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Big Brother Canada 10 Houseguest Tropes

Alliances

Crash Test Dummies

Consisting of Kevin, Haleena, and Josh, this trio managed to embed themselves into an alliance of five while using Josh to get into the other side of the house. When the time came, they successfully cut Gino then ousted Marty.

• The Dragon: Josh and Haleena.
• Gone Horribly Right: Josh was recruited into the trio to get along well with the rest of the house. Unfortunately when Betty was the only one left, it seemed very much like he was closer to her than with a duo...
• Playing Both Sides: Very much the case.

The Ghosts

A duo consisting of Kevin and Haleena that have been behind virtually every eviction in the season. They have been compared to Jun and Alison from Big Brother 4 due to having no real allegiances except to each other. They later recruited Josh to form the Crash Test Dummies.

• Earn Your Happy Ending: Despite being arguably the villains of this season their founder, Kevin, won it all.
• Not So Stoic: The Ghosts pride themselves in being the most manipulative and stoic houseguests but when they find out one of them is going to Jury they're both scared and crying.

The Winner

Kevin Jacobs

Kevin Jacobs

Age: 28

Hometown: Halifax, Nova Scotia

Occupation: Sales Engineer

• Affably Evil: Kevin clearly wants to play the villain role in the game with a smile on his face, though unlike most Faux Affably Evil, he's shown to get along with other people in the house, and forming close bonds with people like Marty and Jessica, the latter who he backstabbed no questions asked. Even when he's trying to get in someone's good graces to avoid getting on the block, he's charming enough to see them as a friend.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Won in a unanimous vote against Josh in a startling repeat to BB16 US where Josh took the one person who would not only win, but win unanimously against him.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Kevin is one of the more comedic Laughably Evil houseguests but he's gotten out multiple threats through his alliance The Ghosts with Haleena.
• Big Bad Duumvirate: In a sense, with Hermon given that they are the two most villainous houseguests. Later shares this with Haleena, with Marty being their puppet.
• Blatant Lies: Him telling Marty they are the only two married men in the house, then in a Confession Cam, admits he's not married at all. The latter is the truth, and he carries a fake wedding ring so he can fool everyone and not be targeted for showmances. Lampshaded by his girlfriend wearing a fake wedding ring.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Pretends to be a lawyer when he's fishing for information, but he clearly has shown strategic chops.
• The Chessmaster: Attempts to be this one, but unfortunately his plan to have Josh infiltrate the other side of the house has Gone Horribly Right. Played straight when offscreen he convinces Josh to cut Betty at Final 3 thus making his plan a success.
• History Repeats: The most strategically dominant player wins in the tenth season once again, just like Tim Dormer of Big Brother Australia 10 and Big Brother 10 US's Dan Gheesling. Also the second Kevin to win BB Canada.
• Naked People Are Funny: Well, half naked anyway, in a pool of spaghetti.
• Oh, Crap!: When he realises he let Josh convince him that he was throwing the final four Head of Household competition. He mentally smacks himself in the head for being so stupid.
• Wedding Ring Defense: Takes off his fake wedding ring and gives it to Marty to ensure he doesn't go up swearing he won't betray him, not unlike Dan Gheesling swore on his kids. And just like Dan, everyone buys it including Marty, until Gino calls him out.

The Runner Up

Josh Nash

Josh Nash

Age: 28

Hometown: Vancouver, British Columbia

Occupation: Pediatric resident

• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Has backstabbed and blindsided literally everyone in the house.
• The Dragon: To Kevin ultimately being the only one he truly was loyal to.
• Happily Engaged: To his fiancé of two years, he speaks very highly of him just like Betty speaks highly of her boyfriend.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Nominates half the house in the Triple Eviction, then nominates Betty who chooses to sever ties with him.
  • Or not, since during the final five, Betty proceeded to turn Josh against Kevin and Haleena.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: Pretends to be a marine biologist so no one notices he's actually a full on Pediatrician and knows nothing about marine life.
• The Scapegoat: Just like Hermon, a victim of being blamed for a plan to switch the votes up on Jess and Gino and put up by Marty as "revenge", despite the fact Kevin and Haleena planned the whole thing including Hermon's backdoor.
• Straight Gay: Leaning on a non stereotypical Manly Gay as he's a well built guy who you couldn't even tell was gay unless he told you.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine: Betty felt Josh winning HoH and putting Haleena and Kevin up is revenge for their manipulative behaviour throughout the season.
• Twofer Token Minority: Indigenous and LGBTQ.

