and remarkable composure in the kitchen; her big heart naturally won a lot of people over in the audience and in the kitchen.
** American's Season 4 had Luca- the happy go lucky Italian restaurant manager with an underdog story of failing to get an apron in Season 3 and finally winning Season 4.
** America's Season 8 had the three finalists, [[spoiler: Dino, Jason, and Eboni]] the three of them seemed pretty universally loved among the viewers, with many proclaiming it was the first time they liked every finalist and wanted any of them to win.
%%** America's Season 7 brought us Nathan Barnhouse, a young {{Keet}} with a propensity to wear suits (bowties included). His personality was warmly received by the judges, his fellow contestants, and the audience, and his elimination, like Gleice above, was incredibly emotional for everyone involved. **Note: Not really. Nathan was more of a Base Breaker between both the contestants and the viewers.
* TheAce: In Season 7, the final seven are asked who they thought was the biggest competition, to which each and everyone answered Shaun. Gordon then said to him "No pressure." [[spoiler:He ended up winning the entire season.]]
* AlliterativeName: Season 8's Brien O'Brien.
* AlphaBitch:
** Natasha is set up this way at first in US season four, but while she continues to be haughty and occasionally mean to her competitors, the general tendency of many of that season's contestants towards JerkAss behavior leads to her never really achieving this status and she is overshadowed in the "villain" role by her initial rival Krissi.
** Courtney in season five. Astrid and Ahran were initially being set up this way, but the former crashed and burned early on, while the latter's repeated apologies and acceptance of her mistakes got her out of it.
* AmericansHateTingle: An in-universe example with regard to Molecular Gastronomy, which is a part of the show in nearly every version -- except for the US version, where Gordon Ramsay and Joe Bastianich have made no secret of their disdain for the technique, saying that they don't consider it "real" cooking and that it encourages chefs to show off rather than focusing on making something that tastes good.
** Finally averted in the finale of Season 8, in which both Gordon and Joe (who came back as a guest) were intrigued by Dino using molecular gastronomy to create a pseudo-caviar out of espresso.
* AscendedExtra: Aarón Sanchez, who was a guest judge for U.S. Season 7, fills in as a permanent judge for Season 8 and replaced Christina from Season 9 onwards.
* AsHimself: Joe Bastianich, who's also one of the judges in ''[=MasterChef=]'' Italy, dubs himself alongside professional voice actors for the Italian airing of the US version.
* AwesomeMcCoolname:
** Season 3's Monti Carlo names her son "Danger".
--->'''Monti:''' "He's gonna love me for that when he's in college."
** Season 5 has Joshua "Cutter" Brewer.
* BackForTheFinale: Wolfgang Puck appears as a judge in the third episode (the first day of top 20 contestants in the kitchen). He then reappears as judge alongside Daniel Boulud in the season finale.
* [[BackFromTheDead Back From Elimination]]:
** U.S. Season 3 had Josh (originally eliminated in the top 8)
** U.S. Season 4 had Bri (originally eliminated in the top 8)
* BaitAndSwitch
** A serious version of this trope happens in a challenge where contestants' ingredient baskets are swapped among each other by winner of previous challenge.
** One Mystery Box challenge in Season 2 has Gordon warning the contestants ''very seriously'' to be careful when opening their boxes, and what inside may bite them. Instead of some kind of live creature for them to kill, it's just ingredients to make a vegetarian meal.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: This show is very fond of this trope to build tension, and Gordon is the biggest offender in US series.
** "I have one big complaint about your dish... I can't stop eating it!" shows up a few times.
** "I don't like your dish, I ''love'' it!" also pops up a few times.
** Or a comment along this line: "I'm sorry, but ({{beat}}) you're not going home yet! Come up here and get your apron! [=\=] go up to the balcony!"
** Conversely, the first episode of the third US season had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di30Cn3GyLk this little exchange:]]
-->'''Gordon:''' Congratulations...\\
'''Contestant:''' [[NoIndoorVoice THANK YOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--]]\\
'''Gordon:''' ...on the worst dish in this competition so far.
** In season three to Felix when she's one of the bottom two: "It's time to say good-bye... to Scott."
** Also in season 3, Josh was the captain of a team of seven that lost the earlier challenge. The judges decided that three people performed well enough in the challenge to be deemed safe and would not need to cook in pressure test. After choosing two, Gordon Ramsay turned to Josh, and said, "The person I'm saving... Josh... it's not you." Josh's reaction was just priceless.
** Once again in season 3, after Christine landed in the bottom 3 after overcooking her salmon, Gordon tells her how much of an inspiration she had been, before going on to say "Your time in MasterChef... is not over".
** In season 4, Gordon was choosing one person of three to save from a pressure test. He says "Lynn..." and as Lynn starts moving forward to go upstairs, Gordon proceeds to reprimand him for sweating on plates (and even wiping the plates with the same towel he used to soak up the sweat from his forehead) during the team challenge, tells him to get back in line, and says who he's actually saving.
** Season 4 also had a pressure test involving cooked chicken breasts. Gordon says "And the person who will be leaving ''[=MasterChef=]'' tonight is... Bri", and then he continues with "It's not you, head upstairs."
** Also in Season 4, the result of éclair pressure test has come down to Jessie and Bri. Gordon tells Jessi, "Take off your apron, and say goodbye." Jessi, on the verge of tears, takes her apron off, and then Gordon says, "Because you won't be seeing Bri again."
** US season 5 has Gordon use the exact same line he used on Season 3's Josh for declaring the safe team in the surf-and-turf challenge. "The team that is safe from that dreaded pressure test is... Christian and Francis B... it's not you."
** Similarly to Bri's elimination above, US Season 6's birthday cake pressure test has this when it comes down to Shelly and Amanda. Gordon tells Shelly, "Take off your apron, and say goodbye to Amanda." After spending 10-20 seconds with Shelly hugging Amanda and then crying, Gordon then said "and head upstairs."
** US Season 7 has also had at least possibly more than once, "The person leaving ''[=MasterChef=]'', X... it's not you. Head up to the balcony."
** US Season 8's scrambled egg elimination challenge has the same Felix-Scott from season 3 above, this time it's Sam and Heather filling their position respectively.
** US Season 8's Top 10 paired cooking challenge, the two worst foods were produced by Adam-Caitlyn and Gabriel-Yachecia. The worst pairing had to participate in a pressure test. Gordon then says "The one saved from pressure test is, Adam and Caitlyn..." The two of them breathed sigh of relief for a couple of seconds until Gordon said "It's not you! And you know it!"
* BatmanGambit:
** In Season 4, Eddie used his Mystery Box advantage to ''deliberately'' give [[TheAce Jordan]] the high-quality fresh wild mushrooms, rightly expecting him to get cocky and overwork them. Gordon even referred to it as a "precision strike", and Jordan only stayed that episode because Bethy added way too much sesame oil to her mushrooms and got eliminated.
*** Krissi would attempt a Batman Gambit against Jordan again later in the season, having immunity from elimination, and tasked with assigning her competitors a specific bird to cook. Krissi set Jordan up with quail for the exact same reason that Eddie gave Jordan the fresh mushrooms, and it ultimately led to his elimination.
** Later that season, Jessie wanted to set up an all-female final with Natasha and picked Kobe beef as her ingredient, hoping that Natasha would pick Grana Padano cheese, leaving Luca with crab, which he wasn't too hot at cooking. However, this backfired when Luca pulled his ''own'' Batman Gambit and said that even as an Italian he wouldn't want to work with the cheese (which, of course, he actually did). Natasha then decided that rather than sitting around and being played by the other two, she'd just pick the ingredient she personally wanted -- the crab. Jessie subsequently got eliminated that episode, though not for reasons directly related to her failed gambit, oddly enough.
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** In US Season 4, Bri was one of the nicer contestants overall, until loud, confrontational Krissi finally got on Bri's last nerve and the mousy, bespectacled vegetarian shows her inner badass when she delivers an epic verbal smackdown to Krissi.
** While the nicest judge on the panel in the American version (which is really saying something, considering Graham Elliot is on the same panel) Christina Tosi isn't afraid to lambaste people. She ripped into Christopher twice for his arrogance, and expressed anger at Darah when she tried to point out the positives of her team's performance, despite them being dominated by the opposing team.
** Do NOT insult the palates of the three judge's mothers. When Giuseppe, the Red Team captain in a Season 2 episode, implied that they lost because of different "tastes" (as the judges were Gordon, Graham and Joe's mothers), Gordon exploded at him. No one insults his mother like that. It was probably only the fact that Giuseppe spoke English as a second language and possibly chose his words poorly that prevented him from being tossed off the show there and then.
** This is a small one and it rarely happens, but the judges hate it when contestants leave their station in a mess as it shows a lack of professionalism.
** While the U.S. judges generally don't like it when contestants monkey around with traditional recipes too much anyway, the absolute worst way of going about this is to try and "improve" a guest chef's dish when asked to cook it themselves, which the judges consider a sign of disrespect to their guest. This was demonstrated most spectacularly when Howard from Season 4 presented a Mexican-inspired twist on guest judge Lidia Bastianich's pasta dish, causing the judges to really unload on him.
* BigFun: Graham is rather portly, something he and others poke fun at. He's also typically the most likely of the crew to remain pleasant even when criticizing a dish, crack jokes, and remain optimistic.
* BodySushi: In Season 2 of the US version, a contestant attempts to impress the judges by serving the ''nyotaimori'' variety of this in the auditions. It doesn't work.
* BreakOutCharacter: From the US Version, there are three cases of success after the show.
** Season 3's Monti Carlo (placed 5th) became the host of "Help My Yelp" and as a judge in some Food Network shows.
** Season 4's Eddie Jackson (placed 8th) became host and personality at Food Network after winning "Food Network Star".
** Season 10's Nick became the most prominent contestant from his season, with a Youtube channel of 2 million subscribers, and became even more known than the actual winner of the season.
* BrutalHonesty:
** Gordon and Joe will verbally tear a contestant apart when their dish is horrible or raw. Joe takes it a step further by [[KickTheDog throwing really horrible tasting dishes in the trash, right in front of their cooks.]]
* TheBusCameBack: Joe Bastianich left as a judge for the U.S. ''[=MasterChef=]'' at the end of Season 5, but returned as a guest judge for the finale of Season 8. He officially comes back as permanent judge starting from Junior Season 6. He returned for Season 9, taking Christina's place.
* {{Camp}}: Dino, from Season 8.
He's a quirky, theatrical, wise-cracking {{Keet}} who enjoys playfully bantering with the other contestants and the judges, and makes equally quirky dishes that don't sound good based on their individual parts, but, when prepared, end up being phenomenal enough[[spoiler: to win him the entire season]].
* CatchPhrase:
** In the US version:
*** Almost every episode has one of the judges saying someone will have to face "the dreaded pressure test."
*** If a dish is served with an exceptionally good presentation, Gordon will very likely say "Visually, it's got that wow factor". If the dish was a disappointment from an otherwise excellent cook, he'll frequently end his remarks by saying "Pity," "What a shame," or "Damn damn damn!"
*** Also, if Gordon is especially disappointed about a dish turning out worse than he expected, he'll mutter "Damn!" under his breath.
*** Joe Bastianich: Whenever confronted with a moderate-to-bad mistake, he usually tells the contestant "That's a very severe technical error." When a contestant ''really'' screws up, he tells them "Thanks for nothing," usually on the back of a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
*** Graham Elliot: "I wish I could think of something positive to say about this."
*** Aarón Sanchez: "Textbook Example" and "This ___ is dynamite!" whenever he had a really good dish.
*** This rarely appears, but when a contestant presented a terrible dish, one of the judges will say "Maybe the only one who will like this is X" with "X" referring to someone who previously presented another terrible dish.
* CharacterDevelopment: In the U.S.A. version during Season 5, Ahran and Leslie spent several episodes in a rather immature feud with each other. But after being [[TeethClenchedTeamwork forced to work together]] (thanks to Courtney) in episode 7, they both worked incredibly well as a team. They listened to each other's ideas, didn't bicker even once, and even hugged each other after their dish was praised by the judges. Ahran later admitted she'd love to work with Leslie again. [[spoiler: Come the next Team Challenge, where Ahran was a captain due to her performance in the previous challenge, she made good on her words.]]
* CharacterTic:
** Many times, when US judge Graham Elliot takes a bite of something, he'll shift his eyes upwards to the left when he starts chewing. A contestant from the third Junior season lampshades it when she also looks up to try to see just what he's staring at.
** Joe Bastianich ''always'' scrapes his teeth on forks when he takes a bite.
** A not often seen tic from Gordon Ramsay is he will unexpectedly chuckle whenever he tastes a dish that he expects to be a mess and yet it ends up being delicious, such as season 3's Monti's scotch eggs breaded with canned crab meat, season 5's Francis Legge's donuts with prosciutto, stout, and maple syrup, and season 6's Veronica's messy looking apple pie.
** Every time Dino from US Season 8 receives compliment for his dish, he will bow down, join his palms together, and say thank you.
* ChekhovsSkill:
** In US Season 4, during his audition, Jordan brings up the fact that he often rolls dough with a wine bottle instead of a rolling pin because oftentimes fancier tools aren't available where he cooks. This comes in handy by allowing them to actually make pasta in the wilderness challenge using this method.
** In US Season 7, there're two examples:
*** Brandi told in her audition that she has been cooking with a cast iron skillet from her grandmother. Episode 14 had a challenge with only a skillet, a knife and a wooden spoon, [[spoiler:which she ended up winning.]]
*** David was already well known as a professional Poker player before auditioning for the show. By Episode 15 during the "Pop-Up Restaurant", he uses his ability to count and memorize numbers to keep up with his order tickets and saving his team from the Pressure Test.
* CoolOldGuy: US Season 8 has Newton (53 at the time), who was a Texas cowboy, a DeadpanSnarker, good sport and very skillful. [[spoiler:His elimination came as a shock after he gave an impressive performance, ultimately losing against Yachecia in Las Vegas.]]
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[[folder:International Versions]]
* HundredPercentAdorationRating:
** Brazilian ''[=MasterChef=]'' season 3 had Gleice a sweet 20 year old student with a DarkAndTroubledPast. She was loved by the audience, judges and contestants alike, even though she never really stood out during the competition. Her elimination was one of the most emotional moments of the show's run, bringing even the judges to tears. [[spoiler: When she came back, the other participants were chanting her name.]]
* ArousedByTheirVoice: Everyone with a pulse after hearing the youngest judge of the Spanish version, Jordi Cruz, talking for the first time. His amazing baritone voice only helps to enhance his other appealing physical attributes, so much that nowadays he is the not-so-unofficial MrFanservice of the programme -- ShirtlessScene included.
* [[BackFromTheDead Back From Elimination]]:
* Canada Season 2 had Cody (originally eliminated in the top 10)
** Canada Season 4 had Alice (originally eliminated in the top 12)
** Canada Season 5 had Kaegan (originally eliminated in the top 11)
** In Brazil, this is a RecurringElement:
*** Season 1 had Sandra (originally eliminated in the top 13)
*** Season 2 had Izabel (originally eliminated in the top 13)
*** Season 3 had Gleice (originally eliminated in the top 14) and Fernando (originally eliminated in the top 20)
*** Season 4 had Nayane (originally eliminated in the top 13) and Vitor B. (originally eliminated in the top 14)
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** The judges in the Spain version are this in general. They are amicable, supportive, and can be prone to kid around and have a good time. That being said, they tend to be very strict about things and won't accept any bad behavior from contestants (as season 2's Gonzalo found out when judge Jordi ripped him a new one). They will also never hesitate to punish contestants who perform exceptionally poorly in team challenges and send them into elimination even if their team won (and by contrast, save a contestant from the losing team who performed admirably).
* BerserkButton:
** We have seen in the US version that contestants who are safe from pressure tests will try to help others in them by offering suggestions, reminding them when they have something cooking for certain periods of time or if they forgot an ingredient, but the judges in ''[=MasterChef=] Argentina'' really, really don't like it when safe contestants try to help out those participating in pressure tests.
* BrutalHonesty: None of the judges in the Brazilian version are fond of pulling punches, they have always a stern outlook, give praise only when earned and will chew out any mistakes. Horrible tasting dishes are met with a combination of disdain and snarky commentary.
* CatchPhrase:
** In the UK: "Cooking doesn't get tougher than this!", "Whoever wins this, it's gonna [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Change. Their. Lives!]]" and "They're/You're fighting for their/your ''Master Chef'' lives!". All since dropped, but MemeticMutation had already done its work.
** In the Canadian version, expect "Taste is king" to pop up often.
* ChekhovsSkill: In Canada 2, David was able to ice his cake with precision and cleanly since as a concrete worker, he can pave concrete in a smooth way.
* CoolOldLady: Sister Flor, from the Mexican version, a nun and TeamMom who was loved by everybody in the season.
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[[folder: Masterchef Junior]]
* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Some of the ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' contestants can be this.
** Sarah Lane, the most grounded and tough-minded of the youngest season 1 contestants.
** 8-year-old Abby and 9-year-old Oona from Season 2 most definitely count as well.
** Riley, the youngest contestant so far (8). Once, he said Gordon was his favorite cook, and Gordon said right back that Riley was his favorite.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: In the first episode of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'', ten-year-old Gavin explained to the judges how he learned how to make tortellini from scratch -- he had it at a cafe and decided he could make it just as well at home. So he did.
* [[BackFromTheDead Back From Elimination]]:U.S. Junior Season 5 had Jasmine (originally eliminated in the top 12) and Gonzalo (originally eliminated in the top 16)
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** Not even the children in the ''Junior'' version are exempt from this, as season 2's Victor, age 12, found out after a team challenge, when during cleaning the work tables, he commented that "girls clean better than boys because it's in their genes". Immediately the judges punish him by making him clean the whole kitchen all by himself. As he's carrying out his punishment, he says he didn't mean any harm, that it was just his opinion that girls clean better than boys, and this repeat offense caused the judges to take off a point from his overall amount (the Junior version works in that the contestants receive points by how well they perform in challenges and the ones with the least points are eliminated after a set number of challenges).
* BigWhat: Shayne from ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Season 5, a meat lover, delivered this followed by BigNo after knowing he had to cook a vegan burger for Creator/MayimBialik.
* CoveredInGunge: Happens to the judges in the ''Junior'' version. Usually, the substance is food-related. It initially started with a Season 1 whipped cream challenge.
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to:
* HundredPercentAdorationRating:
** America's Season 3 winner Christine, a blind cook who defied everyone's expectations with her sophisticated palate and remarkable composure in the kitchen; her big heart naturally won a lot of people over in the audience and in the kitchen.
** American's Season 4 had Luca- the happy go lucky Italian restaurant manager with an underdog story of failing to get an apron in Season 3 and finally winning Season 4.
** America's Season 8 had the three finalists, [[spoiler: Dino, Jason, and Eboni]] the three of them seemed pretty universally loved among the viewers, with many proclaiming it was the first time they liked every finalist and wanted any of them to win.
%%** America's Season 7 brought us Nathan Barnhouse, a young {{Keet}} with a propensity to wear suits (bowties included). His personality was warmly received by the judges, his fellow contestants, and the audience, and his elimination, like Gleice above, was incredibly emotional for everyone involved. **Note: Not really. Nathan was more of a Base Breaker between both the contestants and the viewers.
* TheAce: In Season 7, the final seven are asked who they thought was the biggest competition, to which each and everyone answered Shaun. Gordon then said to him "No pressure." [[spoiler:He ended up winning the entire season.]]
* AlliterativeName: Season 8's Brien O'Brien.
* AlphaBitch:
** Natasha is set up this way at first in US season four, but while she continues to be haughty and occasionally mean to her competitors, the general tendency of many of that season's contestants towards JerkAss behavior leads to her never really achieving this status and she is overshadowed in the "villain" role by her initial rival Krissi.
** Courtney in season five. Astrid and Ahran were initially being set up this way, but the former crashed and burned early on, while the latter's repeated apologies and acceptance of her mistakes got her out of it.
* AmericansHateTingle: An in-universe example with regard to Molecular Gastronomy, which is a part of the show in nearly every version -- except for the US version, where Gordon Ramsay and Joe Bastianich have made no secret of their disdain for the technique, saying that they don't consider it "real" cooking and that it encourages chefs to show off rather than focusing on making something that tastes good.
** Finally averted in the finale of Season 8, in which both Gordon and Joe (who came back as a guest) were intrigued by Dino using molecular gastronomy to create a pseudo-caviar out of espresso.
* AscendedExtra: Aarón Sanchez, who was a guest judge for U.S. Season 7, fills in as a permanent judge for Season 8 and replaced Christina from Season 9 onwards.
* AsHimself: Joe Bastianich, who's also one of the judges in ''[=MasterChef=]'' Italy, dubs himself alongside professional voice actors for the Italian airing of the US version.
* AwesomeMcCoolname:
** Season 3's Monti Carlo names her son "Danger".
--->'''Monti:''' "He's gonna love me for that when he's in college."
** Season 5 has Joshua "Cutter" Brewer.
* BackForTheFinale: Wolfgang Puck appears as a judge in the third episode (the first day of top 20 contestants in the kitchen). He then reappears as judge alongside Daniel Boulud in the season finale.
* [[BackFromTheDead Back From Elimination]]:
** U.S. Season 3 had Josh (originally eliminated in the top 8)
** U.S. Season 4 had Bri (originally eliminated in the top 8)
* BaitAndSwitch
** A serious version of this trope happens in a challenge where contestants' ingredient baskets are swapped among each other by winner of previous challenge.
** One Mystery Box challenge in Season 2 has Gordon warning the contestants ''very seriously'' to be careful when opening their boxes, and what inside may bite them. Instead of some kind of live creature for them to kill, it's just ingredients to make a vegetarian meal.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: This show is very fond of this trope to build tension, and Gordon is the biggest offender in US series.
** "I have one big complaint about your dish... I can't stop eating it!" shows up a few times.
** "I don't like your dish, I ''love'' it!" also pops up a few times.
** Or a comment along this line: "I'm sorry, but ({{beat}}) you're not going home yet! Come up here and get your apron! [=\=] go up to the balcony!"
** Conversely, the first episode of the third US season had [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Di30Cn3GyLk this little exchange:]]
-->'''Gordon:''' Congratulations...\\
'''Contestant:''' [[NoIndoorVoice THANK YOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU--]]\\
'''Gordon:''' ...on the worst dish in this competition so far.
** In season three to Felix when she's one of the bottom two: "It's time to say good-bye... to Scott."
** Also in season 3, Josh was the captain of a team of seven that lost the earlier challenge. The judges decided that three people performed well enough in the challenge to be deemed safe and would not need to cook in pressure test. After choosing two, Gordon Ramsay turned to Josh, and said, "The person I'm saving... Josh... it's not you." Josh's reaction was just priceless.
** Once again in season 3, after Christine landed in the bottom 3 after overcooking her salmon, Gordon tells her how much of an inspiration she had been, before going on to say "Your time in MasterChef... is not over".
** In season 4, Gordon was choosing one person of three to save from a pressure test. He says "Lynn..." and as Lynn starts moving forward to go upstairs, Gordon proceeds to reprimand him for sweating on plates (and even wiping the plates with the same towel he used to soak up the sweat from his forehead) during the team challenge, tells him to get back in line, and says who he's actually saving.
** Season 4 also had a pressure test involving cooked chicken breasts. Gordon says "And the person who will be leaving ''[=MasterChef=]'' tonight is... Bri", and then he continues with "It's not you, head upstairs."
** Also in Season 4, the result of éclair pressure test has come down to Jessie and Bri. Gordon tells Jessi, "Take off your apron, and say goodbye." Jessi, on the verge of tears, takes her apron off, and then Gordon says, "Because you won't be seeing Bri again."
** US season 5 has Gordon use the exact same line he used on Season 3's Josh for declaring the safe team in the surf-and-turf challenge. "The team that is safe from that dreaded pressure test is... Christian and Francis B... it's not you."
** Similarly to Bri's elimination above, US Season 6's birthday cake pressure test has this when it comes down to Shelly and Amanda. Gordon tells Shelly, "Take off your apron, and say goodbye to Amanda." After spending 10-20 seconds with Shelly hugging Amanda and then crying, Gordon then said "and head upstairs."
** US Season 7 has also had at least possibly more than once, "The person leaving ''[=MasterChef=]'', X... it's not you. Head up to the balcony."
** US Season 8's scrambled egg elimination challenge has the same Felix-Scott from season 3 above, this time it's Sam and Heather filling their position respectively.
** US Season 8's Top 10 paired cooking challenge, the two worst foods were produced by Adam-Caitlyn and Gabriel-Yachecia. The worst pairing had to participate in a pressure test. Gordon then says "The one saved from pressure test is, Adam and Caitlyn..." The two of them breathed sigh of relief for a couple of seconds until Gordon said "It's not you! And you know it!"
* BatmanGambit:
** In Season 4, Eddie used his Mystery Box advantage to ''deliberately'' give [[TheAce Jordan]] the high-quality fresh wild mushrooms, rightly expecting him to get cocky and overwork them. Gordon even referred to it as a "precision strike", and Jordan only stayed that episode because Bethy added way too much sesame oil to her mushrooms and got eliminated.
*** Krissi would attempt a Batman Gambit against Jordan again later in the season, having immunity from elimination, and tasked with assigning her competitors a specific bird to cook. Krissi set Jordan up with quail for the exact same reason that Eddie gave Jordan the fresh mushrooms, and it ultimately led to his elimination.
** Later that season, Jessie wanted to set up an all-female final with Natasha and picked Kobe beef as her ingredient, hoping that Natasha would pick Grana Padano cheese, leaving Luca with crab, which he wasn't too hot at cooking. However, this backfired when Luca pulled his ''own'' Batman Gambit and said that even as an Italian he wouldn't want to work with the cheese (which, of course, he actually did). Natasha then decided that rather than sitting around and being played by the other two, she'd just pick the ingredient she personally wanted -- the crab. Jessie subsequently got eliminated that episode, though not for reasons directly related to her failed gambit, oddly enough.
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** In US Season 4, Bri was one of the nicer contestants overall, until loud, confrontational Krissi finally got on Bri's last nerve and the mousy, bespectacled vegetarian shows her inner badass when she delivers an epic verbal smackdown to Krissi.
** While the nicest judge on the panel in the American version (which is really saying something, considering Graham Elliot is on the same panel) Christina Tosi isn't afraid to lambaste people. She ripped into Christopher twice for his arrogance, and expressed anger at Darah when she tried to point out the positives of her team's performance, despite them being dominated by the opposing team.
** Do NOT insult the palates of the three judge's mothers. When Giuseppe, the Red Team captain in a Season 2 episode, implied that they lost because of different "tastes" (as the judges were Gordon, Graham and Joe's mothers), Gordon exploded at him. No one insults his mother like that. It was probably only the fact that Giuseppe spoke English as a second language and possibly chose his words poorly that prevented him from being tossed off the show there and then.
** This is a small one and it rarely happens, but the judges hate it when contestants leave their station in a mess as it shows a lack of professionalism.
** While the U.S. judges generally don't like it when contestants monkey around with traditional recipes too much anyway, the absolute worst way of going about this is to try and "improve" a guest chef's dish when asked to cook it themselves, which the judges consider a sign of disrespect to their guest. This was demonstrated most spectacularly when Howard from Season 4 presented a Mexican-inspired twist on guest judge Lidia Bastianich's pasta dish, causing the judges to really unload on him.
* BigFun: Graham is rather portly, something he and others poke fun at. He's also typically the most likely of the crew to remain pleasant even when criticizing a dish, crack jokes, and remain optimistic.
* BodySushi: In Season 2 of the US version, a contestant attempts to impress the judges by serving the ''nyotaimori'' variety of this in the auditions. It doesn't work.
* BreakOutCharacter: From the US Version, there are three cases of success after the show.
