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Characters featured in Total DramaRama. For versions of the characters from the parent show see this page.

Main Adults

Norbert "Chef" Hatchet

"Kids, do what you do best: Ruin Everything!"

Voiced by: Deven Mack

Chris McLean's sidekick in Total Drama, now in charge of a daycare. Unfortunately for him, taking care of toddler versions of the teen contestants is harder than dealing with the actual teenagers.

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• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Chef dislikes the teens in the parent franchise and takes pleasure in making them miserable. Here, he's still got a notably short fuse when it comes to the kids' antics, but actually does care about them and generally gets along with them.
• Adaptational Job Change: Is now the teacher (owner?) of a daycare center.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the main series, Chef is a sadistic Jerkass who enjoyed tormenting the teens and terrorizing them. In this universe, he is a strict but kind caretaker who does his best to be responsible and keep the children safe.
• Adaptational Wimp: While the old Chef did suffer his comedic antics, he was also a very intimidating guy who the Total Drama kids usually feared, came up with clever tricks of his own, and won fights with Izzy. This Chef is moreso a dimwitted goofball who the kids don't respect and has the show dump all over.
• Adults Are Useless: Chef spends more than half of his time doing his own personal activities that he often neglects the children and the misadventures they become involved in. Also, he thought it was a good idea to bring live scorpions for the kids to play with.
• Artifact Name: He's still referred to as Chef, even though he's changed from being a camp cook to a daycare teacher.
• Ascended Extra: Goes from being Chris' sidekick to the main overseer of the kids.
• The Atoner: In "OWW", Chef reveals that he used to be part of wrestling team, Hot Lunch, as Soup and his partner was Sammy. They were going to make it big, but Chef was forced into a doublecross by defeating Sammy with his own signature move. It ended Sammy's wrestling career and consumed by guilt, Chef quit too and found himself the worst job he could think of, teacher, to atone for his foul deed every day for the rest of his working life.
• Badly Battered Babysitter: Every episode, he goes through hell taking care of a classroom full of hyperactive preschoolers.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Even though he's much friendlier here than his original self, one must still be wary about his occasional angry moments (especially if they're seriously that severe).
• Butt-Monkey: It's never easy for Chef to take care of 14 obnoxious brats by himself.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Chef is a lot weirder in this series as well. At times he can be seen conversing with inanimate objects.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: For tricking him with a fake admirer just so they can have unlimited pizza, Chef has Owen and Jude punished by setting them in the time out corner where they're forced to finish a whole gallon of blended vegetable juice.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: When he's sad, he makes gross lunches.
• Did Not Think This Through: A lot of his ideas wind up backfiring because of this.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: There was nothing to suggest that Chef had a Glass Eye in the main series.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Inverted. This much nicer Chef actually has a noticeably higher voice than he did in the main series. It's worth noting that Chef's voice actor in this series has confirmed he was specifically directed to play a less gruff-sounding version of the character for the show.
• Flanderization: In earlier episodes, Chef was much tougher on the kids, very quick to anger, was very no-nonsense and always made sure the kids always faced the consequences of their actions. But very quickly, Chef became more of a childish, manipulative, pushover which the kids frequently take advantage of, who couldn't really care less about his job or the kids' well-being.
• Fun-Hating Confiscating Adult: In the first episode, it was established that Chef was always confiscating the children's toys.
• Gentle Giant: While he still has his anger issues like his original self, here, he shows much more humanity by being genuinely caring towards the daycare children.
• Glass Eye: Chef's right eye is fake.
• Hero Antagonist: He's Large and in Charge and is often portrayed as the antagonist, but he's only doing his job and has shown no signs of being inherently evil.
• Kindhearted Cat Lover: Chef is noticeably nicer in this series, and absolutely adores cats, presumably owning several of them.
• Manchild: Despite being the teacher, Chef can be as childish as his students frequently.
• Named by the Adaptation: His first name is finally revealed to be Norbert.
• Necessarily Evil: He's only doing his job as a child caregiver by making sure the kids are safe and not getting into trouble.
• Non-Indicative Name: He's still referred to as Chef in this series despite being a teacher.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Tries to comfort Noah over feeling bad, but his idea of doing so is by being Brutally Honest and further crushing his self-esteem.
  • Although his actions were misguided, "Aquarium For A Dream" is this for him, as he hid the deaths of the class goldfish because he was worried that it would break the kids' hearts if they knew the truth.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Just like in the parent show, Chef isn't afraid to be in touch with his feminine side. He spent several hours on the phone gushing about his cat, he held a private photo-shoot for himself where he wore colorful outfits and didn't have the heart to tell the kids the truth about their goldfish in fear of hurting them.
• Retcanon: His outfit and personality from this series are inherited by the main Chef in the reboot.
• Running Gag: As part of his Butt-Monkey status, his car is often destroyed by the kids' hi-jinks.
• Stern Teacher: Strict and mean, but also caring.
• Trademark Favorite Food:
  • Rainbow Pegasus Juice Mix. If he doesn't get his daily morning juice, he goes berserk.
  • Lobster, so much so that he nearly eats a seafood restaurant's entire stock, which leads him to being banned for life from said restaurant after attempting to steal lobsters from the display tank after being told to leave.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: He is utterly terrified of sugar rushes. And judging from what we've seen, his fear is very justified.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Receives this at the end of "Aquarium For A Dream" when the class realizes that he has been lying about the deaths of the class goldfish.
• Wingding Eyes: When he believes he has a secret admirer, his eyes turn into hearts.
• You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: He slowly becomes more unhinged, furious and dangerous if he doesn't have his unicorn drink.

MacArthur

"You've all gotten me fired from soooo many jobs! Hot dog vendor, juice barista, courier, dental hygienist, ghosthunter, zookeeper, massage therapist, magician, dogcatcher, military sergeant AND, MY FAVORITE, TOILET SECURITY SYSTEM TECHNICAN!"

Voiced by: Evany Rosen

A character from Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race. Whereas she was a police cadet in that show, here she works in every odd job the plot requires.