The Jury

Betty Yirsaw (Juror #8)

Betty Yirsaw

Age: 31

Hometown: Edmonton, Alberta

Occupation: Human Resources manager

• Alpha Bitch: She's usually very unpleasant to anyone not named Josh, insulting people behind their back and generally being insufferable. Becomes a Lovable Alpha Bitch when she severs ties with Josh showing on her own she can be nice, but with Josh she is insufferable.
• Big "WHAT?!": She was absolutely shocked after realizing she didn't get nominated by Kyle.
• Arch-Enemy: Marty. After him backstabbing her too many times, she has made it her goal to get him out.
• Brutally Honest: Describes herself as a "Take no bullshit!" kind of person.
• The Gadfly: Managed to turn Josh against the Crash Test Dummies.
• Genre Savvy: Is well aware girls and nonbinary alliances don't last and tries to make a ladies and they/them alliance - but outside of that, proceeds to align with Josh as a duo has a much much better chance at making finale.
• Not Me This Time: Falsely accused of being the ringleader behind the Gino flip, when as Kevin himself points out, Kevin was the ringleader.
• Self-Applied Nickname: Calls themselves Business-B from time to time.

Haleena Gill (Juror #7)

Haleena Gill

Age: 27

Hometown: Surrey, British Columbia

Occupation: Masters Student

• Big Bad Duumvirate: With Kevin given they are best gamers in the house with affable charm, which hides a manipulative, backstabbing, three headed dragon with Marty as stated by both Hermon and Gino.
• The Bore: The most common complaint leveled her way by fans is that she's admittedly kind of a boring gamebot. Unlike her ally Kevin who manages to be entertaining, she prefers to stay under the radar which, to her credit, has worked in her favour so far.
• The Chessmaster: Tries to be this and while the votes have mostly gone her way, she has made a few strategic blunders. Though she has yet to see the block while almost everyone else has.
• The Dragon: To Kevin, being his Number Two.

Jacey-Lynn Graham (Juror #6)

Jacey-Lynn Graham

Age: 24

Hometown: Thunder Bay, Ontario

Occupation: Social Media Manager

• Betty and Veronica: The Betty to Summer's Veronica.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Her strategy, sure enough, she wins one veto in week two when she is nominated alongside Jay. She ALSO got the secret veto, and decided not to use it, waiting instead for her boyfriend Gino or herself to go up. She also won the Veto during the Triple Eviction forcing Josh to nominate Betty to keep his alliance with Kevin and Haleena a secret.
• Love Triangle: Is in a showmance with Gino, but is noticeably jealous when her romantic rival Summer attempts to give Gino a Lapdance.
• Ship Tease: Starts to have feelings for Gino who seems to reciporcate.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Falls for Gino immediately, and the two become a Will They or Won't They?.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Upset with the rest of the house for blindsiding her when she wanted to keep Steph in over Josh.

Summer Sayles (Juror #5)

Summer Sayles

Age: 25

Hometown: St. Catharines, Ontario

Occupation: Unemployed

• The Fake Cutie: Acts very sweet and one of the more likeable of the ladies, not to mention younger than several houseguests. But this is a facade for her bitter, vengeful personality. Though she has shown to be genuinely bubbly. At least when her game isn't being threatened.
• Genki Girl/Large Ham: Summer is a large personality who's explosive in the Diary Room, clearly having a blast while in the house.
• I'm Not Here to Make Friends: She fulfills this archetype.
• Sore Loser: This woman puts Russell Hantz to shame saying none of them have her jury vote, saltily saying she doesn't give a damn who is saved. To nobody's surprise she is sent home unanimously. While Marty conversely was much nicer.
• The Woobie: In-Universe example. She was called the N word in her hometown including in bars over and over similar to Bayleigh from US 20, and is a genuinely sweet young lady having a genuine conversation with Marty about race and being a young African Canadian woman. Serves as a Freudian Excuse to her.

