Characters / Total Drama

After having two hosts, a chef, and 100 different contestants, as well as a few extras and spinoff characters, the character page for Fresh TV's Total Drama franchise had to be split into thirteen parts! The main page here covers the various teams the contestants are split between, but the characters themselves can be found at the pages linked below:

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• Hosts^note Chris McLean, Chef Hatchet
• Killer Bass^note Bridgette, Courtney, DJ, Duncan, Eva, Ezekiel, Geoff, Harold, Katie, Sadie, Tyler
• Screaming Gophers
  • Male Members^note Cody, Justin, Noah, Owen, Trent
  • Female Members^note Beth, Gwen, Heather, Izzy, Leshawna, Lindsay
• New World Tour Contestants^note Alejandro, Blaineley, Sierra
• Mutant Maggots^note Anne Maria, Brick, Cameron, Jo, Mike, Zoey
• Toxic Rats^note B, Dakota, Dawn, Lightning, Sam, Scott, Staci
• Pimâpotew Kinosewak (Floating Salmon)^note Amy, Jasmine, Max, Rodney, Samey, Scarlett, Topher
• Wâneyihtam Maskwak (Confused Bears)^note Beardo, Dave, Ella, Leonard, Shawn, Sky, Sugar
• Ferocious Trout ^note Axel, Chase, Damien, Millie, Priya, Ripper, Scary Girl (Lauren), Zee
• Frogs of Death ^note Bowie, Caleb, Emma, Julia, MK, Nichelle, Raj, Wayne
• Others^note The Interns, Josh, Brady, DJ's Momma, Jasmine, José, Leshaniqua, Sky's Sister, The Killer, The Bear, Bruno, Chipmunk #1 and Chipmunk #2, Mr. Coconut, Fang, Larry, Sasquatchanakwa, Scruffy
• Ridonculous Race Newcomers^note Don, Devin and Carrie, Kelly and Taylor, Emma and Kitty, Crimson, Ennui and Loki, Owen and Noah, Mickey and Jay, Stephanie and Ryan, Josee and Jacques, Geoff and Brody, Dwayne and Junior, Sanders and MacArthur, Chet and Lorenzo, Tom and Jen, Rock and Spud, Laurie and Miles, Mary and Ellody, Leonard and Tammy, Gerry and Pete
• DramaRama^note Chef Hatchet, MacArthur, Beth, Bridgette, Cody, Courtney, Duncan, Gwen, Harold, Izzy, Jude, Leshawna, Lightning, Noah, Owen, Sugar

