Line #53 Fanfic/TotalDramaSomeStars


1	''[[http://archiveofourown.org/works/2282622/chapters/5017161 Total Drama: Some Stars]]'' is a ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' fanfiction by Bored_Commentator and Dollarino, set shortly after the events of ''Pahkitew Island'', on said island. [[SpotlightStealingSquad Characters with a tendency to overshadow the rest]] and characters subject to all forms of WeHardlyKnewYe, OutOfFocus, etc ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Izzy]]), from the pre-''Pahkitew'' seasons are pit against one another on two teams. On the Limelight Lions is [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold Duncan]], Heather, Courtney, [[BigEater Owen]], [[SplitPersonalityMerge Mi]][[TookALevelInJerkass ke]], [[NiceGirl Zoey]], and [[FarmBoy Sco]][[TookALevelInDumbass tt]]. The obscure otters have [[{{Joisey}} Anne]] [[NobodyTouchesTheHair Maria]], [[LovableJock Ty]][[ButtMonkey ler]], [[NoOneGetsLeftBehind Brick]], [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold E]][[BrawnHilda va]], [[FriendToAllLivingThings Dawn]], [[DeadpanSnarker Noah]], and [[CloudCuckoolander Izzy]]. Competing for the series' usual grand prize of a cool million, these 14 contestants must endure the machinations of Chris [=McLean=], as well as those of his newest intern, Dave.
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3	Five chapters were posted, out of a planned 13 plus a bonus chapter (which would include the alternate ending to whoever wasn't the selected/victorious finalist), and the series stopped being updated for awhile until Bored_Commentator returned and posted the three and a quarter chapters that were completed but never moved over to Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn. All spoilers for the canonical series will be left unmarked.
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5	!!This fanfiction contains examples of:
6	* AbortedArc: Owen trying to get Izzy to notice him again is cut short [[spoiler: by Courtney and a lot of sharks.]]
7	** Heather's inter-team alliance is pretty quickly dropped at the end of the episode setting it up.
8	* BaldOfEvil: Dave's hair still hasn't grown back. He covers it with a fedora at the very end of the first episode.
9	* BigBadEnsemble: The majority of the Limelight Lions are very credible potential villains, and Courtney, Heather, Scott, and Mike have (even if by technicality in Mike's case, which still counts due to implications that Mal's personality fused with his own) all actually ''been'' the BigBad of a canon season. You can also throw Dave into the mix, but he's not that good at it [[spoiler:until Episode 4]]. [[spoiler:It's been slowly subverted as time goes on, as Heather and Courtney [[BigBadDuumvirate formed an alliance]] [[DragonWithAnAgenda where they both see themselves as the one to eventually betray the other to get ahead]], Mike and Scott are the first Lions to go, and Dave's HostileShowTakeover occurs in episode 4 out of ''13''. His defeat actually turns out pretty easy.]] Ultimately, according to "chapter" 6's notes, had the series been written to its conclusion, [[spoiler:Noah's more traditional alliance and Eva's OneManArmy schtick would have carried them to the finale, with Heather acting as a threat of her own until the penultimate challenge.]]
10	* BigBadFriend: [[spoiler: Dave to Tyler, with [[DistressedDude poor results]] for the latter.]] After Heather and Courtney stop openly gutting at one another's throats, they start to view themselves as this to the other.
11	* BigBadWannabe: [[spoiler: Dave took over the island... and then he did little at all with that newfound power aside from make a new intro for the show.]]
12	* BigNo: Dave, when Chris makes him an [[RedShirt intern]].
13	* BreakTheCutie: Zoey... Doesn't take Mike's sudden increase in antagonism well.
14	* BrilliantButLazy: Noah puts this to his advantage when it comes to the hide and seek challenge. When everyone else is running and hiding from the opposite team's designated leaders as the countdown ticks down, Noah just sits down, cracks open a book, and waits for Owen to find him mere meters away. Then he distracts him from finding his fellow Obscure Otters.
15	* CharacterDevelopment: Noah and Brick grow to tolerate one another and work together increasingly well throughout the season, even if they still find themselves disagreeing on a lot of mannerisms and strategies.