Martin "Marty" Frenette (Juror #4)

Martin "Marty" Frenette

Age: 43

Hometown: Petit-Rocher, New Brunswick

Occupation: Fraud investigator

• Bad Liar: Due to being a genuinely nice guy, he has a hard time lying to anyone and even admits so in Week 6.
• Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Has a hard time sticking to an alliance as noted by other houseguests, he has flip flopped on several alliances to be subservient to the Veto holder or HOH.
• The Dragon: To Kevin and Haleena.
• He Cleans Up Nicely: Looks amazing in a blazer, when he comes our dressed in his new duds, everyone's jaw drops.
• Hypocrite: Tries to play an honest game but as Betty pointed out, he has betrayed his alliance not once, not twice, but thrice.
• Nice Guy: One of the only people who is willing to give Jess the time of day, and has nothing mean to say about anyone not even his targets.
• Team Dad: The father of the house, both figuratively and metaphorically.

Steven "Gino" Giannopoulos (Juror #3)

Steven "Gino" Giannopoulos

Age: 28

Hometown: Laval, Quebec

Occupation: Firefighter

• Beware the Nice Ones: Is usually genuinely a nice guy. Just don't try to cross him or be bad for his game. Marty and especially Kyle learned that the hard way.
• Epic Fail: Spells "nominees" as "nomenies" not unlike Jeff from US Season 13 spelling Technotronics. To Gino's credit , he had the right idea but just couldn't spell the wordin question. Also when his backdoor plan to get Marty out fell flat, despite the stars seeming to align, the one person who refused to use the veto on either of his nominees won it, and he was forced to watch as Moose was sent packing. Unanimously.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Kyle, playing up their bromance as a "falling out" during Week 4.
• Ship Tease: With Jacey Lynne.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Reminds the house of a "three headed dragon" that Hermon brought up naturally referring to Kevin, Haleena and Marty when he is blindsided.
• Tranquil Fury: His exit speech is surprisingly subdued though you can tell he's furious.
• We Used to Be Friends: With Kyle. Though it's played up intentionally as Kyle doesn't want Gino's giving up his game for him. Also with Marty when Marty betrays him for the last time which proves fatal for Gino.

Moose Bendago (Juror #2)

Moose Bendago

Age: 24

Hometown: Toronto, Ontario

Occupation: Content creator

• Bash Brothers: With Hermon being basically his right hand man.
• Butt-Monkey: His being put on the block by his own friend whom he knew from college makes his revenge plan on Kyle understandable.
• Cool Nickname: Moose which he chose as his nickname to celebrate his Canadian roots.
• Hunk: One of the more attractive male houseguests.

Hermon Nizghi (Juror #1)

Hermon Nizghi

Age: 29

Hometown: Nanaimo, British Columbia

Occupation: Auto Sales General Manager

• Affably Evil: Seems to be taking a villainous approach to this game, but hasn't outright been duplicitous at least, for now. Aside from the disdain he shows for Jess.
• Ascended Fan: A superfan of all things Big Brother, though he has made a few erroneous moves, so far, he hasn't attracted the ire of too many houseguests.
• Born Unlucky: Didn't want to win the first HoH and get blood on his hands, and proceeds to do so by mistake. As such, he is forced to show his hand early, which was the last thing he wanted. He was also the second houseguest to be evicted by a unanimous vote first being Kyle.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Eliminated first at jury not unlike Neda for being a strategic powerhouse and snake oil salesman.
• Genre Savvy: Knows you shouldn't win the first HoH and feels like an idiot for doing so.
• Momma's Boy: Is an unapologetic mama's boy, and bought his mom a car when he could afford it.
• Snake Oil Salesman: What most of the houseguests sans Moose saw him as namely by talking smoothly so nobody would go after him and pitch empty promises, that everyone compared notes and unfortunately for him this cost him the game.