** Season 3's Monti Carlo (placed 5th) became the host of "Help My Yelp" and as a judge in some Food Network shows.
** Season 4's Eddie Jackson (placed 8th) became host and personality at Food Network after winning "Food Network Star".
** Season 10's Nick became the most prominent contestant from his season, with a Youtube channel of 2 million subscribers, and became even more known than the actual winner of the season.
* BrutalHonesty:
** Gordon and Joe will verbally tear a contestant apart when their dish is horrible or raw. Joe takes it a step further by [[KickTheDog throwing really horrible tasting dishes in the trash, right in front of their cooks.]]
* TheBusCameBack: Joe Bastianich left as a judge for the U.S. ''[=MasterChef=]'' at the end of Season 5, but returned as a guest judge for the finale of Season 8. He officially comes back as permanent judge starting from Junior Season 6. He returned for Season 9, taking Christina's place.
* {{Camp}}: Dino, from Season 8.
He's a quirky, theatrical, wise-cracking {{Keet}} who enjoys playfully bantering with the other contestants and the judges, and makes equally quirky dishes that don't sound good based on their individual parts, but, when prepared, end up being phenomenal enough[[spoiler: to win him the entire season]].
* CatchPhrase:
** In the US version:
*** Almost every episode has one of the judges saying someone will have to face "the dreaded pressure test."
*** If a dish is served with an exceptionally good presentation, Gordon will very likely say "Visually, it's got that wow factor". If the dish was a disappointment from an otherwise excellent cook, he'll frequently end his remarks by saying "Pity," "What a shame," or "Damn damn damn!"
*** Also, if Gordon is especially disappointed about a dish turning out worse than he expected, he'll mutter "Damn!" under his breath.
*** Joe Bastianich: Whenever confronted with a moderate-to-bad mistake, he usually tells the contestant "That's a very severe technical error." When a contestant ''really'' screws up, he tells them "Thanks for nothing," usually on the back of a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
*** Graham Elliot: "I wish I could think of something positive to say about this."
*** Aarón Sanchez: "Textbook Example" and "This ___ is dynamite!" whenever he had a really good dish.
*** This rarely appears, but when a contestant presented a terrible dish, one of the judges will say "Maybe the only one who will like this is X" with "X" referring to someone who previously presented another terrible dish.
* CharacterDevelopment: In the U.S.A. version during Season 5, Ahran and Leslie spent several episodes in a rather immature feud with each other. But after being [[TeethClenchedTeamwork forced to work together]] (thanks to Courtney) in episode 7, they both worked incredibly well as a team. They listened to each other's ideas, didn't bicker even once, and even hugged each other after their dish was praised by the judges. Ahran later admitted she'd love to work with Leslie again. [[spoiler: Come the next Team Challenge, where Ahran was a captain due to her performance in the previous challenge, she made good on her words.]]
* CharacterTic:
** Many times, when US judge Graham Elliot takes a bite of something, he'll shift his eyes upwards to the left when he starts chewing. A contestant from the third Junior season lampshades it when she also looks up to try to see just what he's staring at.
** Joe Bastianich ''always'' scrapes his teeth on forks when he takes a bite.
** A not often seen tic from Gordon Ramsay is he will unexpectedly chuckle whenever he tastes a dish that he expects to be a mess and yet it ends up being delicious, such as season 3's Monti's scotch eggs breaded with canned crab meat, season 5's Francis Legge's donuts with prosciutto, stout, and maple syrup, and season 6's Veronica's messy looking apple pie.
** Every time Dino from US Season 8 receives compliment for his dish, he will bow down, join his palms together, and say thank you.
* ChekhovsSkill:
** In US Season 4, during his audition, Jordan brings up the fact that he often rolls dough with a wine bottle instead of a rolling pin because oftentimes fancier tools aren't available where he cooks. This comes in handy by allowing them to actually make pasta in the wilderness challenge using this method.
** In US Season 7, there're two examples:
*** Brandi told in her audition that she has been cooking with a cast iron skillet from her grandmother. Episode 14 had a challenge with only a skillet, a knife and a wooden spoon, [[spoiler:which she ended up winning.]]
*** David was already well known as a professional Poker player before auditioning for the show. By Episode 15 during the "Pop-Up Restaurant", he uses his ability to count and memorize numbers to keep up with his order tickets and saving his team from the Pressure Test.
* CoolOldGuy: US Season 8 has Newton (53 at the time), who was a Texas cowboy, a DeadpanSnarker, good sport and very skillful. [[spoiler:His elimination came as a shock after he gave an impressive performance, ultimately losing against Yachecia in Las Vegas.]]
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* HundredPercentAdorationRating:
** Brazilian ''[=MasterChef=]'' season 3 had Gleice a sweet 20 year old student with a DarkAndTroubledPast. She was loved by the audience, judges and contestants alike, even though she never really stood out during the competition. Her elimination was one of the most emotional moments of the show's run, bringing even the judges to tears. [[spoiler: When she came back, the other participants were chanting her name.]]
* ArousedByTheirVoice: Everyone with a pulse after hearing the youngest judge of the Spanish version, Jordi Cruz, talking for the first time. His amazing baritone voice only helps to enhance his other appealing physical attributes, so much that nowadays he is the not-so-unofficial MrFanservice of the programme -- ShirtlessScene included.
* [[BackFromTheDead Back From Elimination]]:
* Canada Season 2 had Cody (originally eliminated in the top 10)
** Canada Season 4 had Alice (originally eliminated in the top 12)
** Canada Season 5 had Kaegan (originally eliminated in the top 11)
** In Brazil, this is a RecurringElement:
*** Season 1 had Sandra (originally eliminated in the top 13)
*** Season 2 had Izabel (originally eliminated in the top 13)
*** Season 3 had Gleice (originally eliminated in the top 14) and Fernando (originally eliminated in the top 20)
*** Season 4 had Nayane (originally eliminated in the top 13) and Vitor B. (originally eliminated in the top 14)
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** The judges in the Spain version are this in general. They are amicable, supportive, and can be prone to kid around and have a good time. That being said, they tend to be very strict about things and won't accept any bad behavior from contestants (as season 2's Gonzalo found out when judge Jordi ripped him a new one). They will also never hesitate to punish contestants who perform exceptionally poorly in team challenges and send them into elimination even if their team won (and by contrast, save a contestant from the losing team who performed admirably).
* BerserkButton:
** We have seen in the US version that contestants who are safe from pressure tests will try to help others in them by offering suggestions, reminding them when they have something cooking for certain periods of time or if they forgot an ingredient, but the judges in ''[=MasterChef=] Argentina'' really, really don't like it when safe contestants try to help out those participating in pressure tests.
* BrutalHonesty: None of the judges in the Brazilian version are fond of pulling punches, they have always a stern outlook, give praise only when earned and will chew out any mistakes. Horrible tasting dishes are met with a combination of disdain and snarky commentary.
* CatchPhrase:
** In the UK: "Cooking doesn't get tougher than this!", "Whoever wins this, it's gonna [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Change. Their. Lives!]]" and "They're/You're fighting for their/your ''Master Chef'' lives!". All since dropped, but MemeticMutation had already done its work.
** In the Canadian version, expect "Taste is king" to pop up often.
* ChekhovsSkill: In Canada 2, David was able to ice his cake with precision and cleanly since as a concrete worker, he can pave concrete in a smooth way.
* CoolOldLady: Sister Flor, from the Mexican version, a nun and TeamMom who was loved by everybody in the season.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Some of the ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' contestants can be this.
** Sarah Lane, the most grounded and tough-minded of the youngest season 1 contestants.
** 8-year-old Abby and 9-year-old Oona from Season 2 most definitely count as well.
** Riley, the youngest contestant so far (8). Once, he said Gordon was his favorite cook, and Gordon said right back that Riley was his favorite.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: In the first episode of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'', ten-year-old Gavin explained to the judges how he learned how to make tortellini from scratch -- he had it at a cafe and decided he could make it just as well at home. So he did.
* [[BackFromTheDead Back From Elimination]]:U.S. Junior Season 5 had Jasmine (originally eliminated in the top 12) and Gonzalo (originally eliminated in the top 16)
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** Not even the children in the ''Junior'' version are exempt from this, as season 2's Victor, age 12, found out after a team challenge, when during cleaning the work tables, he commented that "girls clean better than boys because it's in their genes". Immediately the judges punish him by making him clean the whole kitchen all by himself. As he's carrying out his punishment, he says he didn't mean any harm, that it was just his opinion that girls clean better than boys, and this repeat offense caused the judges to take off a point from his overall amount (the Junior version works in that the contestants receive points by how well they perform in challenges and the ones with the least points are eliminated after a set number of challenges).
* BigWhat: Shayne from ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Season 5, a meat lover, delivered this followed by BigNo after knowing he had to cook a vegan burger for Creator/MayimBialik.
* CoveredInGunge: Happens to the judges in the ''Junior'' version. Usually, the substance is food-related. It initially started with a Season 1 whipped cream challenge.
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* CripplingOverspecialization: Played with with Bri, the vegetarian from US season 4. She cooks amazing vegetarian dishes, but she doesn't taste the meat she cooks and she usually has trouble cooking meat, so it's no wonder some of her worst dishes were meat dishes.
** Hindu contestant Hetal from US Season 6 cooked expert vegetarian dishes, but would not taste meat or milk when she had to use them as ingredients in a dish.
* CurbStompBattle:
** In US Season 7, the blue team trashed the red team in the farming team challenge 81 to 20.
** In the first season of the Canadian Version, one team won a overwhelming ''107 votes'' out of 15.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Monti in US season 3. She managed to burn her stoves twice (one of those was while making ''a trifle''). Her firetruck-red lipstick and {{meganekko}} look do not hurt at ''all.''
** Hindu contestant Hetal from US Season 6 cooked expert vegetarian dishes, but would not taste meat or milk when she had to use them as ingredients in a dish.
* CurbStompBattle:
** In US Season 7, the blue team trashed the red team in the farming team challenge 81 to 20.
** In the first season of the Canadian Version, one team won a overwhelming ''107 votes'' out of 15.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Monti in US season 3. She managed to burn her stoves twice (one of those was while making ''a trifle''). Her firetruck-red lipstick and {{meganekko}} look do not hurt at ''all.''
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* CripplingOverspecialization: Played with with Bri, the vegetarian from US season Season 4. She cooks amazing vegetarian dishes, but she doesn't taste the meat she cooks and she usually has trouble cooking meat, so it's no wonder some of her worst dishes were meat dishes.
** Hindu contestant Hetal fromUS Season 6 cooked expert vegetarian dishes, but would not taste meat or milk when she had to use them as ingredients in a dish.
*CurbStompBattle:
**CurbStompBattle: In US Season 7, the blue team trashed the red team in the farming team challenge 81 to 20.
** In the first season of the Canadian Version, one team won a overwhelming ''107 votes'' out of 15.
* CuteClumsyGirl: Monti in US season Season 3. She managed to burn her stoves twice (one of those was while making ''a trifle''). Her firetruck-red lipstick and {{meganekko}} look do not hurt at ''all.''
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%%* DeadpanSnarker: Fortune in the SA version. Elizabeth from season 5 of the American version, ''brilliantly'' so.
* DeafComposer:
** Most seasons in the US have at least one vegetarian, meaning they cannot taste their dish when a meat-centric one comes up and the show never makes exceptions for dietary concerns unless it's a health-related one. This means that the chefs are basically cooking blind, since they can't taste their dish after the non-meat ingredients touch the protein [[note]]Except for Season 10's Wuta, who is at least willing to taste meat he cooked, but not swallow and actually digest them.[[/note]]. The quality of the dishes have zigzagged, with some successfully "guessing" at the correct flavours while others failing because they have no way of telling what their dish tastes like.
*** Dino, of Season 8, is vegan, and he explained on Instagram that the way he was able to get past his self-induced handicap was to smell the ingredients and do an educated guess from there. Christine, somewhat similarly, went by her own memory of the appearance of ingredients, and she let the rest of her senses do the work from there. Given that [[spoiler:both of them won their respective seasons,]] this is likely a case of [[SuperSenses the other senses compensating for what one sense can't do.]]
** Those who have allergic reaction to certain ingredients. Thea from Canada Season 4 is allergic to shrimp and she unfortunately has to cook one as a result of basket swap. As a result, she can't either taste or devein her shrimp properly. Fortunately for her, Miranda who assigned the basket to her not knowing she had allergies felt guilty and offered to help her for a bit.
** Muslim contestants when asked to cook pork suffers almost the same problem as those with allergies; They can't taste and touch the ingredients [[note]]they technically can touch, but cleaning spots touching pork surface requires tedious steps involving soil, seeing Samira was willing to touch the brioche bun[[/note]]. Australian season 5's Samira El Khafir was eliminated over a pork brioche bun.[[note]]She won a second chance challenge the following week and returned to the competition, finishing in third place.[[/note]]
** Averted in Canada Season 5's Black Forest Cake pressure test. Reem, a Muslim contestant was allowed not to use kirsh syrup, an alcohol, in her cake considering Muslims are forbidden to drink or serve alcohol.
* DeafComposer:
** Most seasons in the US have at least one vegetarian, meaning they cannot taste their dish when a meat-centric one comes up and the show never makes exceptions for dietary concerns unless it's a health-related one. This means that the chefs are basically cooking blind, since they can't taste their dish after the non-meat ingredients touch the protein [[note]]Except for Season 10's Wuta, who is at least willing to taste meat he cooked, but not swallow and actually digest them.[[/note]]. The quality of the dishes have zigzagged, with some successfully "guessing" at the correct flavours while others failing because they have no way of telling what their dish tastes like.
*** Dino, of Season 8, is vegan, and he explained on Instagram that the way he was able to get past his self-induced handicap was to smell the ingredients and do an educated guess from there. Christine, somewhat similarly, went by her own memory of the appearance of ingredients, and she let the rest of her senses do the work from there. Given that [[spoiler:both of them won their respective seasons,]] this is likely a case of [[SuperSenses the other senses compensating for what one sense can't do.]]
** Those who have allergic reaction to certain ingredients. Thea from Canada Season 4 is allergic to shrimp and she unfortunately has to cook one as a result of basket swap. As a result, she can't either taste or devein her shrimp properly. Fortunately for her, Miranda who assigned the basket to her not knowing she had allergies felt guilty and offered to help her for a bit.
** Muslim contestants when asked to cook pork suffers almost the same problem as those with allergies; They can't taste and touch the ingredients [[note]]they technically can touch, but cleaning spots touching pork surface requires tedious steps involving soil, seeing Samira was willing to touch the brioche bun[[/note]]. Australian season 5's Samira El Khafir was eliminated over a pork brioche bun.[[note]]She won a second chance challenge the following week and returned to the competition, finishing in third place.[[/note]]
** Averted in Canada Season 5's Black Forest Cake pressure test. Reem, a Muslim contestant was allowed not to use kirsh syrup, an alcohol, in her cake considering Muslims are forbidden to drink or serve alcohol.
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%%* DeadpanSnarker: Fortune in the SA version. Elizabeth from season 5 of the American version, Season 5, ''brilliantly'' so.
*DeafComposer:
**DeafComposer: Most seasons in the US have at least one vegetarian, meaning they cannot taste their dish when a meat-centric one comes up and the show never makes exceptions for dietary concerns unless it's a health-related one. This means that the chefs are basically cooking blind, since they can't taste their dish after the non-meat ingredients touch the protein [[note]]Except for Season 10's Wuta, who is at least willing to taste meat he cooked, but not swallow and actually digest them.[[/note]]. The quality of the dishes have zigzagged, with some successfully "guessing" at the correct flavours while others failing because they have no way of telling what their dish tastes like.
*** Dino, **Dino, of Season 8, is vegan, and he explained on Instagram that the way he was able to get past his self-induced handicap was to smell the ingredients and do an educated guess from there. Christine, somewhat similarly, went by her own memory of the appearance of ingredients, and she let the rest of her senses do the work from there. Given that [[spoiler:both of them won their respective seasons,]] this is likely a case of [[SuperSenses the other senses compensating for what one sense can't do.]]
** Those who have allergic reaction to certain ingredients. Thea from Canada Season 4 is allergic to shrimp and she unfortunately has to cook one as a result of basket swap. As a result, she can't either taste or devein her shrimp properly. Fortunately for her, Miranda who assigned the basket to her not knowing she had allergies felt guilty and offered to help her for a bit.
** Muslim contestants when asked to cook pork suffers almost the same problem as those with allergies; They can't taste and touch the ingredients [[note]]they technically can touch, but cleaning spots touching pork surface requires tedious steps involving soil, seeing Samira was willing to touch the brioche bun[[/note]]. Australian season 5's Samira El Khafir was eliminated over a pork brioche bun.[[note]]She won a second chance challenge the following week and returned to the competition, finishing in third place.[[/note]]
** Averted in Canada Season 5's Black Forest Cake pressure test. Reem, a Muslim contestant was allowed not to use kirsh syrup, an alcohol, in her cake considering Muslims are forbidden to drink or serve alcohol.]]
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** Those who have allergic reaction to certain ingredients. Thea from Canada Season 4 is allergic to shrimp and she unfortunately has to cook one as a result of basket swap. As a result, she can't either taste or devein her shrimp properly. Fortunately for her, Miranda who assigned the basket to her not knowing she had allergies felt guilty and offered to help her for a bit.
** Muslim contestants when asked to cook pork suffers almost the same problem as those with allergies; They can't taste and touch the ingredients [[note]]they technically can touch, but cleaning spots touching pork surface requires tedious steps involving soil, seeing Samira was willing to touch the brioche bun[[/note]]. Australian season 5's Samira El Khafir was eliminated over a pork brioche bun.[[note]]She won a second chance challenge the following week and returned to the competition, finishing in third place.[[/note]]
** Averted in Canada Season 5's Black Forest Cake pressure test. Reem, a Muslim contestant was allowed not to use kirsh syrup, an alcohol, in her cake considering Muslims are forbidden to drink or serve alcohol.
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** In a ''[=MasterChef=] US Celebrity Showdown Special 2017'', Gordon Ramsay was defeated by his own dish[[note]]in the final showdown between Anthony Anderson and Jordana Brewster with Gordon and Christina's assistance respectively, Gordon tried to spice things up by making dessert in a mystery box challenge that only requires both team to cook one dish. Christina who took the bait rushed to Jordana to make a Gordon-y dessert, choosing sticky toffee pudding cake. Said pudding cake was the reason Gordon lost the showdown[[/note]].
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** In a ''[=MasterChef=] US Celebrity Showdown Special 2017'', Gordon Ramsay was defeated by his own dish[[note]]in the final showdown between Anthony Anderson and Jordana Brewster with Gordon and Christina's assistance respectively, Gordon tried to spice things up by making dessert in a mystery box challenge that only requires both team to cook one dish. Christina who took the bait rushed to Jordana to make a Gordon-y dessert, choosing sticky toffee pudding cake. Said pudding cake was the reason Gordon lost the showdown[[/note]].
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** Khaya from the SA version is pregnant but continues to outclass all of her fellow contestants.
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** US Season 4's Jessie, after losing a fingertip to the mandoline during a team challenge, is made to sit out the rest of the challenge for her safety and that of the food. Instead, she coaches and directs her team from the sidelines, leading them to win the challenge even though she, personally, can't cook with them.
** In the Chilean version, most contestants are still working at their regular jobs. Ignacio works nights as a garbage collector, so he almost doesn't sleep when he is cooking for the show. He also took the trope UpToEleven when he went in a wheelchair with a broken leg. And he is the most probable winner and the only one who already has an offer to cook in one of the judge's restaurants.
** US Junior season 2's Abby, during a challenge where they had to cook a restaurant-worthy dish, and she can only use two ingredients to do it. She never lets that deter her and she pushes on, managing to have one of the two best dishes of the night.
** Canada season 2's Jennifer, who after forgetting a key, must-have ingredient for a difficult dish and having a bit of a meltdown, pushes on and decides to, on the fly, make up a substitute for the ingredient she lacked. She works non-stop and the most focused she has so far and manages to produce a great dish, stunning the judges. Other contestants lampshade how much she falls into this trope during that challenge.
** In the Chilean version, most contestants are still working at their regular jobs. Ignacio works nights as a garbage collector, so he almost doesn't sleep when he is cooking for the show. He also took the trope UpToEleven when he went in a wheelchair with a broken leg. And he is the most probable winner and the only one who already has an offer to cook in one of the judge's restaurants.
** US Junior season 2's Abby, during a challenge where they had to cook a restaurant-worthy dish, and she can only use two ingredients to do it. She never lets that deter her and she pushes on, managing to have one of the two best dishes of the night.
** Canada season 2's Jennifer, who after forgetting a key, must-have ingredient for a difficult dish and having a bit of a meltdown, pushes on and decides to, on the fly, make up a substitute for the ingredient she lacked. She works non-stop and the most focused she has so far and manages to produce a great dish, stunning the judges. Other contestants lampshade how much she falls into this trope during that challenge.
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** US Season 4's Jessie, after losing a fingertip to the mandoline during a team challenge, is made to sit out the rest of the challenge for her safety and that of the food. Instead, she coaches and directs her team from the sidelines, leading them to win the challenge even though she, personally, can't cook with them.
** In the Chilean version, most contestants are still working at their regular jobs. Ignacio works nights as a garbage collector, so he almost doesn't sleep when he is cooking for the show. He also took the trope UpToEleven when he went in a wheelchair with a broken leg. And he is the most probable winner and the only one who already has an offer to cook in one of the judge's restaurants.
** US Junior season 2's Abby, during a challenge where they had to cook a restaurant-worthy dish, and she can only use two ingredients to do it. She never lets that deter her and she pushes on, managing to have one of the two best dishes of the night.
** Canada season 2's Jennifer, who after forgetting a key, must-have ingredient for a difficult dish and having a bit of a meltdown, pushes on and decides to, on the fly, make up a substitute for the ingredient she lacked. She works non-stop and the most focused she has so far and manages to produce a great dish, stunning the judges. Other contestants lampshade how much she falls into this trope during that challenge.them.
** In the Chilean version, most contestants are still working at their regular jobs. Ignacio works nights as a garbage collector, so he almost doesn't sleep when he is cooking for the show. He also took the trope UpToEleven when he went in a wheelchair with a broken leg. And he is the most probable winner and the only one who already has an offer to cook in one of the judge's restaurants.
** US Junior season 2's Abby, during a challenge where they had to cook a restaurant-worthy dish, and she can only use two ingredients to do it. She never lets that deter her and she pushes on, managing to have one of the two best dishes of the night.
** Canada season 2's Jennifer, who after forgetting a key, must-have ingredient for a difficult dish and having a bit of a meltdown, pushes on and decides to, on the fly, make up a substitute for the ingredient she lacked. She works non-stop and the most focused she has so far and manages to produce a great dish, stunning the judges. Other contestants lampshade how much she falls into this trope during that challenge.
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** US Junior season 7's Reid, after being burned on the hand by hot oil during a team challenge, decides to head back into the kitchen rather than sitting the challenge out after receiving first aid. He not only provides motivation for his teammates, but also manages to perform several smaller tasks one-handed while keeping his injured hand in an ice bath.
** A more extreme version of US Season 9's Taylor is Josh from Canada Season 6 who went through ''every season's [=MasterChef=] Canada auditions'' until he got an apron.
** A more extreme version of US Season 9's Taylor is Josh from Canada Season 6 who went through ''every season's [=MasterChef=] Canada auditions'' until he got an apron.
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* DisappointedInYou: In the American version of ''Junior'', the judges say this when the semifinalists fail to produce a perfectly soft-boiled egg.
* DistractedByTheSexy: The main reason Vicky, from the Spanish version S2, will be remembered. Because [[EatingTheEyeCandy "I can't cook with a hot guy in front of me."]] Because ''"Is he hot?"'' is probably her catchphrase. But mostly because of her hilarious teenager-like reactions to [[LustObject one of the judges]] ([[PuppyDogEyes doe-eyes]], giggling, [[CrushBlush blushing]], [[GibberishOfLove babbling]], almost burning food to a crisp,...). Obviously, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt everyone and their cat can see (and laugh about) it]]... even the [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage jury himself]]. Yeah, watching ''[=MasterChef=] Spain'' is almost like watching a [[LoveDodecahedron flipping soap-opera]].
* DrillSergeantNasty:
** Gordon is this whenever he is the expediter in restaurant challenges, since he will often yell at the contestants who deliver terrible plates to customers.
** Judge Andrew Ratkinson in the SA version.
** And judge Alvin Leung from the Canada version. He is loud, strict, demanding and will get in contestants' faces if they produce crap food. That being said, he is very supportive towards contestants who do well and will never fail to give high praise to a good dish.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first U.S. Season has a ton:
* DistractedByTheSexy: The main reason Vicky, from the Spanish version S2, will be remembered. Because [[EatingTheEyeCandy "I can't cook with a hot guy in front of me."]] Because ''"Is he hot?"'' is probably her catchphrase. But mostly because of her hilarious teenager-like reactions to [[LustObject one of the judges]] ([[PuppyDogEyes doe-eyes]], giggling, [[CrushBlush blushing]], [[GibberishOfLove babbling]], almost burning food to a crisp,...). Obviously, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt everyone and their cat can see (and laugh about) it]]... even the [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage jury himself]]. Yeah, watching ''[=MasterChef=] Spain'' is almost like watching a [[LoveDodecahedron flipping soap-opera]].
* DrillSergeantNasty:
** Gordon is this whenever he is the expediter in restaurant challenges, since he will often yell at the contestants who deliver terrible plates to customers.
** Judge Andrew Ratkinson in the SA version.
** And judge Alvin Leung from the Canada version. He is loud, strict, demanding and will get in contestants' faces if they produce crap food. That being said, he is very supportive towards contestants who do well and will never fail to give high praise to a good dish.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first U.S. Season has a ton:
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* DisappointedInYou: In the American version of ''Junior'', the judges say this when the semifinalists fail to produce a perfectly soft-boiled egg.
* DistractedByTheSexy: The main reason Vicky, from the Spanish version S2, will be remembered. Because [[EatingTheEyeCandy "I can't cook with a hot guy in front of me."]] Because ''"Is he hot?"'' is probably her catchphrase. But mostly because of her hilarious teenager-like reactions to [[LustObject one of the judges]] ([[PuppyDogEyes doe-eyes]], giggling, [[CrushBlush blushing]], [[GibberishOfLove babbling]], almost burning food to a crisp,...). Obviously, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt everyone and their cat can see (and laugh about) it]]... even the [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage jury himself]]. Yeah, watching ''[=MasterChef=] Spain'' is almost like watching a [[LoveDodecahedron flipping soap-opera]].
* DrillSergeantNasty:
**DrillSergeantNasty: Gordon is this whenever he is the expediter in restaurant challenges, since he will often yell at the contestants who deliver terrible plates to customers.
** Judge Andrew Ratkinson in the SA version.
** And judge Alvin Leung from the Canada version. He is loud, strict, demanding and will get in contestants' faces if they produce crap food. That being said, he is very supportive towards contestants who do well and will never fail to give high praise to a good dish.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The first U.S. Season has a ton:
* DistractedByTheSexy: The main reason Vicky, from the Spanish version S2, will be remembered. Because [[EatingTheEyeCandy "I can't cook with a hot guy in front of me."]] Because ''"Is he hot?"'' is probably her catchphrase. But mostly because of her hilarious teenager-like reactions to [[LustObject one of the judges]] ([[PuppyDogEyes doe-eyes]], giggling, [[CrushBlush blushing]], [[GibberishOfLove babbling]], almost burning food to a crisp,...). Obviously, [[EveryoneCanSeeIt everyone and their cat can see (and laugh about) it]]... even the [[MasterOfTheMixedMessage jury himself]]. Yeah, watching ''[=MasterChef=] Spain'' is almost like watching a [[LoveDodecahedron flipping soap-opera]].