16	* CloudCuckoolander: Izzy, of course, but Dave is pretty firmly in this role as well.
17	* CowardlyLion: Brick, of course, taking on the scary parts of challenges boldly and being clearly horrified at the prospect each time.
18	* CloudcuckoolandersMinder: Eva and, to a lesser extent, Noah, to Izzy.
19	* CuttingOffTheBranches: The introduction for the first episode establishes that Shawn was the winner of ''Pahkitew Island'' in this continuity, and Owen is referred to as "the original Total Drama winner." Zoey is said to have won ''All Stars'', and it's implied Heather won ''World Tour''.
20	* DeadFic: Admitted as such in the "sixth chapter," released long after the first five, explaining [[WhatCouldHaveBeen where the story was planned to go, showing the original idea board/plan for the series]], and linking to four chapters that were never posted to Archive of our Own (the last of which being incomplete).
21	* DeadpanSnarker: What would Noah be without this? Eva is also surprisingly capable of doling it out when she isn't enraged.
22	* DelayedReaction: Tyler has a decent few of these, and never once seems to notice it.
23	* DiscOneFinalBoss: [[spoiler:Mike has taken ''several'' levels in jerkass, and it's more than implied that this is because Mal, the SuperpoweredEvilSide BigBad of ''All Stars'', had much more of an effect on the SplitPersonalityMerge in the finale of that season than Mike would care to admit. This, combined with the [[AllYourPowersCombined canonical nature of this merge]], makes him into an absolute force to be reckoned with... And then he's eliminated first by his eammates, at Duncan's behest. Courtney would follow suit in Episode 7.]]
24	* DistressedDude: [[spoiler:Tyler has been taken hostage by Dave at the end of Episode 4, and will presumably spend Episode 5 as one.]]
25	* DoggedNiceGuy: Owen, towards Izzy. Dave ''was'' the less sympathetic variant towards Sky in his own season.
26	* DragonWithAnAgenda: Heather and Courtney both clearly have zero trust in one another.
27	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Mike's first appearance has him impersonating Manitoba Smith to mess with [[AllThereInTheManual Manitoba's wife]], [[KickTheDog laughing and hanging up when she starts crying]].
28	** Zoey's is showing her go into a bit of a hipster-esque rambling, showing that the authors intended to give her characterization, possibly relating to her better-received personality prior to CharacterizationMarchesOn.
29	* FandomSpecificPlot: A ''Total Drama'' fic about a fanmade season? You don't say!
30	* {{Flanderization}}: Clucky the Chicken only got mad/violent in ''Pahkitew Island'' because Rodney pushed her BerserkButton. In this, she's immediately AxCrazy, and stays that way until Dawn and Owen calm her down.
31	* {{Foreshadowing}}:
32	** Plenty of instances, the most subtle of which so far being [[spoiler: that Dave, as an intern, bonds with Tyler the most out of the contestants, and mistakes him for Topher. Guess who's Dave's replacement as an intern!]]
33	** Anne Maria sure fusses over her hair a lot at the start of episode 2. [[spoiler:It'd be a shame if something burned it all away.]]
34	** Episode 7's script has Tyler mention having wicked chessboxing skills. [[SmallNameBigEgo While it wasn't written if this was an accurate statement or not]], [[spoiler:this was a buildup for the finale involving Chessboxing.]]
35	* FriendlyEnemy: Owen gets like this with everyone on opposing teams anyway, but it's most apparent here with Noah.
36	** Heather shows Anne Maria a surprising amount of genuine kindness at the end of chapter 2. [[spoiler:She knows the pain of being struck bald and then eliminated on international TV.]]
37	* TheGhost: Heather and Alejandro's and Tyler and Lindsay's relationships are still going strong and mentioned a decent amount; it just so happens that Alejandro and Lindsay are both not competing. Getting revenge on Sky is Dave's biggest goal, and she isn't on the island either.
38	* HeelFaceDoorSlam: Late into Episode 1, [[spoiler:Mike's [[TookALevelInJerkass new demeanor]]]] is shown to even be bothering ''him'' in the confessional, but he winds up getting the boot without even being able to apologize for his misbehavior.