Evicted

Jessica "Jess" Gowling (Evicted HG #6)

Jessica "Jess" Gowling

Age: 35

Pronouns: They/Them

Hometown: Cranbrook, British Columbia

Occupation: Visual artist

• The Friend Nobody Likes: They got hit hard by this - All of the Other Reindeer would essentially refuse to talk to her until she won the Head of Household. When they and Gino are on the block due to a twist (in which Houseguests competed for safety, and revealed their alliances to the house) Moose, Summer, Hermon, and especially Kevin said they were glad to vote to evict them. However in Summer, Hermon and Moose's case at least in the context of the vote prior, Jess DID put their TeamMom up and evicted her, Kevin on the other hand, has no excuse.
• Hoist by Her Own Petard: Her renominating of Tynesha White caused the pawn to go home.
• My Death Is Only The Beginning: Blows up the ENTIRE house upon their elimination. Including the people who voted to save them.
• The Smart Girl: Definitely one of the more intelligent members of the cast, and has been targeted numerous times by the initial majority of the houseguests because of that.
• Unpopular Popular Character: Zig-Zagged - almost everyone in the house except for Melina and Marty seemed to despise her, even going so far as to utterly cheer when she left and rub it in her face. Some fans did agree that she played the game wrong, others found her sympathetic due to how the house alienated her (utterly refusing to talk game with her) and how she got utterly screwed (Finishing eleventh - ordinarily the place the jury begins with sixteen players)

Tynesha White (Evicted HG # 5

Tynesha White

Age: 32

Hometown: Montreal, Quebec

Occupation: Model

• The Gadfly: Intentionally planted a lot of seeds to get the houseguests to turn on each other and hopefully blow up a couple alliances.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Decided to come off as a rather Sore Loser.
• Taking You with Me: Does this to Jess, essentially cursing their game and making them an almost unanimous vote out following her with the votes for Gino being seen as "traitors".
• Team Mom: Due to being one of the older houseguests but also due to being a single mom.

Kyle Moore (Evicted HG #4)

Kyle Moore

Age: 23

Hometown: Halifax, Nova Scotia

Occupation: Podcaster

• Ain't Too Proud to Beg: His pitch to Hermon can be seen as this. It doesn't work.
• Break the Haughty: You can see the heartbreak in his face as he prepares for his exit, as his Number Two Gino puts him up.
• The Chessmaster: HUGELY subverted by the end of Week 3, given that he backstabbed several genuine allies, but the straw that REALLY broke the camel's back was putting Josh up, and the whole house flipping on him. With everyone sans Jayce Lynne and Gino wanting him out.
• Drunk with Power: Shows this pretty quickly after getting the third HoH.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Gino.
• History Repeats: Once again, Kyle Moore ends up the fourth person evicted.
• Pet the Dog: His case pleasing has him tell people with mental help they are not alone and they are loved.

Stephanie Paterson (Evicted HG #3)

Stephanie Paterson

Age: 26

Hometown: Toronto, Ontario

Occupation: Child & youth worker

• Didn't See That Coming: Was blindsided in a 9-2 by everyone but her allies in Gino, Tracy-Lynn, and Kyle, mostly as colleterial damage thanks to Kyle's disasterious decisions as an HoH putting her up in the first place.

Jay Northcott (Evicted HG #2)

Jay Northcott

Age: 28

Pronouns: They/Them

Hometown: Toronto, Ontario

Occupation: Theatre Director

• The Social Expert: Was well integrated and well liked amongst the houseguests, which is part of the reason Marty wanted them out.

Melina Mansing (Evicted HG #1)

Melina Mansing

Age: 29

Hometown: Toronto, Ontario

Occupation: Artist

• Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: Preferred to keep to herself and stay out of the drama when nominated, though it ultimately couldn't save her.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: The first one evicted from the game, but had enough of a personality to be somewhat memorable.