Characters / TDWT Reducks Redux

TDWT Reducks Redux features all of Total Drama World Tour's cast, behaving according to many of their canonical tropes, but various divergences from canon bring the following tropes into play:

Team Amazon

Cody, the Geek

• Covert Pervert: Gwen with cat ears, anyone?
• Demoted to Extra: He doesn't get as much focus as he does in the canon version of the season.
• The One Guy: Lampshaded by him this time, as he acknowledges that this is a pretty good position for a Casanova Wannabe like him in a team made otherwise up of attractive, intelligent girls.
• Shirtless Scene: He accomplishes both the Egypt and Japan challenges by doing this in some capacity (to Sierra's delight).

Courtney, the Type A

• Love Triangle: With Duncan and Gwen, although it's downplayed compared to canon.

Gwen, the Goth Girl

• Love Triangle: With Duncan and Courtney, as per canon. Unfortunately for Courtney, Alejandro has plans to charm Gwen into "following her heart".
• Power Trio: With Bridgette and Leshawna between challenges (due to her being on a different team than them). Alejandro and Harold often make efforts to impress all three girls.
• Ship Tease: With Tyler, of all people.

Heather, the Queen Bee

• Demoted to Extra: She gets far less focus than in the canon season, especially in regards to her Belligerent Sexual Tension with Alejandro.

Katie, the Sweet Girl

• Dirty Mind-Reading: Cody's dirty mind, specifically.
• Divergent Character Evolution: Sadie's not on the season, which allows Katie to gain more of her own personality.
• The Heart: Of Team Amazon, helping to ease tensions between Heather, Courtney, and Gwen.
• Hidden Depths: Her extremely close friendship with Sadie has given her a talent for being able to practically read what other people are thinking, and her "sweet girl" stereotype makes her very good at mediating conflicts.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: She didn't participate in the canon World Tour season, but her addition to the team puts major ease on the drama between Gwen, Courtney, and Heather.

Sierra, the Obsessed Uber-Fan

• Demoted to Extra: She gets far less focus than in the canon season, with even her giant crush on Cody being severely toned down.

Team Victory

Bridgette, the Surfer Girl

• Ascended Extra: She gets far more focus than in the canon season, due to not being the first girl eliminated for the second time in a row in this version of the season.
• Friend to All Living Things: As per canon, she's a major animal lover. She's very protective of the duck that Chris injures and nurses it back to health.
• Love Triangle: Despite still being in a relationship with Geoff, she finds herself involved in two - one with Ezekiel and another with Harold and Lindsay (although Zeke and Harold make it clear that they are aware of the fact that she already has a boyfriend).
• Mama Bear: She is very protective of Harold and always stands up for him when Duncan is bullying him or the others are getting annoyed by his know-it-all tendencies.
• Odd Friendship: With Harold. While it is due to their mutual dislike of Duncan's bullying, most people wouldn't expect an animal-loving, all-natural surfer and an awkward, know-it-all uber-geek to become close friends.
• Power Trio: With Gwen and Leshawna. Whenever the plane is flying to its next destination, the three girls are always hanging together and chatting.

DJ, the Brickhouse with Heart

• Morality Pet: For Duncan, since he's the one person on Team Victory that Duncan actually gets along with.

Duncan, the Delinquent

• Kick the Dog: Delights in humiliating the miserable Harold during the Japan challenge after Leshawna breaks up with him, even kissing Leshawna in front of him just to worsen his depression.
• Operation: Jealousy: Implied to be the reason that he's hitting on so many girls other than Courtney.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Due to some slightly different circumstances during the pyramid challenge in Egypt, he ends up on Team Victory (and does not quit early on this time) instead of being placed on Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot. The result is a great deal more tension amongst the team members due to his rivalry with Harold creating friction with Bridgette and Leshawna.
• Token Evil Teammate: Of Team Victory. He doesn't exactly have the best relations with most of its team members, leading to a lot of drama.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Mainly in his treatment of Harold, which is even worse than in canon. He's also much meaner towards Bridgette than in canon (although the two weren't really on good terms in canon either).

Harold, the Nerd with Mad Skills

• Ascended Extra: Goes from one of the first eliminated in the canon season to one of the fic's most focused-on characters.
• Easily Forgiven: Played with; he apologizes to Courtney for getting her kicked off two seasons before, but she just waves him away saying she doesn't care anymore. Even he's surprised by this.
• Heroic BSoD: Suffers this after Leshawna ends it with him for good.
• Love Triangle: With Bridgette and Lindsay, as while he seems to be growing interested in Bridgette, Lindsay also seems to be getting interested in him.
• Nice Guy: While shown in canon to be a nice person at heart, his kindness is taken up to eleven here. He buys gifts for all of his teammates (even Duncan) while they're in Japan, tries to help Lindsay with her hosting duties, works to keep his honour during the Japan challenge, comforts DJ about his animal curse, and constantly behaves like a genuine gentleman towards the trio of Leshawna, Bridgette, and Gwen.
• Odd Friendship: With Bridgette, although there are a few Ship Tease moments suggesting he's developing feelings for her (though he makes it clear he respects the fact she is already with Geoff).
• Otaku: Throughout the contestants' time in Japan, he gleefully indulges in his Japanophile qualities and makes an effort to share them with everyone.