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• Adaptational Job Change: Instead of a police cadet, she has several different jobs in this series.
• Age Lift: Rather than being aged down like everyone else, she appears to be the same age as she was in Ridonculous Race. In the parent series, she would be about the same age as the Total Drama cast as well as a fair bit younger than the 6teen cast (Jen Masterson was her babysitter).
• A Day in the Limelight: She is the main focus of "MacArthur Park" and "Aches and Ladders".
• Depending on the Writer: How she feels about the kids varies from episode to episode. Sometimes she's fond of them, and other times, she finds them to be annoying.
• Drives Like Crazy: Like in Ridonculous Race, MacArthur is often shown to have little regard for the rules of the road.
• Early-Installment Weirdness: When she first appears in "Duck Duck Juice", she's depicted as exhausted, miserable, and wholly disgruntled about her job, but in all of her subsequent appearances, she has her usual loud, brash, and hot-headed personality.
• New Job as the Plot Demands: Among other things, she's been seen as a barista, a zookeeper, a pizza deliverer, an ice cream truck driver, a hot dog vendor, an unlicensed chiropractor, a postal delivery worker, and a child dentist. The episode "MacArthur Park" suggests it's because Chef and the kids keep inadvertently getting her fired with their antics.
• Recurring Extra: She gets featured in multiple episodes, each time with a new job. Lampshaded by Cody in "MacArthur Park".

Daycare Students

In General

The daycare ensemble as of Season 3

Eleven of the twenty-two teenagers from Total Drama Island (as well as one character from 6teen) now all as preschoolers attending a daycare. Season 3 added two new students to the class: one from Revenge of the Island and the other from Pahkitew Island.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: Due to this being an Alternate Continuity, they got to know each other when they were only four rather than all meeting each other for the first time at 16.
• Adorably Precocious Child: All of the kids other than Cody are far smarter then any four year old should be at times.
• Karma Houdini: The kids end up destroying the daycare or give Chef some form of suffering, yet they often get away scot-free. However, Duncan seems to be the exception, since he, more often than not, gets punished for his misdeeds.
• Living Prop: If a student isn't involved in the main plot of an episode, then they'll be in the background with little to no lines.
• Sweet Tooth: Exaggerated. These kids become near insane when sugar is involved.
  • Jude and Izzy go into a rush when they chug a "Rainbow Pegasus Juice Mix".
  • All the kids also become hyper when they consume cake. Duncan, Beth, and Leshawna are even willing to become False Friend with Izzy to get cake, and they enter a state of Horror Hunger when they find it was All for Nothing.
  • Just hearing a can of soda pop being opened causes them to act like sugar-obsessed zombies.
• They Killed Kenny Again: You'd be surprised how often the kids would die or suffer from a darkly humerous ending only to come back the next day like everything's normal. Specific examples include Owen and Cody.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Pizza, although cake also seems pretty popular.
• Younger and Hipper: They've gone from teenagers to preschoolers.

Beth

Voiced by: Sarah Gadon

Compared to her teenage self, this Beth is an odd girl obsessed with bees and picking her nose. She's also more prone towards selfish and egocentric behaviour than the original.

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• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • Original series Beth's biggest fear is being covered in bugs, this series Beth loves all types of bugs (especially bees), and instead her biggest fear is zombies.
  • Beth here is also far more prone to disgusting habits (rivalling teenage Owen at times) as she's often seen picking her nose and is occasionally used for Toilet Humor - things teenage Beth pretty much never did.
  • Episodes like "Wristy Business" and "Melter Skelter" also show that she's far more self-centered compared to her original counterpart, who was well-known for being a friendly and awkward Nice Girl.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the original series, Beth developed an Odd Friendship with Duncan by the end of the second season and got along quite well with Leshawna. Here however, the three frequently conflict with each other, often competing to acquire the same things like in "Sharing is Caring".
• Adaptational Jerkass: The most extreme example besides Leshawna. In the original series, Beth was very much a Nice Girl who would only get upset whenever she needed to be and was otherwise very friendly and well-meaning. But as mentioned above, Beth in this series is a downright narcissist who is very bratty and selfish which is highlighted in episodes like "Wristy Business" and "Melter Skelter".
• Animal Motif: She dresses like a bee and LOVES bees wanting them to be her friends.
• Ascended Extra: Beth was one of the less prominent members of the cast in the parent show, competing in only two seasons (and being eliminated early in one of them). In this series though, she's instead part of the Spotlight-Stealing Squad and appears extremely frequently.
• Berserk Button: Don't EVER insult her bee costume.
• Childish Tooth Gap: Like a lot of children her age, her teeth haven't all grown in quite yet.
• Depending on the Writer: Although more of an Adaptational Jerkass in this series, some episodes have her acting more like her original teen self or even an unusual hybrid of her depiction in this show and the original show.
• Eye Glasses: Much like her older self.
• Friend to Bugs: Obviously, she loves bees, but she's also quick to try to protect the lives of an ant colony in "Ant We All Just Get Along". Subverted when she draws the line at scorpions in the same episode, especially after one pinched her.
• Fluffy Tamer: She befriends an alligator and takes him with her to the daycare with no trouble.
• Gasshole: She's much more prone to farting and belching than her teen self.
• Karma Houdini: Numerous episodes centered around her has her acting VERY MEAN-SPIRITED and narcissistic by committing horrid actions for her own gain and rarely (if ever) suffers any consequences for them.
• In Name Only: While nowhere near as drastically changed as Gwen or Cody, this version of Beth possesses very little in common with her original self besides a few key physical traits.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: She's able to carry Jude on her shoulder without breaking a sweat.
• Mythology Gag: Beth being dressed as a bee is a nod to her Island label, which referred to her as "The Wannabe". This makes her younger self a "wanna-bee".
• Nose Nuggets: As mentioned above, she has a nose-picking habit.
• Nose Shove: Compulsively shoves things up her nose. Often things that couldn't conceivably fit up there.
• Pintsized Powerhouse: Beth is shown to be physically stronger than her small appearance would suggest.
• Shout-Out: Her outfit is an homage to the Bee Girl from the Blind Melon "No Rain" music video.
• Speech Impediment: Her lisp is more noticeable in this series.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: She's one of the more frequently appearing kids in this series. If one includes end-credits scenes, she is only absent in 3 of the first season's 51 episodes (those episodes in question are "The Date", "Toys Will Be Toys", and "Simons are Forever").
• Stealth Pun: As explained under Mythology Gag above, she's dressed as a bee because her teenage self was called "The Wannabe".
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Her drastic Adaptational Jerkass qualities make her more like a toddler version of Heather (mainly in Island) than anything like her actual teenage counterpart, with the bee costume even mirroring Heather's label as "The Queen Bee".
• Toothy Issue: Since this is long before she got braces, her teeth are very crooked and uneven.