* DrillSergeantNasty:
**
** And judge Alvin Leung from the Canada version. He is loud, strict, demanding and will get in contestants' faces if they produce crap food. That being said, he is very supportive towards contestants who do well and will never fail to give high praise to a good dish.
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* TheEeyore: Eric from ''[=MasterChef=] Canada.'' He shows happiness whenever he does well, but the rest of the time, the look on his face is that of a sad, scolded puppy.
* EmotionlessGirl: ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' Season 5 contestant [[spoiler:and eventual winner]] Beccy, who was both still a teenager and rarely showed any emotion but cool calm. She sometimes crossed this with DeadpanSnarker.
* EmotionlessGirl: ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' Season 5 contestant [[spoiler:and eventual winner]] Beccy, who was both still a teenager and rarely showed any emotion but cool calm. She sometimes crossed this with DeadpanSnarker.
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** In the semi-finals of one version, the contestants had to make a chocolate soufflé. Whitney, the eventual winner, had a case of both CarryingACake and Endangered Soufflé as she had to hurry and present the soufflé to the judges while the soufflé slowly sank.
** In the US version, one pressure test was to make a soufflé. In a subversion, [[spoiler: all the soufflés were deemed so good that nobody was eliminated that episode]].
** Taken UpToEleven in the Season 3 of the US show. All ''three'' of the soufflés were properly risen on each side, even though the judges thought the task may have been too difficult to do in an hour, especially since the three soufflés have to be cooked properly are both savory and sweet with different time needed to rise properly.
* EnemyMine: Tag Team cooking challenges, as they will often be rigged to deliberately put two contestants who do not get along or have different working ethics together.
** In Season Five, Leslie and Ahran do not get along, but a tag team challenge actually improves their relationship somewhat.
* EpicFail: Now has [[EpicFail/MasterChef its own page.]]
* EverybodyLives: Every time contestants produce flawless soufflés in [[EndangeredSouffle soufflé pressure test]], the judges won't send them home. Twice, the 14th episode of season 2 and the 17th episode of season 8, all three contestants produced souffles of sufficient quality and the judges declined to eliminate anyone, citing that in light of their accomplishments doing so would be unfair.
** In the US version, one pressure test was to make a soufflé. In a subversion, [[spoiler: all the soufflés were deemed so good that nobody was eliminated that episode]].
** Taken UpToEleven in the Season 3 of the US show. All ''three'' of the soufflés were properly risen on each side, even though the judges thought the task may have been too difficult to do in an hour, especially since the three soufflés have to be cooked properly are both savory and sweet with different time needed to rise properly.
* EnemyMine: Tag Team cooking challenges, as they will often be rigged to deliberately put two contestants who do not get along or have different working ethics together.
** In Season Five, Leslie and Ahran do not get along, but a tag team challenge actually improves their relationship somewhat.
* EpicFail: Now has [[EpicFail/MasterChef its own page.]]
* EverybodyLives: Every time contestants produce flawless soufflés in [[EndangeredSouffle soufflé pressure test]], the judges won't send them home. Twice, the 14th episode of season 2 and the 17th episode of season 8, all three contestants produced souffles of sufficient quality and the judges declined to eliminate anyone, citing that in light of their accomplishments doing so would be unfair.
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** In the semi-finals of one version, Season 1, the contestants had to make a chocolate soufflé. Whitney, the eventual winner, had a case of both CarryingACake and Endangered Soufflé as she had to hurry and present the soufflé to the judges while the soufflé slowly sank.
** Inthe US version, another season, one pressure test was to make a soufflé. In a subversion, [[spoiler: all the soufflés were deemed so good that nobody was eliminated that episode]].
** Taken UpToEleven inthe Season 3 of the US show.3. All ''three'' of the soufflés were properly risen on each side, even though the judges thought the task may have been too difficult to do in an hour, especially since the three soufflés have to be cooked properly are both savory and sweet with different time needed to rise properly.
* EnemyMine:Tag Team cooking challenges, as they will often be rigged to deliberately put two contestants who do not get along or have different working ethics together.
**In Season Five, Leslie and Ahran do not get along, but a tag team challenge actually improves their relationship somewhat.
*EpicFail: Now has [[EpicFail/MasterChef its own page.]]
* EverybodyLives: Every time contestants produce flawless soufflés in [[EndangeredSouffle soufflé pressure test]], the judges won't send them home. Twice,EverybodyLives:
Done twice with Souffles, the 14th episode ofseason Season 2 and the 17th episode of season Season 8, all three contestants produced souffles of sufficient quality and the judges declined to eliminate anyone, citing that in light of their accomplishments doing so would be unfair.
** In
** Taken UpToEleven in
* EnemyMine:
**
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* EverybodyLives: Every time contestants produce flawless soufflés in [[EndangeredSouffle soufflé pressure test]], the judges won't send them home. Twice,
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** ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Season 5 plays with this trope with Franchise/TheMuppets' help as guest star. In top 6's steak frites challenge, Miss Piggy also participated as contestant alongside the young cooks. She tricked Gordon into cooking the dish for her, resulting in her disqualification since she didn't present her own dish. In one sense, one contestant did go home, but not one of the original young homecooks.
** In ''[=MasterChef=] Indonesia'' Season 2, all five contestants survived the dish replication challenge because of different reasons than examples above; none of them successfully replicated the dish and each of them made equally fatal mistakes ranging from using wrong cooking technique to serving raw lamb chop the judges couldn't determine who had to go home.
* EvilWearsBlack: Black Team in Indonesian version, as the name implies, wears black to show they are antagonistic toward the remaining contestants, trying to usurp their place. Some of them even go so far as [[EvilCostumeSwitch wearing Gothic-esque getup]].
** In ''[=MasterChef=] Indonesia'' Season 2, all five contestants survived the dish replication challenge because of different reasons than examples above; none of them successfully replicated the dish and each of them made equally fatal mistakes ranging from using wrong cooking technique to serving raw lamb chop the judges couldn't determine who had to go home.
* EvilWearsBlack: Black Team in Indonesian version, as the name implies, wears black to show they are antagonistic toward the remaining contestants, trying to usurp their place. Some of them even go so far as [[EvilCostumeSwitch wearing Gothic-esque getup]].
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** Poor Zaq in the UK series 15 managed to cut the end of his pinkie off while peeling an apple within a minute of his introduction, and Jon Torode immediately sent him off to hospital. We never even learned what he was planning to cook. After recovering he was invited back for the final heat of the series, [[spoiler:but was eliminated in the first round.]]
* {{Flanderization}}: The first season of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' featured a challenge in which bowls of more-or-less whipped cream were inverted over the judges' heads.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_H1-UhPm2A]] This was a legitimate -- if messy -- test of the kids' ability to whip the cream to stiff peaks. But since then, ''every'' season has had the judges getting dumped on, after skill tests only loosely related to the goop being dumped.
** Averted in the case of Gregg Wallace, who's been co-presenting the British version with John Torode since 2005. Gregg has ''always'' been a bald Cockney who really, ''really'' likes pudding.
* FoodPorn: Kinda goes without saying, really.
* {{Flanderization}}: The first season of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' featured a challenge in which bowls of more-or-less whipped cream were inverted over the judges' heads.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_H1-UhPm2A]] This was a legitimate -- if messy -- test of the kids' ability to whip the cream to stiff peaks. But since then, ''every'' season has had the judges getting dumped on, after skill tests only loosely related to the goop being dumped.
** Averted in the case of Gregg Wallace, who's been co-presenting the British version with John Torode since 2005. Gregg has ''always'' been a bald Cockney who really, ''really'' likes pudding.
* FoodPorn: Kinda goes without saying, really.
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** In the second US season, Christian won the first Mystery Box challenge and got to set the theme for the next challenge, which was based around one of three European cuisines. Joe Bastianich revealed the first choice of Spanish cuisine, Graham Elliot revealed the second choice of French cuisine, and then Gordon Ramsay revealed the third and final choice of ... British cuisine. Despite his attempts to talk it up, Christian and the other two judges couldn't stop laughing. A little later, after discovering that he didn't actually have to take part in the challenge himself, Christian said that he wished he had chosen British cuisine, just to witness the epic clusterfuck that would have resulted among the other contestants.
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** In the second US season, Second Season, Christian won the first Mystery Box challenge and got to set the theme for the next challenge, which was based around one of three European cuisines. Joe Bastianich revealed the first choice of Spanish cuisine, Graham Elliot revealed the second choice of French cuisine, and then Gordon Ramsay revealed the third and final choice of ... British cuisine. Despite his attempts to talk it up, Christian and the other two judges couldn't stop laughing. A little later, after discovering that he didn't actually have to take part in the challenge himself, Christian said that he wished he had chosen British cuisine, just to witness the epic clusterfuck that would have resulted among the other contestants.
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* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: The US version of ''Junior'' already has a few examples in its first episode.
** One episode of US Season Four had the Judges bring their children in as guest-stars. Gordon's son immediately began trying to hit on the female contestants.
* FullNameBasis: A RunningGag on the US version is that, if a chef introduces themselves by their full name when they first meet the three judges, they will continue to be referred to by their full name for the duration of their time on the show.
** One episode of US Season Four had the Judges bring their children in as guest-stars. Gordon's son immediately began trying to hit on the female contestants.
* FullNameBasis: A RunningGag on the US version is that, if a chef introduces themselves by their full name when they first meet the three judges, they will continue to be referred to by their full name for the duration of their time on the show.
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* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: The US version of ''Junior'' already has a few examples in its first episode.
**FromTheMouthsOfBabes:
One episode ofUS Season Four had the Judges bring their children in as guest-stars. Gordon's son immediately began trying to hit on the female contestants.
* FullNameBasis: A RunningGagon in the US version is that, if a chef introduces themselves by their full name when they first meet the three judges, they will continue to be referred to by their full name for the duration of their time on the show.
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* FullNameBasis: A RunningGag
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** In the RealityTelevision US version of the show, many contestants fail to realize that many of the usual genre tropes are not applicable. The standard "[[ImNotHereToMakeFriends I am not here to make friends]]" behavior is just going to make you look bad in front of the judges. Not that some haven't done it anyway. And that's to say nothing of the fact that the winner of every Mystery Box challenge is given the opportunity to screw over anyone who's pissed them off.
** Nobody ever seems to prepare for the Food Science/Molecular Gastronomy challenge despite it being in almost every single version of the show.
** Pretty much every single contestant that goes into the show without bothering to practice making desserts, as these are an integral part of the competition, especially for Pressure Tests. More often than not, those who haven't practiced baking desserts end up struggling in these Pressure Tests and are eliminated.
** Every Mystery Box winner in the US version will try to screw over their rivals using their advantage, but 9 times out of 10 it just ends up making them look better because of the odds. Conversely, they usually screw over whoever they tried to help, as giving them too many advantages or high-end ingredients cause them to overthink their dishes, ending up with something overly complicated and not very appealing.
* GentleGiant:
** Matt Preston from the Australian version towers the other two judges, standing at a 6'3'' height.
** "Big" Willie Mike from Season 5, by far the largest contestant of that season with a big heart to match, and was easily one of the most well-liked contestants of that season.
** Antonino Cannavacciuolo, the fourth judge of ''[=MasterChef=]'' Italy from Season 5 onwards, has a quite intimidating body shape; however, he rarely ever gets angry, instead delivering very spicy remarks when confronting the contestants.
** Nobody ever seems to prepare for the Food Science/Molecular Gastronomy challenge despite it being in almost every single version of the show.
** Pretty much every single contestant that goes into the show without bothering to practice making desserts, as these are an integral part of the competition, especially for Pressure Tests. More often than not, those who haven't practiced baking desserts end up struggling in these Pressure Tests and are eliminated.
** Every Mystery Box winner in the US version will try to screw over their rivals using their advantage, but 9 times out of 10 it just ends up making them look better because of the odds. Conversely, they usually screw over whoever they tried to help, as giving them too many advantages or high-end ingredients cause them to overthink their dishes, ending up with something overly complicated and not very appealing.
* GentleGiant:
** Matt Preston from the Australian version towers the other two judges, standing at a 6'3'' height.
** "Big" Willie Mike from Season 5, by far the largest contestant of that season with a big heart to match, and was easily one of the most well-liked contestants of that season.
** Antonino Cannavacciuolo, the fourth judge of ''[=MasterChef=]'' Italy from Season 5 onwards, has a quite intimidating body shape; however, he rarely ever gets angry, instead delivering very spicy remarks when confronting the contestants.
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** In the RealityTelevision US version of the show, many Many contestants fail to realize that many of the usual genre tropes are not applicable. The standard "[[ImNotHereToMakeFriends I am not here to make friends]]" behavior is just going to make you look bad in front of the judges. Not that some haven't done it anyway. And that's to say nothing of the fact that the winner of every Mystery Box challenge is given the opportunity to screw over anyone who's pissed them off.
** Nobody ever seems to prepare for the Food Science/Molecular Gastronomy challenge despite it being in almost every single version of the show.
** Pretty much every single contestant that goes into the show without bothering to practice making desserts, as these are an integral part of the competition, especially for Pressure Tests. More often than not, those who haven't practiced baking desserts end up struggling in these Pressure Tests and are eliminated.
** Every Mystery Box winner in the US version will try to screw over their rivals using their advantage, but 9 times out of 10 it just ends up making them look better because of the odds. Conversely, they usually screw over whoever they tried to help, as giving them too many advantages or high-end ingredients cause them to overthink their dishes, ending up with something overly complicated and not very appealing.
*GentleGiant:
** Matt Preston from the Australian version towers the other two judges, standing at a 6'3'' height.
** "Big"GentleGiant: Big" Willie Mike from Season 5, by far the largest contestant of that season with a big heart to match, and was easily one of the most well-liked contestants of that season.
** Antonino Cannavacciuolo, the fourth judge of ''[=MasterChef=]'' Italy from Season 5 onwards, has a quite intimidating body shape; however, he rarely ever gets angry, instead delivering very spicy remarks when confronting the contestants.season.
** Pretty much every single contestant that goes into the show without bothering to practice making desserts, as these are an integral part of the competition, especially for Pressure Tests. More often than not, those who haven't practiced baking desserts end up struggling in these Pressure Tests and are eliminated.
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** Matt Preston from the Australian version towers the other two judges, standing at a 6'3'' height.
** "Big"
** Antonino Cannavacciuolo, the fourth judge of ''[=MasterChef=]'' Italy from Season 5 onwards, has a quite intimidating body shape; however, he rarely ever gets angry, instead delivering very spicy remarks when confronting the contestants.
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* GoshDarnItToHeck: Gordon Ramsay, who is often a ClusterFBomb waiting to happen, has to come up with creative alternatives for ''[[SpinoffBabies MasterChef Junior]]''. He does let one slip when the kids are challenged to whip cream into stiff peaks and hold it over the judges' heads[[note]]the idea being that if they did it correctly it would stay in the bowl[[/note]] and he gets covered in half-whipped cream as a result.
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** Junior Season 5 has Gonzalo who originally comes from Peru and Aarón Sanchez exchanging some of this during Episode 3's mystery box challenge. In elimination challenge, Aarón calls Gonzalo forward in Spanish.
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** Both Joe and Graham have each made an appearance in the Canada version. Joe guest starred in Season 1 for an Italian themed Mystery Box Challenge, while Graham guest starred in Season 2 for an small ingredient Mystery Box Challenge.
* HaggisIsHorrible: Subverted twice.
** In Season 2 of the US show, a Scottish lady named Pauline auditioned with a dish containing haggis and Scottish salmon en croute with a Scotch whisky and dill sauce. The dish certainly looked very appetizing, and Graham and [[PatrioticFervor especially]] Gordon enjoyed her dish, though Joe did not.
** Fiona, the Scottish participant in the Australian version, also made a haggis for her audition dish in Season 7. Even though judge Matt Preston was initially disgusted by the idea of eating haggis, he liked Fiona's dish enough that he gave her the Master Chef apron.
* HaggisIsHorrible: Subverted twice.
** In Season 2 of the US show, a Scottish lady named Pauline auditioned with a dish containing haggis and Scottish salmon en croute with a Scotch whisky and dill sauce. The dish certainly looked very appetizing, and Graham and [[PatrioticFervor especially]] Gordon enjoyed her dish, though Joe did not.
** Fiona, the Scottish participant in the Australian version, also made a haggis for her audition dish in Season 7. Even though judge Matt Preston was initially disgusted by the idea of eating haggis, he liked Fiona's dish enough that he gave her the Master Chef apron.
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** Both Joe and Graham have each made an appearance in Seems to be the Canada version. Joe guest starred in Season 1 for an Italian themed Mystery Box Challenge, while Graham guest starred in Season 2 for an small ingredient Mystery Box Challenge.
big gimmick of Masterchef Legends which includes:
*** Emeril Lagasse - (Episode 1)
*** Curtis Stone - (Episode 2)
*** Paula Deen - (Episode 3)
*** Chef Morimoto - (Episode 4)
*** Sherry Yard - (Episode 5)
*** Michael Mina - (Episode 6)
*** Nancy Silverton - (Episode 7)
*** Johnathan Waxman - (Episode 8)
* HaggisIsHorrible: Subvertedtwice.
** Inin Season 2 of the US show, , a Scottish lady named Pauline auditioned with a dish containing haggis and Scottish salmon en croute with a Scotch whisky and dill sauce. The dish certainly looked very appetizing, and Graham and [[PatrioticFervor especially]] Gordon enjoyed her dish, though Joe did not.
** Fiona, the Scottish participant in the Australian version, also made a haggis for her audition dish in Season 7. Even though judge Matt Preston was initially disgusted by the idea of eating haggis, he liked Fiona's dish enough that he gave her the Master Chef apron.not.
*** Emeril Lagasse - (Episode 1)
*** Curtis Stone - (Episode 2)
*** Paula Deen - (Episode 3)
*** Chef Morimoto - (Episode 4)
*** Sherry Yard - (Episode 5)
*** Michael Mina - (Episode 6)
*** Nancy Silverton - (Episode 7)
*** Johnathan Waxman - (Episode 8)
* HaggisIsHorrible: Subverted
** In
** Fiona, the Scottish participant in the Australian version, also made a haggis for her audition dish in Season 7. Even though judge Matt Preston was initially disgusted by the idea of eating haggis, he liked Fiona's dish enough that he gave her the Master Chef apron.
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* HeroicSacrifice: Rodrigo, who was one of the most probable to win the Chilean version, resigned from the show to save Daniela who was eliminated. He also claimed that he wanted to focus on his career as a teacher.
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** US Season 3: In the episode down to the final six, eight previously banished contestants come back, and one of those comes back to join the final seven. The end result was Josh against Ryan in a dessert challenge. Josh previously beat Ryan in a dessert challenge, resulting in Ryan being kicked out. [[spoiler: He does it again with a fruit tart, as the final six were blind taste judges and Josh won in a landslide.]]
** US Season 4: Natasha and Bri go head-to-head as captains for the Top 8 team challenge, which eventually results in the latter's team's loss and later elimination in the pressure challenge afterward. Bri is eventually brought back with the "redemption" challenge. Two episodes later, in the Top 6 team challenge, Natasha and Bri are once again competing captains, and once again, Bri's team loses and Bri gets eliminated by the pressure challenge.
** US Season 4: Natasha and Bri go head-to-head as captains for the Top 8 team challenge, which eventually results in the latter's team's loss and later elimination in the pressure challenge afterward. Bri is eventually brought back with the "redemption" challenge. Two episodes later, in the Top 6 team challenge, Natasha and Bri are once again competing captains, and once again, Bri's team loses and Bri gets eliminated by the pressure challenge.
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** US Season 3: In the episode down to the final six, eight previously banished contestants come back, and one of those comes back to join the final seven. The end result was Josh against Ryan in a dessert challenge. Josh previously beat Ryan in a dessert challenge, resulting in Ryan being kicked out. [[spoiler: He does it again with a fruit tart, as the final six were blind taste judges and Josh won in a landslide.]]
**US Season 4: Natasha and Bri go head-to-head as captains for the Top 8 team challenge, which eventually results in the latter's team's loss and later elimination in the pressure challenge afterward. Bri is eventually brought back with the "redemption" challenge. Two episodes later, in the Top 6 team challenge, Natasha and Bri are once again competing captains, and once again, Bri's team loses and Bri gets eliminated by the pressure challenge.
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** In Season 2 of the US edition, Jennifer won the mystery box challenge and got to select the item everyone got to cook with. When revealed that each of them gets 500 dollars worth of Black Truffle to work with, Jennifer was presented with her second "advantage"; to save herself from elimination in exchange for not being able to participate in cooking. In the context of the contest there was absolutely nothing to gain from staying. However Jennifer chose to stay as no true chef would turn down the chance to work with actual Truffle.
** Any time team captains choose to save his/her team members from pressure test instead of themselves count as one. Bonus point if the one receiving immunity decided to stay cooking and pass it to someone else. Such moment include:
*** Frank from US Season 3 of the U.S version passed the chance of being excluded from cooking in a pressure test and gave the chance to his teammate Felix, who refused and passed the chance to Scott, who also refused. Stacy ended up taking the chance, but she was in tears and admitted that she felt bad for taking the pass.
*** Also in US Season 3, Monti ended up as team captain in a challenge to cook for 101 cowboys and cowgirls, with her team consisting of herself, Josh, Felix and Becky (not her choices, as the judges decided to switch the teams that the captains picked). Her team ended up losing the challenge, and before the pressure test, the judges ask the four team members to decide between themselves which one of them would be saved and not have to take part in the pressure test. Josh, Felix and Becky all used their vote to save themselves, but Monti felt that, as team captain, she was responsible for the team's loss and she would take on the pressure test, so since only her vote would count, she chose to save Felix.
*** In the 8th episode of US season 5, Willie was the blue team captain in a challenge where the contestants had to work the line at a popular diner in L.A., and his team (narrowly) lost. He was then given a choice for the pressure test: either he could save himself, and let all six of his teammates compete, or he could elect to compete, and save three of his teammates. He chose the latter option (ultimately saving Daniel, Francis L, and Victoria), saying that he was a man of integrity and he felt responsible for the team's loss. Considering how Willie had [[NiceGuy presented himself]] up to that point in the competition, it wasn't surprising that he made this decision.
*** In season 6 of the US version, the first team challenge ended in a loss for Darah's team. After several questionable picks for team members to be safe (according to Katrina, she put friendships ahead of performance), Darah's last choice for immunity was to Hetal. Hetal promptly said that she was not comfortable accepting the immunity, since she felt she didn't perform up to the standard needed to accept immunity, and passed her immunity on to Derrick, one of the stronger performers in that challenge. She then proceeded to excel in the pressure test, putting up the best cinnamon buns out of the 5 people in the challenge.
** Any time team captains choose to save his/her team members from pressure test instead of themselves count as one. Bonus point if the one receiving immunity decided to stay cooking and pass it to someone else. Such moment include:
*** Frank from US Season 3 of the U.S version passed the chance of being excluded from cooking in a pressure test and gave the chance to his teammate Felix, who refused and passed the chance to Scott, who also refused. Stacy ended up taking the chance, but she was in tears and admitted that she felt bad for taking the pass.
*** Also in US Season 3, Monti ended up as team captain in a challenge to cook for 101 cowboys and cowgirls, with her team consisting of herself, Josh, Felix and Becky (not her choices, as the judges decided to switch the teams that the captains picked). Her team ended up losing the challenge, and before the pressure test, the judges ask the four team members to decide between themselves which one of them would be saved and not have to take part in the pressure test. Josh, Felix and Becky all used their vote to save themselves, but Monti felt that, as team captain, she was responsible for the team's loss and she would take on the pressure test, so since only her vote would count, she chose to save Felix.
*** In the 8th episode of US season 5, Willie was the blue team captain in a challenge where the contestants had to work the line at a popular diner in L.A., and his team (narrowly) lost. He was then given a choice for the pressure test: either he could save himself, and let all six of his teammates compete, or he could elect to compete, and save three of his teammates. He chose the latter option (ultimately saving Daniel, Francis L, and Victoria), saying that he was a man of integrity and he felt responsible for the team's loss. Considering how Willie had [[NiceGuy presented himself]] up to that point in the competition, it wasn't surprising that he made this decision.
*** In season 6 of the US version, the first team challenge ended in a loss for Darah's team. After several questionable picks for team members to be safe (according to Katrina, she put friendships ahead of performance), Darah's last choice for immunity was to Hetal. Hetal promptly said that she was not comfortable accepting the immunity, since she felt she didn't perform up to the standard needed to accept immunity, and passed her immunity on to Derrick, one of the stronger performers in that challenge. She then proceeded to excel in the pressure test, putting up the best cinnamon buns out of the 5 people in the challenge.
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** In Season 2 of the US edition, 2, Jennifer won the mystery box challenge and got to select the item everyone got to cook with. When revealed that each of them gets 500 dollars worth of Black Truffle to work with, Jennifer was presented with her second "advantage"; to save herself from elimination in exchange for not being able to participate in cooking. In the context of the contest there was absolutely nothing to gain from staying. However Jennifer chose to stay as no true chef would turn down the chance to work with actual Truffle.
** Any time team captains choose to save his/her team members from pressure test instead of themselves count as one. Bonus point if the one receiving immunity decided to stay cooking and pass it to someone else. Such moment include:
***Truffle. Frank from US Season 3 of the U.S version passed the chance of being excluded from cooking in a pressure test and gave the chance to his teammate Felix, who refused and passed the chance to Scott, who also refused. Stacy ended up taking the chance, but she was in tears and admitted that she felt bad for taking the pass.
*** Also inUS Season 3, Monti ended up as team captain in a challenge to cook for 101 cowboys and cowgirls, with her team consisting of herself, Josh, Felix and Becky (not her choices, as the judges decided to switch the teams that the captains picked). Her team ended up losing the challenge, and before the pressure test, the judges ask the four team members to decide between themselves which one of them would be saved and not have to take part in the pressure test. Josh, Felix and Becky all used their vote to save themselves, but Monti felt that, as team captain, she was responsible for the team's loss and she would take on the pressure test, so since only her vote would count, she chose to save Felix.
*** In the 8th episode ofUS season Season 5, Willie was the blue team captain in a challenge where the contestants had to work the line at a popular diner in L.A., and his team (narrowly) lost. He was then given a choice for the pressure test: either he could save himself, and let all six of his teammates compete, or he could elect to compete, and save three of his teammates. He chose the latter option (ultimately saving Daniel, Francis L, and Victoria), saying that he was a man of integrity and he felt responsible for the team's loss. Considering how Willie had [[NiceGuy presented himself]] up to that point in the competition, it wasn't surprising that he made this decision.
*** Inseason 6 of the US version, Season 6, the first team challenge ended in a loss for Darah's team. After several questionable picks for team members to be safe (according to Katrina, she put friendships ahead of performance), Darah's last choice for immunity was to Hetal. Hetal promptly said that she was not comfortable accepting the immunity, since she felt she didn't perform up to the standard needed to accept immunity, and passed her immunity on to Derrick, one of the stronger performers in that challenge. She then proceeded to excel in the pressure test, putting up the best cinnamon buns out of the 5 people in the challenge.
** Any time team captains choose to save his/her team members from pressure test instead of themselves count as one. Bonus point if the one receiving immunity decided to stay cooking and pass it to someone else. Such moment include:
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*** In Season 8 of the US version, Yachecia was given the choice to either save herself from the pressure test or save all bar herself and one other. She picked the latter and chose to compete against Jennifer, who struggled coping under pressure. After Jennifer lacked a lemon for her fish, Yachecia gave her one despite Jennifer boasting about defeating her (her coping mechanism to said pressure problem).
*** In Canada Season 4, after losing team challenge, Alisha decided to save Barry who worked the hardest in said challenge from pressure test with Matt also agreeing with the decision. Even though she later produced a dish that could potentially send her home (and she did go home), when asked by Chef Alvin whether she regretted the decision she made had she known what would have happened, she firmly said "No" and Chef Alvin praised her for that.