Leshawna, the Lively Girl

• Big Sister Instinct: She frequently stands up for Harold against Duncan's bullying and is deeply concerned for how Gwen will fare with being on the same team as Courtney and Heather.
• Power Trio: With Gwen and Bridgette during the time between challenges, as part of her efforts to help Gwen as much as she can with having to be on a team without her friends.
• Ship Sinking: She ends her on-and-off relationship with Harold for good, devastating him (although even she isn't too happy about doing it either).

Lindsay, the Dumb Blonde

• Ascended Extra: From one of the canon season's early eliminations to being the host of the show after Chris is fired.
• Love Triangle: With Harold and Bridgette, as a result of her breakup with Tyler.

Team Chris Is Really Really Really Ugly

Alejandro, the Arch Villain

• Demoted to Extra: While he still remains the chief villainous contestant of the season, his scheming receives far less focus than in canon.

Ezekiel, the Homeschooled Guy

• Ascended Extra: He's not the first contestant eliminated again, and is instead among the most focused-on characters of the season.
• Better as Friends: Becomes this with Bridgette at the end of the Yukon challenge, due to no longer having feelings for her by this point.
• Fix Fic: Given that he's the author's favorite character, it's pretty clear that a large reason for this fic's existence is to let him actually participate in the season rather having him devolve into a monster.
• Love Triangle: Begins in one with Bridgette and Geoff (albeit mainly forced by Izzy due to him no longer having a crush on Bridgette), but later enters one with Owen due to his new crush being Izzy.
• O.C. Stand-in: As is standard for TKN's depictions of Ezekiel.
• Team Member in the Adaptation: Thanks to Izzy, he ends up on Team Chris instead of Team Victory. As a result, he's able to develop new friendships with its team members (especially Izzy, Tyler, and Owen).

Izzy, the Crazy Girl

• Amicable Exes: Owen ends his relationship with her, but promises that they will still be good friends.
• Love Triangle: With Owen and Ezekiel after the former breaks up with her.
• Mama Bear: She's very protective of Ezekiel, and fiercely stands up to Chris' bullying of him.
• Ship Sinking: As per canon, her relationship with Owen comes to an end, although here, it ends on a much more positive note, as they remain friends.
• Shipper on Deck: Tries to get Ezekiel together with Bridgette, despite Ezekiel trying to tell her he is no longer interested in Bridgette and that he wishes to respect her relationship with Geoff.

Noah, the High IQ

• Massive Numbered Siblings: As per canon, though here it's brought up as a sort of Freudian Excuse for his unfriendliness.
• Odd Friendship: With Owen, as per canon.
• Pet the Dog: When all the contestants (and Chef) fall out of the plane and he gets the one parachute given between all of them, he gives it to Owen to save everyone rather than using it for himself as everyone expected from him.

Owen, the Big Guy

• Amicable Exes: Becomes this with Izzy at Noah's suggestion. Despite this, Izzy has no problems with his decision, as he promises they can still be best friends.
• Love Triangle: With Izzy and Ezekiel, although Owen seems to have little issue with it.
• Odd Friendship: With Noah like in canon, although here, it's even more emphasized than in the canon season.

Tyler, the Sporto Who Sucks at Sports

• I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: He's forced to sacrifice his newly rejuvenated relationship with Lindsay in order to let her achieve her dream job of hosting the show, since as the host, she cannot have any relationships with the contestants.
• Ship Sinking: Unlike in canon, his fling with Lindsay gets sunk so that she can become the new host of the show with no problem. And just when they were finally reunited too!
• Ship Tease: With Gwen, of all people.

Others

Chris McLean, the Sadistic Former Reality Show Host

• Bad Boss: So much so that even Chef has turned on him.
• Big Bad: As per canon, although here, he usurps this role from Alejandro.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: After 2 seasons of tormenting the teenagers, he's hit by massive amounts of increasingly brutal Laser-Guided Karma.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Gloriously so. He gets demoted from host to a mere assistant by Billy the Intern (who isn fact his boss in disguise) and is then eliminated from his own game, being thrown out of the plane when Izzy convinces her entire team to vote for him and it works and reduced to hiding in the cargo hold when he manages to cling onto the plane and sneak back in (with Word of God confirming he would have eventually turned feral a la canon Ezekiel).
• Took a Level in Jerkass: He's even nastier than in canon, especially towards Ezekiel.

Chef Hatchet, the Scary Cook

• Catchphrase: "Oh, I know," whenever he's talking to Lindsay.
• Made of Iron: He survives a fall from over 50 thousand feet without a parachute and straight into pavement, and fully recovers by the end of the episode.
• Odd Friendship: With Lindsay after she becomes the host of the show.

William "Billy" Overbeck, the Executive Producer

• Everyone Has Standards: He's finally had it with everything Chris does towards the contestants, as well as the host's rampant misappropriation of the show's budget, prompting him to fire Chris and make him a mere assistant like Chef.
• The Intern: Or rather, he's disguised himself as one.
• King Incognito: He's the head executive producer of Total Drama, but has secretly been spying on how Chris runs the show by pretending to be one of the interns.
• Older Than They Look: Some fans think he looks too young for his reveal to make sense, but really it's a case of Vague Age.

The Duck

• Butt-Monkey: In a badass, vengeful sort of way.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Towards Chris for injuring him and suggesting they should cook and eat him.
• Unknown Rival: To Chris.