Bridgette

Voiced by: Kristin Fairlie

While no longer a surfer or a vegetarian, this version of Bridgette is even kinder and gentler than her already sweet-natured teenage counterpart.

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• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • One of Bridgette's defining characteristics in the original series was that she had been a surfer ever since she was a little kid; in fact, she was seen surfing on a few occasions and often carried a surfboard with her. In this series however, her love of surfing is completely ignored, as she doesn't bring up surfing or use a surfboard even once at any point in the show.
  • Bridgette was noted for being a vegetarian in the parent series, but here, she's seen eating a ham sandwich on at least one occasion. Justified because most people don't adopt vegetarianism until they're older (and a vegetarian diet can be detrimental to a young child's health if not planned carefully).
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Bridgette and Leshawna were extremely close friends as teenagers. Here however, they don't interact with each other than often, and Leshawna doesn't seem to treat her in any special manner.
  • Duncan was one of the few Bridgette did not get along with in the parent show due to their contrasting personalities. But with Bridgette's niceness exaggerated and Duncan's meanness toned down, the two instead get along pretty alright here.
• Butt-Monkey: Most of her appearances involve her suffering some varying level of misfortune: from having her balloon being taken away, to being assaulted by Jude's psychotic chicken, to eating a worm by accident and coming down with the hiccups, to being bullied by the evil class hamster.
• Character Exaggeration: Bridgette was already one of the sweetest characters in the original show, but her kindness is taken to ridiculous new heights in this show, albeit at the cost of her Granola Girl and surfer traits being vastly downplayed.
• Cheerful Child: Despite her frequent Butt-Monkey moments, she remains a sweet, easygoing, and friendly little girl who sees the best in everyone.
• The Conscience: Like her older self, Bridgette remains a caring and moral character. For example in "The Date", she tries to talk Jude out of his scheme to fool Chef with a fake admirer because the idea would involve lying and messing with other people's lives. However, she changes her mind when she realizes it will help make Chef feel happy again.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Not to the extent of her teenage counterpart, but she still has her moments of adorable klutziness, like accidentally swallowing a worm while going down a slide headfirst.
• The Cutie: She's even nicer and sweeter than her teenage self, and it is unbelievably cute. She even once set up a business for free compliments and hugs!
• A Day in the Limelight:
  • "Hic Hic Hooray" focuses on Bridgette's efforts to get rid of her hiccups.
  • "Wiggin' Out" focuses on Bridgette's efforts to regrow her hair, so she can donate it to a charity.
  • "A Bridgette Too Far", the season 3 finale and Series Fauxnale, Bridgette tries her hardest to get her focus episode, only to be interrupted by other parties, even resorting to wielding the Jerkass Ball to get her way.
• Everyone Has Standards: She's very tolerant of people, but in "Dream Worriers," she was tired of Owen thinking about food to the point of insulting him.
  Bridgette: Owen, is that all you ever think about you big, hungry baby?
• Fan of the Underdog: In "Tiger Fail", she's the only one who asks for Gwen's opinion on what type of ice cream she wants. She even becomes her sole supporter when it comes down to her and Cody.
  Bridgette: Don't tell anyone this, but I'm rooting for Gwen to win.
• Friend to All Living Things: She's shown to be an animal lover like her teenage self, such as volunteering to take care of the class hamster in one episode, donating her hair to an animal charity in another, and playing with animals in several post-episode credits clips.
• Gasshole: After chugging down a can of soda, she lets out a mighty burp.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: She's very fond of stuffed animals, often seen playing with them and even suggesting to save them first in case of a fire.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Just like her teenage self, Bridgette is a kind, considerate, and friendly blonde who just wants to see everyone get along.
• Hiccup Hijinks: In "Hic Hic Hooray", she gets the hiccups and is desperate to get rid of them.
• Incorruptible Pure Pureness: Bridgette's exaggerated kindness makes her one of the most noble characters among the cast. Humorously, she even gets depicted as an angel in some scenes.
• Nice Girl: Just like in the parent series, Bridgette remains one of the sweetest kids in the cast. In fact, her kindness has been taken up to eleven in this series, portraying her as a soft-spoken and adorably friendly little girl who just wants to be make everyone happy.
• Out of Focus: She has the least focus episodes of all the main characters, and appears less and less frequently after the first season. In Season 1, she appeared in 35 episodes (including end credits scenes), but in Season 2, she only appeared in 11, and in Season 3, she only appeared in 4 episodes. Lampshaded in the Series Fauxnale, where Bridgette tries to get her own episode after realizing how little she has appeared in the show.
• Trauma Conga Line: In "Hic Hic Hooray". Poor girl accidentally eats a worm, gets the hiccups, has a surprise Christmas taken away from her, and Noah makes her his slave. However, a panic attack when her mom shows up is what cures her hiccups.
• True Blue Femininity: Just like her older self, Bridgette wears a light blue top (although this one now has a zipper on it), and is known to be very compassionate and altruistic to others.

Cody

Voiced by: Wyatt White

This Cody is quite a different character than the one on the original Total Drama. Here, he's a naive, happy-go-lucky boy who's probably the closest to acting like a real four-year-old.