39	* HeroicBSOD: Anne Maria [[spoiler:when she loses her hair]]. Dawn enters one after learning the truth about Pahkitew Island. Meeting Clucky the Chicken helps her get over it [[spoiler: just in time for her self-organized elimination.]]
40	* HeterosexualLifePartners: Well, AmbiguouslyBi Life Partners in the former's case, but Owen and Noah still take time to interact whenever they can, even if being placed on separate teams has put a damper on their ability to be as buddy-buddy as they were in canon. Owen also qualifies with Duncan, on his own team.
41	* HiddenDepths: Topher enjoys fishing, as seen by his introduction.
42	* HiddenHeartOfGold: Zoey, upon adopting her "commando" persona once more, tries to force herself to be just as much of a standoffish loner as she was when she did it at the end of ''Revenge''. Her kind heart shines through extremely easily, though, and she even begins to question if it's really worth keeping up the persona.
43	* {{Hipster}}: Zoey shows signs of returning to this characterization.
44	* HistoryRepeats: The elimination of one character is very similar to the character's elimination in their actual debut season. [[spoiler:After the (coincidentally horror-themed) fourth episode ends with no elimination, Dawn is eliminated during the fifth episode.]] They take it much better this time than the last due to the actual circumstances beyond that.
45	* HostileShowTakeover: [[spoiler:Dave]] manages this at one point.
46	* IgnoredEpiphany[=/=]ComicallyMissingThePoint: [[spoiler:After Zoey's attempt at TalkingTheMonsterToDeath, Dave seems about ready to perform a HeelFaceTurn... right ''after'' he burns the money in front of Sky.]]
47	* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Nothing seems to go right for Heather. [[spoiler:Dave]] [[DoubleSubversion Double Subverts]] this, being able to perform a HostileShowTakeover, but barely doing anything aside from mess around in the control room until people catch up to him.
48	* IntelligibleUnintelligible: The cast doesn't seem to have trouble understanding Tyler whenever he's rendered incoherent to the readers.
49	* {{Irony}}: [[spoiler:At the beginning of episode 2, Anne Maria questions whether she brought enough hair product for the entire season. Later that same chapter she loses both the competition and her hair.]]
50	* ItsPersonal: Downplayed with Anne Maria, who is all too passionate about the circumstances of the first elimination, [[spoiler:claiming Mike [[SplitPersonalityMerge "killed Vito"]] and ought to be punished for it]], though she didn't play any direct role in said elimination.
51	* {{Jerkass}}: Courtney definitely qualifies for this after [[spoiler:leaving Owen for dead against a bunch of robotic sharks]].
52	* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: With wildly varying levels of "jerk" and "heart of gold," Noah, Eva, Duncan, Anne Maria, Mike, and Heather all qualify.
53	%%* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Scott.
54	* KillerRabbit: Clucky the Chicken is even more violent and angry than she was in the actual show.
55	%%* TheLancer: Noah for Brick, and Zoey to Duncan.
56	* TheLeader: Brick is the acknowledged leader of the Otters. Although the Lions don't have an acknowledged leader (Owen is named official leader in chapter 2, but doesn't do much particularly authoritative [[spoiler:and is gone by the end of episode 5]]), Duncan is the de facto leader. Despite his insistence to the contrary, he's the most openly heroic of the bunch, and takes the initiative to get two of the team's most effective villains out.
57	* LimelightSeries: The entire point of the Obscure Otters is that nearly all of them are OutOfFocus (and even Izzy, the member among them with the most overall screentime, only even made it past to the merge of one season thanks to being returned to the competition ''at'' the merge). Downplayed, though, since they're just as capable of being eliminated early as [[SpotlightStealingSquad the Limelight Lions]].
58	* TheLoad[=/=]CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: Owen is of little use to the Limelight Lions for a decent amount of the challenges, until he [[TookALevelInBadass makes up for it]] [[LetsGetDangerous late into episode 3]]. [[spoiler: It's not fast enough to win the challenge, but it does impress his teammates enough for him not to be a serious candidate for elimination. Then he plays a pivotal role in holding off ''Eva'' and winning the Lions episode 4's challenge.]] Courtney doesn't ever let him forget his failures, [[spoiler: and ultimately winds up throwing him to robotic sharks to advance in episode 5.]]