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Tropes about Teams

Contestants in general

• Aerith and Bob:
  • The second generation contestants are: Anne Maria, Cameron, Dakota, Dawn, Jo, Mike, Sam, Scott, Staci, Zoey and... B, Brick and Lightning. Although B's real name is revealed to be Beverly and in the source material, Lightning's real name is Rudolph, thus technically making Brick the true Odd Name Out.
  • The third generation contestants are: Amy, Dave, Ella, Jasmine, Leonard, Max, Rodney, Scarlett, Shawn, Topher and... Beardo, Samey, Sky and Sugar. Samey's real name is Sammy, which is short for Samantha, but her Evil Twin sister Amy always tells everyone that her name is Samey, whereas Beardo's real name is unknown.
  • The fourth generation contestants are: Axel, Caleb, Chase, Damien, Emma, Julia, Millie, Priya, Raj, Wayne and... Bowie, MK, Nichelle, Ripper, Scary Girl and Zee. MK and Scary Girl are rarely ever referred to as Mary Kate and Lauren respectively, while Zee's real name, Hezekias, is still delightfully uncommon.
• All-Stereotype Cast:
  • The first generation of contestants are a ruthlessly backstabbing Alpha Bitch, a card-carrying juvenile delinquent, a perfectionist Competition Freak Go-Getter Girl, a big fat gasshole, an impossibly stupid Brainless Beauty, a wimpy Mama's Boy built like a brickhouse, a dimwitted party animal, an Iron Butt Monkey guitarist, a Granola Girl who's more coordinated on water than on land, an over-the-top Sassy Black Woman, a Perky Goth who considers herself the Only Sane Woman, an Ax-Crazy Cloudcuckoolander, a hopelessly dweeby Casanova Wannabe, an awkward geek well-versed in unique skills, the snarkiest and most pessimistic teenager since Daria Morgendorffer, a klutzy Dumb Jock, a homely geek, a ridiculously handsome supermodel, a butch Jerk Jock with a Hair-Trigger Temper, two absurdly close Heterosexual Life-Partners, and a hopelessly clueless homeschooled kid. And then Season 3 adds the ultimate Loony Fan and a ridiculously suave and talented Latin Lover to the mix.
  • The second generation contestants are a Creepy Child implied to have supernatural powers, a hipster who Apologizes a Lot, a kid with Split Personalities, a military cadet who's a big softie at heart, a hillbilly with Chronic Backstabbing Disorder, a Jerk Jock so stupid he can't identify others' genders, a super-genius who never talks, a genius Bubble Boy, an overweight gamer geek, a Joisey stereotype obsessed with her hair and spray tan, a compulsive liar who never shuts up, a Tomboy who treats everyone around her as expendable fodder, and the most massive Attention Whore to have ever starred on reality TV.
  • The third generation contestants are a guy who only talks in Wacky Sound Effects, a LARPer who is convinced he is an actual wizard, a whiny Neat Freak who thinks he's the Only Sane Man, a song-obsessed teenage girl still in her Princess Phase, a farmboy who hopelessly falls in love with every girl he lays eyes on, a Gentle Giant Australian stereotype, a Crazy Survivalist obsessed with zombies, an obese pageant queen with a white trash upbringing, a self-declared evil genius who only manages to be a Harmless Villain, a bookworm whose polite facade hides a psychotic personality, an aspiring reality TV host whose personal hero is the narcissistic sociopath who runs the show, twin cheerleaders who do nothing but bicker with each other, and a Passionate Sports Girl so focused with winning the competition that she was willing to throw away the boy who liked her without second thought.
  • The fourth generation contestants are a self-unaware narcissistic YouTuber who can't tell when his actions go too far, his former girlfriend who is unhealthily obsessed with him, a famous and vain action movie star, a girl who was trained by her parents all her life to compete on Total Drama, a guy who has never seen the show before and signed up because his friends dared him to, a ridiculously attractive Hunk, a social media influencer who puts on a fake Granola Girl persona to gain followers, a Gasshole who acts as a beacon for toxic masculinity, a girl who signed up to study the "failure" that is her generation, a flamboyant gay guy who is very competitive, two hockey players who are very supportive of each other, yet another Crazy Survivalist who believes in a potential Zombie Apocalypse, an Ax-Crazy Nightmare Fetishist, a very sarcastic pickpocket, and a very absent-minded guy with a Bizarre Taste in Food.
  • And all of this is ignoring the fact that the hosts of the show are a shamelessly sadistic narcissist who only cares about milking his show for maximum ratings and drama and a Drill Sergeant Nasty Scary Black Man who cooks crappy food for the sole purpose of making everyone's lives as miserable as possible.
• Ambiguously Brown: Many of the "darker-skinned" or "non-Caucasian" characters fit this trope though Word of God has cleared up some confusion: Courtney and Zee are Hispanic, Justin is native-Hawaiian, Katie is white (with a tan), Mike is Italian, Sky is Native American, Noah, Dave, Priya and Raj are Indian, Axel is Latina and Chase is a dark-skinned Asian. Other examples that haven't been cleared up include Sierra (who remains unidentified, but is stated to have German relatives), Anne Maria, Nichelle (who might be Italian given that the first is a Joisey stereotype and the second looks black, but has an Italian last name) and Jasmine (who is heavily implied to be Australian Aboriginal).
• Animals Hate Him: It's practically tradition for the contestants to get attacked or mauled by wild animals, several times a season.
• Arc Villain: Each season has one contestant who serves as the main antagonist:
  • Island (2007): Heather
  • Action: Courtney
  • World Tour: Alejandro
  • Revenge of the Island: Scott
  • All-Stars: Mal
  • Pahkitew Island: Sugar
  • Island (2023) Parts 1 and 2: Julia
• Attention Whore: Most of, if not all of the contestants definitely qualify for this (they are reality TV stars, after all) but special mentions go out to Ezekiel, Justin, Izzy, Courtney, Duncan, Heather, Sierra, Blaineley, Staci, Amy, Topher, Dave, Max, Sugar, Chase, and ESPECIALLY Dakota, whose label is "The Fame-monger".
• Butt-Monkey: Pain and humiliation is the name of the game in Total Drama, and every contestant is bound to get their fill sooner or later. Some get way more than others.
• Cast of Snowflakes: Almost every single character^note with Identical Twins Amy and Samey as the exception has a unique design that leaves them easily recognizable even as a mere silhouette.
• Everyone Is Single: With the known exception of one camper, Sky, who'd wanted to break up with her boyfriend anyway, all of the contestants are single when they participate for the first time, which is perfect for creating romantic drama.
• Everyone Meets Everyone: In every season that introduces a new cast the contestants all meet each other for the first time. The only exceptions are Katie and Sadie & Wayne and Raj, as both duos were already best friends before the competition, Amy and Samey who are twins, and Emma and Chase who are exes.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: They're a bunch of teenagers who often receive tons of Ship Tease with other contestants or blush whenever they're near someone they like. Downplayed though in that unlike other examples of this trope, they aren't sexual about it (the only exceptions are Cody, Harold and Sierra).
• Impossible Hourglass Figure: Virtually every girl in the series. In fact, it's easier to point out which girls don't resemble an hourglass figure: Beth, Leshawna, Sadie, Staci, Jo, Sugar, Millie and Emma.
• Made of Iron: Every single contestant. In the very first episode of the series, the contestants have to jump off a tall cliff. Some of them wipe out, some don't. Regardless, they walk away with no injuries. This is common in every season, even though the competition arguably gets MORE dangerous as the series continues. Special mention goes to the designated "pain magnets" of each season, who are contestants who get injured excessively for no other reason than Slapstick: Trent in Island, Harold in Action, Tyler in World Tour, Brick in Revenge of the Island, Scott in All Stars, Max in Pahkitew Island, Chase in Island (2023) Part 1, and Wayne in Island (2023) Part 2.
• Necessarily Evil: Heather, Courtney, Duncan and Alejandro always end up being the self-appointed leader of whatever group they end up on and if two of them are placed on the same team become The Leader and The Lancer respectively. And with the exception of Alejandro due to him hiding his true nature, they always make the majority of the other contestants hate them and desperately want to vote them off. However, teams that don't have them on tend to suffer from lack of coordination and take the brunt of Chris's bullying. Pre-Courtney Killer Grips from Action and Team Victory from World Tour are pretty good demonstrations of what happens when a team doesn't have one of them on it.
• Noodle People: Many of the nerdier guys such as Harold, Noah and Cameron tend to be scrawny. Even the guys who aren't as nerdy as the previous characters like Mike and Dave are also relatively scrawny.
• Not Allowed to Grow Up: Zig-zagged. The original cast have all been about 16 since the show first aired in 2007. The first two seasons attempt to avert this trope by casually mentioning that it's only been a few days between seasons but by the fifth season, they've taken to just dancing around ever stating the characters' ages. Subverted in the reboot, which is mentioned to take place 15 years after the first season, putting respective previous generations in their early 30's and late 20's.
• Only in It for the Money: Everyone is competing for the grand prize of $100,000 (first season) or $1,000,000 (all other seasons). The few exceptions of this are Dakota in "Revenge of the Island", who joined the show for fame, Topher in "Pahkitew Island", who joined to upstage Chris and take his job as host, and Millie in the 2023 reboot, who joined to study and take notes of teenagers of her generation so she could write a book about it.
• Out of Focus: With every 26-episode season having 20+ competitors and every 13-episode season having 10+ competitors, someone's bound to get the short end of the stick in screentime. Some characters get voted off early and never get a chance to shine throughout the series.
• Stereotypical Nerd:
  • Island has Harold, Noah, and Cody for the guys. All three are very skinny and physically unimpressive, quite intelligent, and have geeky interests or mannerisms, but represent different nerd stereotypes.
    • Harold, aka "The Dweeb", is a red head who wears Nerd Glasses, is awkward and eccentric, has an encyclopedic knowledge of a random assortment of (seemingly) useless factoids. He's also an Occidental Otaku, with a deep love for and knowledge of ninja, samurai, and Japanese pop culture in general.
    • Noah, aka "The High IQ", is a Brilliant, but Lazy, antisocial Insufferable Genius and Child Prodigy in a sweater vest. Word of God also states that he's Indian.
    • Cody, whose title is "The Geek", is a tech-savvy dweeb who is oblivious to how much of a dweeb he is and a Casanova Wannabe, much to the displeasure of all the girls on the island.
    • There's also Beth, who is one of few girls who doesn't look like a supermodel with her Nerd Glasses, Braces of Orthodontic Overkill, shorter and rounder physique, and very high ponytail. She has No Social Skills and wants to make friends, which makes her naive and easily fooled, has a not so imaginary boyfriend, and is The Smart Guy for the Screaming Gophers.
  • Revenge of the Island introduces Cameron and Sam:
    • Cameron is a Black and Nerdy former Bubble Boy in Nerd Glasses with lots of Book Smarts but little in the way of strength or social skills due to being kept sheltered his entire life. He is shy and timid.
    • Sam is an overweight video game geek, who is physically weak, has No Social Skills, and lacks self-confidence. He becomes an Abhorrent Admirer to Dakota at first, though she warms up to him later and he even manages to get her to date him.
  • Pahkitew Island:
    • Dave is a whiny, neurotic hypochondriac of Indian descent in a sweater vest and the physically weakest on his team. He is obsessed with keeping things very clean and has No Social Skills, finding it hard to talk to his teammates and his crush Sky in particular.
    • Scarlett, aka "The Quiet Braniac", is a red-headed Teen Genius who appears to be the classic shy, Book Smart, glasses-wearing, proper nerdy girl in a sweater and Prim and Proper Bun. She often falls into Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness when explaining things to her teammates. It's an Invoked Trope, as she's using this only as a facade and is actually a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing and Nerdy Bully to Max.
    • Leonard is Black and Nerdy with Youthful Freckles and a LARPer, who is so into his roleplaying that he Cannot Tell Fiction from Reality and thinks his spellcasting is real. Naturally, this means he has No Social Skills. He's tall and scrawny, talks with a noticeable lisp, and only wears his handmade wizard robes.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: A majority of the cast from the 2023 Island have traits similar to to cast members from previous seasons, mostly the first generation cast from the first three seasons. Caleb is similar to Justin, Wayne and Raj are similar to Katie and Sadie, Axel is similar to Eva/Jo and Shawn, Ripper is similar to Sugar and Owen, Scary Girl is similar to Izzy, Priya is similar to Sky, MK is similar to Noah, Julia is similar to Dawn and Dakota at first, once her true colours are revealed she ultimately proves to be more like Heather, Damien is similar to DJ, Chase and Emma's dynamic is similar to that of Duncan and Courtney's from Action onwards, and Zee's role in Part 2 is similar to Tyler's in "World Tour".
• Took a Level in Badass: After several months in the most sadistic reality shows imaginable, they've learned a thing or two about adapting to crappy environments.
  Heather: (during The Caper) You messed with the wrong reality show cast, mister!
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Many of the contestants enter the game as fairly nice and well-adjusted individuals, but quickly develop a ruthless streak as the game gets more intense.
  • Courtney, Geoff, Justin, and Owen get this the most during "Action". Courtney goes from being a slightly stuck-up and haughty girl who was still civil enough to be the Team Mom, to a scheming, spoiled princess who uses her lawyers to cheat her way to numerous advantages on the show. She basically transformed from a significantly better version of Heather to a straight up Expy. While hosting the "Aftermath" segments Geoff becomes a vain, fame-obsessed, sadist that could rival Chris himself. He does get better though, thanks to Bridgette, Leshawna, and Owen. Justin shows himself to be more smug and vain than he let on and becomes more of hindrance who tries to weasel out of challenges whenever he can to protect his beautiful face. Owen is hired to be a mole to spread drama; while initially reluctant, he starts to enjoy his role as a mole before being fired.
  • In "World Tour" pretty much the entire cast is affected (except Noah, Tyler, Owen, and Heather), largely due to Alejandro being The Corrupter.
    • Bridgette tried to cheat on Geoff with Alejandro. Lindsay also cheats on Tyler for Alejandro, albeit this is because she simply doesn't remember who Tyler is.
    • Leshawna goes from having buried the hatchet with Heather to giving her a beating just for trying to warn her not to trust Alejandro.
    • Duncan goes from rude and aggressive but also honest and a surprisingly good team player who prided himself on not being like Heather to being a Smug Snake who went out of his way to prove he was just as manipulative as Alejandro.
    • Gwen went from being highly conscientious and having a strong moral compass to causing absolute chaos to the people around her and only caring about whether it got Duncan eliminated because she thought he was hot.
    • Even before he went feral, Ezekiel is noticeably more arrogant and was less accepting of his elimination this time, to the point where he stows away on the Jumbo Jet.
    • Cody went from respecting Gwen's choice to be with Trent to punching Duncan in the face for kissing her (then again Duncan was acting like a Smug Snake at the moment so this was pretty warranted).
    • Harold's Insufferable Genius tendencies are played up more often.
    • Izzy's antics become far more dangerous, causing her and Owen to both receive concussions and constantly kicking Owen in the groin, though this is less out of malice and more out of cluelessness.
    • Courtney goes through this due to the love triangle, becoming more obsessed with getting revenge on Duncan and Gwen and meaner to others.
    • DJ unintentionally takes his level in Jerkass by accidentally injuring every single animal he comes across throughout the season.
    • The one notable exception to this was Noah who actually Took a Level in Kindness since the first season and became the Only Sane Man of the cast, making his elimination that season the most unwarranted one.
    • Another exception is Heather, who undergoes a Reformed, but Rejected plot and is portrayed as the Lesser of Two Evils against Alejandro. Although, given that she was an Alpha Bitch in the first season, it'd be hard for her to actually be even more of a jerkass in later seasons.