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• Adaptational Dumbass: Teenage Cody, in spite of a few lapses in judgement, had pretty average intelligence, even becoming something of an Only Sane Man during World Tour. Here he's The Baby of the Bunch to a group of Adorably Precocious Children.
• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • Along with Gwen, he's hit the hardest with this. His characterization in the show is almost nothing like his one in the main series. While a few very minor traits remain (his tendency to suck his thumb and his sweet tooth), this version is pretty much an entirely different character personality-wise. Namely, Teenage Cody was a Casanova Wannabe, while this Cody is a Kiddie Kid. This may be justified as his flirty canon personality is more difficult to comfortably pull off with a four-year-old.
  • In "From Badge to Worse", Cody is seen to be afraid of spiders due to being allergic to them, while his teenage counterpart was afraid of having to defuse a time bomb under pressure.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • In World Tour, Cody despised Duncan for stealing Gwen away. However, in "That's a Wrap", he doesn't mind being tethered to Duncan and is very excited to hang around with him (although Duncan doesn't return the sentiment).
  • Kid Cody doesn't pursue Gwen as his older self did. Justified in that they are only four year olds, but here he's actually terrified of Gwen.
• Adaptation Species Change: This series officially reveals that Cody is an alien. There's even an entire race of him. Likely an homage to The Ex-Files.
• All of the Other Reindeer: In "Grody to the Maximum", it's shown that he's largely shunned by all the other kids, to the point where Duncan and Courtney select an injured squirrel and a fire hydrant over him when picking teams for a game.
• Ascended Extra: Gets more screentime in the second and third seasons and even gets A Day in the Limelight in both of them.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Despite the fact all the kids are four years old here, Cody fits this trope the most as he doesn't act years ahead of his age like the others, has the highest speech tone (almost sounded like an actual baby), and is still wearing diapers.
• Bring Me My Brown Pants: Like his teenage self, Cody wets himself when he gets scared. He happily reveals in one episode that he's still in diapers.
• Butt-Monkey: The main pain magnet of this series, getting hurt virtually every episode and sometimes for no reason. In "Tiger Fail", Cody actually dies and no one mourns his passing.
• Character Exaggeration: While teen Cody was noted for having childish qualities (such as his appearance and a few of his habits), this show makes his childlike nature an even vaster part of his character while completely throwing away his Casanova Wannabe status.
• Cheerful Child: He's a very upbeat and optimistic little boy in spite of all the abuse the show puts him through.
• Childish Tooth Gap: Has one like his teenage counterpart.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Cody's thought processes are a little...out there.
• The Cutie: He's an adorably sweet, sensitive, and innocent little boy.
• A Day in the Limelight: "Grody to the Maximum" focuses on him becoming popular with the other kids in the daycare after donning a cool new t-shirt.
• Forgettable Character: In "Tiger Fail", Jude completely forgets about Cody after he disappears midway in the episode before returning near the end.
• The Friends Who Never Hang: Cody and Jude rarely interact onscreen, with the exceptions of "Melter Skelter" and "Jelly Aches".
• Hidden Depths: He's skilled at drawing, as he made an impressive Mother's Day card for Chef's mom. He also made a detailed picture of his friends for Chef to keep.
• In Name Only: Because a lot of Cody's defining traits from his older self were removed for this version, he possibly takes the cake for being the most drastically changed among the kids in the daycare in terms of personality.
• Iron Butt Monkey: Most of his screentime features him in grave moments that would kill a normal preschooler. In Tiger Fail, Cody dies at the end of the episode. Albeit of old age and far into the future.
• Lovable Coward: He gets scared quite easily (even saying so himself in "Grody to the Maximum"), but still remains a sweet and innocent little boy.
• Mad Libs Catchphrase: "I'm a [noun]!"
• Nice Guy: While his teenage self was a good guy at heart, his positive qualities could get sidetracked by his perverted tendencies. Little Cody, on the other hand, is a very shy, friendly, and cheerful boy who just wants to get along with everyone.
• Our Werewolves Are Different: In "A Cluckwork Orange", he morphed into a werewolf after sucking his thumb which was covered in wolverine germs. The process included coughing up hairballs, howling, teeth becoming fangs, and eventually his body becoming completely furry.
• Out of Focus: In the first season at least. Despite appearing pretty regularly in that season, he never got A Day in the Limelight even once - something all the kids with less appearances than him got at least one of. Seasons 2 and 3 rectify this, giving him a significant number of focus episodes.
• Replacement Goldfish: In "CodE.T.", it's revealed that the Cody Planet can just give the cast a new Cody if their current one is defective, outdated, or damaged.
• Running Gag: Getting catapulted into the sky from the seesaw.
• Sweet Tooth: He retains his love for candy in this series.
• They Killed Kenny Again: He's actually died in several episodes, only to return in the very next episode perfectly alive and well.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: There are a few times where the show decides to stop giving him the short end of the stick and give him a happy ending instead, like in "Mother of All Cards".
• Time-Shifted Actor: He was voiced by Peter Oldring in the parent series as a teenager, but is voiced by Wyatt White as a toddler here.
• Vocal Evolution: In the Grand Finale special, his voice is noticably deeper due to Wyatt White hitting puberty..