** In the episode after Willie from US Season 5 above chose to save his own team member, he created a very disappointing dish using ingredients selected by Joe (tomato soup with an egg and flatbread), that Ramsay stated was a one out of ten. However, Cutter brought up a small, terrible "artisan" pizza, while Elise served a tiny, bland ravioli that she openly admitted was terrible, and after tasting everyone's dishes, the judges, rather than select the bottom three dishes, told the contestants who made the two worst dishes to raise their hand. It was obvious they were implying Cutter and Elise, and they both raised their hands...as did Willie. Gordon repeated the worst ''two'', and Willie kept his hand raised, while Cutter ''put his down''. The judges eventually had to tell Willie that he was safe.
** In the 6th episode of ''[=MasterChef=] Argentina'', contestants were divided into two teams to cater for a wedding. An unexpected change of schedule put them far behind when it came to the main dish, to the point that two of the judges had to jump in and create dishes of their own so the guests would get to eat without too big a delay. Based on early dishes and teamwork in general, the red team won. Juan, the captain of the blue team, was given the choice to save himself or a member of his team from the pressure test, and he chose teammate Pablo. And then the judges pull off the twist, noting that teams needed the judges' help in completing the challenge, so they tell the captain of the winning team, Natalie, that she had to put a member of her team into the pressure test. Natalie said her team performed admirably, and then promptly put herself into the pressure test, which one of the judges mentioned was what a true Master Chef would do.
** Cody from ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' Season 2 eerily goes and suffers similar route as US Season 2's Jennifer above. Between three choice of ingredients, he chose savory black truffle and forfeited his immunity because he didn't want to pass the chance of cooking with this ingredient and said that the risk was worth it. His dish was also deemed one of the worst in that challenge just like Jennifer's.
*** In Canada Season 4, after losing team challenge, Alisha decided to save Barry who worked the hardest in said challenge from pressure test with Matt also agreeing with the decision. Even though she later produced a dish that could potentially send her home (and she did go home), when asked by Chef Alvin whether she regretted the decision she made had she known what would have happened, she firmly said "No" and Chef Alvin praised her for that.
** In the episode after Willie from US Season 5 above chose to save his own team member, he created a very disappointing dish using ingredients selected by Joe (tomato soup with an egg and flatbread), that Ramsay stated was a one out of ten. However, Cutter brought up a small, terrible "artisan" pizza, while Elise served a tiny, bland ravioli that she openly admitted was terrible, and after tasting everyone's dishes, the judges, rather than select the bottom three dishes, told the contestants who made the two worst dishes to raise their hand. It was obvious they were implying Cutter and Elise, and they both raised their hands...as did Willie. Gordon repeated the worst ''two'', and Willie kept his hand raised, while Cutter ''put his down''. The judges eventually had to tell Willie that he was safe.
** In the 6th episode of ''[=MasterChef=] Argentina'', contestants were divided into two teams to cater for a wedding. An unexpected change of schedule put them far behind when it came to the main dish, to the point that two of the judges had to jump in and create dishes of their own so the guests would get to eat without too big a delay. Based on early dishes and teamwork in general, the red team won. Juan, the captain of the blue team, was given the choice to save himself or a member of his team from the pressure test, and he chose teammate Pablo. And then the judges pull off the twist, noting that teams needed the judges' help in completing the challenge, so they tell the captain of the winning team, Natalie, that she had to put a member of her team into the pressure test. Natalie said her team performed admirably, and then promptly put herself into the pressure test, which one of the judges mentioned was what a true Master Chef would do.
** Cody from ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' Season 2 eerily goes and suffers similar route as US Season 2's Jennifer above. Between three choice of ingredients, he chose savory black truffle and forfeited his immunity because he didn't want to pass the chance of cooking with this ingredient and said that the risk was worth it. His dish was also deemed one of the worst in that challenge just like Jennifer's.
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*** In Season 8 of the US version, 8, Yachecia was given the choice to either save herself from the pressure test or save all bar herself and one other. She picked the latter and chose to compete against Jennifer, who struggled coping under pressure. After Jennifer lacked a lemon for her fish, Yachecia gave her one despite Jennifer boasting about defeating her (her coping mechanism to said pressure problem).
*** In Canada Season 4, after losing team challenge, Alisha decided to save Barry who worked the hardest in said challenge from pressure test with Matt also agreeing with the decision. Even though she later produced a dish that could potentially send her home (and she did go home), when asked by Chef Alvin whether she regretted the decision she made had she known what would have happened, she firmly said "No" and Chef Alvin praised her for that.
** In the episode after Willie from US Season 5 above chose to save his own team member, he created a very disappointing dish using ingredients selected by Joe (tomato soup with an egg and flatbread), that Ramsay stated was a one out of ten. However, Cutter brought up a small, terrible "artisan" pizza, while Elise served a tiny, bland ravioli that she openly admitted was terrible, and after tasting everyone's dishes, the judges, rather than select the bottom three dishes, told the contestants who made the two worst dishes to raise their hand. It was obvious they were implying Cutter and Elise, and they both raised their hands...as did Willie. Gordon repeated the worst ''two'', and Willie kept his hand raised, while Cutter ''put his down''. The judges eventually had to tell Willie that he was safe.
** In the 6th episode of ''[=MasterChef=] Argentina'', contestants were divided into two teams to cater for a wedding. An unexpected change of schedule put them far behind when it came to the main dish, to the point that two of the judges had to jump in and create dishes of their own so the guests would get to eat without too big a delay. Based on early dishes and teamwork in general, the red team won. Juan, the captain of the blue team, was given the choice to save himself or a member of his team from the pressure test, and he chose teammate Pablo. And then the judges pull off the twist, noting that teams needed the judges' help in completing the challenge, so they tell the captain of the winning team, Natalie, that she had to put a member of her team into the pressure test. Natalie said her team performed admirably, and then promptly put herself into the pressure test, which one of the judges mentioned was what a true Master Chef would do.
** Cody from ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' Season 2 eerily goes and suffers similar route as US Season 2's Jennifer above. Between three choice of ingredients, he chose savory black truffle and forfeited his immunity because he didn't want to pass the chance of cooking with this ingredient and said that the risk was worth it. His dish was also deemed one of the worst in that challenge just like Jennifer's.safe.
** In the 6th episode of ''[=MasterChef=] Argentina'', contestants were divided into two teams to cater for a wedding. An unexpected change of schedule put them far behind when it came to the main dish, to the point that two of the judges had to jump in and create dishes of their own so the guests would get to eat without too big a delay. Based on early dishes and teamwork in general, the red team won. Juan, the captain of the blue team, was given the choice to save himself or a member of his team from the pressure test, and he chose teammate Pablo. And then the judges pull off the twist, noting that teams needed the judges' help in completing the challenge, so they tell the captain of the winning team, Natalie, that she had to put a member of her team into the pressure test. Natalie said her team performed admirably, and then promptly put herself into the pressure test, which one of the judges mentioned was what a true Master Chef would do.
** Cody from ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' Season 2 eerily goes and suffers similar route as US Season 2's Jennifer above. Between three choice of ingredients, he chose savory black truffle and forfeited his immunity because he didn't want to pass the chance of cooking with this ingredient and said that the risk was worth it. His dish was also deemed one of the worst in that challenge just like Jennifer's.
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* InformedAbility: While season 4's Lynn was by all means a great cook and had some of the best plating skills in the competition, the way his competition constantly raved about how big of a threat he was and how he was probably going to win it all left some viewers feeling he was overrated, as while he had some moments where he truly shone, he generally performed as a middle-of-the-pack to slightly-above-average competitor in individual challenges. Thus, the informed part is not his ability to cook, but how better he was than the rest of the cast.
* InSeriesNickname: Alexander "Big Al" Weiss in ''[=MasterChef=] Junior''. "Cowboy Mike" in Season 3, "Big Willie" for Willie and "Scottish Francis" for Francis L. in Season 5.
* InSeriesNickname: Alexander "Big Al" Weiss in ''[=MasterChef=] Junior''. "Cowboy Mike" in Season 3, "Big Willie" for Willie and "Scottish Francis" for Francis L. in Season 5.
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* InformedAbility: While season Season 4's Lynn was by all means a great cook and had some of the best plating skills in the competition, the way his competition constantly raved about how big of a threat he was and how he was probably going to win it all left some viewers feeling he was overrated, as while he had some moments where he truly shone, he generally performed as a middle-of-the-pack to slightly-above-average competitor in individual challenges. Thus, the informed part is not his ability to cook, but how better he was than the rest of the cast.
* InSeriesNickname:Alexander "Big Al" Weiss in ''[=MasterChef=] Junior''. "Cowboy Mike" in Season 3, "Big Willie" for Willie and "Scottish Francis" for Francis L. in Season 5.
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** Christine from the third US season was almost totally blind, yet still managed to finish at or near the top in virtually every challenge, and eventually won the competition. Gordon Ramsay has said that, as of the show's Season 5, he still considers her to be that version's best-ever contestant by quite some distance.
** Subverted by Jaimee from the fifth US season. From the earliest weeks it was obvious that she had some kind of disorder, as her movements tend to be jerky and erratic, and she often has trouble speaking. However, as her specific condition hadn't actually been diagnosed at the time of filming, it wasn't mentioned on the show. While the season was broadcasting, she confirmed that she had been diagnosed with dystonia.
* InstantCostumeChange: This is what the show implies to happen when the judges in Junior US after a messy team challenge. It's not really apparent until the kids comment how they were able to change so fast in later seasons.
** Subverted by Jaimee from the fifth US season. From the earliest weeks it was obvious that she had some kind of disorder, as her movements tend to be jerky and erratic, and she often has trouble speaking. However, as her specific condition hadn't actually been diagnosed at the time of filming, it wasn't mentioned on the show. While the season was broadcasting, she confirmed that she had been diagnosed with dystonia.
* InstantCostumeChange: This is what the show implies to happen when the judges in Junior US after a messy team challenge. It's not really apparent until the kids comment how they were able to change so fast in later seasons.
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** Christine from the third US season Season was almost totally blind, yet still managed to finish at or near the top in virtually every challenge, and eventually won the competition. Gordon Ramsay has said that, as of the show's Season 5, he still considers her to be that version's best-ever contestant by quite some distance.
** Subverted by Jaimee from the fifthUS season. From the earliest weeks it was obvious that she had some kind of disorder, as her movements tend to be jerky and erratic, and she often has trouble speaking. However, as her specific condition hadn't actually been diagnosed at the time of filming, it wasn't mentioned on the show. While the season was broadcasting, she confirmed that she had been diagnosed with dystonia.
* InstantCostumeChange: This is what the show implies to happen when the judges in Junior US after a messy team challenge. It's not really apparent until the kids comment how they were able to change so fast in later seasons.dystonia.
** Subverted by Jaimee from the fifth
* InstantCostumeChange: This is what the show implies to happen when the judges in Junior US after a messy team challenge. It's not really apparent until the kids comment how they were able to change so fast in later seasons.
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*** In ''[=MasterChef=] US'' Season 5 episode 3, the pressure test for the losing team was to make Blueberry Pie to Elise's delight, since she kept proclaiming that she was a baker and pies were her specialty (her first challenges placed her in the bottom after making subpar chicken potpies). She landed in the bottom 2 for a raw and grainy crust.
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*** In ''[=MasterChef=] US'' Season 5 episode 3, the pressure test for the losing team was to make Blueberry Pie to Elise's delight, since she kept proclaiming that she was a baker and pies were her specialty (her first challenges placed her in the bottom after making subpar chicken potpies). She landed in the bottom 2 for a raw and grainy crust.
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*** Miranda from ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' Season 4 won a challenge and was told she was able to switch other contestants' baskets in the following five-ingredient elimination challenge while having the option to keep her own basket. Being a competitive person, she chose to keep hers. Despite having the advantage, she was the one eliminated in that episode after serving borderline raw flank steak.
** In the Brazilian version, Season 5, there was an Aphrodisiac challenge, in which the only ingredients the chefs could use were considered to be aphrodisiacs, or at least usually related to romance (shrimp, escargot, strawberries, chocolate, etc.). The winner of the challenge turned out to be the ''priest'' of the competition, who was actually teased about the possibility of being the worst; the one who said the priest was probably going to fail ended up being in the bottom 3 that competition.
** In Canada Season 1, Dora saved Pino from a pressure test because while he was a good cook, she thought he was a one-trick pony for relying on his Italian heritage too much. She went home in the following week, the same week Pino won an elimination challenge after cooking Jamaican-style food.
** In US ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Season 5, Shayne, a meat lover and barbeque enthusiast from Texas, isn't so enthusiastic when the burger challenge turns out to be making a vegan burger. [[spoiler:He ends up making the winning burger]].
* IsntItIronic: In the 2021 UK series, the "triumphant" music for the announcement of the winner was "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)" by Music/PhilCollins. A histrionic song of desperation over lost love. It's not as if the producers didn't realise how inappropriate it was, since someone had actually gone to the trouble of editing together the vocal and instrumental versions to eliminate all the lyrics except for the two phrases in the title.
** In the Brazilian version, Season 5, there was an Aphrodisiac challenge, in which the only ingredients the chefs could use were considered to be aphrodisiacs, or at least usually related to romance (shrimp, escargot, strawberries, chocolate, etc.). The winner of the challenge turned out to be the ''priest'' of the competition, who was actually teased about the possibility of being the worst; the one who said the priest was probably going to fail ended up being in the bottom 3 that competition.
** In Canada Season 1, Dora saved Pino from a pressure test because while he was a good cook, she thought he was a one-trick pony for relying on his Italian heritage too much. She went home in the following week, the same week Pino won an elimination challenge after cooking Jamaican-style food.
** In US ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Season 5, Shayne, a meat lover and barbeque enthusiast from Texas, isn't so enthusiastic when the burger challenge turns out to be making a vegan burger. [[spoiler:He ends up making the winning burger]].
* IsntItIronic: In the 2021 UK series, the "triumphant" music for the announcement of the winner was "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)" by Music/PhilCollins. A histrionic song of desperation over lost love. It's not as if the producers didn't realise how inappropriate it was, since someone had actually gone to the trouble of editing together the vocal and instrumental versions to eliminate all the lyrics except for the two phrases in the title.
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** Max in season 2 and also Christian who do not treat his competitors or the judges with any respect. Suzy as well was quite the mean one herself.
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** Max in season Season 2 and also Christian who do not treat his competitors or the judges with any respect. Suzy as well was quite the mean one herself.
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** A lot of season 5 viewers also seem to dislike "aerial entertainer" Courtney, likely due to her ever-present Louboutins stripper heels (extremely expensive yet she continuously laments how poor she is), alarmingly obvious narcissism, and endless supply of overweening cockiness. The most notable example was episode 12, when her team lost the challenge and faced the pressure test, and she was given the choice to save anyone on her team, including herself. She did outright say in a past episode (when Willie was in a similar situation) that she would save herself, but she managed to basically give the finger to her teammates by saying "the reason we did so well was because [[SmallNameBigEgo we had such good leadership]]", and saved herself because she was so proud of herself. Her winning the season over much-likable Elizabeth didn't help her case.
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** A lot of season Season 5 viewers also seem to dislike "aerial entertainer" Courtney, likely due to her ever-present Louboutins stripper heels (extremely expensive yet she continuously laments how poor she is), alarmingly obvious narcissism, and endless supply of overweening cockiness. The most notable example was episode 12, when her team lost the challenge and faced the pressure test, and she was given the choice to save anyone on her team, including herself. She did outright say in a past episode (when Willie was in a similar situation) that she would save herself, but she managed to basically give the finger to her teammates by saying "the reason we did so well was wellwas because [[SmallNameBigEgo we had such good leadership]]", and saved herself because she was so proud of herself. Her winning the season over much-likable Elizabeth didn't help her case.
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** A non-US example, we have Gonzalo, from the Season 2 of the Spain version. He spent all his time on the show insulting his fellow competitors and picking fights with them and sometimes even with the judges (mainly with Jordi). He constantly whined and complained, and at one point he refused to take part in a task for a team challenge (this after having won the mystery box challenge) and promptly decided to quit the competition, to the astonishment of the judges and viewers, but noticeably, to the delight of the other contestants.
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** Leslie in U.S. season 5, episode 8. Before everyone was called in to see the results of the pressure test, Leslie stated that he was trying not to say anything to piss anybody off, to which Daniel replied "When are you gonna apply that to the rest of your life?" Later, after Willie chose to save Daniel from the pressure test, the judges asked Daniel why he thinks he keeps being spared from pressure tests, and he says that he hasn't made any enemies. Leslie starts laughing, since Daniel has never missed an opportunity to insult or criticize him, and Daniel starts railing on Leslie for being so immature. Leslie may have been better off with an eyeroll, but it's unsurprising that he'd find the comment unfair. Later on, Leslie fit this trope to a T when the judges were reviewing his red velvet cake and deemed it delicious, to which Cutter interrupted that Leslie was a one-trick pony. Later, after Cutter got mediocre reviews on his cake, he stated that he thought Leslie should go home, primarily because he doesn't like him. When the judges were deliberating, the two got into an argument, with Cutter saying Leslie needs to be more mature and stop being anti-critic, to which Leslie replies "Yeah, because ''you've'' done such a great job so far".
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** Leslie in U.S. season Season 5, episode 8. Before everyone was called in to see the results of the pressure test, Leslie stated that he was trying not to say anything to piss anybody off, to which Daniel replied "When are you gonna apply that to the rest of your life?" Later, after Willie chose to save Daniel from the pressure test, the judges asked Daniel why he thinks he keeps being spared from pressure tests, and he says that he hasn't made any enemies. Leslie starts laughing, since Daniel has never missed an opportunity to insult or criticize him, and Daniel starts railing on Leslie for being so immature. Leslie may have been better off with an eyeroll, but it's unsurprising that he'd find the comment unfair. Later on, Leslie fit this trope to a T when the judges were reviewing his red velvet cake and deemed it delicious, to which Cutter interrupted that Leslie was a one-trick pony. Later, after Cutter got mediocre reviews on his cake, he stated that he thought Leslie should go home, primarily because he doesn't like him. When the judges were deliberating, the two got into an argument, with Cutter saying Leslie needs to be more mature and stop being anti-critic, to which Leslie replies "Yeah, because ''you've'' done such a great job so far".
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** As US season 5 moves along, Leslie seems to be gravitating more and more towards this trope. He certainly came off as a giant douche in the beginning, but he started to win people over around the time he and former [[TheRival rival]] Ahran were paired together and they actually worked well together, burying the hatchet and even appearing to become friends. Since then, he has had occasionally obnoxious moments, but he always at least tries to work well with others. Then, in episode 12, he and Ahran faced elimination together, and he teared up talking about how much he had come to respect not only her, but all of his fellow contestants. Ahran ended up going home, and he looked utterly devastated.
** In US Season 9, Shanika has been very supportive of others, [[BrutalHonesty despite her blunt character]], as she is comforting people from the balcony. Bowen chose her as his partner because he likes how honest and direct she is.
** In US Season 9, Shanika has been very supportive of others, [[BrutalHonesty despite her blunt character]], as she is comforting people from the balcony. Bowen chose her as his partner because he likes how honest and direct she is.
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** As US season Season 5 moves along, Leslie seems to be gravitating more and more towards this trope. He certainly came off as a giant douche in the beginning, but he started to win people over around the time he and former [[TheRival rival]] Ahran were paired together and they actually worked well together, burying the hatchet and even appearing to become friends. Since then, he has had occasionally obnoxious moments, but he always at least tries to work well with others. Then, in episode 12, he and Ahran faced elimination together, and he teared up talking about how much he had come to respect not only her, but all of his fellow contestants. Ahran ended up going home, and he looked utterly devastated.
** InUS Season 9, Shanika has been very supportive of others, [[BrutalHonesty despite her blunt character]], as she is comforting people from the balcony. Bowen chose her as his partner because he likes how honest and direct she is.
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* LargeAndInCharge: Paola Carosella, one of the judges of the Brazilian ''[=MasterChef=]''. After two season, it's still to appear anyone, contestant or otherwise, who is taller than her.
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* LastMinuteHookup: In Season 10 of the US version, Subha was selected to compete with the losing team in the elimination challenge twice by the winning teams' captains. In one of the episodes, he saved the plating of his food at the last '''25 seconds''', but managed to get it done. If this hadn't happened, Subha would have been eliminated instead of Fred Chang, resulting in the entire losing team from the last team challenge to be [[EliminationHoudini "Elimination Houdinis"]], and the winning team to lose one member.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: In Season 6 of the US version, it became customary to have contestants compete for a spot in the top 20 as part of the first few episodes, whereas in prior seasons, the top 20 competitors had already been determined by the season premiere. In Season 8, rather than having everyone make a dish during the second round of each episode, the bottom-placing contestants from the first round are subjected to a pressure test.
* LaughingMad: Jennifer from Canada season 6 had a mild case of this in ConfessionCam when she and her fellow teammates had to bake one savory and one sweet plate-sized cheesecakes in 80 minutes.
* LighterAndSofter:
** The judges justifiably rein in the criticism a bit for ''Junior''.
** Compared to Gordon Ramsay's other franchise, ''Series/HellsKitchen'', the American version of ''[=MasterChef=]'' is this.
*** Contestants are not professionals who can be berated for their failures and are also chosen for their skill instead of their ability to cause drama.
*** The contestants support each other to a much higher degree than on the more cutthroat ''Series/HellsKitchen'', on which sabotage and backstabbing are par for the course. On ''[=MasterChef=]'', it's almost expected that the contestants assist other contestants who forget crucial ingredients or who suffer from equipment failure.
** The British version is far more restrained and strait-laced compared to the American versions.
** Canada version's later seasons compared to the first season are this in term of the three judges' comments. Claudio and Michael was harsher in their words and Alvin was way meaner in season one.
** Also Seasons 10 and 11 of the US version are this as contestants arr more supportive of each other than before and lesser drama than past seasons.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: In the Spanish version S1, Pepe and Maribel. He criticized her artichokes to make her mad. [[MrsRobinson She flirted with the other judge to make him jealous]]. They argued, and seconds later, they were laughing. [[PlayedForLaughs It was awesome]].
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: In Season 6 of the US version, it became customary to have contestants compete for a spot in the top 20 as part of the first few episodes, whereas in prior seasons, the top 20 competitors had already been determined by the season premiere. In Season 8, rather than having everyone make a dish during the second round of each episode, the bottom-placing contestants from the first round are subjected to a pressure test.
* LaughingMad: Jennifer from Canada season 6 had a mild case of this in ConfessionCam when she and her fellow teammates had to bake one savory and one sweet plate-sized cheesecakes in 80 minutes.
* LighterAndSofter:
** The judges justifiably rein in the criticism a bit for ''Junior''.
** Compared to Gordon Ramsay's other franchise, ''Series/HellsKitchen'', the American version of ''[=MasterChef=]'' is this.
*** Contestants are not professionals who can be berated for their failures and are also chosen for their skill instead of their ability to cause drama.
*** The contestants support each other to a much higher degree than on the more cutthroat ''Series/HellsKitchen'', on which sabotage and backstabbing are par for the course. On ''[=MasterChef=]'', it's almost expected that the contestants assist other contestants who forget crucial ingredients or who suffer from equipment failure.
** The British version is far more restrained and strait-laced compared to the American versions.
** Canada version's later seasons compared to the first season are this in term of the three judges' comments. Claudio and Michael was harsher in their words and Alvin was way meaner in season one.
** Also Seasons 10 and 11 of the US version are this as contestants arr more supportive of each other than before and lesser drama than past seasons.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: In the Spanish version S1, Pepe and Maribel. He criticized her artichokes to make her mad. [[MrsRobinson She flirted with the other judge to make him jealous]]. They argued, and seconds later, they were laughing. [[PlayedForLaughs It was awesome]].
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* LastMinuteHookup: In Season 10 of the US version, 10, Subha was selected to compete with the losing team in the elimination challenge twice by the winning teams' captains. In one of the episodes, he saved the plating of his food at the last '''25 seconds''', but managed to get it done. If this hadn't happened, Subha would have been eliminated instead of Fred Chang, resulting in the entire losing team from the last team challenge to be [[EliminationHoudini "Elimination Houdinis"]], and the winning team to lose one member.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: In Season6 of the US version, 6, it became customary to have contestants compete for a spot in the top 20 as part of the first few episodes, whereas in prior seasons, the top 20 competitors had already been determined by the season premiere. In Season 8, rather than having everyone make a dish during the second round of each episode, the bottom-placing contestants from the first round are subjected to a pressure test.
*LaughingMad: Jennifer from Canada season 6 had a mild case of this in ConfessionCam when she and her fellow teammates had to bake one savory and one sweet plate-sized cheesecakes in 80 minutes.
* LighterAndSofter:
** The judges justifiably rein in the criticism a bit for ''Junior''.
**LighterAndSofter: Compared to Gordon Ramsay's other franchise, ''Series/HellsKitchen'', the American version of ''[=MasterChef=]'' is this.
*** ** Contestants are not professionals who can be berated for their failures and are also chosen for their skill instead of their ability to cause drama.
*** ** The contestants support each other to a much higher degree than on the more cutthroat ''Series/HellsKitchen'', on which sabotage and backstabbing are par for the course. On ''[=MasterChef=]'', it's almost expected that the contestants assist other contestants who forget crucial ingredients or who suffer from equipment failure.
** The British version is far more restrained and strait-laced compared to the American versions.
** Canada version's later seasons compared to the first season are this in term of the three judges' comments. Claudio and Michael was harsher in their words and Alvin was way meaner in season one.
** Also Seasons 10 and 11 of the US version are this as contestants arr are more supportive of each other than before and lesser drama than past seasons.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: In the Spanish version S1, Pepe and Maribel. He criticized her artichokes to make her mad. [[MrsRobinson She flirted with the other judge to make him jealous]]. They argued, and seconds later, they were laughing. [[PlayedForLaughs It was awesome]].seasons.
* LaterInstallmentWeirdness: In Season
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* LighterAndSofter:
** The judges justifiably rein in the criticism a bit for ''Junior''.
**
** Canada version's later seasons compared to the first season are this in term of the three judges' comments. Claudio and Michael was harsher in their words and Alvin was way meaner in season one.
* LikeAnOldMarriedCouple: In the Spanish version S1, Pepe and Maribel. He criticized her artichokes to make her mad. [[MrsRobinson She flirted with the other judge to make him jealous]]. They argued, and seconds later, they were laughing. [[PlayedForLaughs It was awesome]].
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** In US Season 3, most contestants actively chose Christine last in team challenges because she's blind. Joe even thinks that her disability is bound to make her a detriment in team challenges, especially those that take place in actual restaurant kitchens. [[SubvertedTrope Christine, however, proved any of her doubters wrong]] when her excellent flavor profile and, in the team challenges that she was the captain, leadership capabilities paved the way for her team's victory.
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** In US Season 3, most contestants actively chose Christine last in team challenges because she's blind. Joe even thinks that her disability is bound to make her a detriment in team challenges, especially those that take place in actual restaurant kitchens. [[SubvertedTrope Christine, however, proved any of her doubters wrong]] when her excellent flavor profile and, in the team challenges that she was the captain, leadership capabilities paved the way for her team's victory.
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** Nathan proves to the this the U.S. Season 7 in team challenges. He proves to be strong enough in pressure tests and challenges to keep surviving throughout most of the competition, but ''nobody'' wants him around in team challenges due to his seeming inability to listen to advice or directions and odd failures at seemingly basic tasks.
** US Season 10 has Subha who, while a talented cook who often does well in individual challenges, is consistently shown to be useless at best and an impediment at worst in team challenges. So much that for the challenges that had the winning team choose one of their own members to cook in the Pressure Test, he was chosen more than once because of that.
* ManipulativeEditing: Considering this show is reality TV first and foremost, it's not surprising that several contestants reveal that the end result is a product of careful editing of what the producers want to show, although the truth is anyone's guess.