Total Drama Island (2007)

Killer Bass

Original Members: Bridgette, Courtney, DJ, Duncan, Eva, Ezekiel, Geoff, Harold, Izzy^note moved to Killer Bass after swapping with Katie, Sadie, Tyler

Later additions: Katie^note originally Screaming Gophers but swapped with Izzy

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• The Big Guy:
  • DJ fits this role the best, where it is invoked by Duncan that they could use his muscle power.
  • Eva is also this given her strength though it doesn't shine much due to her early elimination.
  • Tyler also tries to be this but with weak results due to his clumsiness.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Most of the teammates were this at one point or the other:
  • Courtney starts out this way due to her competitive and bossy nature. However, it's averted later on as she gains a Love Interest in Duncan, Only Friend in Bridgette, while DJ and Geoff seem to like her for being their friend's crush.
  • Eva, as a result of being The Dreaded The Berserker. While she befriends Izzy and Noah in the special, she's never shown with a closer bond with any of her original teammates.
  • Ezekiel's poor social skills make him come off as a Straw Misogynist, earning hatred from his female teammates and to a lesser extent Duncan.
  • Harold is treated as a nuiscance despite being The Team Benefactor. Downplayed a little since the sole exception was Bridgette, Sadie gave him friendly looks in the background, and he got along with Ezekiel before Ezekiel considered him a traitor for rigging the votes against Courtney.
  • Katie and Sadie only have each other (though the latter is on good terms with Bridgette) and are otherwise treated as The Load.
  • Speaking of not being seen in high regard due to being The Load, there's Tyler. His inter-team romance with Lindsay also gains the ire of his teammates (or at least Courtney) and he's generally not really friends with anyone on the team.
• The Heart:
  • Bridgette, quite possibly the most gentle and caring character out of the whole cast, being a nature lover and a mediator of disputes among her friends.
  • Katie and Sadie also share this role as the more kind hearted players on the team, though it doesn't shine too much due to their early eliminations.
• The Leader: Usually Courtney takes charge due to her bossiness. Though sometimes Duncan steps up to this role.
• The Lancer: Geoff and Duncan both tend to share this, usually taking charge when Courtney isn't able to.
• The Smart Guy: Harold, the resident geek who has time and time again proven his skills to be surprisingly resourceful.
• The Team Benefactor: All of the Bass contribute to the challenges, but Harold stands out for being the most useful Bass, often having a hand in each of their victories and usually not having any involvement whenever they lost a challenge. It means something that their first two victories were thanks to their local Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass.
• Supreme Chef: In "If You Can't Take The Heat...", they win the cooking challenge by preparing a killer three-course Italian meal with antipasto, spaghetti and cannoli.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Despite Harold being their best player and essentially carrying the team, most of the Killer Bass treat him with little to no respect or even pick on him for their own amusement (namely Duncan and Geoff). Even when he didn't cause their loss, Harold was often in the bottom two.

Screaming Gophers

Original Members: Beth, Cody, Gwen, Heather, Katie^note moved to Killer Bass after swapping with Izzy, Justin, Leshawna, Lindsay, Noah, Owen, Trent

Later additions: Izzy^note originally Killer Bass but swapped with Katie

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• The Big Guy:
  • Owen. The Big Fun Gentle Giant who while often The Load can at times provide physical assistance such as his Big Eater talents.
  • Izzy. Quite possibly the most combat-capable character, able to regularly beat up a Scary Black Man.
• Co-Dragons: Lindsay and Beth are this to Heather, with varying results.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • Heather, courtesy of her Alpha Bitch personality.
  • Noah is disliked by his teammates in his elimination episode for his lack of contribution and snarky comments. Downplayed, as he was shown getting along with Owen beforehand and afterwards, became Vitriolic Best Buds with Izzy after his elimination, and even befriended Eva in the special.
• The Heart:
  • Trent is this, usually being the most compassionate in the team and most easygoing.
  • Lindsay fills this too as a Dumb Blonde with a heart of gold, whose kindness knows no bounds.
• The Lancer: Gwen and Leshawna both fill this role, with their heavy rivalry with Heather.
• The Leader: It does not take long for resident Alpha Bitch Heather to take charge of the team and rule it as her own personal kingdom.
• Lethal Chef: In "If You Can't Take The Heat...", due to a lot of Teeth-Clenched Teamwork, their attempt to make a three-course Hawaiian meal consists of a plate of pineapple skewers that gave one of their cooks an allergic reaction, a rack of ribs that's been almost entirely devoured by the time it gets to its diner, and a flambé dessert that deflates into a tiny, inedible ball of ash the second it's touched with a fork. Yikes.
• The Smart Guy:
  • Cody, due to being the main nerd of his team. Though it's downplayed in that he doesn't get to show it off much.
  • Noah though it's also downplayed given how he doesn't show it off too often with his early elimination.
  • Beth also falls under this, being the longest-lasting geek among the team.
• Token Evil Teammate: Heather is the only truly villainous member on this team^note this was before Justin's Face–Heel Turn, where she served as the Big Bad of Island.

Total Drama Action

Killer Grips

Original Members: Trent (captain), Beth, Izzy, Justin, Lindsay, Owen

Later additions: Courtney^note debuted season midway after suing the show and put on this team by Chris

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• The Big Guy:
  • Owen filled this role for a bit by being the Dumb Muscle.
  • Izzy also fills this role as being a physical powerhouse, though it isn't as prominent due to both her early eliminations.
• Butt-Monkey: The Grips are, by far, one of the weakest teams in the whole franchise, with only the likes of Team Victory, the Toxic Rats, and Pimâpotew Kinosewak managing to perform worse than them.
  • Out of the eleven challenges they competed in over the course of the season, the Grips only managed to win a whopping three of them, and even then, one required Gwen to sabotage the Gaffers and the other two were won thanks to Courtney's hyper-competence and much needed leadership. In their defense, two of their losses can be attributed to Trent deliberately losing challenges that he otherwise would have won and DJ's illegal alliance with Chef giving the Gaffers an unfair advantage.
  • The only reason the Grips managed to avoid being completely wiped out before the merge, let alone have the Gaffers outnumbered 4-3 by the time it happened, was due to pure sheer luck, as a good chunk of the challenges won by the Gaffers were non-elimination episodes, plus DJ quitting when the Gaffers had won and both Izzy and Courtney returning to the competition and being placed into the Grips.
  • This is even Lampshaded by Chris in one episode, wondering if the Grips would ever be capable of winning a challenge.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • Courtney, especially now that she has even bossier personality and doesn't have any of her friends from Island on her team.
  • Justin also becomes this later on once his looks stop having effect on the girls and for his laziness in challenges, with only Owen genuinely still seeing him as a friend. At the time of his elimination, he's not missed by any remaining contestant.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: Initially, they have 3 boys and 3 girls, just like the opposing team. It's subverted later on once Courtney joins the team.
• Irony: The name of the team shares its adjective and color of the Killer Bass, yet all of the initial campers in this team were on the Screaming Gophers in Season 1.
• The Lancer: Beth was this at first to Lindsay and then to a lesser extent to Courtney. Lindsay after losing the role of leader to Courtney becomes the most openly defiant to her.
• The Leader: Three campers take the role. Originally, Trent is the leader and one of only two team captains that ever was officially designated as one. He's voted off because he purposely throws challenges for Gwen, the opposing team captain. Once he's gone, Lindsay gives the role a try with varying results. Either she's effective but bossy or she's nice but ineffective. Then Courtney returns and her natural drive to be on top of everything means she quickly takes control, which Lindsay laments.
• The Millstone: Trent cares more about his relationship with Gwen than leading the team and as a result sabotages them in an ill-advised attempt to make her happy.
• The One Guy: Once Trent and Owen are out, Justin is the only guy on a team otherwise consisting of girls: Beth, Lindsay, and Courtney.
• Picked Last: Izzy was the last teammate to join the team in "Riot On Set." In fact, being the only choice left, she wasn't even truly chosen by Trent and only ended up on the team automatically.
• Sixth Ranger: Courtney is the first and so far the only contestant to debut mid-season and be put on a team. She becomes an extra member of the Killer Grips.
• The Smart Gal: Beth serves as this, being the nerdiest of the team.