Courtney

Voiced by: Emilie-Claire Barlow

Just like her teenage self, the Courtney of this show is a bossy overachiever and a stickler for the rules who always tries to maintain order among the other kids.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: In the main series, she has black eyes. Here, they're dark brown.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Although still a bossy perfectionist, her haughtiness and temper have been severely toned down in this series. Downplayed in the second season, which shows her competitive side more often.
• Beware the Nice Ones: While much nicer than her teenage self, Courtney is still not one to be trifled with when she's mad in this series.
• The Bore: Her classmates consider her one due to her constant presentations on subjects either far too advanced for them, being on topics only she cares about or both.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Still nags and prattles much to the annoyance of her friends.
• Butt-Monkey: As the only sensible one in a daycare full of zany kids, it's a given. This is most prominent during "Know It All".
• Child Prodigy: Proves to be very intelligent and well-spoken, especially for her age.
• Control Freak: Takes this to extremes. For example, when Chef doesn't teach the way she wants him to, she calls him up repeatedly pretending to be the school board. When he catches her, her next plan is to get a wrist bracelet that allows her to override and control people's brains.
• Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Frequently does this to herself, in order to keep herself focused.
• Girlish Pigtails: Courtney's short hair is done up in pigtails. Along with her pink shirt and Proper Tights with a Skirt look, the pigtails play into her conformist need to be the ideal little girl.
• Go-Getter Girl: Even as a four year old, she has her whole life all mapped out, with her endgame being to become president of the world.
• Heroic Wannabe: Much like her older counterpart, Courtney wants to be a good person, yet her methods make her less and less popular with everyone.
• Not So Above It All: Has shown to be willing to indulge in the other kids' antics on occasions. In the first episode for instance, she berates all the other kids for stealing the toys from Chef's safe, but can't resist swooning over her confiscated doll.
• Obsessed with Perfect Attendance: Courtney is the only one in the episode "Germ Factory" who doesn't want to get sick and miss school, since she's one day away from making one hundred straight days of daycare attendance and getting a gold star. She does get sick at the end, but drags herself to daycare anyway, begging to be let in.
• Only Sane Woman: Often tries to talk the other kids out of their antics, usually to no avail.
• The Perfectionist: Just like her teenage self, Courtney strives to succeed at everything and have everything go perfectly for her.
• Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Like in the main series, Courtney is shown to be incredibly strong for her size, but it is even more prominent here since she is only four years old, yet can beat up a real mummy and tear a table in half.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Like the original series, Courtney has appear in many episodes in addition to having many of those episodes dedicated about her.
• "Shaggy Dog" Story: Most of her focus episodes involve her fighting tooth and nail for something and just when she thought she had won, the results is overturn, rendering her efforts worthless.
• The Stool Pigeon: Tattletales on everyone who does wrong.
  Duncan: Noah, why don't you stay behind and make sure Chef doesn't notice we're missing.
  Courtney: Or, I could stay behind.
  Duncan: No dice, princess. You'd rat us out, first chance you get.
  Courtney: (in confessional) I absolutely would.
• Sudden Eye Colour: Her eyes are changed from black to dark brown in this series.
• Teacher's Pet: She's the most by-the-rules kid who tries hard to be the golden standard.

Duncan

Voiced by: Drew Nelson

Duncan here is exactly what you'd expect the one from the original Total Drama to be as a toddler — a troublemaker who loves breaking the rules but with a soft side hidden under his mean attitude.

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• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • Downplayed, as he shares a similar attitude with his teenage version. Still, this version of Duncan is far more sensitive than his main series counterpart and has cried or teared up on multiple occasions, something the teenage Duncan almost never did. Granted, it's completely justified since he's four years old.
  • Duncan's biggest fear in the original series was of Celine Dion music store standees. Here, it's the dark and thunderstorms.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Duncan and Harold were bitter enemies in the original series, but they seem to get along fine here.
  • Similarly, Bridgette and Noah get along with Duncan much better in this show compared the original series, where Bridgette and Duncan had somewhat of a mutual dislike for each other, while Duncan and Noah did not interact very frequently, but the few times they did were unfriendly at best.
  • On the flip side, Duncan developed an Odd Friendship with Beth near the end of the original series' second season. Here, he and Beth frequently often squabble with each other to get things.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: He's still a bully, but he lacks his main series counterpart's initial hostility and gets along with most of his peers.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: His parents are revealed to be a popular children's singing group known as "Bananas and Cheese".
• Angrish: He apparently goes into it enough that Chef claims that Duncan "lost his words" again in one episode.
• Anime Hair: His teenage self's mohawk is replaced with a spikey hair at the front that sticks up and out.
• Book Dumb: Justified since he's only four years old, but he's called the alphabet the "letterbet" and claimed "science is not an exact science". Like his older self, what Duncan lacks in book smarts, he makes up in Street Smarts.
• The Bully: Carried over from the main series, although he's more of a verbal bully who teases rather than a physical bully, to accommodate for his younger age.
• Can't Get Away with Nuthin': Unlike his older self most of the time, Duncan almost never gets off scot-free for his misdeeds.
• Character Development: A subtle example but Duncan later learns to accept Cody as a genuine friend in later episodes. Duncan even decided to make Cody his partner in crime in the Grand Finale.
• Didn't Think This Through: More often than not the reason why his attempts to escape the daycare fail.
• Friendly Enemy: To Owen.
• For the Evulz: Popped Izzy's bubblegum bubble for the fun of it.
  Duncan: Whenever there's a chance to cause anarchy, I take it.
• Green and Mean: His mohawk is green as always, and he's a bullying troublemaker on the path to becoming a delinquent.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: Duncan had said on several occasions that he's the only one who can bully his friends and will take on other villains if he has to.
• Jerkass: Like in the main series, he is a rude, scheming Card-Carrying Villain who frequently laughs at others' misfortunes. In an Establishing Character Moment, he pops Izzy's bubble just For the Evulz.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: He is easily the meanest kid in the class but he genuinely cares for his friends, especially Owen.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Many of his zany schemes backfire on him.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: Duncan's parents are peppy children's folk singers. Duncan himself is a juvenile delinquent in training.
• Loners Are Freaks: Just like his older counterpart, he doesn’t have many friends and basically says to Owen that he is the closest person he has considered a friend. Cody later counts as well, with Duncan wanting to be partners in crime with him in the Grand Finale.
• Kids Are Cruel: Just like his older counterpart, he likes to cause trouble.
• Naughty Is Good: Broke into Chef's forbidden safe, to get Owen's Uber-Ball back.
• Obviously Evil: While Noah begged Owen not to go along with Duncan's clearly manipulative plan, Duncan was depicted as a devil, trying to lure him to The Dark Side.
• Oral Fixation: He's shown sucking on a big purple pacifier in multiple episodes.
• The Prankster: When he's not trying to escape the daycare, Duncan often pulls pranks on his fellow classmates and Chef.
• Prison Escape Artist: Attempts, and often fails, to escape daycare. The one time he does successfully escape the daycare, he wants to go back due to his Fear of Thunder.
• Spikes of Villainy: Like his older self, little Duncan keeps his spiked collar, even though such a thing would presumably be dangerous for a young child to wear. Though they could be rubber spikes or something similar.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: A trait he shares with his teen counterpart, as he remains one of the most frequently appearing and heavily focused-on of the kids. Ultimately, if one counts end-credits scenes, then Duncan only missed one episode of the first season ("Cluckwork Orange").
• Token Evil Teammate: He's the most spunky and rebellious kid in the daycare. However, he has his kind moments.
• Tunnel King: Duncan is constantly tunneling his way out of daycare.
• Zany Scheme: His (often failed) escape plans.