** US Season 10 has Subha who, while a talented cook who often does well in individual challenges, is consistently shown to be useless at best and an impediment at worst in team challenges. So much that for the challenges that had the winning team choose one of their own members to cook in the Pressure Test, he was chosen more than once because of that.
* ManipulativeEditing: Considering this show is reality TV first and foremost, it's not surprising that several contestants reveal that the end result is a product of careful editing of what the producers want to show, although the truth is anyone's guess.
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** Nathan proves to the this the U.S. in Season 7 in team challenges. He proves to be strong enough in pressure tests and challenges to keep surviving throughout most of the competition, but ''nobody'' wants him around in team challenges due to his seeming inability to listen to advice or directions and odd failures at seemingly basic tasks.
**US Season 10 has Subha who, while a talented cook who often does well in individual challenges, is consistently shown to be useless at best and an impediment at worst in team challenges. So much that for the challenges that had the winning team choose one of their own members to cook in the Pressure Test, he was chosen more than once because of that.
* ManipulativeEditing:Considering this show is reality TV first and foremost, it's not surprising that several contestants reveal that the end result is a product of careful editing of what the producers want to show, although the truth is anyone's guess.
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* ManipulativeEditing:
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** Elin's team's performance on [=MasterChef=] Indonesia Season 5's Top 3 fine dining challenge might not be the best, but one (poorly hidden) action from a judge in that round (taking a stack of unused bowl from another team's station and put them messily on hers, causing them to drop into the floor) had a shade of this to make it look like her team did way worse than it was.
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* {{Melodrama}}: "Cooking doesn't get tougher than this!" said repeatedly in the series.
** The US version takes this UpToEleven by never missing a chance to hype up how difficult the next challenge is. The show will also always go to commercial right before the judges announce a decision.
** The South African version seems to have followed in the US versions footsteps, with Khaya seeming always managing to screw up at least one aspect of her dish and finishing at the last minute. Despite this, she's only been in one Pressure Test and is always winning challenges.
** The US version takes this UpToEleven by never missing a chance to hype up how difficult the next challenge is. The show will also always go to commercial right before the judges announce a decision.
** The South African version seems to have followed in the US versions footsteps, with Khaya seeming always managing to screw up at least one aspect of her dish and finishing at the last minute. Despite this, she's only been in one Pressure Test and is always winning challenges.
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* {{Melodrama}}: "Cooking doesn't get tougher than this!" said repeatedly in the series.
**The US version takes this UpToEleven by never missing misses a chance to hype up how difficult the next challenge is. The show will also always go to commercial right before the judges announce a decision.
** The South African version seems to have followed in the US versions footsteps, with Khaya seeming always managing to screw up at least one aspect of her dish and finishing at the last minute. Despite this, she's only been in one Pressure Test and is always winning challenges.decision.
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** The South African version seems to have followed in the US versions footsteps, with Khaya seeming always managing to screw up at least one aspect of her dish and finishing at the last minute. Despite this, she's only been in one Pressure Test and is always winning challenges.
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* MotorMouth:
** Spain season 3 has contestants Antonio and Andrea, who if left unchecked, can go on long rambles of non-stop talking, especially Andrea.
** Canada season 2 has Jennifer, who admits during her audition that she talks a lot when she's nervous, often going on and on to the point of annoying some of the other competitors. However, during the poutine Team Challenge, the Green team turned this to their advantage by sending her out to advertise their poutine to the crowd, which helped them win by a narrow margin.
** Spain season 3 has contestants Antonio and Andrea, who if left unchecked, can go on long rambles of non-stop talking, especially Andrea.
** Canada season 2 has Jennifer, who admits during her audition that she talks a lot when she's nervous, often going on and on to the point of annoying some of the other competitors. However, during the poutine Team Challenge, the Green team turned this to their advantage by sending her out to advertise their poutine to the crowd, which helped them win by a narrow margin.
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** The Season 3 was the first to have a "redemption" challenge[[note]]where a previously eliminated contestant gets to rejoin the top six[[/note]]. All of the other returnees were cheered by the final six... that is until [[JerkAss Ryan]] came, leading to a collective silence from all the participants.
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** The Season 3 was the first to have a "redemption" challenge[[note]]where a previously eliminated contestant gets to rejoin the top six[[/note]]. All of the other returnees were cheered by the final six... that is until [[JerkAss Ryan]] came, leading to a collective silence from all the participants.
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* MyGreatestFailure: The first Mystery Box of Canada Season 7 (which features contestants from previous seasons; see MyGreatestSecondChance below) tasked the contestants with recreating the worst dishes that they cooked during their season, many of which sent them home:
** Andre's uni dish from Season 6, which was too light on the star ingredient though it didn't send him home
** Andrew's poached egg from Season 2, which was completely overcooked and kept him from being brought back
** Andy's lobster dish from Season 5's budget vs. luxury Pressure Test, which was overly salty
** April Lee's Piña Colada dessert from Season 3, which melted and led to her elimination
** Barrie's Wagyu beef dish from the Season 3 semifinals, which was undercooked and sent him home despite his advantage in that challenge
** Christopher's ground pork dish from Season 2
** Dora's beef cheek stew from Season 1, which was under-seasoned and visually unappealing
** Jen's Salisbury steak dish from Season 5
** Jeremy's monkfish dish from Season 3
** Mai's poached salmon dish from a Season 4 Mystery Box
** Marissa's Asian street food platter (which she had made with Nadia) from Season 5, the failure of which the judges blamed on her lack of communication during the Pressure Test
** Thea's pork belly and pork cheek tamale from the Season 4 finale
** Andre's uni dish from Season 6, which was too light on the star ingredient though it didn't send him home
** Andrew's poached egg from Season 2, which was completely overcooked and kept him from being brought back
** Andy's lobster dish from Season 5's budget vs. luxury Pressure Test, which was overly salty
** April Lee's Piña Colada dessert from Season 3, which melted and led to her elimination
** Barrie's Wagyu beef dish from the Season 3 semifinals, which was undercooked and sent him home despite his advantage in that challenge
** Christopher's ground pork dish from Season 2
** Dora's beef cheek stew from Season 1, which was under-seasoned and visually unappealing
** Jen's Salisbury steak dish from Season 5
** Jeremy's monkfish dish from Season 3
** Mai's poached salmon dish from a Season 4 Mystery Box
** Marissa's Asian street food platter (which she had made with Nadia) from Season 5, the failure of which the judges blamed on her lack of communication during the Pressure Test
** Thea's pork belly and pork cheek tamale from the Season 4 finale
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** Midway in US Seasons 3 and 4 and ''Juniors'' Season 5 some of the eliminated contestants were brought back to compete for a chance to return to the competition. [[spoiler:Season 3's returnee Joshua would make it to the finale and ''Juniors'' Season 5 returnee Jasmine won the competition]].
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** Midway in US Seasons 3 and 4 and ''Juniors'' Season 5 some of the eliminated contestants were brought back to compete for a chance to return to the competition. [[spoiler:Season 3's returnee Joshua would make it to the finale and ''Juniors'' Season 5 returnee Jasmine won the competition]].
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** Season 7 of the Canadian is subtitled as ''Back to Win'', featuring 12 former contestants from the first six seasons coming back for another chance at winning the title.
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* NeverTrustATrailer: Teasers for next episode in US version usually mix clips in order to avoid spoiling who will success or fail. It's taken a step further for some episodes involving team challenge and pressure tests where they sometimes use clips from later episodes to mislead viewers about the winning and losing team. In Season 5 for example, a teaser for episode 7 shows clips from ''three different pressure tests''.
* NiceGuy:
* NiceGuy:
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* NeverTrustATrailer: Teasers for next episode in US version usually mix clips in order to avoid spoiling who will success or fail. It's taken a step further for some episodes involving team challenge and pressure tests where they sometimes use clips from later episodes to mislead viewers about the winning and losing team. In Season 5 for example, a teaser for episode 7 shows clips from ''three different pressure tests''.
* NiceGuy:tests''.
* NiceGuy:
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** New US judge Christina Tosi is even nicer and friendlier than Graham, expressing disappointment rather than offense whenever she tastes a subpar dish (which makes it more ironic that it was ''Joe'' she replaced). By Season 8, Aarón Sanchez seems to be even nicer and affable than her after she upped the BrutalHonesty by that time.
** Darah from season 6 is arguably a {{Deconstruction}}: she didn't have a single negative word to say about any of her teammates after they lost their first team challenge, which visibly annoyed Graham and Christina (the former even called her out on it). Her approach to leading her team in said challenge was to walk around smiling and patting everyone on the back, and even letting them choose their own stations. Their loss was unsurprising and her choices to spare from the pressure test were not based on hard-work, but "smiling attitude" instead, which made even Graham question it briefly.
** Darah from season 6 is arguably a {{Deconstruction}}: she didn't have a single negative word to say about any of her teammates after they lost their first team challenge, which visibly annoyed Graham and Christina (the former even called her out on it). Her approach to leading her team in said challenge was to walk around smiling and patting everyone on the back, and even letting them choose their own stations. Their loss was unsurprising and her choices to spare from the pressure test were not based on hard-work, but "smiling attitude" instead, which made even Graham question it briefly.
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** New US judge Christina Tosi is even nicer and friendlier than Graham, expressing disappointment rather than offense whenever she tastes a subpar dish (which makes it more ironic that it was ''Joe'' she replaced). By Season 8, Aarón Sanchez seems to be even nicer and affable than her after she upped the BrutalHonesty by that time.
** Darah fromseason Season 6 is arguably a {{Deconstruction}}: she didn't have a single negative word to say about any of her teammates after they lost their first team challenge, which visibly annoyed Graham and Christina (the former even called her out on it). Her approach to leading her team in said challenge was to walk around smiling and patting everyone on the back, and even letting them choose their own stations. Their loss was unsurprising and her choices to spare from the pressure test were not based on hard-work, but "smiling attitude" instead, which made even Graham question it briefly.
** Darah from
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** Almost all the children in the first ''Junior'' season, with special mention going to Dara and Kaylen, who were always the most supportive towards the other contestants.
** The children in the Season 2 of ''Junior'' as well, especially during the first episode where every one of them gathered around to cheer up a girl who had gotten upset from making a mistake.
** The children in the Season 2 of ''Junior'' as well, especially during the first episode where every one of them gathered around to cheer up a girl who had gotten upset from making a mistake.
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** Ben Starr from US Season 2 was known to sport a collection of oddly patterned chef's hats.
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** Ben Starr from US Season 2 was known to sport a collection of oddly patterned chef's hats.
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** Mike from season 1 and Bime from season 4 were always seen sporting a fedora.
** Another Mike, this one from season 3, always sported a cowboy hat except during food truck team challenge when he wore a simple cap.
** Another Mike, this one from season 3, always sported a cowboy hat except during food truck team challenge when he wore a simple cap.
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** Mike from season 1 and Bime from season Season 4 were always seen sporting a fedora.
** Another Mike, this one fromseason Season 3, always sported a cowboy hat except during food truck team challenge when he wore a simple cap.
** Another Mike, this one from
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** Addison from ''Junior'' season 4 would have different colored softball caps.
** Ivy from ''Junior'' season 7 is never seen without her fedora.
** Shawn from Canada season 3 was rarely seen without his backwards baseball cap.
** Ivy from ''Junior'' season 7 is never seen without her fedora.
** Shawn from Canada season 3 was rarely seen without his backwards baseball cap.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: In ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' Season 4's tag team challenge, Thea who won the first challenge tried to help Matt and Justine who was in chaos by giving them instruction since they saved Thea in earlier episodes. Unfortunately, having too many voices (Thea was joined by Mai whom she saved earlier in the episode) in the latter two's station end up jeopardizing their teamwork even further resulting in them producing the worst replication that night, something that Mai acknowledged in ConfessionCam. This trope also happened to Matt and Justine during the tasting. They tried to share all the blame and credit given to their dish which the judges praised as they stayed as a team. Because of this, however, the judges couldn't tell who performed the worst, ultimately sending both home.
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** In the first five seasons of the US version, Graham, Joe, and Gordon were this, respectively.
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** In the first five seasons of the US version, seasons, Graham, Joe, and Gordon were this, respectively.
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** In the Season 4 of the US version, there was supposed to be a Top 20, but only 19 contestants start off, ten women and nine men. An unknown male contestant was seen being chosen alongside the other nineteen to make it into the ''[=MasterChef=]'' kitchen, but whether he dropped out or was disqualified before the Top 20 began competing was never revealed.
** In Season 5 of the US version, the contestant Gordon was forced to withdraw from the competition due to illness after making it to the top 19.
** In Season 5 of the US version, the contestant Gordon was forced to withdraw from the competition due to illness after making it to the top 19.
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** In the Season 4 of the US version, 4, there was supposed to be a Top 20, but only 19 contestants start off, ten women and nine men. An unknown male contestant was seen being chosen alongside the other nineteen to make it into the ''[=MasterChef=]'' kitchen, but whether he dropped out or was disqualified before the Top 20 began competing was never revealed.
** In Season5 of the US version, 5, the contestant Gordon was forced to withdraw from the competition due to illness after making it to the top 19.
** In Season
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** In Season 6 of the US version, it was announced at the top of episode 6 that contestant Dan Collado had withdrawn from the show for personal reasons. These reasons have not been made public as of yet.
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** In Season 6 of the US version, 6, it was announced at the top of episode 6 that contestant Dan Collado had withdrawn from the show for personal reasons. These reasons have not been made public as of yet.
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** Season 3 of the Italian version had Beatrice, who was disqualified for using someone else's sponge cake to make her own dish after her sponge cake didn't cook properly. She was later readmitted after winning a challenge where eliminated contestants could return...only to lose the next Pressure Test.
** Season 2 of Indonesian version has Nuuril, who was automatically disqualified after failing to complete her dish on time in a pressure test. While Andrea above failed to bring her dish to black table on time, three components Nuuril had to cook were still on pan when the time ran out, rendering them unservicable.
*** Several episode later, one contestant named Adeline withdrew from competition because of family reasons.
** For the seventh season of the Canadian version, April Lee was forced to withdraw due to a back injury off screen. Barrie, the person who was eliminated prior to this incident, was brought back as the team challenge needed equal numbers.
* OnceASeason: the second episode of every season of [=MasterChef=] Junior opens with a race of some kind, with contestants each representing one of the three judges and the losing judges getting [[CoveredInGunge covered in food]] [[note]] Usually, for giggles and good measure, the winning judge gets it, too. [[/note]].
** Season 2 of Indonesian version has Nuuril, who was automatically disqualified after failing to complete her dish on time in a pressure test. While Andrea above failed to bring her dish to black table on time, three components Nuuril had to cook were still on pan when the time ran out, rendering them unservicable.
*** Several episode later, one contestant named Adeline withdrew from competition because of family reasons.
** For the seventh season of the Canadian version, April Lee was forced to withdraw due to a back injury off screen. Barrie, the person who was eliminated prior to this incident, was brought back as the team challenge needed equal numbers.
* OnceASeason: the second episode of every season of [=MasterChef=] Junior opens with a race of some kind, with contestants each representing one of the three judges and the losing judges getting [[CoveredInGunge covered in food]] [[note]] Usually, for giggles and good measure, the winning judge gets it, too. [[/note]].
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** In Canada season 3 there was Sean and Shawn, with different spellings but the same pronunciation. The latter was often referred to as "Doctor Shawn" because he was also a practicing MD. Even though Sean was eliminated three weeks in and Shawn lasted considerably longer, the full title stuck until the end.
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* OhCrap: Adriano Zumbo walking into the ''[=MasterChef=]'' kitchen with a covered dish is enough to scare any contestant. Particularly the [[http://adrianozumbo.com/shop/the-v8-cake/ V8 cake]].
** In season 3, David wins a challenge to determine what kind of dessert the contestants will make during elimination. He chooses corn, and spends a good deal of time building up the audience to how well he knows how to make corn rice pudding. After the home cooks gather their ingredients from the pantry however, he realizes that he forgot to grab any rice, a key ingredient to his much vaunted corn rice pudding. For added effect, after his grim realization, the camera cuts right back to the ''[=MasterChef=]'' pantry's door slowly closing.
** US season 4's Bime has this when he realizes he accidentally mixed up two ingredients during a citrus meringue pie and it was too late for him to start again.
** In season 3, David wins a challenge to determine what kind of dessert the contestants will make during elimination. He chooses corn, and spends a good deal of time building up the audience to how well he knows how to make corn rice pudding. After the home cooks gather their ingredients from the pantry however, he realizes that he forgot to grab any rice, a key ingredient to his much vaunted corn rice pudding. For added effect, after his grim realization, the camera cuts right back to the ''[=MasterChef=]'' pantry's door slowly closing.
** US season 4's Bime has this when he realizes he accidentally mixed up two ingredients during a citrus meringue pie and it was too late for him to start again.
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* OhCrap: Adriano Zumbo walking into the ''[=MasterChef=]'' kitchen with a covered dish is enough to scare any contestant. Particularly the [[http://adrianozumbo.com/shop/the-v8-cake/ V8 cake]].
OhCrap:
** Inseason Season 3, David wins a challenge to determine what kind of dessert the contestants will make during elimination. He chooses corn, and spends a good deal of time building up the audience to how well he knows how to make corn rice pudding. After the home cooks gather their ingredients from the pantry however, he realizes that he forgot to grab any rice, a key ingredient to his much vaunted corn rice pudding. For added effect, after his grim realization, the camera cuts right back to the ''[=MasterChef=]'' pantry's door slowly closing.
**US season Season 4's Bime has this when he realizes he accidentally mixed up two ingredients during a citrus meringue pie and it was too late for him to start again.
** In
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* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: On the 2019 UK series of ''Celebrity [=MasterChef=]'', Dom Parker from ''Series/{{Gogglebox}}'' was introduced as "one of the country's most famous armchair television critics".
* PatrioticFervor: Played straight and invoked in ''[=MasterChef=] Brazil'' Season 4. One elimination test was to use some of the most culturally relevant ingredients of the north of Brazil. One of the judges even made a speech in regards to the beauty of the variety in Brazilian gastronomy when talking about the ingredients that drove some participants to tears and to try their hardest to honor their nation's cuisine.
* PatrioticFervor: Played straight and invoked in ''[=MasterChef=] Brazil'' Season 4. One elimination test was to use some of the most culturally relevant ingredients of the north of Brazil. One of the judges even made a speech in regards to the beauty of the variety in Brazilian gastronomy when talking about the ingredients that drove some participants to tears and to try their hardest to honor their nation's cuisine.
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* ThePollyanna: Eight-year-old Abby, the youngest contestant from the second US season of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'', who is always chipper, happy, supportive and positive. Nowhere is this clearer than in episode 4, where she goes into the elimination challenge being able to pick only two ingredients to make a high-end dish, the least amount out of everyone. Abby remains completely unfazed and remains happy and positive through the entirety of the challenge, and ends up putting forth one of the best dishes anyway.
* ProductPlacement: In the US series, this seems to be one of Graham Elliott's main duties. Not quite OnceAnEpisode, he'll approach a contestant and they'll do a mini-commercial for the brand of knife or cookware being used. Ramsay and Bastianich don't seem to be on the hook for it, though.
** The SA version would like to remind you that it's sponsored by ''"Robertsons -- The Spice People"'' at least ten times an episode.
** There was an entire episode in the SA version dedicated to being a ProductPromotionParade for Nederburg wines.
** The fact that every celebrity chef's restaurant is featured when they're introduced said something in itself.
** S3 of the US version would like you to know that all of the steaks in this episode can be purchased at Walmart. On the bright side of things, Graham seems to have been left off the hook for the mini-commercials.
** S4 gets even more blatant with shilling for Walmart, with it being mentioned multiple times in every single episode, often along with how little the given ingredients would cost if bought at Walmart. For example, an elimination test that was based on two baskets of food: one that could be purchased for under $5 and the other for under $25 at Walmart, with both the store and the prices repeatedly mentioned Even more hilariously, that same episode featured Graham lauding a rib-eye steak's quality to the skies - in front of the vegetarian Bri.
** ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' follows the tradition by shilling for Alexander Keith beer and "German-made Miele Appliances," the latter of which is oddly mentioned alongside things contestants need for their challenge.
** A very interesting example in the Spain version, where the show does product placement for itself, several times per 2 hour episode. This is because in Spain, ''[=MasterChef=]'' has been so successful that they have a magazine, online cooking classes with professional chefs, and even a summer camp for children and teenagers where they can learn how to cook.
* PromotedFanboy: Christine went from being US Season 3 winner to a full-on judge in [=MasterChef=] Vietnam.
* ProductPlacement: In the US series, this seems to be one of Graham Elliott's main duties. Not quite OnceAnEpisode, he'll approach a contestant and they'll do a mini-commercial for the brand of knife or cookware being used. Ramsay and Bastianich don't seem to be on the hook for it, though.
** The SA version would like to remind you that it's sponsored by ''"Robertsons -- The Spice People"'' at least ten times an episode.
** There was an entire episode in the SA version dedicated to being a ProductPromotionParade for Nederburg wines.
** The fact that every celebrity chef's restaurant is featured when they're introduced said something in itself.
** S3 of the US version would like you to know that all of the steaks in this episode can be purchased at Walmart. On the bright side of things, Graham seems to have been left off the hook for the mini-commercials.
** S4 gets even more blatant with shilling for Walmart, with it being mentioned multiple times in every single episode, often along with how little the given ingredients would cost if bought at Walmart. For example, an elimination test that was based on two baskets of food: one that could be purchased for under $5 and the other for under $25 at Walmart, with both the store and the prices repeatedly mentioned Even more hilariously, that same episode featured Graham lauding a rib-eye steak's quality to the skies - in front of the vegetarian Bri.
** ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' follows the tradition by shilling for Alexander Keith beer and "German-made Miele Appliances," the latter of which is oddly mentioned alongside things contestants need for their challenge.
** A very interesting example in the Spain version, where the show does product placement for itself, several times per 2 hour episode. This is because in Spain, ''[=MasterChef=]'' has been so successful that they have a magazine, online cooking classes with professional chefs, and even a summer camp for children and teenagers where they can learn how to cook.
* PromotedFanboy: Christine went from being US Season 3 winner to a full-on judge in [=MasterChef=] Vietnam.
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** There was an entire episode in the SA version dedicated to being a ProductPromotionParade for Nederburg wines.
** The fact that every celebrity chef's restaurant is featured when they're introduced said something in itself.
** S3 of the US version
**
** A very interesting example in the Spain version, where the show does product placement for itself, several times per 2 hour episode. This is because in Spain, ''[=MasterChef=]'' has been so successful that they have a magazine, online cooking classes with professional chefs, and even a summer camp for children and teenagers where they can learn how to cook.
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* TheQuietOne: In SA, Brandon was shaping up to be one until he entered the top 18, then he started [[ReferenceOverdosed referencing classic western animation and soccer in literally every one of his sentences.]]
** In season 4 on the US series, Lynn Chyi is seen as one.
** In season 4 on the US series, Lynn Chyi is seen as one.
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* TheQuietOne: In SA, Brandon was shaping up to be one until he entered the top 18, then he started [[ReferenceOverdosed referencing classic western animation and soccer in literally every one of his sentences.]]
** In season 4 on the US series,Season 4's Lynn Chyi is seen as one.
** In season 4 on the US series,
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* RageQuit: David tries this briefly in the U.S. Season 7 in the top five during a pressure test after a basket-swap gives him a poor set of ingredients he doesn't want to work with. It doesn't last long because Ramsay heads after him after he stalks out of the kitchen and talks him out of it.
* RealityTelevision: The examples not from Britain are examples of this. The British show is a lot older, so follows a more standard cookery contest format.
* RecurringElement: This competition has several challenge formats that are present throughout the seasons. Sometimes, these concepts are implemented in tandem.
** MysteryBox: Contestants are given a box in their station containing ingredients they have to cook in that challenge. In US Season 1 and 2, they only have to cook using ''only'' what's in the box until Season 3 where they were also given a staple or limited pantry depending on the condition. It also contains non-ingredients, either kitchen equipment (they have to cook only with that equipment) or other random things like loved one's letters, an iconic-eating utensil, or even a blindfold.
** Team Challenge: Contestants are divided into color-coded teams, mostly two, in order to cook for a group of people with similar backgrounds or people in celebratory events (cowboys and cowgirls, elderlies, first responders, children, lifeguards, vegetarians, people attending weddings or birthday parties), serving foods to critics, or selling food items. The winning team is usually decoded to public votes.
*** Another type of team challenge which becomes common starting from US season 3 is TagTeam. Contestants are divided into teams of two in order to replicate a platter which consists of multiple small dishes.
** Pressure Test: Usually after losing a team challenge, contestants have to create a dish (or sometimes multiple dishes) in a very short amount of time, with very limited ingredients, or with high technical difficulties. To emphasize those contestants' chances at becoming the winner are in danger, they are required to wear black aprons.
* RedBaron: Alvin Leung, the "head" judge of ''[=MasterChef=] Canada''. You'd think [[CanadaEh he'd have some nice title about politeness or moose]], right? Nope. "Demon Chef".
* RealityTelevision: The examples not from Britain are examples of this. The British show is a lot older, so follows a more standard cookery contest format.
* RecurringElement: This competition has several challenge formats that are present throughout the seasons. Sometimes, these concepts are implemented in tandem.
** MysteryBox: Contestants are given a box in their station containing ingredients they have to cook in that challenge. In US Season 1 and 2, they only have to cook using ''only'' what's in the box until Season 3 where they were also given a staple or limited pantry depending on the condition. It also contains non-ingredients, either kitchen equipment (they have to cook only with that equipment) or other random things like loved one's letters, an iconic-eating utensil, or even a blindfold.
** Team Challenge: Contestants are divided into color-coded teams, mostly two, in order to cook for a group of people with similar backgrounds or people in celebratory events (cowboys and cowgirls, elderlies, first responders, children, lifeguards, vegetarians, people attending weddings or birthday parties), serving foods to critics, or selling food items. The winning team is usually decoded to public votes.
*** Another type of team challenge which becomes common starting from US season 3 is TagTeam. Contestants are divided into teams of two in order to replicate a platter which consists of multiple small dishes.
** Pressure Test: Usually after losing a team challenge, contestants have to create a dish (or sometimes multiple dishes) in a very short amount of time, with very limited ingredients, or with high technical difficulties. To emphasize those contestants' chances at becoming the winner are in danger, they are required to wear black aprons.
* RedBaron: Alvin Leung, the "head" judge of ''[=MasterChef=] Canada''. You'd think [[CanadaEh he'd have some nice title about politeness or moose]], right? Nope. "Demon Chef".
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* RageQuit: David tries this briefly in the U.S. Season 7 in the top five during a pressure test after a basket-swap gives him a poor set of ingredients he doesn't want to work with. It doesn't last long because Ramsay heads after him after he stalks out of the kitchen and talks him out of it.
* RealityTelevision: The examples not from Britain are examples of this. The British show is a lot older, so follows a more standard cookery contest format.
* RecurringElement: This competition has several challenge formats that are present throughout the seasons. Sometimes, these concepts are implemented in tandem.
** MysteryBox: Contestants are given a box in their station containing ingredients they have to cook in that challenge. In US Season 1 and 2, they only have to cook using ''only'' what's in the box until Season 3 where they were also given a staple or limited pantry depending on the condition. It also contains non-ingredients, either kitchen equipment (they have to cook only with that equipment) or other random things like loved one's letters, an iconic-eating utensil, or even a blindfold.
** Team Challenge: Contestants are divided into color-coded teams, mostly two, in order to cook for a group of people with similar backgrounds or people in celebratory events (cowboys and cowgirls, elderlies, first responders, children, lifeguards, vegetarians, people attending weddings or birthday parties), serving foods to critics, or selling food items. The winning team is usually decoded to public votes.