Screaming Gaffers

Members: Gwen (captain), Duncan, DJ, Harold, Heather, Leshawna

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• The Big Guy: DJ once again fills this role despite his cowardliness.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • Duncan has this to an extent after DJ and Gwen are eliminated with Harold still disliking him due to their rivalry, Heather being rude to him at times, and Leshawna developing a grudge against him for his bullying of Harold that becomes mutual once he finds out about her fake crying for the spa reward. That said, Harold does have moments of forming Enemy Mine with him in challenges and Leshawna and Heather still respect him for his performances in team challenges.
  • Harold continues being seen as a nuisance despite being a useful member. Downplayed more this season, as while Leshawna laughs at him sometimes and badmouths him with everyone else, she still harbors some level of affection for him. Both Duncan and Heather also have moments of genuinely appreciating him.
  • Heather carries over this role from last season due to being Hated by All. Downplayed this season, as Harold has developed a crush on her, both DJ and Duncan have moments of working together with her, and Leshawna befriends her for standing up for her (though their friendship doesn't last).
  • Leshawna becomes this once everyone on the team finds out about her fake crying to get the spa reward, her insults at the remaining contestants she made during the spa trip being revealed to everyone on Courtney's PDA worsening her reputation, only avoiding elimination before the merge due to her apology cheer touching Duncan and Harold.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: They have 3 boys and 3 girls. Unlike in Killer Grips' case, this doesn't change, as they don't gain any additional members.
• Keeping the Enemy Close: Invoked with Gwen picking Heather, as per Leshawna's suggestion to "keep your enemies closer".
• The Lancer: Leshawna fills this given her conflict with Duncan later on.
• The Leader:
  • Gwen. Notably one of only two teams with an officially designated team captain.
  • Duncan unofficially takes this after Gwen's elimination, being the most valuable in challenges and MVP in them.
• Picked Last: Harold was the last teammate chosen by Gwen. In fact, she wouldn't have been able to choose anyone else anyway due to the boy-girl pattern of choosing their teammates decided by Chris.
• Rigged Spectacle Fight: The legitimacy of a couple of their wins can be called into question. While most of the team didn’t even know about it, they had been receiving unfair advantages in the challenges thanks to DJ’s illegal alliance with Chef and Trent deliberately losing challenges that he otherwise would have won in an attempt to impress Gwen. It isn’t until both Trent and DJ are eliminated that the Gaffers start getting clean wins.
  • However, out of all episodes where the Gaffers win in which Trent and DJ competed, the trope only really applies in Riot On Set^note (the challenge was outright rigged against the Grips by Chef) and Beach Blanket Bogus^note (Trent indeed threw the challenge he likely would've won given the reactions to Leshawna's dance). It doesn't apply in 3:10 to Crazytown^note (Chef's alliance doesn't come to play at all and Trent only lets himself be captured in the last challenge, at which point the other Gaffers would've captured him anyway, greatly outnumbering him), One Flu Over the Cuckoos ^note (DJ's alliance with Chef doesn't affect his team's performance. While it could be argued Izzy was the first one who mentioned "first year of med school syndrome", Duncan and Leshawna were the first ones to properly explain the entire mystery behind the challenge), and The Sand Witch Project^note (DJ's alliance with Chef allows them to win the first challenge, which merely decides which team will scare the other in the second challenge. The Gaffers manage to scare the Grips away on their own.).
• The Smart Guy: Harold is this once again, with his smarts helping his team out significantly.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: The final four of the team do not get along well. Duncan is a major bully towards Harold, which puts him at odds with both Harold and Leshawna. Nobody but Harold likes Heather after last season, and tension mounts against Leshawna when the team realizes she manipulated him to get the spa day. Yet despite all that, they still manage to function through the challenges.
• Token Evil Teammate: Heather again serves as this, being the only outwardly malicious member of the team compared to the rest ranging from Jerk with a Heart of Gold to Nice Guy.
• Token Good Teammate: Harold ends up becoming this after Gwen is eliminated as DJ is in an illegal alliance with Chef and is cheating his way through the competition, not that he wants to, Heather is the Big Bad of the previous season and the most openly malicious competitor in the game (at least until Courtney arrives and takes over her role), Leshawna has taken a massive level in jerkass since the previous season, becoming a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing who is willing to manipulate her own teammates to get what she wants and then proceed to mock and badmouth them behind their backs and Duncan is The Bully towards Harold and is eventually shown to not be above resorting to cheating in order to win challenges.

Total Drama World Tour

Team Amazon

Original Members: Cody, Courtney, Gwen, Heather, Izzy^note moved to Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot after swapping with Sierra

Later additions: Sierra^note originally Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot but swapped with Izzy

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• Amazon Brigade: Aside from Cody, the entire team are girls. This is why they're Team Amazon.
• Anti-Hero Team: None of this team's members are really straight-up heroic.
  • Heather and Courtney are both Ex Big Bads of previous seasons, with Courtney now veering into Pragmatic Hero while Heather ends up verging into Nominal Hero due to Alejandro being even viler than her.
  • Gwen and Sierra are both Anti Heroes of the Knight in Sour Armor variety. Gwen being an Ineffectual Loner who can be quite cold to others, while Sierra is a Loony Fan and generally The Friend Nobody Likes but is otherwise mostly a good person.
  • Cody is a Classical Anti-Hero, being very cowardly and for the most part useless in challenges.
• The Big Gal: Sierra, who is by far the strongest member of the team, capable of superhuman feats when properly motivated, usually by Cody-related instances.
• Born Lucky: Team Amazon had an amazing track record, considering half of Team CIRRRRH and all of Team Victory were wiped out before the Amazons had to vote off a single member.
• Enemy Mine:
  • Invoked with Heather teaming up with two of her most bitter enemies, Courtney and Gwen. Despite their animosity they are forced to work together time and time again.
  • Heather is again forced into this with Sierra and Cody, upon them being antagonized by Alejandro and all of them agreeing to vote him off. This comes up again in the finale, as Cody volunteers to be Heather's helper due to hating Alejandro more and wanting to hinder him from winning.
• Five-Man Band:
  • The Leader: Typically results in a fight between Heather and Courtney, but Heather maintains leadership with an iron fist.
  • The Lancer: Courtney, as she consistently bickers with Heather about her leadership.
  • The Big Guy: Sierra, who proves herself to be the most physically capable contestant with her frequent fighting of animals and displays of strength.
  • The Smart Guy: While all of the members have intellectual skills, Cody is this, though his geekiness is downplayed in favor of Sierra’s stalker mannerisms.
  • The Heart: Gwen, who is the most kindhearted member of the team.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: All five members have this at some point.
  • It's downplayed with Cody, but no one except for Sierra seems to respect him or take him seriously, though Gwen still regards him as a friend and Heather forms an Odd Friendship with him later on.
  • Courtney carries over this trait, especially once her newly-formed friendship with Gwen ends.
  • Gwen becomes Hated by All (aside from Cody) after it's revealed she kissed Duncan behind Courtney's back.
  • Heather carries over this trait, especially now that her Reformed, but Rejected arc is more pronounced. Once again, it's downplayed, as she develops an Odd Friendship with Cody, has moments of working together with Sierra, and has Enemy Mine moments with both Courtney and Gwen.
  • Despite being The Ace, Sierra is seen as a nuisance for being an obsessive Stalker with a Crush towards Cody.
• The Heart: Gwen fills this role, being the most kindhearted compared to everyone else on the team.
• The Lancer: Courtney is easily the most assertive member other than Heather, and is the most likely to fight with her over decision-making.
• The Leader: Heather, forever the Alpha Bitch, once again takes charge. Though this time she often fights for leadership with Courtney.
• The One Guy: Cody remains the sole male member all the way until the merge.
• Plot Armor: With the exception of Gwen, every member has this. Sierra, Courtney and Heather survive a fake elimination despite receiving the most votes while Cody can literally do nothing in an episode and still survive until the final three.
• The Smart Guy: Cody. While he doesn't get to show it very often, he's still the most technologically savvy member of the team. He gets to show his skills such as when he crafts Gwen's head for their Viking boat.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Aside from perhaps Cody, Heather is at odds with everyone on her team, with Gwen and Courtney having vicious rivalries with her, while Sierra grows to hate her too. Gwen becomes universally disliked by her team (aside from Cody) after her involvement in the Love Triangle is exposed and Courtney becomes universally disliked after her vicious vendetta against Gwen and attempting to throw challenges. Sierra is also either jealous of other girls whenever they come close to Cody (especially Gwen whom he's attracted to) or dislikes them for treating him poorly.

Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot

Original Members: Alejandro, Noah, Owen, Sierra^note moved to Team Amazon after swapping with Izzy, Tyler

Later additions: Izzy^note originally Team Amazon but swapped with Sierra, Duncan^note put on team after being found in "I See London..."

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• The Big Guy:
  • Tyler fits this role due to being the athletic Dumb Muscle.
  • Owen occasionally fills this role but is played less straight largely due to being The Load.
  • Izzy to a degree, with the team making use of her armada of unusual abilities.
• Embarrassing Nickname: Courtesy of Sierra, the team is given a long embarrassing name. Made even funnier by Sierra not even being on the team an episode after its formation.
• History Repeats: Izzy once again swaps teams with someone after one episode, so said person can be with someone else on that team.
• Ironic Name: Similar to Embarrassing Nickname, this team was dominated by males (with Izzy being the team's only girl, and even then, she was the team's first boot). Everyone on that team hated Chris by the end of the show, including the person who thought of it.
• The Lancer: Both Noah and Duncan fill this role, being a foil to Alejandro's personality, having the most influence over the team aside from Alejandro, and becoming aware of his true nature on their own.
• The Leader: Alejandro is the undisputed leader of the team, calling the shots and guiding them through each challenge.
• Sixth Ranger: Duncan serves as this when he joins the team halfway through the season when returning.
• The Smart Guy: Both Noah and Alejandro fit this role at times, with Alejandro being more active as The Strategist while Noah tends to be more passive due to being Brilliant, but Lazy.
• The Smurfette Principle: The team has only ever had one female member at a time, as Sierra swapped with Izzy so they could be with their respective love interests.
• Token Evil Teammate: Alejandro, the Big Bad of World Tour and doubling as The Leader of the team.
• Token Good Teammate: However, by the time Duncan joins, Noah and Tyler are quickly removed. Between that, Izzy's previous Non-Gameplay Elimination, and his own abrasive personality, Owen is reduced to being this for the team.