Gwen

Voiced by: Lilly Bartlam, Megan Fahlenbock (ending of "Tiger Fail")

A very different character than her teenage self, this version of Gwen has fully embraced the goth stereotype to become a morose and morbid girl who takes pleasure in scaring the other kids.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Downplayed. Her hair is now all teal, rather than black-and-teal like her older self. Also, she has black eyes in the main series. Here, they're dark (almost navy) blue.
• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • Teen Gwen was a Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold and often an Only Sane Woman. Toddler Gwen is a Cloudcuckoolander Creepy Child who displays a sadistic streak and appears to take genuine pleasure in terrorizing the other kids in the daycare. Though this varies based on the episode.
  • In the parent series, Gwen was established to be claustrophobic. Here, she's regularly seen holing herself up inside of confined spaces like her egg chair with the blinders closed. However, in the parent series, Gwen specifically stated her fear was being buried alive, which is called taphophobia.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Generally speaking, most of Gwen's interactions and dynamics from the parent series are replaced with most of the others being outright frightened by her due to her more hardcore goth personality in this series making her even more of a loner than her teenage self. The exceptions seem to be Noah (who instead possesses a minor Odd Friendship with her; ironically, the two seemed to dislike each other in the original series), Bridgette (one of her close friends in the original show), Duncan (though they're nowhere near as close friends as their teenage selves were pre-World Tour), and (usually) Owen (who she calls a "nice kid").
• Adaptational Jerkass: Little Gwen is much more sadistic and unpleasant. Even prior to Teen Gwen's Character Development she was at most a Misunderstood Loner with a Heart of Gold capable of befriending a fair few of the other contestants. Gwen here can give Chris McLean a run for his money in the sadism department, actively encouraging harm and death unto the other kids and constantly being condescending to them. She even reaches Ax-Crazy levels in "Wristy Business" when she tries to fix Beth and Leshawna's injuries with a chainsaw.
• Adaptational Modesty: Since she's now four, her top no longer sports a Cleavage Window.
• Character Exaggeration: Gwen's Goth and loner qualities in the original series are amped up massively in this show, transforming her from a downbeat but kindhearted Perky Goth who eventually came out of her shell and made friends with others to a gloomy and antisocial Creepy Child who hates happiness and friendship and is obsessed with death and horror.
• Cloudcuckoolander: Her morbid and gloomy personality gives her a rather unusual and disturbing way of looking at the world.
• Creepy Child: She carries an ominous air and always wishes ill upon others. She also keeps bats, a snake and a scorpion in her cubby.
• Creepy Doll: In "VentHalla" she holds a worn out ragdoll that looks like a dead girl. She's also frequently seen with a headless doll.
• Depending on the Writer: One episode may have her acting like her original self, another might have her acting like Crimson from The Ridonculous Race and another might have her acting like an odd mixture of both.
• Deadpan Snarker: One of her defining traits is her sarcastic personality, which is best shown in "Snack to the Future" and "The Upside of Hunger".
• The Dreaded: Most of the other daycare kids are terrified of her.
• The Eeyore: Tells people, that their latest and greatest plan, can and will lead to death.
• Emerging from the Shadows: Her signature Running Gag in certain episodes, done whenever she makes her debut.
• Enfante Terrible: She's very proud about how much of a creepy little sociopath she is.
• Fluffy Tamer: In "Tiger Fail", she inexplicably has bats and possums that she uses against her fellow preschoolers in order to win the Quiet Game.
• Freaky Is Cool: Unlike Teen Gwen who simply disliked exceedingly cute and happy things but still otherwise had a relatively normal preferences, Young Gwen has an obsession with horrifying things.
• Girlish Pigtails: Gwen's hair is tied into upstanding pigtails, which would be adorable were it not for Gwen being a Creepy Child. As is, the way her pigtails stand up evoke the way arms that are raised to scare look.
• Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Is always seen holding a Creepy Doll.
• Goth: Even moreso than her teenage self.
• Hypocritical Heartwarming: Gwen spends much of "Dissing Cousins", trying to get her cousin to reveal her true self by doing mean things to her but when Chef bad mouths Ella, she immediately kicks Chef.
  Gwen: Nobody talks trash about my family but me!
• In Name Only: By far one of the biggest changes in character in both appearance and personality. The only traits that she retained is being a goth and a loner (although said traits are exaggerated here), as well as having the same hair and skin color.
• Little Miss Snarker: Just as, if not more, snarky than her teenage self which is all the more jarring considering she's a preschooler.
• Loners Are Freaks: Self-admittedly states she's not often invited to playdates.
• Mad Doctor: In "Wristy Business", she tries to fix Beth's and Leshawna's wrist injuries with a chainsaw.
• Nightmare Fetishist: She has a strong dislike for the conventional things kids like and instead revels in dark and disturbing things, namely scaring the other kids.
• Noodle Incident: In "Stay Goth, Poodle Girl, Stay Goth", Gwen explains in a flashback how she turns from a sweet little girl to a goth:
  Gwen: You see... once upon a time...I was a cheerful little girl. [lightning strikes] Then I wasn't. The end.
• Not So Above It All:
  • Gwen is just as hyper as the other kids when she's on a sugar rush.
  • On rare occasions, Gwen will be seen happily playing with her friends and is even seen smiling while doing so.
• Odd Friendship: With Noah. You'd think a know-it-all Deadpan Snarker and a goth would get along as well as they did in the original series, but here they seem to be friends.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: The kids are aware that Chef has a strict rule that forbids them from bringing toys from home knowing that he'll confiscate them. Gwen is shown holding a creepy doll, implying that Chef has yet to take it away from her. Then again, the precise wording was "no toys from home without permission", so it could be simply she got permission.
• Out of Focus: Downplayed. Gwen was part of the Spotlight-Stealing Squad of the original series, and while Gwen appears frequently (at least more than Bridgette and Noah) and has a few episodes centered on her, she's not as focused on as much and tends to be absent in a majority of episodes or play a minor role in them.
• Perpetual Frowner: Her default expression is a gloomy scowl.
• Slasher Smile: Gives several of them in "The Never Gwending Story" when telling a scary story to the other kids.
• Sudden Eye Color: Her eyes are changed from black to a dark shade of navy blue.
• This Is My Chair: She spends most of her time inside her egg chair and doesn't like sharing it with others.
• Time-Shifted Actor: She was voiced by Megan Fahlenbock in the parent series as a teenager, but is voiced by Lilly Bartlam as a toddler here. Fahlenbock returns to voice her as an old woman at the end of "Tiger Fail".
• Token Evil Teammate: The most antisocial, morbid and genuinely sadistic of the kids. Even Duncan, the other "bad kid" doesn't go beyond being a typical rebellious brat.
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: She hates most cute things, but in "Stay Goth, Poodle Girl, Stay Goth", she accidentally brings her favorite stuffed animal, a pink stuffed poodle, to the daycare and spends the episode denying that it's hers.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: In "Stay Goth, Poodle Girl, Stay Goth", Gwen reveals that she was once a cheerful little girl who liked typical little girl things before becoming the sociopathic Creepy Child we see in the series.
• When She Smiles: Yes, just like her original counterpart, Gwen might be a dark and gloomy person, but is adorable when she smiles.

