Sole Survivor
Came back from Season 8: The Midway Island. Jackie returns having not grown much since last season, though being alongside a more volatile cast may end up benefiting him.
- Anti-Hero: Type III.
- Berserk Button: This time, it's taking off his hat.
- Girl on Girl Is Hot: He's a believer of it.
- Idiot Hair: It's no wonder he wears a hat to hide it most of the time.
- Jerkass: Even more so than his last season.
- My Greatest Second Chance
- Mythology Gag: His finale outfit was the same as the clothes he normally wore last season.
- Sole Survivor: The tenth, and is the second All-Stars winner.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Oehda.
- Worthy Opponent: He wanted to face one in the finals. That's why he chose Minerva over Bonnie after winning the final immunity challenge.
Runner-Up
Came back from Season 4: Fans Vs. Canon and Season 6: All-Stars. After going home so early on her second time around, Minerva's here as the first ever third-time player to attempt a comeback.
- Anti-Hero: Type III.
- Beauty Is Never Tarnished: Thoroughly averted; so far she's suffered from setting her tail on fire and being Covered in Gunge by a vengeful Chloe and Ryuia.
- Loophole Abuse: When she found the Yrsa'Ka idol, its instructions said that she had to give it to a Yrsa'Ka member... but nothing said that she had to give it to them while they were awake. Or leave the idol where they could actually see it.
- Mama Bear: For Ryuia at least.
- Mythology Gag: The outfit she wears at the finale was the same one she normally wore during Season 4.
- Odd Friendship: With Ryuia.
- Third Time's The Charm: She may not have won, but she finally made the finals and had a much better game here than in either of her previous seasons.
- Villain Team-Up: Forms one with Baxter pre-merge with the reasoning that if they fought each other, they'd be slaughtered early on like the villains were in All-Stars.
The Jury
Came back from Season 9. Now no longer hiding her true nature, Bonnie feels emboldened to play the exact game she wanted to before.
- Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Forced to do so by Starr.
- Asshole Victim: The things that are done to her would be
Moral Event Horizon for anyone else, but come on, it's Bonnie! - Butt-Monkey: Her manipulation skills have not stopped her from being humiliated multiple times: having everyone mock her when she tries resuming her Bitch in Sheep's Clothing tactics, being forced by Starr to grovel at Kris's feet, eating sandwiches seasoned with spit and rat dung courtesy of Oehda, being thrown by Oehda and Emilee into a pile of literal shit...
- Card-Carrying Villain
- Cluster F-Bomb: When she learns that she's been put on a tribe composed entirely of people from her original season who hate her guts.
- Epic Fail: When she tries to revive her Bitch in Sheep's Clothing shtick.
- Evil Costume Switch: Granted, she was already evil in her original season, but the ditching of her pink dress for something more hardcore signals that she's not even going to try to act nice this season.
- Flat Character: Despite sticking around all season, there really isn't much to her outside of being a supreme Jerkass.
- History Repeats: Places 3rd for the second season in a row.
- Kick the Dog: Literally if you replace "Dog" with "Kitteh".
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: If you didn't read Season 9, then you've just spoiled yourself on The Twist just by reading this entry.
- Manipulative Bitch: Made it all the way to Final 3, in spite of her horrible reputation and her entire tribe loathing her, almost solely because of her strategical skills. And would surely have made Final 2 had anyone but Jackie won final immunity.
- Politically Incorrect Villain
- Villainous Breakdown: It's quite clear that she still hasn't recovered at all about her whole game being torn apart by Cherman last season.
- Xenafication: Having parted with her nice girl act, she has done away with the frilly pink dress and is much more outwardly physically dominant.
Came back from Season 7. Ryuia comes back less of a jerk than before, but hasn't gained much intelligence to match.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: The "jealous" part is all but nonexistent this time around due to Chloe not being real competition, but the "clingy" part has been amped up to the point where Ventious is terrified of her.