59	* ManipulativeBastard: [[spoiler:Scott's lovable idiot tendencies he abruptly gained in ''All Stars''? All portrayed as a front. He's actually no less conniving than back in ''Revenge of the Island''. Duncan, Zoey, and possibly Owen are the only ones to catch on, but it's more than enough.]]
60	* MauveShirt: Dave is the one intern shown, but he tries to break into the game and win the million himself. [[spoiler: His plan involves a HostileShowTakeover.]] [[spoiler:After he's kicked off the show as punishment, [[ChekhovsGunman Topher]] shows up again and fills the hole.]]
61	* MoralityPet[=/=]LivingEmotionalCrutch: Dawn, for Eva, helping her rein in her HairTriggerTemper. [[spoiler:She's naturally distraught at Dawn's elimination, citing Dawn's status as such, but Dawn [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre reassures her that she'll be able to manage]].]]
62	* MultipleEndings: The story's non-canonical ending (in which whoever places second in the finale wins instead) will be written as chapter 14 of the 13-chapter/episode fic.
63	%%* NiceGuy: Owen, Tyler, and Brick, natch. Duncan is developing from a JerkWithAHeartOfGold to this.
64	%%** Mike was formerly this.
65	* NonGameplayElimination: [[spoiler:The incident with Owen and the sharks leaves him unable to continue competing.]]
66	* NotSoDifferentRemark: Courtney and Heather vehemently denying this (in very similar manners to each other) is a RunningGag in the first several chapters. Even after they decide to patch things up, they're ''both'' faking it and assuming the other has fallen into their trap.
67	* OfficialCouple: Courtney and Scott either never had their canonical breakup or made up shortly afterwards.
68	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Noah screams in horror after what happens to [[spoiler:Owen in episode 5.]]
69	* OneDialogueTwoConversations: Tyler and Dave become friends and allies in the first chapter after discussing their respective love interests. Tyler and Lindsay are literally the most stable couple in all of Total Drama, whereas Dave and Sky... weren't. Tyler being TheDitz, he doesn't seem to get that Dave's intent of winning the money for a girl's sake is... very different from his own, and they agree to help each other when they can. [[spoiler: He seems to have realized it now that Dave's turned him into a DistressedDude and taken the million-and him-hostage.]]
70	%%* OriginalFlavour
71	* OutOfFocus: Anne Maria is the only member of the Obscure Otters to get no extra CharacterDevelopment beyond her newfound distaste for Mike. [[spoiler:She's also the second contestant to go.]]
72	* PetTheDog: Heather expresses utmost sympathy when [[spoiler:Anne Maria is left bald, even offering to let her borrow things from her vast wig collection sometime.]]
73	* PosthumousCharacter: An odd variant, as Mike's alternate personalities, namely Vito, Manitoba, Mal, and to a lesser extent Svetlana, are all referred to by himself or other characters.
74	* RelatedInTheAdaptation: Noah and Dave are revealed to be cousins.
75	* TheRival: Zoey and Eva develop a feud reasonably early on.
76	* RonTheDeathEater: Mike is a fairly straightforward InUniverse example, his suddenly becoming an asshole being a major source of interpersonal conflict during his run on the show. Ironically, WordOfGod is that both authors agree that their Mike is ''better'' than [[TheGenericGuy his actual]] [[RomanticPlotTumor self]], [[spoiler: and that they partially regret his early elimination for this exact reason]]. At least he still has redeeming traits, though.
77	* RunningGag: Several, such as Scott eating dirt, Duncan ineffectually hiding his heart of gold (carrying over from ''All Stars''), Owen's ineffectual attempts to win Izzy back, Izzy ditching the rest of her team to antagonize someone, Heather and Courtney denying how similar they are while fighting, Mike slipping into the verbal tendencies of his alternate personalities, Dawn's sudden failure to talk to animals and general unsettled feelings with the island, Zoey's ineffectual attempts at seeming like a loner, Courtney being embarrassed yet flattered at Scott's various "romantic gestures." and Dave's mistaking everyone for members of his own season. Tyler being rendered unable to speak but still trying to, incoherently.