Harold

Voiced by: Darren Frost

Harold here is every bit as nerdy as he was on Total Drama, but now he has an obsession with ninjas and always trains himself in their ways.

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• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • While still a nerd, Harold drops many of his defining quirks in the original series, like his catchphrases, his frequent boasts of having "mad skills", or his tendency to spout useless trivia, instead being much hammier and more panicky.
  • Harold was stated to be afraid of ninjas in Island, but here, he is obsessed with ninjas and wants to become one. In fact, the Season 2 episode "He Who Wears the Clown" reveals he's afraid of clowns in this series.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • He and Duncan were bitter enemies in the original series, but they seem to get along fine here.
  • His teenage self was well-known for his frequent attempts to impress his friend Leshawna. And while there's obviously no romance in this series, the two are friends, but unlike with Duncan and Courtney/Gwen or Owen and Izzy, they rarely interact with each other.
• Adaptational Wimp: While the older Harold was perceived as a wimp too, he did have his mad skills to compensate. Here however, Harold's much less skilled, even if he doesn't realize it, and he suffers a lot more wacky antics because of it. Likely due to his younger age.
• Ambiguously Gay:
  • He asks to hold Duncan’s hand in "Bananas and Cheese" which visibly shocks him.
  • In "Sugar & Spice & Lightning & Frights", Harold watches Lightning cut an apple like a Ninja by then says "you're handsome", then blushes and stutters.
• Black Bead Eyes: Subverted. While he has these while wearing glasses, he has non-dotted eyes when he takes them off. In contrast to his teen self who has dotted eyes even without glasses.
• Butt-Monkey: Harold is Harold, even if it's a different continuity. He still suffers from groin injuries and even injuring himself while performing martial arts moves.
• Casting Gag: While Brian Froud didn’t return, Fresh brought in Darren Frost, their other resident voice actor known for voicing a red-haired bespectacled geek.
• Childish Tooth Gap: Like a lot of young children, his teeth have not fully grown in yet.
• Eye Glasses: Much like his older self.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: While not to the extent of Owen, Duncan, Beth, and Izzy, Harold counts as one of the more frequently appearing kids.
• Time-Shifted Actor: He was voiced by Brian Froud in the parent series as a teenager, but is voiced by Darren Frost as a toddler here.

Izzy

Voiced by: Katie Crown

This Izzy is the same wild, crazy, and energetic girl we know and love, every bit as wacky, psychotic, and hyperactive as her teenage counterpart.