Team Victory

Members: Bridgette, DJ, Ezekiel, Harold, Leshawna, Lindsay

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• The Big Guy: DJ fills this role, being the strongest and most athletically inclined in the group.
• Born Unlucky: Every time Team Victory lost, they had to vote someone off; every time they didn't come in last, the other teams were miraculously spared elimination at the last second. Whether DJ really did curse the team or Chris was just going out of his way to wipe them out for the fun of it is unclear, but they still had worse luck than any team in the entire show's run.
• Butt-Monkey: Their only purpose is to be picked off one by one by Alejandro. It is telling that they come last in almost every challenge, with their only victories being non-elimination rounds.
• Dwindling Party: More so than any team in the history of the show, with their members being picked off one by one. DJ ends up the last man standing, until he too get eliminated, making this the only team to have dissolved prior to the merge.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • Ezekiel is seen as The Load for costing the team their first challenge. His former minor friendship with Harold didn't pass the test again, this time with Harold mad at him.
  • Downplayed, but Harold also has this status due to his Insufferable Genius tendencies getting on everyone's nerves and Alejandro encouraging him to lead his team with a boring commercial idea, causing their loss. However Leshawna and DJ are shown to miss Harold later (Harold even quit in DJ's place), and he gets along well with Bridgette during Aftermaths.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: They're the only team in "World Tour" with an equal number of guys and girls.
• The Heart: Bridgette serves this role as the nicest member of the team.
• Humiliation Conga: They win little-to-no challenges at all and when they do win, it's a non-elimination round.
• Ironic Name: It is basically a Running Gag that there is "no victory for Team Victory", and when DJ gets eliminated, Chris calls the now defunct team "Team Endless Non-Victory".
• Irony: DJ is the one who's most homesick and is always in the bottom two during every elimination ceremony involving the team, yet he's the last member of the team to be eliminated.
  • Harold is the most excited to visit Japan, only to end up causing his team's loss and taking himself out of the game in place of DJ who was hoping to go home.
• The Lancer: Lindsay serves this role, being the second most contributive to the team. She later takes over as The Leader once Leshawna is eliminated.
• The Leader: Harold takes the reigns in Egypt, and quits after his leadership causes the team's loss in Japan. Leshawna then fills this role for the team until Lindsay takes over following her elimination.
• The Load: Ezekiel, who is still the same socially clueless klutz he was back in Island and gets eliminated first again.
• The One Guy: DJ, following Harold's elimination.
• Shout-Out: Their poor performance to the point of losing all its members before the merge and having its last two members compete in a tiebreaker seems to be based on the performance of the Ulong Tribe from "Survivor: Palau."
• The Smart Guy: Harold fills this role as the brainiest member, though he doesn't get to show it as much due to his early elimination.
• Sole Survivor: Their team gets picked off one by one until DJ is the only one remaining. He would go on to be a solo member team until the complete dissolving of his team pre-merge, making this the only team to have this honor.
• Total Party Kill: A combination of poor performance in challenges, some astoundingly bad luck, and maybe some manipulation on Chris' part ensured that the entire team was wiped out long before the halfway point and before either of the opposing teams lost more than a single member between them (and Team CIRRRRH only lost Izzy to a Non-Gameplay Elimination earlier in the same episode Team Victory's last member went home).
• Token Good Teammate: Perhaps the only team in Total Drama history consisting of only nice, supportive people who all get along with each other and never resort to underhandedness and dirty tricks in order to win. Which is why Alejandro goes out of his way to have them eliminated, while Chris ensures the other two teams remain perfectly intact.

Total Drama Revenge of the Island

Mutant Maggots

Original Members: Anne Maria, Brick^note forcibly moved to Toxic Rats by Chris in "Finders Creepers" Cameron, Jo^note moved to Toxic Rats after swapping with Scott, Mike, Zoey

Later additions: Scott^note originally Toxic Rats but swapped with Jo in "Runaway Model", Dakota^note originally Toxic Rats but was eliminated and rejoined the game in "A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste" where she is put on this team

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• Alliterative Name: Mutant Maggots.
• The Big Guy:
  • While Jo rivals and might even have an edge on him in physical ability, Brick is still the main powerhouse of the team since Jo doubles as The Leader.
  • Mike also serves as this with his alternate personalities such as Svetlana, Vito, and Manitoba Smith being big contributors to physical challenges.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • Anne Maria, who has no friends on the team and is only on good terms with Mike's alternate personality, Vito, and to a lesser extent Cameron.
  • Dakota in her brief time on the team due to her mutation causing problems, with even her Only Friend Zoey voting her out for that reason.
  • Jo's Control Freak and Jerk Jock tendencies made her disliked by all her teammates, although Brick and Cameron seem to have at least some respect for her leadership.
  • Scott becomes this once he swaps to this team, with Zoey being the only one who was on good terms with him (until witnessing him cause Mike's elimination in the merge) to the point where he is nearly voted out before the merge had it not been for the Immunity Idol.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: Initially, they have 3 boys and 3 girls. It also remains the case when counting their two additional members.
• The Heart: Zoey, who is the main Nice Girl on the team.
• The Lancer: Anne Maria ends up filling this spot as the one who clashes with Jo the most, as well as contrasting Jo's bossy competitiveness with her laidback and vain nature.
• The Leader: Jo would quickly establish that Asskicking Leads to Leadership and become the team leader.
• The Load: In her brief tenure on the team, Dakota is this with her mutation being too much of a hazard in challenges to be of much use.
• The Smart Guy: Cameron, who is one of the smartest characters on the show period.
• Token Evil Teammate: Scott serves as this once he is swapped to this team, attempting to throw challenges.

Toxic Rats

Original Members: B, Dakota^note following her early elimination and subsequent rejoining the game in "A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste" she is put on the Mutant Maggots, Dawn, Lightning, Sam, Scott^note moved to Mutant Maggots after swapping with Jo, Staci

Later additions: Brick^note originally Mutant Maggots but forcibly moved by Chris in "Finders Creepers", Jo^note originally Mutant Maggots but swapped with Scott in "Runaway Model"

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• The Big Guy: Lightning, the most athletic character in the season who powers through challenges with his physical prowess.
• Dwindling Party: Thanks to Scott's Team Killer strategy, they are second only to Team Victory from World Tour in this regard. They only ever win twice and one of those wins was during the only non-elimination round of the entire season, while their other win was thanks to Scott and Jo swapping teams two episodes prior, causing the former to begin focusing his Team Killer strategy on the Mutant Maggots instead. By the time the teams merged, Lightning and Jo were the only members left.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • Both B and Dawn temporarily become this after a Frame-Up courtesy of Scott. Even beforehand, Dawn was generally seen as creepy by everyone aside from B.
  • Dakota for focusing more on the paparazzi than challenges, with only Sam on good terms with her.
  • Lightning for being a competitive Jerk Jock.
  • Scott eventually becomes this for his antagonistic role and Team Killer strategy.
  • Staci for constantly talking about her family's supposed achievements.
• The Heart: Dawn, the kindhearted Friend to All Living Things as well as The Empath who tries to help others out with their problems.
• The Lancer:
  • Scott. As the Token Evil Teammate, he is always the one trying to undermine The Leader with his counterproductive solutions.
  • Following Scott and Jo's team swap, Brick takes on this role as the most conflicted with The Leader Jo.
• The Leader: Due to constant shifts in the team's composition, often courtesy of Scott's manipulation, there have been multiple leaders over time. For the first few episodes until he gets eliminated, B serves this role. Dawn takes the lead in "Backstabbers Ahoy!", but she's eliminated that same episode. Brick takes command from then on until Jo joins the team and takes control.
• The Load:
  • Staci fails to contribute anything meaningful to the team and is eliminated first for that reason.
  • Dakota also becomes this, focusing more on the paparazzi than challenges.
• The Smart Guy: B, doubling as The Leader, being a Gadgeteer Genius who would come up with inventions to help his team.
• The Smurfette Principle: Dawn becomes the sole female member for a while. After she gets eliminated, the team becomes all male until Jo swaps with Scott.
• Token Evil Teammate: Scott, the Big Bad of the season who uses the ploy of being a Team Killer.