*** Another type of team challenge which becomes common starting from US season 3 is TagTeam. Contestants are divided into teams of two in order to replicate a platter which consists of multiple small dishes.
** Pressure Test: Usually after losing a team challenge, contestants have to create a dish (or sometimes multiple dishes) in a very short amount of time, with very limited ingredients, or with high technical difficulties. To emphasize those contestants' chances at becoming the winner are in danger, they are required to wear black aprons.
* RedBaron: Alvin Leung, the "head" judge of ''[=MasterChef=] Canada''. You'd think [[CanadaEh he'd have some nice title about politeness or moose]], right? Nope. "Demon Chef".it.
* RealityTelevision: The examples not from Britain are examples of this. The British show is a lot older, so follows a more standard cookery contest format.
* RecurringElement: This competition has several challenge formats that are present throughout the seasons. Sometimes, these concepts are implemented in tandem.
** MysteryBox: Contestants are given a box in their station containing ingredients they have to cook in that challenge. In US Season 1 and 2, they only have to cook using ''only'' what's in the box until Season 3 where they were also given a staple or limited pantry depending on the condition. It also contains non-ingredients, either kitchen equipment (they have to cook only with that equipment) or other random things like loved one's letters, an iconic-eating utensil, or even a blindfold.
** Team Challenge: Contestants are divided into color-coded teams, mostly two, in order to cook for a group of people with similar backgrounds or people in celebratory events (cowboys and cowgirls, elderlies, first responders, children, lifeguards, vegetarians, people attending weddings or birthday parties), serving foods to critics, or selling food items. The winning team is usually decoded to public votes.
*** Another type of team challenge which becomes common starting from US season 3 is TagTeam. Contestants are divided into teams of two in order to replicate a platter which consists of multiple small dishes.
** Pressure Test: Usually after losing a team challenge, contestants have to create a dish (or sometimes multiple dishes) in a very short amount of time, with very limited ingredients, or with high technical difficulties. To emphasize those contestants' chances at becoming the winner are in danger, they are required to wear black aprons.
* RedBaron: Alvin Leung, the "head" judge of ''[=MasterChef=] Canada''. You'd think [[CanadaEh he'd have some nice title about politeness or moose]], right? Nope. "Demon Chef".
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* RunningGag: Krissi, from US season 4, who was on the losing team of every single team challenge, at least those that are teams of three or more people. She did perform well in the one single tag-team challenge they've had so far, but putting her with more than two people seemed to be a guaranteed loss for any team who had her.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: An interesting variant pops up in ''[=MasterChef=] Junior''. The young participants, aged eight to thirteen, are capable of genuinely amazing culinary feats from sushi to beef wellington, but a significant number of them struggle with the task of baking and icing a cake -- one of the few tasks one might normally expect someone that age to have some experience with.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: An interesting variant pops up in ''[=MasterChef=] Junior''. The young participants, aged eight to thirteen, are capable of genuinely amazing culinary feats from sushi to beef wellington, but a significant number of them struggle with the task of baking and icing a cake -- one of the few tasks one might normally expect someone that age to have some experience with.
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* RunningGag: Krissi, from US season Season 4, who was on the losing team of every single team challenge, at least those that are teams of three or more people. She did perform well in the one single tag-team challenge they've had so far, but putting her with more than two people seemed to be a guaranteed loss for any team who had her.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: An interesting variant pops up in ''[=MasterChef=] Junior''. The young participants, aged eight to thirteen, are capable of genuinely amazing culinary feats from sushi to beef wellington, but a significant number of them struggle with the task of baking and icing a cake -- one of the few tasks one might normally expect someone that age to have some experience with.her.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: An interesting variant pops up in ''[=MasterChef=] Junior''. The young participants, aged eight to thirteen, are capable of genuinely amazing culinary feats from sushi to beef wellington, but a significant number of them struggle with the task of baking and icing a cake -- one of the few tasks one might normally expect someone that age to have some experience with.
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** US season 4's Sasha Foxx. Even Joe Bastianich's meanest stares did not faze her one bit. [[spoiler: That didn't prevent her from being eliminated in the first Elimination Test.]]
** US season 8's Eboni has this side, but unlike Sasha, she can back up her talk with her cooking.
** US Season 9's Shanika. During her audition, she expressed her goal to be the female version of Gordon, and has delivered all her opinions "Straight, raw Shanika" in her own words.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem:
** In the 2010 season of the UK version, the judges were faced with a heat where two of the three contestants performed brilliantly. Forced to choose which one went through to the quarterfinal...they opted to let both of them through. It's happened a few times since.
** Happened twice in the 2012 UK Professionals version. Not only did two chefs dodge an elimination in a heat as described above, but the same pair of chefs ended up winning the season together as well because the judges couldn't decide between them.
** And occasionally reversed, including the spring 2013 UK series, when the judges decide to kick an extra contestant out if several don't perform well enough to earn a place.
** US season 8's Eboni has this side, but unlike Sasha, she can back up her talk with her cooking.
** US Season 9's Shanika. During her audition, she expressed her goal to be the female version of Gordon, and has delivered all her opinions "Straight, raw Shanika" in her own words.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem:
** In the 2010 season of the UK version, the judges were faced with a heat where two of the three contestants performed brilliantly. Forced to choose which one went through to the quarterfinal...they opted to let both of them through. It's happened a few times since.
** Happened twice in the 2012 UK Professionals version. Not only did two chefs dodge an elimination in a heat as described above, but the same pair of chefs ended up winning the season together as well because the judges couldn't decide between them.
** And occasionally reversed, including the spring 2013 UK series, when the judges decide to kick an extra contestant out if several don't perform well enough to earn a place.
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** US season Season 4's Sasha Foxx. Even Joe Bastianich's meanest stares did not faze her one bit. [[spoiler: That didn't prevent her from being eliminated in the first Elimination Test.]]
**US season Season 8's Eboni has this side, but unlike Sasha, she can back up her talk with her cooking.
**US Season 9's Shanika. During her audition, she expressed her goal to be the female version of Gordon, and has delivered all her opinions "Straight, raw Shanika" in her own words.
* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem:
** In the 2010 season of the UK version, the judges were faced with a heat where two of the three contestants performed brilliantly. Forced to choose which one went through to the quarterfinal...they opted to let both of them through. It's happened a few times since.
** Happened twice in the 2012 UK Professionals version. Not only did two chefs dodge an elimination in a heat as described above, but the same pair of chefs ended up winning the season together as well because the judges couldn't decide between them.
** And occasionally reversed, including the spring 2013 UK series, when the judges decide to kick an extra contestant out if several don't perform well enough to earn a place.words.
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* ScrewTheRulesIMakeThem:
** In the 2010 season of the UK version, the judges were faced with a heat where two of the three contestants performed brilliantly. Forced to choose which one went through to the quarterfinal...they opted to let both of them through. It's happened a few times since.
** Happened twice in the 2012 UK Professionals version. Not only did two chefs dodge an elimination in a heat as described above, but the same pair of chefs ended up winning the season together as well because the judges couldn't decide between them.
** And occasionally reversed, including the spring 2013 UK series, when the judges decide to kick an extra contestant out if several don't perform well enough to earn a place.
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** Ryan and Tali from US season three, who would argue with the judges or insist that, even though all three judges had panned their food, they simply didn't understand the "genius" behind it. They maintained this haughty attitude towards the other contestants, insisting that they had superior talent even when they were clearly outperformed. Tali was more guilty of this, though, because Ryan at least admitted his molten lava chocolate cake was the worse of the two of them after the judges asked the person with the worst dish to step forward and remove their apron.
** Krissi from US season four also keeps up the trend of arguing with the judges, as she continually defended a catfish dish that the judges had said was terrible and claimed the only reason they were criticizing her was because she had to fight with Joe on television, never mind the fact that the guest judge, season 3 winner Christine Ha (who is known to have an excellent palate) also said that her dish was not good. She was saved from elimination that challenge, but not before Gordon told her point blank that she didn't have the talent to back up her attitude. This has not stopped her from continuing with this attitude, especially on team challenges. Once she was on the losing team of a team challenge, and the winning team got to choose who was safe from the pressure test. They chose Krissi because they all think that they could beat her later on, but she thinks it's because they want to invoke TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou on "the best cook".
** Cody from Canada Season 2 was this sometimes. Especially the time he forfeited his immunity to cook with black truffles to show how ''great'' he was. He ended with one of the [[EpicFail worst dishes that night and was nearly eliminated.]]
* {{Spinoff}}: Oh boy. You won't believe how many international spin-offs this show has. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterChef This wiki article will explain how many there are.]]
* SpinoffBabies: The ''Junior'' spin-off, with kids ranging from 8 to 13 years old.
** Krissi from US season four also keeps up the trend of arguing with the judges, as she continually defended a catfish dish that the judges had said was terrible and claimed the only reason they were criticizing her was because she had to fight with Joe on television, never mind the fact that the guest judge, season 3 winner Christine Ha (who is known to have an excellent palate) also said that her dish was not good. She was saved from elimination that challenge, but not before Gordon told her point blank that she didn't have the talent to back up her attitude. This has not stopped her from continuing with this attitude, especially on team challenges. Once she was on the losing team of a team challenge, and the winning team got to choose who was safe from the pressure test. They chose Krissi because they all think that they could beat her later on, but she thinks it's because they want to invoke TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou on "the best cook".
** Cody from Canada Season 2 was this sometimes. Especially the time he forfeited his immunity to cook with black truffles to show how ''great'' he was. He ended with one of the [[EpicFail worst dishes that night and was nearly eliminated.]]
* {{Spinoff}}: Oh boy. You won't believe how many international spin-offs this show has. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterChef This wiki article will explain how many there are.]]
* SpinoffBabies: The ''Junior'' spin-off, with kids ranging from 8 to 13 years old.
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** Ryan and Tali from US season Season three, who would argue with the judges or insist that, even though all three judges had panned their food, they simply didn't understand the "genius" behind it. They maintained this haughty attitude towards the other contestants, insisting that they had superior talent even when they were clearly outperformed. Tali was more guilty of this, though, because Ryan at least admitted his molten lava chocolate cake was the worse of the two of them after the judges asked the person with the worst dish to step forward and remove their apron.
** Krissi fromUS season Season four also keeps up the trend of arguing with the judges, as she continually defended a catfish dish that the judges had said was terrible and claimed the only reason they were criticizing her was because she had to fight with Joe on television, never mind the fact that the guest judge, season 3 winner Christine Ha (who is known to have an excellent palate) also said that her dish was not good. She was saved from elimination that challenge, but not before Gordon told her point blank that she didn't have the talent to back up her attitude. This has not stopped her from continuing with this attitude, especially on team challenges. Once she was on the losing team of a team challenge, and the winning team got to choose who was safe from the pressure test. They chose Krissi because they all think that they could beat her later on, but she thinks it's because they want to invoke TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou on "the best cook".
** Cody from Canada Season 2 was this sometimes. Especially the time he forfeited his immunity to cook with black truffles to show how ''great'' he was. He ended with one of the [[EpicFail worst dishes that night and was nearly eliminated.]]
* {{Spinoff}}: Oh boy. You won't believe how many international spin-offs this show has. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterChef This wiki article will explain how many there are.]]
* SpinoffBabies: The ''Junior'' spin-off, with kids ranging from 8 to 13 years old.cook".
** Krissi from
** Cody from Canada Season 2 was this sometimes. Especially the time he forfeited his immunity to cook with black truffles to show how ''great'' he was. He ended with one of the [[EpicFail worst dishes that night and was nearly eliminated.]]
* {{Spinoff}}: Oh boy. You won't believe how many international spin-offs this show has. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MasterChef This wiki article will explain how many there are.]]
* SpinoffBabies: The ''Junior'' spin-off, with kids ranging from 8 to 13 years old.
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** In the second US season, Adrien won a mystery box challenge, and got to select which chefs would work with which cuts of pork in the following challenge. He therefore took a relatively easy cut for himself, and assigned Christian and Ben (the other two of the top three in the mystery box challenge) the hardest two cuts. When the chefs were done cooking, Christian and Ben's dishes really impressed the judges (Joe even told Adrian that his plan to get Christian eliminated had backfired), while Adrien's dish was felt to be unspectacular. On top of all that, Alejandra, who had gotten the pork loin and whom everyone expected to ace the challenge, served up raw pork and duly got kicked out of the competition.
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** In the second US season, Adrien won a mystery box challenge, and got to select which chefs would work with which cuts of pork in the following challenge. He therefore took a relatively easy cut for himself, and assigned Christian and Ben (the other two of the top three in the mystery box challenge) the hardest two cuts. When the chefs were done cooking, Christian and Ben's dishes really impressed the judges (Joe even told Adrian that his plan to get Christian eliminated had backfired), while Adrien's dish was felt to be unspectacular. On top of all that, Alejandra, who had gotten the pork loin and whom everyone expected to ace the challenge, served up raw pork and duly got kicked out of the competition.
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** All of the first three ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' semifinals happened in the same pattern: the winner of the "advantage" (Troy, Adaiah, Jimmy) gave the easiest choice to the weakest competitor (Jack, Abby, Jenna) and took the second best for themselves, hoping to go up against them in the finale. Instead, the biggest threat who got the "hardest" assignment (Alexander, Logan, Nathan) ended up doing the best in the semifinal and actually winning the overall competition against the second hardest assignment (Dara, Samuel, Andrew).
** It would probably be easier to count the times the Mystery Box winners ''don't'' shoot themselves in the foot with their "advantage."
* StockYuck: A Mystery Box challenge for ''Junior''. The judges took food from every category listed on the trope page, put them in boxes, and told the contestants to make something awesome with them.
* StupidStatementDanceMix: Greg Wallace likes the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfeyUGZt8nk buttery biscuit base]].
** Incidentally, that song actually made the UK Top 40.
* SuckinessIsPainful: In the Spanish version, judge Pepe Rodríguez punished a contestant who had cooked a really bad meal by forcing him to eat it.
* SupremeChef: All the judges are considered some of the best chefs in the world. Also, the goal of the entire competition is to be the best cook of the 24.
* TakeThat: The children from the US version of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' will occasionally take a verbal jab at the judges, sometimes out of simple innocence, and sometimes because it's obvious they can get away with it. The producers themselves do it to the judges by having a specific challenge early on where the children pour stuff over the judges, such as season 1 having heavy cream and season 2 having maple syrup.
** It would probably be easier to count the times the Mystery Box winners ''don't'' shoot themselves in the foot with their "advantage."
* StockYuck: A Mystery Box challenge for ''Junior''. The judges took food from every category listed on the trope page, put them in boxes, and told the contestants to make something awesome with them.
* StupidStatementDanceMix: Greg Wallace likes the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfeyUGZt8nk buttery biscuit base]].
** Incidentally, that song actually made the UK Top 40.
* SuckinessIsPainful: In the Spanish version, judge Pepe Rodríguez punished a contestant who had cooked a really bad meal by forcing him to eat it.
* SupremeChef: All the judges are considered some of the best chefs in the world. Also, the goal of the entire competition is to be the best cook of the 24.
* TakeThat: The children from the US version of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' will occasionally take a verbal jab at the judges, sometimes out of simple innocence, and sometimes because it's obvious they can get away with it. The producers themselves do it to the judges by having a specific challenge early on where the children pour stuff over the judges, such as season 1 having heavy cream and season 2 having maple syrup.
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* TinyTyrannicalGirl: Several of the girls in ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'', but Sarah, at only 9, probably fits best, especially when she yells at Gavin to "Whip it like a man!" during the whipped cream challenge.
* TooCleverByHalf: The contestants in a Canadian pressure test had to make a box of doughnuts, in at least three varieties. The others predicted that Eric would make four. In fact, he made ''eight''. But some were failures, and Alvin Leung reamed him out for going overboard.
* TooCleverByHalf: The contestants in a Canadian pressure test had to make a box of doughnuts, in at least three varieties. The others predicted that Eric would make four. In fact, he made ''eight''. But some were failures, and Alvin Leung reamed him out for going overboard.
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** Luca from US season 4. After failing to enter the competition in season 3, he also began to struggle during the top 13, constantly hanging out in the middle of the pack or lower... until the final 8, where he launched into a nearly perfect streak of being in the top 3 for any given episode, wasn't put up for elimination again until the final 3, [[spoiler: and ended up winning it all]].
** Gerron from US season 9. He started off as one of the weaker chefs in the competition, but come around the second half, he started to shine more, and was improving in skills he lacked from the start (desserts and plating as prime examples). [[spoiler: And just like Luca above, he ended up winning it all]].
** A meta example in the Australian season 7. The judges were impressed at how high the contestants' standards were, and, by the end of the first audition, told the remaining contenders for the Top 24 that, had they been in the previous seasons, they would have won an apron already. When 2014 Master Chef Brent Owens were brought back to observe the first round, he, too, was amazed to see how much more organized, and professional, the contestants were compared to his own experience.
** Eric in Canada Season 1. He was seen as one of the weaker and unsure chefs in the kitchen and was also criticized for his ComplexityAddiction. However, he was able to gain his confidence and surpass his rivals, Kaila and Mike. [[spoiler: And just like Luca and Gerron, he ended up winning]].
* TookALevelInKindness:
** Judge Alvin Leung was DrillSergeantNasty in the first season of the Canadian version, to the point of many viewers considering him worse than Ramsay at times. Come Season 2 he's still tough, but has softened up considerably and is more willing to joke with and encourage the contestants.
** Gerron from US season 9. He started off as one of the weaker chefs in the competition, but come around the second half, he started to shine more, and was improving in skills he lacked from the start (desserts and plating as prime examples). [[spoiler: And just like Luca above, he ended up winning it all]].
** A meta example in the Australian season 7. The judges were impressed at how high the contestants' standards were, and, by the end of the first audition, told the remaining contenders for the Top 24 that, had they been in the previous seasons, they would have won an apron already. When 2014 Master Chef Brent Owens were brought back to observe the first round, he, too, was amazed to see how much more organized, and professional, the contestants were compared to his own experience.
** Eric in Canada Season 1. He was seen as one of the weaker and unsure chefs in the kitchen and was also criticized for his ComplexityAddiction. However, he was able to gain his confidence and surpass his rivals, Kaila and Mike. [[spoiler: And just like Luca and Gerron, he ended up winning]].
* TookALevelInKindness:
** Judge Alvin Leung was DrillSergeantNasty in the first season of the Canadian version, to the point of many viewers considering him worse than Ramsay at times. Come Season 2 he's still tough, but has softened up considerably and is more willing to joke with and encourage the contestants.
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** Luca from US season Season 4. After failing to enter the competition in season 3, he also began to struggle during the top 13, constantly hanging out in the middle of the pack or lower... until the final 8, where he launched into a nearly perfect streak of being in the top 3 for any given episode, wasn't put up for elimination again until the final 3, [[spoiler: and ended up winning it all]].
** Gerron fromUS season Season 9. He started off as one of the weaker chefs in the competition, but come around the second half, he started to shine more, and was improving in skills he lacked from the start (desserts and plating as prime examples). [[spoiler: And just like Luca above, he ended up winning it all]].
** A meta example in the Australian season 7. The judges were impressed at how high the contestants' standards were, and, by the end of the first audition, told the remaining contenders for the Top 24 that, had they been in the previous seasons, they would have won an apron already. When 2014 Master Chef Brent Owens were brought back to observe the first round, he, too, was amazed to see how much more organized, and professional, the contestants were compared to his own experience.
** Eric in Canada Season 1. He was seen as one of the weaker and unsure chefs in the kitchen and was also criticized for his ComplexityAddiction. However, he was able to gain his confidence and surpass his rivals, Kaila and Mike. [[spoiler: And just like Luca and Gerron, he ended up winning]].
* TookALevelInKindness:
** Judge Alvin Leung was DrillSergeantNasty in the first season of the Canadian version, to the point of many viewers considering him worse than Ramsay at times. Come Season 2 he's still tough, but has softened up considerably and is more willing to joke with and encourage the contestants.TookALevelInKindness:
** Gerron from
** Eric in Canada Season 1. He was seen as one of the weaker and unsure chefs in the kitchen and was also criticized for his ComplexityAddiction. However, he was able to gain his confidence and surpass his rivals, Kaila and Mike. [[spoiler: And just like Luca and Gerron, he ended up winning]].
** Judge Alvin Leung was DrillSergeantNasty in the first season of the Canadian version, to the point of many viewers considering him worse than Ramsay at times. Come Season 2 he's still tough, but has softened up considerably and is more willing to joke with and encourage the contestants.
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* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: Every trailer of an episode in which a team challenge happens will show you the ensuing Pressure Test as well... and from the people you see cooking in that, you can tell which team lost the challenge.
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** In U.S. Season 3, Gordon took a moment to scold Tali for leaving his station a disaster, all his dirty pans and pots on the floor and the counter and stove stained with flour. Gordon warned him that he would be fired from his kitchen in a minute, and closed with describing his resulting dish with "If you cook in a mess, you produce a mess"
** In U.S. Season 5, Joe stopped the work in the kitchen to openly scold Astrid for throwing all her garbage on the floor of her station, pointing out that it's disgusting and anyone can get hurt, but still let her off with a warning. [[{{Jerkass}} Astrid only mumbled if they had any cleaning staff around]].
** In U.S. Season 5, Joe stopped the work in the kitchen to openly scold Astrid for throwing all her garbage on the floor of her station, pointing out that it's disgusting and anyone can get hurt, but still let her off with a warning. [[{{Jerkass}} Astrid only mumbled if they had any cleaning staff around]].
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** In U.S. Season 3, Gordon took a moment to scold Tali for leaving his station a disaster, all his dirty pans and pots on the floor and the counter and stove stained with flour. Gordon warned him that he would be fired from his kitchen in a minute, and closed with describing his resulting dish with "If you cook in a mess, you produce a mess"
** InU.S. Season 5, Joe stopped the work in the kitchen to openly scold Astrid for throwing all her garbage on the floor of her station, pointing out that it's disgusting and anyone can get hurt, but still let her off with a warning. [[{{Jerkass}} Astrid only mumbled if they had any cleaning staff around]].
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** Kaila from the Canada version is the epitome of this trope. She was thought of by others as the weakest contestant and she was constantly underestimated and sometimes even insulted. She went on to prove herself as one of the fiercest, strongest contestants and made it to the final 3, where she was eliminated by the narrowest of margins.
** This was both played straight and averted with US season 3's Christine. Played straight during team challenges, where the captains chose her last in all but two of the challenges (and in one of those two, Christine herself was a captain) because they didn't know what else she could help with other than prepping and serving, and judge Joe Bastianich tended to underestimate her in team challenges too, mostly on the one challenge she wasn't picked last. But then it was averted with individual challenges, where nobody thought of her as easy to beat, seen in parts such as Ryan giving her fresh crab instead of canned crab to work with (figuring she would have difficulty handling a live creature that could pinch her) because he thought of her as a big threat, and when three eliminated contestants said she would win the whole competition, [[spoiler:one of those three being the very person she faced and defeated in the finals to claim the title.]]
* ViewersAreGoldfish: Repeats almost exactly what happened in the previous 20 seconds after every commercial break, leading to an episode that counted down the seconds remaining for the Pressure Test twice. The British version does this, at points where commercials would be.
** Several contestants also like to remind viewers about [[{{Cliche}} their occupation, where they come from, or what their single most defining characteristic]] are in ''almost every episode,'' which is one of fans' subjects for contention. Case in point including Season 4's Bri and Season 6's Hetal being a vegetarian, Season 6's Shelly and Claudia being single mothers, Claudia's Mexican roots, Derreck being a drummer, Season 8's Caitlyn being a dancer, and the list goes on...
* WarmupBoss: The preliminaries of the US and Australian versions of ''Junior'' seem to act as this, as the kids are grouped by the food category they do best in.
** By Season 6 of the US ''[=MasterChef=]'', this becomes the process to earn a white apron either in pairs or a group of four battling out on a certain group (be it either a certain dish or main protein).
** This was both played straight and averted with US season 3's Christine. Played straight during team challenges, where the captains chose her last in all but two of the challenges (and in one of those two, Christine herself was a captain) because they didn't know what else she could help with other than prepping and serving, and judge Joe Bastianich tended to underestimate her in team challenges too, mostly on the one challenge she wasn't picked last. But then it was averted with individual challenges, where nobody thought of her as easy to beat, seen in parts such as Ryan giving her fresh crab instead of canned crab to work with (figuring she would have difficulty handling a live creature that could pinch her) because he thought of her as a big threat, and when three eliminated contestants said she would win the whole competition, [[spoiler:one of those three being the very person she faced and defeated in the finals to claim the title.]]
* ViewersAreGoldfish: Repeats almost exactly what happened in the previous 20 seconds after every commercial break, leading to an episode that counted down the seconds remaining for the Pressure Test twice. The British version does this, at points where commercials would be.
** Several contestants also like to remind viewers about [[{{Cliche}} their occupation, where they come from, or what their single most defining characteristic]] are in ''almost every episode,'' which is one of fans' subjects for contention. Case in point including Season 4's Bri and Season 6's Hetal being a vegetarian, Season 6's Shelly and Claudia being single mothers, Claudia's Mexican roots, Derreck being a drummer, Season 8's Caitlyn being a dancer, and the list goes on...
* WarmupBoss: The preliminaries of the US and Australian versions of ''Junior'' seem to act as this, as the kids are grouped by the food category they do best in.
** By Season 6 of the US ''[=MasterChef=]'', this becomes the process to earn a white apron either in pairs or a group of four battling out on a certain group (be it either a certain dish or main protein).
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* WarmupBoss: The preliminaries of the US and Australian versions of ''Junior'' seem to act as this, as the kids are grouped by the food category they do best in.
** By Season 6 of the US ''[=MasterChef=]'', this becomes the process to earn a white apron either in pairs or a group of four battling out on a certain group (be it either a certain dish or main protein).
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** Samantha, from US season 3. Out of any contestant of the first three seasons (and now including the Season 4), she was the one seen the least out of them all. We never saw her audition, we never saw her moving along, and the first time we got to hear her actually talk was during the very first Mystery Box challenge, where she was eliminated. Season 7's Cassie also receives the same treatment.
** ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' featured at least double eliminations in every episode except the finale which meant that some of the children barely got any screen time outside of the first episode.
*** A more unfortunate side of this is that there are kids who made it quite far into the competition but has almost no screen time before they are eliminated. A prominent example of this is Syd from Junior season 5 who, aside from episode 1 which is her audition episode, fades into the background until episode 7, halfway point of the season. None of her dishes made it into the cut and she did not appear in ConfessionCam between those episodes.
** The premiere of Junior Season 2 sends four children home, with contestants Nasir and Berry barely getting to say anything at all before they were eliminated. Season 3 premiere follows suit with eliminating five kids.
** ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' featured at least double eliminations in every episode except the finale which meant that some of the children barely got any screen time outside of the first episode.
*** A more unfortunate side of this is that there are kids who made it quite far into the competition but has almost no screen time before they are eliminated. A prominent example of this is Syd from Junior season 5 who, aside from episode 1 which is her audition episode, fades into the background until episode 7, halfway point of the season. None of her dishes made it into the cut and she did not appear in ConfessionCam between those episodes.
** The premiere of Junior Season 2 sends four children home, with contestants Nasir and Berry barely getting to say anything at all before they were eliminated. Season 3 premiere follows suit with eliminating five kids.
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** Samantha, from US season 3. Out of any contestant of the first three seasons (and now including the Season 4), she was the one seen the least out of them all. We never saw her audition, we never saw her moving along, and the first time we got to hear her actually talk was during the very first Mystery Box challenge, where she was eliminated. Season 7's Cassie also receives the same treatment.
** ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' featured at least double eliminations in every episode except the finale which meant that some of the children barely got any screen time outside of the first episode.