78	* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: [[spoiler: Anne Maria in Episode 2. Dawn tries to follow suit in Episode 4, but the person in charge of giving the boot was [[HostileShowTakeover a bit too preoccupied]] at elimination time.]]
79	* ScriptFic
80	* ShipTease: The story is tagged with "implied Duncan/Zoey" and "implied Eva/Izzy," after all. The former has definitely started being teased, whereas with the latter, Eva and Izzy, while hanging out whenever it isn't obstructive, haven't really been teased as much.
81	* ShoutOut:
82	** Noah refers to Brick as [[Film/FullMetalJacket Pvt. Pyle]], a moniker he takes a good bit of offense to.
83	** Dawn [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda floats down a long drop harmlessly by holding Clucky the Chicken over her head]] at one point, even referencing Sam, the show's resident gamer, as the one who gave her the idea.
84	* SleepCute: Dawn, throughout the early parts of episode 2.
85	* SmallRoleBigImpact: [[spoiler:Mike]] is the first voted off, but is pivotal to the CharacterDevelopment of [[spoiler:Zoey and Duncan]].
86	* SpotlightStealingSquad: The [[MeaningfulName Limelight Lions]] having this status in canon is lampshaded heavily. Chris shows heavy favor for them and considers the members of his team some of his prime moneymakers. The first time they lose a challenge he pretty much flips out.
87	* StarterVillain: [[spoiler:Mike.]] [[LampshadeHanging The character is even referred to as "first boss" in the post-chapter notes for episode 1.]]
88	* TheStoner: Implied when, in response to [[CallBack Duncan producing a lighter]] when told his team would need to start a fire, [[GranolaGirl Dawn]] does the same.
89	* StylisticSuck: [[spoiler:[[HostileShowTakeover Total Dave Domination]], whose intro literally consists of Dave flipping through photos and singing a shortened version of the theme song.]]
90	* SuperStrength: Eva, of course. In episode 5, she uproots an entire tree in a matter of moments with her bare hands.
91	* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: Lampshaded when Dave's RunningGag of mistaking contestants combines with his running into Noah. He mistakes him for ''himself''.
92	* ThatCameOutWrong: Owen, naturally, has at least one of these moments with Noah.
93	--> [[AmbiguouslyBi Owen]]: I'll show you how the other team plays!
94	* TheOneGuy: [[spoiler:Duncan]] is the last male remaining on the Limelight Lions.
95	* TooCleverByHalf: [[spoiler:Scott]] is eliminated right when he tries to put his clever plan into action.
96	* TooPowerfulToLive: [[spoiler: Mike, since he still seems to have [[AllYourPowersCombined abilities gained from the]] SplitPersonalityMerge.]] Eva is a subversion, as her behavior has led her to be regarded as a valued teammate by the Obscure Otters. The longer into the competition she lasts, in fact, the more aware she is of this trope, [[spoiler:and manages to be the primary threat among strategists just by being ''that'' good, which would have carried her to the finale.]]
97	* TraumaticHaircut: [[spoiler:Anne Maria's]] hair being burned off causes such a HeroicBSOD that she [[spoiler:willingly leaves the island.]]
98	* UnexplainedRecovery: [[spoiler:Ezekiel is, to the cast's surprise, more or less back to his pre-monstrous self for reasons completely unexplained. No one questions it afterwards and he's all too happy to get back home.]]
99	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: [[spoiler:Tyler]] helps [[spoiler:Dave]] in his HostileShowTakeover without even realizing until [[spoiler:he's being held hostage.]]
100	* VisualPun: Eliminated contestants "get the boot," which is to say a literal giant boot flies in and kicks them away from the island.
101	* WhamEpisode: Episode 4 ends on the note of [[spoiler:''Chris'' getting the boot, cementing Dave's hostile show takeover. He even changes the title!]]
102	* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Where did [[spoiler: Clucky the Chicken]] go by the time of the fifth elimination ceremony?

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