Total Drama All-Stars

Heroic Hamsters

Original Members: Cameron^note forcibly moved to Villainous Vultures by Chris in "Moon Madness", Courtney^note forced to swap with Duncan over to the Villainous Vultures, Lindsay, Mike, Sam, Sierra, Zoey

Later additions: Duncan^note originally Villainous Vultures but swapped with Courtney

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• Alliterative Name: Heroic Hamsters. Enforced in-universe, because when Courtney protests saying that hamsters are not the most heroic animal, Chris tells her that the alternative was "Heroic Hippos".
• The Big Gal: Sierra still fills this role to a degree, being possibly the physically strongest member. Though her Sanity Slippage makes her a lot less useful than she was in World Tour.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • While the Heroes don't necessarily hate her due to being Nice Guys, Courtney has no friends on the team.
  • Sierra gains this status as the season progresses due to her Sanity Slippage on using Cameron as a Replacement Goldfish for Cody, creeping the entire team out and making her useless.
• The Heart: Lindsay briefly serves as this due to being the nicest among the team, though it isn't too prominent due to her early elimination.
• History Repeats: Much like last season, one member of this team volunteers for elimination in a horror-themed episode, only for Chris to place them on the opposing team instead.
• Irony: Mal is the true Big Bad of All-Stars and the biggest villain of all but is never present on the Villainous Vultures.
• The Lancer:
  • Mike is typically regarded as second-in-command and has the most influence alongside Zoey, which carries over to Mal when he emerges.
  • Courtney initially seemed to have this role, due to the one most likely of doubting or questioning Zoey. However she gets little chance to cement her spot as she is whisked over to the villains team by the end of the third episode.
• The Leader: Zoey takes up this role, being the Team Mom who looks out for all her teammates and typically rallies them during challenges.
• Light Is Good: They're a team of heroic (or at least supposedly heroic in some cases) players and their team logo has a bright yellow color.
• The Load:
  • Sam is even more of a burden than last season, though a lot of it is due to his misfortune than his actual fault.
  • In contrast to her previous season, Sierra fails to contribute to her team due to her increasing insanity.
• The Smart Guy: Cameron of course, with his Awesome by Analysis able to assist the team through challenges.
• The Team Benefactor: Zoey stands out as the most useful member of the team, being the one to directly win for the team in "Evil Dread", shoot the most opponents, including the last remaining Villain, in "Saving Private Leechball", delivering the last eggs alongside Mike in "No One Eggspects The Spanish Opposition", as well as scoring an automatic point for her previous victory in "Suckers Punched".
• Token Evil Teammate:
  • Courtney was placed on this team to begin with, despite her less-than-noble qualities. Chris eventually realizes this mistake and has her swap with Duncan.
  • Duncan thinks of himself as one, but no one treats him as such due to his Took a Level in Kindness.
  • The actual holder of this title would be Mal, the evil Split Personality within Mike and the true Big Bad of All-Stars.

Villainous Vultures

Original Members: Alejandro, Duncan^note forced to swap with Courtney over to the Heroic Hamsters, Gwen, Heather, Jo, Lightning, Scott

Later additions: Courtney^note originally Heroic Hamsters but swapped with Duncan, Cameron^note originally Heroic Hamsters but forcibly moved to this team by Chris in "Moon Madness"

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• Alliterative Name: Villainous Vultures.
• Big Bad Ensemble: This team consists of the majority of the villains from throughout the show's run, where they predictably spend most episodes bickering or backstabbing one another.
• Big Bad Wannabe: A whole team of Ex-Big Bads, though none of them held a candle to Mal.
• The Brute:
  • Lightning is once again the strongest and most athletic member of this team. It is for this very reason, along with his lack of intelligence that gets him voted off early.
  • Once Jo and Lightning were gone and Duncan was moved to the other team, Scott defaulted into this being the most physically inclined and least bright of the team.
• The Corruptor: After being forcibly moved to this team from the Heroic Hamsters, Cameron started using backhanded tactics to win and became worried he was becoming like them.
• The Dragon: Alejandro tried to be this for Heather but she didn't trust him. with good reason.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: Surprisingly this is one of the most diverse teams in the shows history, especially post-reboot. Throughout the season they have two White men (Duncan and Scott), two White women (Gwen and Jo), two Black men (Lightning and Cameron), two Latinos (Alejandro and Courtney) and a half-Asian woman (Heather) on their team. Interestingly two of these started out as Token Minority's on the Heroic Hamsters and in the finale an Italian man with a mental disorder becomes a symbolic member.
• Evil Genius: On a team full of manipulative villains, the status as the smartest member now falls to Alejandro, while taking a back seat from leadership.
• Ex-Big Bad: All of them sans Gwen (and later Cameron) were either the Big Bad or the secondary antagonist of a previous season.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Pretty much the entire team can be considered this, with all teammates having at best one ally (or two in Courtney and Gwen's case), assuming they don't betray them or aren't betrayed by them in the end.
• The Lancer: Heather served as this to Jo, being the most willing to question and go against her.
• The Leader: For the first few episodes Jo fought for this role with Heather. After Jo's elimination, the team no longer followed any one particular person and hence ceased having a leader.
• Legion of Doom: They’re pretty much all the villains from the other seasons.
• Token Good Teammate: Gwen was wrongly placed on the team, so she would remain the only heroic member until Cameron was swapped over by Chris.
• Vile Vulture: Their team symbol has a vulture to symbolize their villainous.

Total Drama Pahkitew Island

Pimâpotew Kinosewak (Floating Salmon)

Original Members: Amy, Jasmine, Max^note moved to Team Maskwak after swapping with Sky, Rodney, Samey, Scarlett, Topher

Later additions: Sky^note originally Team Maskwak but swapped with Max

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• Amazon Brigade: Much like Team Amazon, this team gets reduced to all females with the sole exception of Topher. Once Topher is eliminated, the team truly achieves this status.
• The Big Guy: Rodney, who is only behind Jasmine in size and strength, but unlike her lacks her Genius Bruiser tendencies and is firmly Dumb Muscle.
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: Their team was meant to be called the Soaring Eagles, but because Chris relied on a free online translator when translating the team names into Cree, they ended up being called the Floating Salmon instead.
• Butt-Monkey: Not as pronounced as other teams with similar performances such as the Killer Grips or Team Victory, but Team Kinosewak managed to score a total of zero additional wins after beating Team Maskwak twice in the first two episodes, thus becoming the only "inferior" team in Total Drama to actually start stronger than its rival. In fact, if one counts the tie they had with Maskwak in Episode 7, Kinosewak possess the dubious honor of being the only team in the whole franchise to have lost six episodes in a row, accounting for the biggest losing streak in Total Drama. Thankfully for them, the aforementioned tie plus Chris disqualifying Ella when Maskwak had won helped Kinosewak stay even in the competition, reaching the merge with three members as opposed to Maskwak's four.
• Dwindling Party: They end up suffering this as a result of losing every challenge after the first two, to the point where there are only three of them left by the time of the merge (Jasmine, Scarlett, and Sky). To make matters worse, there would have been only two of them left by the merge had Sugar not ratted out Ella's singing to Chris in Episode 6, which caused Ella to be eliminated instead despite her team winning.
• Evil Genius: Max thinks of himself as one, but if anything is more of The Load with the real holder of that title being Scarlett.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • Max for being a Card-Carrying Villain that serves as an annoyance for everyone.
  • While only Amy is shown being rude to Rodney, he didn't make any friends due to his Fool for Love personality. He was also seen as The Load in his elimination episode, constantly failing to answer Truth questions and getting his teammates electrocuted repeatedly as a result. It was to the point that Chris couldn't think of a reason for Scarlett to be in the bottom two.
  • Aside from Jasmine, Sammy is Hated by All after Amy uses Crocodile Tears to paint her as the Evil Twin.
  • Scarlett becomes this after her true nature is revealed.
  • Topher was never close to any of his teammates and was generally seen as The Load, especially when his comments caused Chris to make challenges even harder.
• The Lancer: Interestingly, the twins provide both versions of the trope.
  • Amy ends up being an antagonistic lancer who tries to assert her own dominance and ends up clashing with Jasmine.
  • Samey is the supportive lancer, being Jasmine’s main sidekick and Number Two on the team.
  • Sky serves as this when she swaps to this team, being the second-in-command to Jasmine.
• The Leader: Jasmine quickly establishes herself as a natural-born leader.
• The Load: Although to a lesser extent than Confused Bears, everyone except for Jasmine, Samey, and Scarlett (and Sky once she joins the team) have been a hindrance at some point.
  • Max. He gives absolutely zero contributions to the team and more often than not screws them over due to prioritizing his ridiculous attempts at Chronic Villainy.
  • Topher to a lesser extent. Very little focus is put on him actually competing in challenges and when it does, it's usually to show off to the camera or doing a Chris-related scheme that is of no help to the team.
  • Amy's skills in challenges aren't the problem, it's the fact that she's an Attention Whore and a massive Jerkass towards her teammates, making her difficult to work with.
  • While his Super-Toughness may make up for it, Rodney's unintelligence and being a Fool for Love led to him losing in challenges, such as being hit in the balloon by Dave when the former wasn't looking and especially the Truth or Scare challenge.
• The One Guy: Due to Rodney's elimination and Max swapping teams with Sky, Topher becomes the sole male member of the team for a while, and once he is eliminated the team truly becomes all-female.
• The Smart Gal: Scarlett takes this honor by being one of the most intelligent characters on the show, period. Only it turns out she's actually an Evil Genius.