*** A more unfortunate side of this is that there are kids who made it quite far into the competition but has almost no screen time before they are eliminated. A prominent example of this is Syd from Junior season 5 who, aside from episode 1 which is her audition episode, fades into the background until episode 7, halfway point of the season. None of her dishes made it into the cut and she did not appear in ConfessionCam between those episodes.
** The premiere of Junior Season 2 sends four children home, with contestants Nasir and Berry barely getting to say anything at all before they were eliminated. Season 3 premiere follows suit with eliminating five kids.treatment.
** ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' featured at least double eliminations in every episode except the finale which meant that some of the children barely got any screen time outside of the first episode.
*** A more unfortunate side of this is that there are kids who made it quite far into the competition but has almost no screen time before they are eliminated. A prominent example of this is Syd from Junior season 5 who, aside from episode 1 which is her audition episode, fades into the background until episode 7, halfway point of the season. None of her dishes made it into the cut and she did not appear in ConfessionCam between those episodes.
** The premiere of Junior Season 2 sends four children home, with contestants Nasir and Berry barely getting to say anything at all before they were eliminated. Season 3 premiere follows suit with eliminating five kids.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: From Season 2 of US version onwards, the winning contestant of the previous season returns as the guest star for an elimination test. The exception is Season 3 wherein S2 winner Jennifer did not return. ''Eight seasons'' later, she returned for the Season 10 premiere alongside fellow winners Christine and Shawn to support the contestants.
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* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: From Season 2 of US version onwards, the winning contestant of the previous season returns as the guest star for an elimination test. The exception is Season 3 wherein S2 winner Jennifer did not return. ''Eight seasons'' later, she returned for the Season 10 premiere alongside fellow winners Christine and Shawn to support the contestants.
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* WhatTheHellPlayer: The judges did this to Sharone and Whitney in the penultimate episode of the first US season, after the former served up a dish made up of ''[[CordonBleughChef fish livers]]'', while the latter used mostly canned ingredients for her dish, figuring the food critics they were serving to wouldn't know the difference. Gordon openly said that he considered the two to be the best cooks in the competition, and couldn't believe that one of them was now going to be eliminated before the final.
** US season 5, episode 9: Both Cutter and Willie got this, Willie because after he was given a huge basket of Italian food... made tomato soup with a fried egg on top, and Cutter because he made an absolutely ridiculous looking mini pizza, and then attempted to call it an "artisan pizza". Gordon said that Cutter's looked like it had been thrown together in ten minutes, and was a disappointment to both him and the ''[=MasterChef=]'' kitchen, while Joe asked him if he even knew what the ingredients in the basket ''were'' (Cutter said he didn't).
** US season 5, episode 9: Both Cutter and Willie got this, Willie because after he was given a huge basket of Italian food... made tomato soup with a fried egg on top, and Cutter because he made an absolutely ridiculous looking mini pizza, and then attempted to call it an "artisan pizza". Gordon said that Cutter's looked like it had been thrown together in ten minutes, and was a disappointment to both him and the ''[=MasterChef=]'' kitchen, while Joe asked him if he even knew what the ingredients in the basket ''were'' (Cutter said he didn't).
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* WhatTheHellPlayer: The judges did this to Sharone and Whitney in the penultimate episode of the first US season, after season,after the former served up a dish made up of ''[[CordonBleughChef of''[[CordonBleughChef fish livers]]'', while the latter used mostly canned ingredients for her dish, figuring the food critics they were serving to wouldn't know the difference. Gordon openly said that he considered the two to be the best cooks in the competition, and couldn't believe that one of them was now going to be eliminated before the final.
**US season Season 5, episode 9: Both Cutter and Willie got this, Willie because after he was given a huge basket of Italian food... made tomato soup with a fried egg on top, and Cutter because he made an absolutely ridiculous looking mini pizza, and then attempted to call it an "artisan pizza". Gordon said that Cutter's looked like it had been thrown together in ten minutes, and was a disappointment to both him and the ''[=MasterChef=]'' kitchen, while Joe asked him if he even knew what the ingredients in the basket ''were'' (Cutter said he didn't).
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** One chef on the UK edition (''[=MasterChef=]: Professionals'') bringing forward a dish that consisted of quail and chocolate cake. Facepalms all around.
** In the Australian version Season 3, Sun made toffee using the "completely wrong way", at least according to the judges, putting the sugar on foil and using a blow torch[[note]]From a technical standpoint, this isn't toffee at all, it's molten-and-re-crystallized sugar.[[/note]]. But it worked, and she was saved from elimination.
** In one UK season, a contestant made sausage, beans on toast followed by potato dumplings with plum for dessert. This trope ensued, ''hard''.
** Paolo from the fourth Italian season tried to fry his sea bream ''without flour'', and when he borrowed some from his neighboring contestant, judge Barbieri forced him to throw it away, because he was violating the rules. This huge misstep caused him to make the worst dish and be eliminated. Also, for reasons even he or the judges couldn't explain, he took ''a sausage'' from the pantry to put on his plate.
** In the Australian version Season 3, Sun made toffee using the "completely wrong way", at least according to the judges, putting the sugar on foil and using a blow torch[[note]]From a technical standpoint, this isn't toffee at all, it's molten-and-re-crystallized sugar.[[/note]]. But it worked, and she was saved from elimination.
** In one UK season, a contestant made sausage, beans on toast followed by potato dumplings with plum for dessert. This trope ensued, ''hard''.
** Paolo from the fourth Italian season tried to fry his sea bream ''without flour'', and when he borrowed some from his neighboring contestant, judge Barbieri forced him to throw it away, because he was violating the rules. This huge misstep caused him to make the worst dish and be eliminated. Also, for reasons even he or the judges couldn't explain, he took ''a sausage'' from the pantry to put on his plate.
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** Daniel in season 5 of the US version gets some fun poked at him when he's asked to produce 12 donuts and instead makes 16, and explains that he went to art school.
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** Daniel in season 5 of the US version gets some fun poked at him when he's asked to produce 12 donuts and instead makes 16, and explains that he went to art school.
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** During Masterchef Junior season 6 Joe instructs the teams how to run the kitchen for their field challenge catering a wedding. He draws a diagram of the guests' table meant to have eight seats, but Gordon points out he accidentally drew nine.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: In Season 7 Episode 14, the Mystery Box had only a cast iron skillet, a single knife and a wooden spoon, with the added twist that Gordon would be cooking along with the contestants. Gordon gets from a pantry a big turnip [[ExactWords to use it as a]] [[MacGyvering rolling pin]]. He served ''two'' dishes, a savory steak and a sweet tart.
* WrongGenreSavvy: When the winner of a previous contest is given an advantage, they are encouraged, by the judges no less, to attempt to set up stronger opponents for elimination. For the team challenges this typically works well as the advantaged team captain can sabotage the opposing team (which is bound to include some skilled rivals) and force them into a pressure test. However winners of Mystery Box challenges will often sabotage ''all'' of their opponents equally, instead of disadvantaging the more skilled opponents and advantaging the less skilled ones. Equal disadvantage turns out to be no disadvantage at all since only the single worst performer is eliminated.
** Subverted in Brazilian ''[=MasterChef=]'' season 5. The very first winner, Elena, could save five people, she picked people she wanted to form alliances with and left behind the man who got second place in the task, Dalvio. The challenge was to make french omelet, which, as it turned out, he was really bad at, managing to be the first one to leave that season.
** Picking up teams in adult Tag Team challenge is mostly filled with this. While pairing the strongest cooks with those who are not compatible with them as their deadweight may result in the team performing the worst, those sent home are usually the deadweight because they are the cause of the team's horrible performances. Even worse, there are sometimes cases when the leftover teams are the one performing worse than those set up for failure.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: In Season 7 Episode 14, the Mystery Box had only a cast iron skillet, a single knife and a wooden spoon, with the added twist that Gordon would be cooking along with the contestants. Gordon gets from a pantry a big turnip [[ExactWords to use it as a]] [[MacGyvering rolling pin]]. He served ''two'' dishes, a savory steak and a sweet tart.
* WrongGenreSavvy: When the winner of a previous contest is given an advantage, they are encouraged, by the judges no less, to attempt to set up stronger opponents for elimination. For the team challenges this typically works well as the advantaged team captain can sabotage the opposing team (which is bound to include some skilled rivals) and force them into a pressure test. However winners of Mystery Box challenges will often sabotage ''all'' of their opponents equally, instead of disadvantaging the more skilled opponents and advantaging the less skilled ones. Equal disadvantage turns out to be no disadvantage at all since only the single worst performer is eliminated.
** Subverted in Brazilian ''[=MasterChef=]'' season 5. The very first winner, Elena, could save five people, she picked people she wanted to form alliances with and left behind the man who got second place in the task, Dalvio. The challenge was to make french omelet, which, as it turned out, he was really bad at, managing to be the first one to leave that season.
** Picking up teams in adult Tag Team challenge is mostly filled with this. While pairing the strongest cooks with those who are not compatible with them as their deadweight may result in the team performing the worst, those sent home are usually the deadweight because they are the cause of the team's horrible performances. Even worse, there are sometimes cases when the leftover teams are the one performing worse than those set up for failure.
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* WrongGenreSavvy: When the winner of a previous contest is given an advantage, they are encouraged, by the judges no less, to attempt to set up stronger opponents for elimination. For the team challenges this typically works well as the advantaged team captain can sabotage the opposing team (which is bound to include some skilled rivals) and force them into a pressure test. However winners of Mystery Box challenges will often sabotage ''all'' of their opponents equally, instead of disadvantaging the more skilled opponents and advantaging the less skilled ones. Equal disadvantage turns out to be no disadvantage at all since only the single worst performer is eliminated.
** Subverted in Brazilian ''[=MasterChef=]'' season 5. The very first winner, Elena, could save five people, she picked people she wanted to form alliances with and left behind the man who got second place in the task, Dalvio. The challenge was to make french omelet, which, as it turned out, he was really bad at, managing to be the first one to leave that season.
** Picking up teams in adult Tag Team challenge is mostly filled with this. While pairing the strongest cooks with those who are not compatible with them as their deadweight may result in the team performing the worst, those sent home are usually the deadweight because they are the cause of the team's horrible performances. Even worse, there are sometimes cases when the leftover teams are the one performing worse than those set up for failure.
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** ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' judge Alvin colo(u)rs his hair blue.
** In US Season 9, Alecia had white-lavender hair, and Chelsea had hers curly, dyed purple and blue.
** In US Season 9, Alecia had white-lavender hair, and Chelsea had hers curly, dyed purple and blue.
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* {{Determinator}}:
** US Junior season 2's Abby, during a challenge where they had to cook a restaurant-worthy dish, and she can only use two ingredients to do it. She never lets that deter her and she pushes on, managing to have one of the two best dishes of the night.
** US Junior season 7's Reid, after being burned on the hand by hot oil during a team challenge, decides to head back into the kitchen rather than sitting the challenge out after receiving first aid. He not only provides motivation for his teammates, but also manages to perform several smaller tasks one-handed while keeping his injured hand in an ice bath.
* DisappointedInYou: In the American version of ''Junior'', the judges say this when the semifinalists fail to produce a perfectly soft-boiled egg.
* EverybodyLives:
** ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Season 5 plays with this trope with Franchise/TheMuppets' help as guest star. In top 6's steak frites challenge, Miss Piggy also participated as contestant alongside the young cooks. She tricked Gordon into cooking the dish for her, resulting in her disqualification since she didn't present her own dish. In one sense, one contestant did go home, but not one of the original young homecooks.
* {{Flanderization}}: The first season of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' featured a challenge in which bowls of more-or-less whipped cream were inverted over the judges' heads.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_H1-UhPm2A]] This was a legitimate -- if messy -- test of the kids' ability to whip the cream to stiff peaks. But since then, ''every'' season has had the judges getting dumped on, after skill tests only loosely related to the goop being dumped.
* FromTheMouthsOfBabes: Goes without saying.
* GoshDarnItToHeck: Gordon Ramsay, who is often a ClusterFBomb waiting to happen, has to come up with creative alternatives for ''[[SpinoffBabies MasterChef Junior]]''. He does let one slip when the kids are challenged to whip cream into stiff peaks and hold it over the judges' heads[[note]]the idea being that if they did it correctly it would stay in the bowl[[/note]] and he gets covered in half-whipped cream as a result.
* GratuitousSpanish:
** Junior Season 5 has Gonzalo who originally comes from Peru and Aarón Sanchez exchanging some of this during Episode 3's mystery box challenge. In elimination challenge, Aarón calls Gonzalo forward in Spanish.
* InSeriesNickname: Alexander "Big Al" Weiss in the American version.
* InstantCostumeChange: This is what the show implies to happen when the judges in Junior US after a messy team challenge. It's not really apparent until the kids comment how they were able to change so fast in later seasons.
* {{Irony}}:
** In US ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Season 5, Shayne, a meat lover and barbeque enthusiast from Texas, isn't so enthusiastic when the burger challenge turns out to be making a vegan burger. [[spoiler:He ends up making the winning burger]].
* LighterAndSofter: The judges justifiably rein in the criticism a bit for ''Junior''.
MyGreatestSecondChance: Midway through US Season 5 some of the eliminated contestants were brought back to compete for a chance to return to the competition.[[''Juniors'' Season 5 returnee Jasmine won the competition]].
* NiceGuy:
** Almost all the children in the first ''Junior'' season, with special mention going to Dara and Kaylen, who were always the most supportive towards the other contestants.
** The children in the Season 2 of ''Junior'' as well, especially during the first episode where every one of them gathered around to cheer up a girl who had gotten upset from making a mistake.
* NiceHat:
** Addison from ''Junior'' season 4 would have different colored softball caps.
** Ivy from ''Junior'' season 7 is never seen without her fedora.
* OnceASeason: the second episode of every season of [=MasterChef=] Junior opens with a race of some kind, with contestants each representing one of the three judges and the losing judges getting [[CoveredInGunge covered in food]] [[note]] Usually, for giggles and good measure, the winning judge gets it, too. [[/note]].
* ThePollyanna: Eight-year-old Abby, the youngest contestant from the second US season of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'', who is always chipper, happy, supportive and positive. Nowhere is this clearer than in episode 4, where she goes into the elimination challenge being able to pick only two ingredients to make a high-end dish, the least amount out of everyone. Abby remains completely unfazed and remains happy and positive through the entirety of the challenge, and ends up putting forth one of the best dishes anyway.
* SacrificedBasicSkillForAwesomeTraining: An interesting variant pops up in ''[=MasterChef=] Junior''. The young participants, aged eight to thirteen, are capable of genuinely amazing culinary feats from sushi to beef wellington, but a significant number of them struggle with the task of baking and icing a cake -- one of the few tasks one might normally expect someone that age to have some experience with.
* SpringtimeForHitler:
** All of the first three ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' semifinals happened in the same pattern: the winner of the "advantage" (Troy, Adaiah, Jimmy) gave the easiest choice to the weakest competitor (Jack, Abby, Jenna) and took the second best for themselves, hoping to go up against them in the finale. Instead, the biggest threat who got the "hardest" assignment (Alexander, Logan, Nathan) ended up doing the best in the semifinal and actually winning the overall competition against the second hardest assignment (Dara, Samuel, Andrew).
* StockYuck: A Mystery Box challenge for ''Junior''. The judges took food from every category listed on the trope page, put them in boxes, and told the contestants to make something awesome with them.
* TakeThat: The children from the US version of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' will occasionally take a verbal jab at the judges, sometimes out of simple innocence, and sometimes because it's obvious they can get away with it. The producers themselves do it to the judges by having a specific challenge early on where the children pour stuff over the judges, such as season 1 having heavy cream and season 2 having maple syrup.
* TinyTyrannicalGirl: Several of the girls in ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'', but Sarah, at only 9, probably fits best, especially when she yells at Gavin to "Whip it like a man!" during the whipped cream challenge.
* WeHardlyKnewYe: ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' featured at least double eliminations in every episode except the finale which meant that some of the children barely got any screen time outside of the first episode.
*** A more unfortunate side of this is that there are kids who made it quite far into the competition but has almost no screen time before they are eliminated. A prominent example of this is Syd from Junior season 5 who, aside from episode 1 which is her audition episode, fades into the background until episode 7, halfway point of the season. None of her dishes made it into the cut and she did not appear in ConfessionCam between those episodes.
** The premiere of Junior Season 2 sends four children home, with contestants Nasir and Berry barely getting to say anything at all before they were eliminated. Season 3 premiere follows suit with eliminating five kids.
* WeddingEpisode: Junior Season 6's first field challenge features a wedding.
* WritersCannotDoMath: During Masterchef Junior season 6 Joe instructs the teams how to run the kitchen for their field challenge catering a wedding. He draws a diagram of the guests' table meant to have eight seats, but Gordon points out he accidentally drew nine.
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* [[BackFromTheDead Back From Elimination]]: A few times, the show would bring back a few eliminated contestants for another shot in the competition.
* BerserkButton:
** Serving the judges raw food is pretty much a one-way ticket to elimination. Justified considering that the worst case scenario for this happening in the real world is someone getting severely ill and/or dying.* BerserkButton:
** Gordon in some versions will get absolutely ''livid'' if that happens during the team challenges, where the contestants are serving the public. And if Gordon catches you about to serve raw food to, say, the military, or firefighters, or ''[[ChildrenAreInnocent children]]''? God help you.
* CamelCase: The font style for the logo.
* CookingDuel: Happens in the British and Australian versions.
** In the US Season 6 and onwards, the casting has been replaced by Cooking Duels, with the Top 40 against each other in diverse themes, pairing the contestants according to common backgrounds or specialties.
** When a pressure test involves only two people, it becomes this.
** In earlier seasons of US version, the last episode is a showdown between two finalists.
** The aptly named Black Team Duel in first two seasons of Indonesian version works like this. Homecooks with second chance in the competition are brought back to the show as "Black Team". In every two episodes starting from the team's appearance, worst performer that day will have to face one of the Black Team members in a cooking duel. If said Black Team member wins, they will swap place with the worst performer; said member will be in the competition while said worst performer will be in Black Team. However, if said member lose, they will be eliminated instead.
** Season 5's entry competition was entirely composed of a series of duels between participants. The winner got an apron and was in the competition, the loser leaves, simple as that.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: There are different types of aprons. First the White Aprons, those are given to the ones who pass to the Top 40/20. For team challenge aprons, Colors primarily used when contestants are divided into two are red and blue. Yellow and green are the most frequently seen colors used when more than two teams are involved (most versions have three with Australian version having four teams at once competing). And then the Black Aprons, which only the contestants in the Pressure Test wear.
** ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' did one exception during Season 4's first team challenge. In that challenge, they traded blue for white possibly to match Canadian flag colors since contestants were cooking for soon-to-be Canadian citizens.
* ComplexityAddiction: The judges have noted many times that perfecting basic and simple recipes is the safest way to survive a challenge, and since many want to avoid being BoringButPractical, they try to add their own spin to classics to stand out more. Best case scenario, [[CrazyEnoughToWork they succeed]], but mostly will result in EpicFail if executed badly.
* CoolTeacher: Applied for contestants who are teachers in their day jobs, like Season 7 Brandi, a Elementary School teacher, and Season 8 Jason, a High school music teacher.
** Also Rodrigo from the Chilean version.
* CordonBleughChef: ''Generally'' averted for the main contestants on the show (although usually they will unintentionally cook something worthy of this title, which also usually gets them eliminated), but there will always be a handful during auditions for the sake of comedy. Note that making it to the Auditions means that the cooks do have the ability to make normal food, but some choose the weirdest things as their "signature" dishes. The beer-cheese soup comes to mind. Some of them do work out, however, like US Season 4's Johnny B's lobster crackerjacks.
* BerserkButton:
** Serving the judges raw food is pretty much a one-way ticket to elimination. Justified considering that the worst case scenario for this happening in the real world is someone getting severely ill and/or dying.* BerserkButton:
** Gordon in some versions will get absolutely ''livid'' if that happens during the team challenges, where the contestants are serving the public. And if Gordon catches you about to serve raw food to, say, the military, or firefighters, or ''[[ChildrenAreInnocent children]]''? God help you.
* CamelCase: The font style for the logo.
* CookingDuel: Happens in the British and Australian versions.
** In the US Season 6 and onwards, the casting has been replaced by Cooking Duels, with the Top 40 against each other in diverse themes, pairing the contestants according to common backgrounds or specialties.
** When a pressure test involves only two people, it becomes this.
** In earlier seasons of US version, the last episode is a showdown between two finalists.
** The aptly named Black Team Duel in first two seasons of Indonesian version works like this. Homecooks with second chance in the competition are brought back to the show as "Black Team". In every two episodes starting from the team's appearance, worst performer that day will have to face one of the Black Team members in a cooking duel. If said Black Team member wins, they will swap place with the worst performer; said member will be in the competition while said worst performer will be in Black Team. However, if said member lose, they will be eliminated instead.
** Season 5's entry competition was entirely composed of a series of duels between participants. The winner got an apron and was in the competition, the loser leaves, simple as that.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: There are different types of aprons. First the White Aprons, those are given to the ones who pass to the Top 40/20. For team challenge aprons, Colors primarily used when contestants are divided into two are red and blue. Yellow and green are the most frequently seen colors used when more than two teams are involved (most versions have three with Australian version having four teams at once competing). And then the Black Aprons, which only the contestants in the Pressure Test wear.
** ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' did one exception during Season 4's first team challenge. In that challenge, they traded blue for white possibly to match Canadian flag colors since contestants were cooking for soon-to-be Canadian citizens.
* ComplexityAddiction: The judges have noted many times that perfecting basic and simple recipes is the safest way to survive a challenge, and since many want to avoid being BoringButPractical, they try to add their own spin to classics to stand out more. Best case scenario, [[CrazyEnoughToWork they succeed]], but mostly will result in EpicFail if executed badly.
* CoolTeacher: Applied for contestants who are teachers in their day jobs, like Season 7 Brandi, a Elementary School teacher, and Season 8 Jason, a High school music teacher.
** Also Rodrigo from the Chilean version.
* CordonBleughChef: ''Generally'' averted for the main contestants on the show (although usually they will unintentionally cook something worthy of this title, which also usually gets them eliminated), but there will always be a handful during auditions for the sake of comedy. Note that making it to the Auditions means that the cooks do have the ability to make normal food, but some choose the weirdest things as their "signature" dishes. The beer-cheese soup comes to mind. Some of them do work out, however, like US Season 4's Johnny B's lobster crackerjacks.
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** Brazilian ''[=MasterChef=]'' season 3 had Gleice a sweet 20 year old student with a DarkAndTroubledPast. She was loved by the audience, judges and contestants alike, even though she never really stood out during the competition. Her elimination was one of the most emotional moments of the show's run, bringing even the judges to tears. [[spoiler: When she came back, the other participants were chanting her name.]]
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Some of the ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' contestants can be this.
** Sarah Lane, the most grounded and tough-minded of the youngest season 1 contestants.
** 8-year-old Abby and 9-year-old Oona from Season 2 most definitely count as well.
** Riley, the youngest contestant so far (8). Once, he said Gordon was his favorite cook, and Gordon said right back that Riley was his favorite.
** Sarah Lane, the most grounded and tough-minded of the youngest season 1 contestants.
** 8-year-old Abby and 9-year-old Oona from Season 2 most definitely count as well.
** Riley, the youngest contestant so far (8). Once, he said Gordon was his favorite cook, and Gordon said right back that Riley was his favorite.
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* ArousedByTheirVoice: Everyone with a pulse after hearing the youngest judge of the Spanish version, Jordi Cruz, talking for the first time. His amazing baritone voice only helps to enhance his other appealing physical attributes, so much that nowadays he is the not-so-unofficial MrFanservice of the programme -- ShirtlessScene included.
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* AwesomenessByAnalysis: In the first episode of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'', ten-year-old Gavin explained to the judges how he learned how to make tortellini from scratch -- he had it at a cafe and decided he could make it just as well at home. So he did.
* BackForTheFinale: Wolfgang Puck appears as a judge in the third episode (the first day of top 20 contestants in the kitchen). He then reappears as judge alongside Daniel Boulud in the season finale.
* [[BackFromTheDead Back From Elimination]]: A few times, the show would bring back a few eliminated contestants for another shot in the competition. Of the following people to return were:
* BackForTheFinale: Wolfgang Puck appears as a judge in the third episode (the first day of top 20 contestants in the kitchen). He then reappears as judge alongside Daniel Boulud in the season finale.
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** U.S. Junior Season 5 had Jasmine (originally eliminated in the top 12) and Gonzalo (originally eliminated in the top 16)
** Canada Season 2 had Cody (originally eliminated in the top 10)
** Canada Season 4 had Alice (originally eliminated in the top 12)
** Canada Season 5 had Kaegan (originally eliminated in the top 11)
** In Brazil, this is a RecurringElement:
*** Season 1 had Sandra (originally eliminated in the top 13)
*** Season 2 had Izabel (originally eliminated in the top 13)
*** Season 3 had Gleice (originally eliminated in the top 14) and Fernando (originally eliminated in the top 20)
*** Season 4 had Nayane (originally eliminated in the top 13) and Vitor B. (originally eliminated in the top 14)
** Canada Season 2 had Cody (originally eliminated in the top 10)
** Canada Season 4 had Alice (originally eliminated in the top 12)
** Canada Season 5 had Kaegan (originally eliminated in the top 11)
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*** Season 1 had Sandra (originally eliminated in the top 13)
*** Season 2 had Izabel (originally eliminated in the top 13)
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** The judges in the Spain version are this in general. They are amicable, supportive, and can be prone to kid around and have a good time. That being said, they tend to be very strict about things and won't accept any bad behavior from contestants (as season 2's Gonzalo found out when judge Jordi ripped him a new one). They will also never hesitate to punish contestants who perform exceptionally poorly in team challenges and send them into elimination even if their team won (and by contrast, save a contestant from the losing team who performed admirably).
*** Not even the children in the ''Junior'' version are exempt from this, as season 2's Victor, age 12, found out after a team challenge, when during cleaning the work tables, he commented that "girls clean better than boys because it's in their genes". Immediately the judges punish him by making him clean the whole kitchen all by himself. As he's carrying out his punishment, he says he didn't mean any harm, that it was just his opinion that girls clean better than boys, and this repeat offense caused the judges to take off a point from his overall amount (the Junior version works in that the contestants receive points by how well they perform in challenges and the ones with the least points are eliminated after a set number of challenges).
*** Not even the children in the ''Junior'' version are exempt from this, as season 2's Victor, age 12, found out after a team challenge, when during cleaning the work tables, he commented that "girls clean better than boys because it's in their genes". Immediately the judges punish him by making him clean the whole kitchen all by himself. As he's carrying out his punishment, he says he didn't mean any harm, that it was just his opinion that girls clean better than boys, and this repeat offense caused the judges to take off a point from his overall amount (the Junior version works in that the contestants receive points by how well they perform in challenges and the ones with the least points are eliminated after a set number of challenges).
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* BerserkButton:
** Serving the judges raw food is pretty much a one-way ticket to elimination. Justified considering that the worst case scenario for this happening in the real world is someone getting severely ill and/or dying.
** And Gordon will get absolutely ''livid'' if that happens during the team challenges, where the contestants are serving the public. And if Gordon catches you about to serve raw food to, say, the military, or firefighters, or ''[[ChildrenAreInnocent children]]''? God help you.
** We have seen in the US version that contestants who are safe from pressure tests will try to help others in them by offering suggestions, reminding them when they have something cooking for certain periods of time or if they forgot an ingredient, but the judges in ''[=MasterChef=] Argentina'' really, really don't like it when safe contestants try to help out those participating in pressure tests.
** Serving the judges raw food is pretty much a one-way ticket to elimination. Justified considering that the worst case scenario for this happening in the real world is someone getting severely ill and/or dying.
** And Gordon will get absolutely ''livid'' if that happens during the team challenges, where the contestants are serving the public. And if Gordon catches you about to serve raw food to, say, the military, or firefighters, or ''[[ChildrenAreInnocent children]]''? God help you.