- Cloud Cuckoolander
- Dumbass Has a Point / Wisdom from the Gutter: She proposes a... surprisingly insightful and detailed plan about how she, Ventious, Minerva and Jackie could make a "Double Date" alliance which could get them to the end by pulling in allies such as Chrii.
- Dumb Blonde
- Dumb Is Good: She's considerably nicer than in her original season, but also considerably spacier.
- Morality Pet: For Minerva.
- Odd Friendship: With Minerva.
- Took a Level in Kindness: In her original season she was part of the "Super Seven" alliance that gleefully played dirty against Manya, Chrii, Ker and Krauss, and she herself demonstrated an amount of mean-spiritedness. She appears to have mellowed out, and is not only on good terms with Chloe still (her rival for Ventious's affections) but also with Chrii who she treated quite cruelly in Season 7.
- Valley Girl
- Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?: Or "#Survivor". Yes, the # isn't a typo.
Came back from Season 1. He started losing weight and has become a motivational speaker.
- Flanderization: In his original season he was shown to be an honorable guy, but now he is completely obsessed with loyalty.
- Hotter and Sexier: Phil is no longer the morbidly obese man who tried to eat his own leg. He lost over 200 lbs.
- My Friends... and Zoidberg: Kris describes her tribe as "smart people and Phil". SWSU himself also leaves him off the "big characters" list.
- Sanity Slippage
- Token Good Teammate
- Undying Loyalty
Came back from Season 9. Now that he's been cleared of the allegations of sexual assault from last time around, he's back to try and earn some vindication.
- Big Brother Instinct: Towards Starr.
- Ironic Echo: To Bonnie in Episode 6. Too bad she survived the vote-off.
- Took a Level in Kindness: Is nowhere near the self-absorbed Casanova he was in his original season.
- Motive Decay: An unfortunate side effect of this.
Came back from Season 2: Brains Vs. Brawn. No longer tied down by her brother, Kris is hoping that she'll do better now that she can play her own game.
- Black and Nerdy: She was originally on the Brains tribe, after all.
- Good with Numbers
Came back from Season 3. This old backstabbing manipulator is up to his old tricks once again, this time with a new cast to victimize.
- Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Continues his baxtabbing ways from Season 3 by backstabbing Miranda, in spite of this causing his tribe to lose their numbers advantage over the other tribes.
- Control Freak: Just like in his last season, he needs to be in control at all times.
- Identical Stranger: Subverted. In spite of many fans noticing Baxter's similar appearance to Ventious and expecting some kind of mix-up to occur between them and Baxter himself hoping for the same, no one ever confuses them for one another. Mainly because, you know, they have entirely different wardrobes. Then played straight when Baxter dresses up in Ventious's clothes and successfully tricks Ryuia into splitting the vote.
- Baxter's family visitor also looks strikingly similar to him, even for a supposed brother. Most likely because Baxter is his Nobody.
- Manipulative Bastard
- Smug Snake
- Took a Level in Jerkass: Somehow, it was possible.
- The Soulless: Seeing that he's possibly a Nobody and all.
- Villain Decay: In Season 3, he was the most powerful villain in the history of SFC, who controlled almost every vote with an iron fist and was an inch away from winning. Here, he's little more than your standard issue Jerkass who spends most of the season playing evil-sidekick to Bonnie.
- Villain Team-Up: Forms one with Minerva pre-merge with the reasoning that if they fought each other, they'd be slaughtered early on like the villains were in All-Stars.
Came back from Season 7. Despite not having as much power as he did last season, he's quite happy to step out of the limelight.
- The Chains of Commanding: It's clear that he likes it much better when he's not being worshipped as a god and can actually hang out with others as a normal person.
- Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Subverted; part of his story this season is both learning that not everyone will stick to their word and having to make the hard decisions that he never had to make last season.
Came back from Season 9. His goal the second time around is to try and lay low and avoid the limelight.