Wanihtam Maskwak (Confused Bears)

Original Members: Beardo, Dave, Ella, Leonard, Shawn, Sky^note moved to Team Kinosewak after swapping with Max, Sugar

Later additions: Max^note originally Team Kinosewak but swapped with Sky

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• The Big Gal: Sugar, with her only contribution to the team being her Stout Strength.
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: Their team was meant to be called the Ferocious Tigers, but because Chris relied on a free online translator when translating the team names into Cree, they ended up being called the Confused Bears instead.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • While Beardo was outright disliked just by Dave and Sugar, he failed to make any friends, with most of his teammates finding his sound effects annoying rather than helpful, which got him eliminated over Leonard, whose idea cost their team the challenge.
  • Leonard's uselessness in challenges and inability to tell reality from fantasy quickly makes him this, with only Sugar and Ella having a positive opinion of him.
  • The only person who liked Sugar was Ella and even then the friendship wasn't mutual.
• The Heart: Ella, an Actual Pacifist and Friend to All Living Things who would never think to harm another soul.
• The Lancer: Dave. Regardless of whether it is Shawn or Sky in charge, he is there to contrast their assertive leadership with his grumbling.
• The Leader: Shawn and Sky share this role depending on the episode. Once Sky swaps teams, Shawn takes over full time, albeit only for one episode.
• The Load: Might take out the top prize in this department, with virtually all of the team save for Sky being a hindrance at some point, with Shawn being the only other member to be at least decent in all challenges, although he has his moments.
• The Smart Guy: While the team has no obvious genius characters, Shawn still fits the bill the closest due to being an expert wilderness survivalist.
• Token Evil Teammate: Sugar for the majority of the time was the only true jerkass on the team. For one episode she gets joined by Max before the teams merge.

Total Drama Island (2023) Part 1

Ferocious Trout

Original Members: Axel, Chase, Damien, Millie, Priya, Ripper, Scary Girl, Zee

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• The Big Guy: Ripper as the most physical of the group.
• Butt-Monkey: Ripper goes through a lot of embarrassing moments in the first few episodes. Chase also undergoes a lot of humiliation courtesy of Emma.
• Five-Token Band: Ripper and Scary Girl are white, Damien and Millie are black, Zee is Hispanic, Axel is Latina, Priya is Indian and Chase is East-Asian.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • Chase due to being an Innocently Insensitive Narcissist. Downplayed in that he got along with Ripper and Zee.
  • Ripper was generally Hated by All for being a Gasshole Straw Misogynist The Bully. Also downplayed, as he got along with Chase and Zee.
  • Scary Girl terrified everyone with her Nightmare Fetishist Ax-Crazy personality. At best, Zee didn't mind her while Priya saw her as a necessary ally.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: They have 4 boys and 4 girls, much like their opposing team.
• The Heart: Zee serves this, being the nicest member of the team and most easygoing.
• History Repeats: Much like DJ in World Tour, Damien wants to leave the show but his attempts at getting voted out fail constantly, at least until he regains the will to compete on the show. Much like Dave, he also made a campaign to vote himself off with buttons on which his face was crossed off.
• The Lancer: Millie serves as this, her more useless contributions in challenges contrasting Priya's more active role in the team.
• The Leader: Both Axel and Ripper attempt to be this towards the team but fail. In contrast Priya does a much better job mentoring her fellow competitors.
• The Load: Ferocious Trout consistently struggle in every challenge, it takes a miracle to bring them back in the game. Just about every member except Priya has held the team back one way or another.
  • Ripper brings the most conflict to his team by far. His inability to follow orders, habit of throwing other competitors under the bus and even his tendencies to prioritize a fart record over his teammates' own safety create an unreliable teammate. It doesn't help how his challenge performance is usually mediocre to outright bad, though he generally pulls his weight more often than not.
  • Chase, similarly to Ripper, is an overconfident competitor that will argue with his team, throw others under the bus and perform miserably in challenges. His priorities such as flirting with Emma, focusing on himself over assisting other teammates or suddenly having a fear can make him a complete liability in challenges sometimes.
  • Zee is a mixed bag of a teammate. On occasion he will be very helpful to his team but most of the time his spaced out personality creates blunders only Zee can cause. So much so that Zee ends up inadvertently deciding who wins the challenge most of the time. His challenge performance isn't all that impressive to make up for his flaws.
  • Axel got far too aggressive, constantly bickering with her teammates. She lets her aggression get the best of her as she directly puts her team in a worse position for a challenge by kicking a teammate overboard. She fails to lead her team sufficiently to make up for it.
  • Scary Girl is easily distracted and is more interested in creating chaos and freaking out other competitors than helping in challenges for most of the game (although she's actually very skilled when she's focused).
  • As Damien joined the contest without knowing what it was he is completely unprepared for what's ahead of him (although his skill level is moderate).
  • Millie is also seen as this to an extent, especially as the weaker competitors start getting eliminated and she begins to rely heavily on the hypercompetent Priya to carry her through the challenges.
• The Smart Guy: Priya has the most knowledge about navigating the challenges however Damien is the most down-to-earth and practical of the team.
• Token Evil Teammate: Ripper is pretty mean towards the other competitors but not outright evil. The same applies to Chase even if he's rarely antagonistic. Scary Girl straight-up goes after her own teammates and seems to thrive on causing them trouble.
• Two Girls to a Team: By the time the teams are merged, Priya and Millie are the only remaining female members of the Ferocious Trout.

Frogs of Death

Original Members: Bowie, Caleb, Emma, Julia, MK, Nichelle, Raj, Wayne

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• Big Bad Ensemble: The team includes two main antagonists of the season in Bowie and Julia as well as a Schemer in MK, meaning the majority of strategic and antagonistic players are on this team.
• The Big Guy:
  • Emma is the most physically inclined during challenges for the team.
  • Caleb tries to be this as the Gentle Giant of the team, but it doesn't show too much due to being the first one eliminated.
• Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth: The three main antagonists and strategists of the season are all on the same team and follow this dynamic:
  • Julia is the Combat since having no allies or manipulation skills post-merge left her with only one choice: brute-force her way through challenges in the single-minded pursuit of immunity, which often works to her advantage, and isn't afraid to use her sharp tongue and fists to fight dirty.
  • Bowie is the Diplomacy with the best social game and the most strategic-minded, compartmentalizing his schemes to eliminate the competition and his actual feelings towards them. He's also the only one out of the three to have genuine or even any connections with the other contestants at all.
  • MK is the Stealth as evidenced by her ability to fly under the radar without coming off as either a threat or The Load. She usually operates behind the scenes with borderline cheating tactics such as hacking into the confessionals for blackmail material and stealing her teammates' belongings to auction off.
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • Julia becomes this after her true nature is shown.
  • MK becomes this after her teammates are led to believe she watched them poop in the confessional. She herself is glad that she didn't make any friends.
• Gender-Equal Ensemble: They have 4 boys and 4 girls, much like their opposing team.
• History Repeats: Much like Justin in Island, Caleb is voted off early despite not doing anything to paint a target on his back.
• The Lancer: Bowie has this role, being the most supportive to Wayne and Raj's leadership and the only one outside the three to be consistently great in challenges.
• The Leader: Wayne and Raj are the ones who most frequently lead the team during challenges.
• The Load: The Frogs of Death is a strong unified team that consistently have good to great performances across the board. The times they even lose come from a single competitor costing the challenge for them.
  • Emma starts off this way, failing to provide directions and consequently blowing a challenge out of blind rage towards Chase. She manages to make up for her blunder, becoming a valuable source of help for her team.
  • Nichelle turns out to be useless at anything athletic despite being an action star: singlehandedly throwing a challenge for her team.
  • Julia is a very mixed bag when she pretended to be nice: prioritizing her followers above all else, but she managed to contribute well enough to keep herself well liked. Up until she revealed her true face, Julia immediately conflicts with her team and directly throws a challenge in an attempt to take charge.
  • MK is seen this way by her team because of her rude and sarcastic behavior. Most of her contributions go unknown and uncredited.
• Odd Name Out: The only non-World Tour team across all seven seasons^note Aside from the Boys vs. Girls in "Brunch of Disgustingness" not to follow the "[Adjective] [Animal/Noun]" naming scheme, instead being named the other way around with "of" in-between.
• Rigged Spectacle Fight: Their victory in "Numbskull Island" is at least in part thanks to MK finding and using the control panel for the traps to her advantage.
• The Smart Gal: MK serves as this, as the most notable in brains and using her tech-savviness to help the team occasionally.
• Token Evil Teammate: The Frogs of Death have arguably the most antagonistic competitors during the season. Bowie and Julia both do villainous things throughout the season. Julia's actions are born from open hatred of her castmates while Bowie's actions are more strategic in nature: doing whatever in takes to win. MK isn't evil per se but she acts rude and sarcastic towards the other campers and openly causes them unnecessary pain and embarrassment just for the sake of it.
• Token Good Teammate: Despite having the most antagonists, Emma, Wayne, and Raj are the only nice and non-antagonistic people in their team, though Emma has her moments with sabotaging Chase.
• Two Girls to a Team: By the time the teams are merged, Julia and Emma are the only remaining female members of the Frogs of Death.