** We have seen in the US version that contestants who are safe from pressure tests will try to help others in them by offering suggestions, reminding them when they have something cooking for certain periods of time or if they forgot an ingredient, but the judges in ''[=MasterChef=] Argentina'' really, really don't like it when safe contestants try to help out those participating in pressure tests.
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* BigWhat: Shayne from ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Season 5, a meat lover, delivered this followed by BigNo after knowing he had to cook a vegan burger for Creator/MayimBialik.
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* {{Camp}}: Dino, from Season 8: He's a quirky, theatrical, wise-cracking {{Keet}} who enjoys playfully bantering with the other contestants and the judges, and makes equally quirky dishes that don't sound good based on their individual parts, but, when prepared, end up being phenomenal enough[[spoiler: to win him the entire season]].
* {{Camp}}: Dino, from Season 8: He's a quirky, theatrical, wise-cracking {{Keet}} who enjoys playfully bantering with the other contestants and the judges, and makes equally quirky dishes that don't sound good based on their individual parts, but, when prepared, end up being phenomenal enough[[spoiler: to win him the entire season]].
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** In the UK: "Cooking doesn't get tougher than this!", "Whoever wins this, it's gonna [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Change. Their. Lives!]]" and "They're/You're fighting for their/your ''Master Chef'' lives!". All since dropped, but MemeticMutation had already done its work.
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** In Canada 2, David was able to ice his cake with precision and cleanly since as a concrete worker, he can pave concrete in a smooth way.
* CookingDuel: Happens in the British and Australian versions.
** In the US Season 6 and onwards, the casting has been replaced by Cooking Duels, with the Top 40 against each other in diverse themes, pairing the contestants according to common backgrounds or specialties.
** When a pressure test involves only two people, it becomes this.
** In earlier seasons of US version, the last episode is a showdown between two finalists.
** The aptly named Black Team Duel in first two seasons of Indonesian version works like this. Homecooks with second chance in the competition are brought back to the show as "Black Team". In every two episodes starting from the team's appearance, worst performer that day will have to face one of the Black Team members in a cooking duel. If said Black Team member wins, they will swap place with the worst performer; said member will be in the competition while said worst performer will be in Black Team. However, if said member lose, they will be eliminated instead.
** Season 5's entry competition was entirely composed of a series of duels between participants. The winner got an apron and was in the competition, the loser leaves, simple as that.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: There are different types of aprons. First the White Aprons, those are given to the ones who pass to the Top 40/20. For team challenge aprons, Colors primarily used when contestants are divided into two are red and blue. Yellow and green are the most frequently seen colors used when more than two teams are involved (most versions have three with Australian version having four teams at once competing). And then the Black Aprons, which only the contestants in the Pressure Test wear.
** ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' did one exception during Season 4's first team challenge. In that challenge, they traded blue for white possibly to match Canadian flag colors since contestants were cooking for soon-to-be Canadian citizens.
* ComplexityAddiction: The judges have noted many times that perfecting basic and simple recipes is the safest way to survive a challenge, and since many want to avoid being BoringButPractical, they try to add their own spin to classics to stand out more. Best case scenario, [[CrazyEnoughToWork they succeed]], but mostly will result in EpicFail if executed badly.
* CoolTeacher: Applied for contestants who are teachers in their day jobs, like Season 7 Brandi, a Elementary School teacher, and Season 8 Jason, a High school music teacher.
%% Rodrigo from the Chilean version.
* CoolOldLady: Sister Flor, from the Mexican version, a nun and TeamMom who was loved by everybody in the season.
* CookingDuel: Happens in the British and Australian versions.
** In the US Season 6 and onwards, the casting has been replaced by Cooking Duels, with the Top 40 against each other in diverse themes, pairing the contestants according to common backgrounds or specialties.
** When a pressure test involves only two people, it becomes this.
** In earlier seasons of US version, the last episode is a showdown between two finalists.
** The aptly named Black Team Duel in first two seasons of Indonesian version works like this. Homecooks with second chance in the competition are brought back to the show as "Black Team". In every two episodes starting from the team's appearance, worst performer that day will have to face one of the Black Team members in a cooking duel. If said Black Team member wins, they will swap place with the worst performer; said member will be in the competition while said worst performer will be in Black Team. However, if said member lose, they will be eliminated instead.
** Season 5's entry competition was entirely composed of a series of duels between participants. The winner got an apron and was in the competition, the loser leaves, simple as that.
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: There are different types of aprons. First the White Aprons, those are given to the ones who pass to the Top 40/20. For team challenge aprons, Colors primarily used when contestants are divided into two are red and blue. Yellow and green are the most frequently seen colors used when more than two teams are involved (most versions have three with Australian version having four teams at once competing). And then the Black Aprons, which only the contestants in the Pressure Test wear.
** ''[=MasterChef=] Canada'' did one exception during Season 4's first team challenge. In that challenge, they traded blue for white possibly to match Canadian flag colors since contestants were cooking for soon-to-be Canadian citizens.
* ComplexityAddiction: The judges have noted many times that perfecting basic and simple recipes is the safest way to survive a challenge, and since many want to avoid being BoringButPractical, they try to add their own spin to classics to stand out more. Best case scenario, [[CrazyEnoughToWork they succeed]], but mostly will result in EpicFail if executed badly.
* CoolTeacher: Applied for contestants who are teachers in their day jobs, like Season 7 Brandi, a Elementary School teacher, and Season 8 Jason, a High school music teacher.
%% Rodrigo from the Chilean version.
* CoolOldLady: Sister Flor, from the Mexican version, a nun and TeamMom who was loved by everybody in the season.
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** Brazilian ''[=MasterChef=]'' season 3 had Gleice a sweet 20 year old student with a DarkAndTroubledPast. She was loved by the
* ArousedByTheirVoice: Everyone with a pulse after hearing the youngest judge of the Spanish version, Jordi Cruz, talking for the first time. His amazing baritone voice only helps to enhance his other appealing physical attributes, so much that nowadays he is the not-so-unofficial MrFanservice of the programme -- ShirtlessScene included.
* [[BackFromTheDead Back From Elimination]]:
* Canada Season 2 had Cody (originally eliminated in the top 10)
** Canada Season 4 had Alice (originally eliminated in the top 12)
** Canada Season 5 had Kaegan (originally eliminated in the top 11)
** In Brazil, this is a RecurringElement:
*** Season 1 had Sandra (originally eliminated in the top 13)
*** Season 2 had Izabel (originally eliminated in the top 13)
*** Season 3 had Gleice (originally eliminated in the top 14) and Fernando (originally eliminated in the top 20)
*** Season 4 had Nayane (originally eliminated in the top 13) and Vitor B. (originally eliminated in the top 14)
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** The judges in the Spain version are this in general. They are amicable, supportive, and can be prone to kid around and have a good time. That being said, they tend to be very strict about things and won't accept any bad behavior from contestants (as season 2's Gonzalo found out when judge Jordi ripped him a new one). They will
* BerserkButton:
** We have seen in the US version that contestants who are safe from pressure tests will try to help others in them by offering suggestions, reminding them when they have something
* BrutalHonesty: None of the judges in the Brazilian version are fond of pulling punches, they have always a stern outlook, give praise only when earned and will chew out any mistakes. Horrible tasting dishes are met with a combination of disdain and snarky commentary.
* CatchPhrase:
** In the UK: "Cooking doesn't get tougher than this!", "Whoever wins this, it's gonna [[PunctuatedForEmphasis Change. Their. Lives!]]" and "They're/You're fighting for their/your ''Master Chef'' lives!". All since dropped, but MemeticMutation had already done its work.
** In the Canadian version, expect "Taste is king" to pop up often.
* ChekhovsSkill: In Canada 2, David was able to ice his cake with precision and cleanly since as a concrete worker, he can pave concrete in a smooth way.
* CoolOldLady: Sister Flor, from the Mexican version, a nun and TeamMom who was loved by everybody in the season.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Some of the ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' contestants can be this.
** Sarah Lane, the most grounded and tough-minded of the youngest season 1 contestants.
** 8-year-old Abby and 9-year-old Oona from Season 2 most definitely count as well.
** Riley, the youngest contestant so far (8). Once, he said Gordon was his favorite cook, and Gordon said right back that Riley was his favorite.
* AwesomenessByAnalysis: In the first episode of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'', ten-year-old Gavin explained to the judges how he learned how to make tortellini from scratch -- he had it at a
* [[BackFromTheDead Back From Elimination]]:U.S. Junior Season 5 had Jasmine (originally eliminated in the top 12) and Gonzalo (originally eliminated in the top 16)
* BewareTheNiceOnes:
** Not even the children in the ''Junior'' version are exempt from this, as season 2's Victor, age 12, found out after a team challenge, when during
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** Also Seasons 10 and 11 of the US version are this as contestants arr more supportive of each other than before and lesser drama than past seasons.
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** Season 11 (Legends): Mary Jayne withdrew from the competition after experiencing medical issues offscreen.
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** Midway in US Seasons 3 and 4 and ''Juniors'' Season 5 some of the eliminated contestants were brought back to compete for a chance to return to the competition. [[spoiler:Season 3's returnee Joshua would make it to the finale and ''Juniors'' Season 5 returnee Jasmine won the competition]].
** Addison from ''Junior'' season 4 would have different colored softball caps.
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* MotorMouth: Spain season 3 has contestants Antonio and Andrea, who if left unchecked, can go on long rambles of non-stop talking, especially Andrea.
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** Spain season 3 has contestants Antonio and Andrea, who if left unchecked, can go on long rambles of non-stop talking, especiallyAndrea.Andrea.
** Canada season 2 has Jennifer, who admits during her audition that she talks a lot when she's nervous, often going on and on to the point of annoying some of the other competitors. However, during the poutine Team Challenge, the Green team turned this to their advantage by sending her out to advertise their poutine to the crowd, which helped them win by a narrow margin.
** Spain season 3 has contestants Antonio and Andrea, who if left unchecked, can go on long rambles of non-stop talking, especially
** Canada season 2 has Jennifer, who admits during her audition that she talks a lot when she's nervous, often going on and on to the point of annoying some of the other competitors. However, during the poutine Team Challenge, the Green team turned this to their advantage by sending her out to advertise their poutine to the crowd, which helped them win by a narrow margin.
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** Andrew's poached egg from Season 2, which broke its yolk and kept him from being brought back
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* MyGreatestFailure: The first Mystery Box of Canada Season 7 (which features contestants from previous seasons; see MyGreatestSecondChance below) tasked the contestants with recreating the worst dishes that they cooked during their season, many of which sent them home:
** Andre's uni dish from Season 6, which was too light on the star ingredient though it didn't send him home
** Andrew's poached egg from Season 2, which broke its yolk and kept him from being brought back
** Andy's lobster dish from Season 5's budget vs. luxury Pressure Test, which was overly salty
** April Lee's Piña Colada dessert from Season 3, which melted and led to her elimination
** Barrie's Wagyu beef dish from the Season 3 semifinals, which was undercooked and sent him home despite his advantage in that challenge
** Christopher's ground pork dish from Season 2
** Dora's beef cheek stew from Season 1, which was under-seasoned and visually unappealing
** Jen's Salisbury steak dish from Season 5
** Jeremy's monkfish dish from Season 3
** Mai's poached salmon dish from a Season 4 Mystery Box
** Marissa's Asian street food platter (which she had made with Nadia) from Season 5, the failure of which the judges blamed on her lack of communication during the Pressure Test
** Thea's pork belly and pork cheek tamale from the Season 4 finale
** Andre's uni dish from Season 6, which was too light on the star ingredient though it didn't send him home
** Andrew's poached egg from Season 2, which broke its yolk and kept him from being brought back
** Andy's lobster dish from Season 5's budget vs. luxury Pressure Test, which was overly salty
** April Lee's Piña Colada dessert from Season 3, which melted and led to her elimination
** Barrie's Wagyu beef dish from the Season 3 semifinals, which was undercooked and sent him home despite his advantage in that challenge
** Christopher's ground pork dish from Season 2
** Dora's beef cheek stew from Season 1, which was under-seasoned and visually unappealing
** Jen's Salisbury steak dish from Season 5
** Jeremy's monkfish dish from Season 3
** Mai's poached salmon dish from a Season 4 Mystery Box
** Marissa's Asian street food platter (which she had made with Nadia) from Season 5, the failure of which the judges blamed on her lack of communication during the Pressure Test
** Thea's pork belly and pork cheek tamale from the Season 4 finale
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** Season 10's Nick became the most prominent contestant from his season, with a Youtube channel of 2 million subscribers, and became even more known than the actual winner of the season.
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* AscendedExtra: Aarón Sanchez, who was a guest judge for U.S. Season 7, fills in as a permanent judge for Season 8 and will replace Christina in Season 9.
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* AscendedExtra: Aarón Sanchez, who was a guest judge for U.S. Season 7, fills in as a permanent judge for Season 8 and will replace replaced Christina in from Season 9.9 onwards.
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** Once again in season 3, after Christine landed in the bottom 3 after overcooking her salmon, Gordon tells her how much of an inspiration she had been, before going on to say "Your time in MasterChef... is not over".
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** Averted in the case of Gregg Wallace, who's been co-presenting the British version with John Torode since 2005. Gregg has ''always'' been a bald Cockney who ''really'' liked pudding.
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** Averted in the case of Gregg Wallace, who's been co-presenting the British version with John Torode since 2005. Gregg has ''always'' been a bald Cockney who really, ''really'' liked likes pudding.
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** Averted in the case of Gregg Wallace, who's been co-presenting the British show with John Torode since 2005. Gregg has ''always'' been a bald Cockney who ''really'' liked pudding.
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** Averted in the case of Gregg Wallace, who's been co-presenting the British show version with John Torode since 2005. Gregg has ''always'' been a bald Cockney who ''really'' liked pudding.
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** In the second US season, Christian won the first Mystery Box challenge and got to set the theme for the next challenge, which was based around one of three European cuisines. Joe Bastianich revealed the first choice of Spanish cuisine, Graham Elliot revealed the second choice of French cuisine, and then Gordon Ramsay revealed the third and final choice of... British cuisine. Despite his attempts to talk it up, Christian and the other two judges couldn't stop laughing. A little later, after discovering that he didn't actually have to take part in the challenge himself, Christian said that he wished he had chosen British cuisine, just to witness the epic clusterfuck that would have resulted among the other contestants.
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** In the second US season, Christian won the first Mystery Box challenge and got to set the theme for the next challenge, which was based around one of three European cuisines. Joe Bastianich revealed the first choice of Spanish cuisine, Graham Elliot revealed the second choice of French cuisine, and then Gordon Ramsay revealed the third and final choice of...of ... British cuisine. Despite his attempts to talk it up, Christian and the other two judges couldn't stop laughing. A little later, after discovering that he didn't actually have to take part in the challenge himself, Christian said that he wished he had chosen British cuisine, just to witness the epic clusterfuck that would have resulted among the other contestants.
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** Averted in the case of Gregg Wallace, who's been co-presenting the British show with John Torode since 2005. Gregg has ''always'' been a bald Cockney who ''really'' liked pudding.
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* IsntItIronic: In the 2021 UK series, the "triumphant" music for the announcement of the winner was "Against All Odds (Take A Look At Me Now)" by Music/PhilCollins. A histrionic song of desperation over lost love. It's not as if the producers didn't realise how inappropriate it was, since someone had actually gone to the trouble of editing together the vocal and instrumental versions to eliminate all the lyrics except for the two phrases in the title.
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** And Gordon will get absolutely ''livid'' if that happens during the team challenges, where the contestants are serving the public. And if Gordon catches you about to serve raw food to, say, the military, or firefighters, ''[[ChildrenAreInnocent children]]''? God help you.
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** And Gordon will get absolutely ''livid'' if that happens during the team challenges, where the contestants are serving the public. And if Gordon catches you about to serve raw food to, say, the military, or firefighters, or ''[[ChildrenAreInnocent children]]''? God help you.
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** Again in US Season 4, but this time the ostracized party was Bime, for no clear reason. Except from Luca, but [[NiceGuy he likes everybody]].
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** Again in US Season 4, but this time the ostracized party was Bime, for no clear reason. Except from for Luca, but [[NiceGuy he likes everybody]].
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** Season 7 of the Canadian is subtitled as ''Back to Win'', featuring 12 former contestants from the first six seasons coming back for another chance at winning the title.
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** For the seventh season of the Canadian version, April Lee was forced to withdraw due to a back injury off screen. Barrie, the person who was eliminated prior to this incident, was brought back as the team challenge needed equal numbers.
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* MeanCharacterNiceActor:
** Joe Bastianich is bad with people for [[ShrinkingViolet an entirely different reason]] in real life.
** Ben Starr's blog, when he was writing an exposé on ''[=MasterChef=]'', says he's been in contact with the contestants from other seasons and he specifically points out that a lot of Krissi's {{Jerkass}} behavior in Season 4 was exaggerated for the show.
** Joe Bastianich is bad with people for [[ShrinkingViolet an entirely different reason]] in real life.
** Ben Starr's blog, when he was writing an exposé on ''[=MasterChef=]'', says he's been in contact with the contestants from other seasons and he specifically points out that a lot of Krissi's {{Jerkass}} behavior in Season 4 was exaggerated for the show.
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** Eric in Canada Season 1. He was seen as one of the weaker and unsure chefs in the kitchen and was also criticized for his ComplexityAddiction. However, he was able to gain his confidence and surpass his rivals, Kaila and Mike. [[spoiler: And just like Luca and Gerron, he ended up winning]].
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* DavidVersusGoliath: Season 9 contestant Shanika refers to the story after being picked to go head-to-head in episode 14 in a black forest cake challenge by her opponent Emily, who is a strong cook ''and'' specializes in baking, and being allergic to the main ingredient (chocolate)[[note]]though no one knew about this[[/note]] so she also couldn't taste her dish...and ''winning''.
-->'''Shanika''': David has beat Goliath.
-->'''Shanika''': David has beat Goliath.
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** Season 9 Aarón's conversed with Alecia and Cesar, the latter Mexican-American.
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*** Shaun, a DJ from Las Vegas, was also always very down to earth, never picked on inferior competitors when he won challenges, citing that he explicitly wanted the best out of his competitors so he himself could improve by cooking against them, [[spoiler: which ends up working out as he ran with the championship]].
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*** Shaun, a DJ from Las Vegas, while not above competitive trash talking, was also always very down to earth, never picked on inferior competitors during said trash talking nor when he won challenges, citing that he explicitly wanted the best out of his competitors so he himself could improve by cooking against them, [[spoiler: which ends up working out as he ran with the championship]].
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** By Season 8, Graham and Joe are not in the panel and Christina Tossi and Aarón Sanchez took their places. Aarón is "The Nice" (his comments are mostly constructive and serious without any sign of annoyance), Gordon is "The Mean" (he is the most blunt of the three), and Christina is "In Between" (she can be both sweet and stern when she needs to be). In fact, Gordon takes on "The Mean" role up to the level that in the season 8 finale, Joe, who came back as a guest judge, is now more of the "In Between"!
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** By Season 8, Graham and Joe are not in the panel and Christina Tossi Tosi and Aarón Sanchez took their places. Aarón is "The Nice" (his comments are mostly constructive and serious without any sign of annoyance), Gordon is "The Mean" (he is the most blunt of the three), and Christina is "In Between" (she can be both sweet and stern when she needs to be). In fact, Gordon takes on "The Mean" role up to the level that in the season 8 finale, Joe, who came back as a guest judge, is now more of the "In Between"!
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** Season 10 has Season 9's winner [[spoiler:Gerron's]] wedding right in the [=MasterChef=] kitchen.
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** Season 10 has Season 9's winner [[spoiler:Gerron's]] [[spoiler:Gerron Hurt's]] wedding right in the [=MasterChef=] kitchen.
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** During Masterchef Junior season 6 Joe instructs the teams how to run the kitchen for their field challenge catering a wedding. He draws a diagram of the guests' table marking eight seats, but accidentally draws nine seats, which Gordon has to point out.
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** During Masterchef Junior season 6 Joe instructs the teams how to run the kitchen for their field challenge catering a wedding. He draws a diagram of the guests' table marking meant to have eight seats, but Gordon points out he accidentally draws nine seats, which Gordon has to point out.drew nine.
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** Season 3's Frank, who did not save himself the first time he was a losing captain of a pressure test but did the second time, despite admitting beforehand the second time that Josh deserved the immunity. Unlike other examples, Frank was clearly unhappy with his choice and knew it was a bad move.
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** Season 3's Frank, who did not save himself the first time he was a losing captain of a pressure test but did the second time, despite admitting beforehand the second time that Josh deserved the immunity. Unlike other examples, Frank was clearly unhappy with his choice and knew it was a bad move.choice.
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** In US ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Season 5, Shayne, a meat lover and barbeque enthusiast from Texas, isn't so enthusiastic of the challenge to make a vegan burger. [[spoiler:He ends up making the winning burger]].
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** In US ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' Season 5, Shayne, a meat lover and barbeque enthusiast from Texas, isn't so enthusiastic of when the burger challenge turns out to make be making a vegan burger. [[spoiler:He ends up making the winning burger]].
** Season 10 Micah often had his backwards baseball cap. Jamie had one too, though he wore his forwards.
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** Season 10 has Season 9's winner [[spoiler:Gerron]] wedding right in the [=MasterChef=] kitchen.
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** Played withDuring Masterchef Junior season 6 Joe instructs the teams how to run the kitchen for their field challenge catering a wedding. He draws a diagram of the guests' table marking eight seats, but accidentally draws nine seats, which Gordon has to point out.
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** Christine, again, in the offal challenge. Knowing how offal ''looks'', being blind is certainly an advantage.
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** Christine, again, in the offal challenge. Knowing how offal ''looks'', being blind is certainly an advantage.advantage, which she lampshades when she hears the other contestants' disgusted reactions.
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** Season 10 had an example of Dorian. Despite her sympathetic background in the beginning, her attitude in episode 9's tag team challenge is irritating at best and downright abusive at worst. She immediately said she was sabotaged when Nick paired her up with Subha who had a reputation of moving slowly despite being a good cook and [[{{Hypocrite}} spent her time at the sideline yelling at Subha to follow her direction and to not shut down while being angry at Subha for asking her questions when it was her turn to cook and not communicating with him at all]].
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** Season 10 had an example of Dorian. Despite her sympathetic background in the beginning, and normally a nice contestant, her attitude in episode 9's tag team challenge is was irritating at best and downright abusive at worst. She immediately said she was sabotaged when Nick paired her up with Subha who had a reputation of moving slowly in non-individual challenges despite being a good cook and [[{{Hypocrite}} spent her time at the sideline yelling at Subha to follow her direction and to not shut down while being angry at Subha for asking her questions when it was her turn to cook and not communicating with him at all]].
** US Season 10 has Subha who, while a talented cook who often does well in individual challenges, is consistently shown to be useless at best and an impediment at worst in team challenges. So much that for the challenges that had the winning team choose one of their own members to cook in the Pressure Test, he was chosen more than once because of that.
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** Happened again in Season 3. Ryan won a mystery box challenge, and got to choose which chefs cooked with fresh crab, and which ones cooked with canned. He chose Christine to cook with fresh crab, believing her to be a threat, and therefore giving her something she was unfamiliar with, and gave Monti canned crab, because he wanted her to get eliminated due to a personal dislike of her. On the other hand, he gave Tali, his best friend in the house, fresh crab, believing he would knock it out of the park. Monti was complimented for her crazy idea (Scotch egg with canned crab) actually working, and Christine not only survived, but made the best dish out of all of the chefs. Tali? Bottom two for the second elimination test (out of two), and barely surviving thanks to his incredibly poor use of the crab.
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** Happened again in Season 3. Ryan won a mystery box challenge, and got to choose which chefs cooked with fresh crab, and which ones cooked with canned. He chose Christine (who's blind) to cook with fresh crab, believing her to be a threat, and therefore giving her something that could literally hinder her and which she was unfamiliar with, and gave Monti canned crab, because he wanted her to get eliminated due to a personal dislike of her. On the other hand, he gave Tali, his best friend in the house, fresh crab, believing he would knock it out of the park. Monti was complimented for her crazy idea (Scotch egg with canned crab) actually working, and Christine not only survived, but made the best dish out of all of the chefs. Tali? Bottom two for the second elimination test (out of two), and barely surviving thanks to his incredibly poor use of the crab.
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* TakeThat: The children from the US version of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' will occasionally take a verbal jab at the judges, sometimes out of simple innocence, and sometimes because it's obvious they can get away with it. The producers themselves do it to the judges by having a specific challenge early on where the children pour stuff over the judges, with season 1 having heavy cream and season 2 having maple syrup.
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* TakeThat: The children from the US version of ''[=MasterChef=] Junior'' will occasionally take a verbal jab at the judges, sometimes out of simple innocence, and sometimes because it's obvious they can get away with it. The producers themselves do it to the judges by having a specific challenge early on where the children pour stuff over the judges, with such as season 1 having heavy cream and season 2 having maple syrup.
** Season 9 had another Mark, who also dismissed the judges' advice on a team challenge because that's not how his restaurateur parents did it, which sent his team to the Pressure Test where he got eliminated.
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** Several contestants also like to remind viewers about [[{{Cliche}} their occupation, where they come from, or what their single most defining characteristic]] are in ''almost every episode,'' which is one of fans' subjects for contention. Case in point including Bri and Hetal being a vegetarian, Shelly and Claudia being single mothers, Claudia's Mexican roots, Derreck being a drummer, Caitlyn being a dancer, and the list goes on...
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** Several contestants also like to remind viewers about [[{{Cliche}} their occupation, where they come from, or what their single most defining characteristic]] are in ''almost every episode,'' which is one of fans' subjects for contention. Case in point including Season 4's Bri and Season 6's Hetal being a vegetarian, Season 6's Shelly and Claudia being single mothers, Claudia's Mexican roots, Derreck being a drummer, Season 8's Caitlyn being a dancer, and the list goes on...
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** The premiere of Season 2 sends four children home, with contestants Nasir and Berry barely getting to say anything at all before they were eliminated. Season 3 premiere follows suit with eliminating five kids.
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*** Gordon delivers this hard to Willie, Daniel and Francis L. in episode 11's caramelle elimination challenge because they made poor effort to stand out; Francis L. colored his pasta dough red to make it look like a candy while giving a puree that doesn't go well together with the rest of the element in his dish, Daniel gave red wine to his caramelle dough while making a sauce with confusing balance of taste, and Willie made a dessert out of the pasta. In Willie's case (thw whole anger was expressed when Gordon tasted Willie's dish), Gorden was so unimpressed because he said the former's dish sounded disgusting, looked liked a regurgitated dog vomit, and was just unappetizing.
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*** Gordon delivers this hard to Willie, Daniel and Francis L. in episode 11's caramelle elimination challenge because they made poor effort to stand out; Francis L. colored his pasta dough red to make it look like a candy while giving a puree that doesn't go well together with the rest of the element in his dish, Daniel gave red wine to his caramelle dough while making a sauce with confusing balance of taste, and Willie made a dessert out of the pasta. In Willie's case (thw (the whole anger was expressed when Gordon tasted Willie's dish), Gorden was so unimpressed because he said the former's dish sounded disgusting, looked liked a regurgitated dog vomit, and was just unappetizing.
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adorkable cleanup, now it's YMMV. removing misuse and ZCE, and moving appropriate examples to YMMV
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** Luca in Season 4 was portrayed this way. He almost never had anything bad to say about other contestants, and he would willingly share his ingredients with his competition if they were short and he had enough to spare. Plus, Grade A {{Adorkable}}.
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** Luca in Season 4 was portrayed this way. He almost never had anything bad to say about other contestants, and he would willingly share his ingredients with his competition if they were short and he had enough to spare. Plus, Grade A {{Adorkable}}.