- The Generic Guy: Compared to everyone else, he's startlingly normal.
- Out of Focus: Doesn't really have much of a storyline this time around.
Came back from Season 8: The Midway Island. She remains a low-key player for most of the season, though she does have a fair bit more luck this time around.
- A Death in the Limelight
- History Repeats: Placed 11th for the second season in a row, though at least she made the jury this time.
- Out of Focus: Remains largely in the background until Episode 8.
- Spicy Latina
Eliminated
Came back from Season 8: The Midway Island. She has more self-confidence, a slightly better relationship with Jackie, and a bolder personality overall.
- Hot-Blooded
- Mama Bear: In full force.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: With Jackie.
Came back from Season 7. The original Corsona turncoat has hopes of not being the outcast of her tribe this time.
- Irony: Is most famous for using her idol to eliminate Ventious in her original season, but uses her idol to save him in this season.
- Later, Ventious would cast the deciding vote to eliminate her. Her "Appreciate it Vent" called back Ventious's "Thanks Chrii" from his own elimination at Season 7.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Her getting Frank eliminated by Bonnie gets her voted out less than ten minutes later by a vengeful Carbo tribe.
- The Smart Girl
Came back from Season 9. He hasn't changed much from his original season, though he's no longer as necessary a physical asset as before.
Came back from Season 7. The panda is back with a vengeance and a single-minded determination to get Chrii out by any means possible.
- Flat Character: Hating Chrii is pretty much her only personality trait.
- Jerkass
- The Millstone
- Revenge Before Reason: Will stop at nothing to get Chrii out for her idoling of Ventious three seasons earlier, in spite of Ryuia and Ventious himself having long forgiven her for it and Chrii shooting down plans to get Ventious out twice.
- Too Dumb to Live: Her single-minded determination to eliminate Chrii ends up being the reason for her own elimination.
- Took a Level in Jerkass: She already wasn't nice in her original season, but this time around it's as though she is completely incapable of being pleasant towards anyone.
Came back from Season 5: The Cursed Islands. Despite her success previously, Miranda finds herself in a deeply unlucky position her second time around.
- Heel–Face Revolving Door: Her arc consisted mainly of her wavering back and forth between staying loyal to her tribe and flipping on them.
- Sacrificial Lamb: Continues the tradition set in the first All-Stars season of returning characters from Season 5 being voted out early.
Came back from Season 8: The Midway Island. Now an actual "fan character", he has decided to stick to his anti-social roots.
- Canon Immigrant: In-universe; Heinz moved to the Tekken universe in between seasons, so he is actually a fan character now.
- Loners Are Freaks
- My Death Is Just the Beginning: After he gets voted off, he warns the Retro tribe about Miranda, which leads to her elimination the following episode.
Came back from Season 9. The most victimized of Bonnie's victims, she returns to get revenge and to make some real friends during her stay in the game.
- Born Unlucky: Once again gets stuck as a victim of Bonnie's nonsense, even if she gets to make one last dunk on her out the door.
- Lipstick Lesbian
Came back from Season 7. The "kitteh" has chilled out considerably since the last time he was on the island.
- Sacrificial Lamb: Was made an early boot mainly because of him being a last-minute replacement for Wrecker and not fitting in with other characters' arcs.
- Too Dumb to Live: Falls for Bonnie's transparent lie about being Starr.
- We Hardly Knew Ye:
Word of God mentions he was only bought back because the owner of Wrecker refused to have him back onto this season so Quad took his place, hence his lack of presence.
Came back from Season 8: The Midway Island. Despite losing an ear due to chasing too many girls, he still is as arrogant as ever.
- The Friend Nobody Likes: Which makes it all the easier for his tribe to ditch him.
- Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: His attempt to get Jackie eliminated results in his tribe turning on him when Ventious informs them about his plan.
- Smug Snake
- Too Clever by Half