Total Drama Island (2023) Part 2

Rat Face

Original Members: Axel, Caleb, Damien, Emma, Millie, Nichelle, Priya (Captain), Zee

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• The Big Guy:
  • Caleb as the strongest member on the team.
  • Nichelle also serves this role after taking a level in badass, being a physical powerhouse in challenges.
• Dwindling Party: They start becoming this episode three onwards, winding up on a major losing streak until the merge thanks to Team Skunk Butt's cheating
• The Friend Nobody Likes:
  • Millie becomes this after tricking Damien into sliding down the "Death Boot" slide with only Priya and later Damien (after she apologizes to him for the incident) being on good terms with her.
  • Emma is also this to a lesser extent, being the only one not in a friendship or alliance with anyone on the team.
• The Heart:
  • Zee still serves this role, as the nicest guy on the team.
  • Damien also serves this as the most down-to-earth among the group and fairly easygoing, being the first to forgive Millie for sending him down* Dwindling Party: the "Death Boot" slide.
• History Repeats: They have a strong start to the season and win the first two challenges back to back, but then end up on a losing streak after that before the merge. Much like what happened to Pimâpotew Kinosewak.
• The Lancer: Axel serves as this, being the unofficial second in command for the team and the second most contributive next to Priya.
• The Leader: Priya seems to be this by default of being the previous season's winner and like Gwen and Trent in Action, being the one to choose the members of the team herself.
• The Load:
  • Millie carries over this trait from last season. This time, she didn't bother reading Priya's strategy guide: leaving her out of her depth and surrounded by ruthless competition. Her inability to focus leads to Millie getting herself and her teammates hurt, eventually becoming the first person on the team eliminated for this reason.
  • Emma takes over that role once Millie is eliminated, her inaccurate answers for the trivia challenges causing the team to fall behind and refusing to contribute for a while when finding out everyone is picking the opposite of her answers.
• Picked Last: Nichelle was the last teammate chosen by Priya for being The Load last season, but still preferred over Ripper, whom Priya had personal dislike of.
• The Smart Girl: Priya carries over this trait from last season, still having a lot of strategies for the show and each challenge.
• Town Girls: After the Elimination of Millie and Emma, Axel serves as the Butch, Nichelle is the Femme and Priya is the Neither.
• Two Girls to a Team: By the time the merge comes, Priya and Axel are the only girls left after Millie and Emma are eliminated and Nichelle quits.

Skunk Butt

Original Members: Bowie (Captain), Chase, Julia, MK, Raj, Ripper, Scary Girl, Wayne

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• Big Bad Ensemble: Both of last season's main antagonists, Bowie and Julia, as well as MK, Ripper, Chase and Scary Girl are on this team. MK and Julia team up in the first episode, appreciating each other's past strategies.
• The Big Guy: Ripper fills the role as the muscle and tank of the team.
• Brains and Brawn: There are two sets within the team with Julia being the Brawn to MK's Brains while Bowie is the Brains to Raj and Wayne's Brawn.
• Butt-Monkey: Ripper continues this role, be it for his injuries and being the butt of everyone's jokes or being Hated by All.
• Combat, Diplomacy, Stealth: Once again, the antagonistic trio of Bowie (Diplomacy), Julia (Combat) and MK (Stealth) from the previous season are on the same team but this time with different strategies since everyone now knows their old schemes:
  • MK steps up to become the main antagonist after Bowie and Julia had stepped down by secretly disguising herself as one of The Interns to gather intel on challenges and plan her schemes accordingly so her team can win through cheating and underhanded means.
  • Julia willingly puts aside her ego and backstabbing tendencies to become a strong, reliable team player and avoid being an easy target for elimination, having a strong challenge performance didn't hurt either. However, she still didn't forget her roots in villainy by acting as MK's right-hand woman and providing the much-needed muscle to her schemes.
  • Bowie is appointed team captain and uses his position to pick his team comprised of all of the generation's antagonists and jerks (Including Julia) so they would stand out as easy elimination targets compared to him while keeping his remaining allies (Raj and Wayne) to secure the majority in votes. But unlike MK and Julia, Bowie is more reluctant to go along with their cheating, seeing how much it upsets Raj and Wayne, and acts as a mediator between the two groups.
• Do Well, But Not Perfect:
  • During the sap challenge, MK reapplies the sap to the rest of the team after using the de-sap spray to get through the challenge (except Ripper who was never sprayed to begin with) to make sure Chris doesn't get suspicious at them being clean.
  • After MK got all the correct answers to the “Would You Rather?” challenge, she deliberately gave the wrong answer for the last one to Bowie to avert suspicion from Chris or the other players.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Most members have this role, with only Raj and Wayne being well-liked:
  • Bowie is Hated by All (with the exception of Raj and Wayne) for his actions last season.
  • Chase continues being this (only this time even Ripper is annoyed by him and Zee is on a different team), especially after acting as The Load in the second challenge.
  • Julia and MK carry over this role from last season, with the only exception of having a Villainous Friendship with each other.
  • Ripper also continues to be Hated by All, as evidenced by the fact that he only ended up on the team for being the last contestant left and being the only one not in an alliance (Bowie, Raj, and Wayne forming one and Julia and MK forming another) within the team after Chase's elimination.
  • Scary Girl continues to be this, with everyone on the team still scared by her creepy personality which gets her booted first.
• Distaff Counterpart: Julia and MK are essentially the female and evil versions of Raj and Wayne.
• Equal-Opportunity Evil: Much like their Spiritual Predecessor the Villainous Vultures they are a surprisingly diverse team, featuring a gay Black man (Bowie) and an Indian man (Raj) who are a couple, two White men (Wayne and Ripper), Two White women (Julia and Scary Girl) and two Asians (MK and Chase).
• The Heart: Wayne and Raj serve as this, being the only Nice Guys and Token Good Teammates on a team full of antagonists.
• History Repeats: Bowie unintentionally picked out his team to consist of almost every Big Bad and antagonist of the fourth generation with the exception of two Token Good Teammates. This is the second time such a team was formed since the Villainous Vultures of All-Stars.
• Irony: Both Julia and MK didn't want to make any friends in part 1. This season they end up becoming Heterosexual Life-Partners.
• Keeping the Enemy Close: Bowie chose Julia on his team for a similar reason as to why Gwen chose Heather on Screaming Gaffers, intending to eliminate her with Raj and Wayne's help.
• The Lancer: Both Julia and MK form an alliance to save the former from being eliminated by Bowie, Raj, and Wayne's trio, thus being the ones to directly oppose the team's captain.
• The Leader: Bowie seems to be this by default of being the previous season's runner-up and, like Gwen and Trent in Action, chose the team himself. However, he's also The Friend Nobody Likes (with only Wayne and Raj liking him) due to his ruthlessness last season so his grip on the others is very tenuous.
• The Load: In Episode 2, Chase spends the whole time trying to get a good intro for his stunt and ends up never participating in the challenge.
• Nice, Mean, and In-Between: Among the final six members of the team, Wayne and Raj are the Nice as the only Nice Guys on the team and showing the most opposition to cheating and dishonest means of winning, Julia and MK are the Mean as the ones most willing to resort to underhanded methods in winning challenges for the team, and Bowie and Ripper are the In-Between with Bowie being strategically inclined but also affable with his relationship with Raj, friendship with Wayne, and showing guilt for supporting Julia and MK's underhanded means of winning challenges when seeing how much this upsets Wayne and Raj and Ripper being crass but also less of a Jerkass compared to the previous season and having a soft spot for Axel.
• Picked Last: Being the last contestant left, Ripper wasn't even chosen to be on the team and was instead placed on it by default.
• Rigged Spectacle Fight: MK's strategy for the season is posing as The Intern to get information about upcoming challenges so that she (and her teammates) can prepare to cheat during them. Unlike the Screaming Gaffers, all three of their victories can be attributed to cheating, which Episode 6 reveals Chris allowed. Also unlike the Screaming Gaffers, who were mostly kept in the dark about the unfair nature of some of their wins, not only was the entire team in the know about the cheating, but half of the team (Julia, MK, Bowie and Ripper) was onboard with it, while the other half was either against it (Wayne and Raj), or was eliminated before the cheating started (Chase and Scary Girl).
• The Smart Girl: MK once again fills this role as the most strategically inclined in the team.
• Token Good Teammate: Wayne and Raj are the only two unambiguously good people on a team full of antagonists (Bowie, Julia and MK) and jerks (Chase, Ripper and Scary Girl). This leads them to get into conflict with the rest of the team's willingness to go along with Julia and MK's plans to cheat their way to victory.
• Town Girls: For the three females on the team, MK is the Butch, Julia is the Femme and Scary Girl is the Neither.
• Two Girls to a Team: With Scary Girl's elimination in the very first episode, Julia and MK quickly become the only female members of the team.

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