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• Actor Allusion: Izzy's new hairstyle in this series strongly resembles that of Tulip, another character voiced by Katie Crown.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the main series, Chef was her Arch-Enemy, but they mostly get along fine here.
• Adaptational Modesty: Teen Izzy wore a top with a Cleavage Window and a skirt that showed off most of her legs. Little Izzy's shirt instead sports a green raindrop and her skirt is slightly longer.
• Ascended Extra: In the original series, Izzy was more of a side character throughout the majority of the show's run and rarely ever the center of attention in any season. In this series though, Izzy is one of the show's most prominent cast members, with numerous episodes dedicated to her.
• Ax-Crazy: Like her teenage self. Her idea of fun is incredibly dangerous.
• Badass Adorable: Just like teenage Izzy, she's still very cute, very crazy, and very capable of pulling insane stunts and impossible feats.
• Beware the Silly Ones: Much like her teenage counterpart, her crazy antics more often than not puts everyone in danger.
• Big Eater: Pours the entire contents of a gumball machine into her mouth at once.
• Cheerful Child: To Cloud Cuckoolander levels. Nothing ever seems to get her down.
• Class Clown: She is the most zany among the kids and likes to pull pranks; she even dresses up as a literal clown in "Cuttin' Corners".
• Cloud Cuckoolander: She wouldn't be Izzy if she wasn't totally nuts.
• Comically Missing the Point: Due to her eccentric personality, this frequently happens to her.
  • Did this when Duncan insulted her, for loving a unicorn-themed drink once.
    Izzy: I love this so much!
    Duncan: Then why don't you just marry it?
    Izzy: You can do that?!
  • Also when Leshawna panicked after Izzy ruins her secret admirer letters to Chef with one with an invite, Izzy still doesn't see where she screwed up.
• Cute and Psycho: She's energetic, happy-go-lucky, and crazy as all get out, possibly more so than her teenage self.
• The Ditz: It's safe to say her IQ is inversely proportional to her energy.
• Extreme Omnivore:
  • Mentions having swallowed a compass when she was a baby.
  • Swallows her sippy cup on a bus ride, though this was by accident.
  • Gleefully admits to having swallowed a two-by-four, complete with Dinner Deformation.
  • She also ate some crayons offscreen.
• Genki Girl: She is the only kid who's hyper without having to be on a sugar rush.
• Handy Feet: In "Too Much of a Goo'd Thing," Izzy used her bare feet to squish the slime that Beth made. Beth stopped her by taking the slime away.
• Idiot Houdini: No matter how much damage or danger she puts her friends in, Izzy almost always gets away scot-free. The biggest example is in "Not Without My Fudgy Lumps" where she hijacks a military drone using Chef's tablet which results in the entire daycare being reduced to ruins. At the end, Chef gets arrested by the military while she gets away and doesn't seem fazed by her actions.
• Inexplicably Awesome: Adding onto teen Izzy's unexplainable feats, kid Izzy has a Photographic Memory, Drives Like Crazy, and may or may not have telekinesis.
• Large Ham: She has the subtlety of a trainwreck.
• Literal-Minded: Often. When Duncan says Why Don't You Marry It? to Izzy after seeing her snuggling against the unicorn juice, she legitimately wonders if she can do so.
• The Millstone: She's the most likely to make things go awry when the rest of the kids are trying to save face.
• Mind over Matter: It is implied that she may have a form of telekinesis. She states that she can control traffic patterns with her mind, she concentrates and not long after the traffic light goes haywire for a moment, however it is unclear whether this was actually her doing or if it was a coincidence.
• Photographic Memory: Izzy remembered the combination for the safe just by watching Chef enter it once.
• The Pollyanna: She always looks on the brighter side of things even when things look bleak.
  Courtney: Great. We're going to die up here!
  Izzy: Gwen will be so happy!
• The Prankster: She loves playing pranks on her fellow classmates; however, unlike Duncan, Izzy's pranks are more often simply for For the Lulz.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: She gets a lot of appearances in the show. In the first season of the series (if end-credits scenes are included), she is only absent from "Wristy Business" and "Duncan Disorderly".
• Youthful Freckles: A design trait that was added for this series. Teen Izzy lacks them.

Jude Lizowski

Voiced by: Christian Potenza

A character from Total Drama's sister series 6teen. This version of Jude is still the same laidback and spaced-out skateboarder that his teenage self was.

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• Adaptation Personality Change: Downplayed. In 6teen, Jude was rather sloppy and did not shower often to the point where in the episode, "Baby, You Stink", he mentioned he hadn't taken a bath for two weeks. Here, in "Know it All", he shows mild annoyance when Duncan wipes his dirty hand on him, indicating he isn't as sloppy as his 6teen counterpart. Otherwise, he's generally similar to his teenage self.
• Attractive Bent-Gender: Owen calls him the prettiest kid in the daycare, and Leshawna and Bridgette seem to agree after he crossdresses as Chef's date. This is likely a reference to his home series, where he would always be the one to crossdress as the lady when needed.
• The Bus Came Back: Meta-example; this is Jude's first appearance in 8 years, as 6teen ended in 2010.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Just like his teenage self, his laidback, stoner-like attitude sometimes makes him one.
• Demoted to Extra: Appears in less than half of the episodes in the second and third seasons. It becomes full-on Chuck Cunningham Syndrome in the Grand Finale special, where he is neither seen nor mentioned despite the rest of the cast having a speaking role.
• The Ditz: It's clear he's just as dumb as a toddler as he was as a teenager.
• Four-Fingered Hands: Like all the other characters, but worth mentioning because he had five fingers on 6teen, a series which was more grounded in reality and lacking most of the cartoonish, fantastical elements of the Total Drama franchise.
• The Friends Who Never Hang:
  • Jude and Cody rarely interact onscreen, with the exceptions of "Melter Skelter" and "Jelly Aches".
  • Jude and Lightning have also not interacted much onscreen, which may be a side effect of Jude being Demoted to Extra in later seasons.
• Gasshole:
  • Farts in "Duncan Disorderly" after believing he needed to use the bathroom.
  • In "Robo Teacher", he tells Courtney that terror makes him gassy before farting near her twice.
• Men Don't Cry: Doesn't want to demean his boyhood by crying, but when someone else's dam breaks, his starts to leak too.
• Naked People Are Funny: Has trouble keeping his clothes on.
• Nice Guy: Like his teen self, his laidback, super-chill personality makes him one of the friendlier characters.
• Surfer Dude: Just like his teenage self, he's an avid skateboarder who acts and talks like a surfer dude. He surfs on the flood from an exploded water hose in the theme song, and of course he's voice by Christian Potenza who is constantly typecast in this role.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: He essentially replaces Geoff in this series, sharing his dim but easygoing Surfer Dude personality.
• Transplant: He was originally a 6teen character before he appeared in the Total Drama franchise.
• Verbal Tic: Like his teenage self, he uses "dude" a lot.

Leshawna

Voiced by: Bahia Watson

Leshawna here is every bit as loud and proud as her teenage counterpart, but also much bossier and more egotistical than before.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: In the main series, she has black hair. Here, it's dark brown.
• Adaptation Personality Change: While she's still full of "'tude", Leshawna's Jive Turkey qualities are strongly downplayed, with teen self's usage of slang being almost nonexistent in this show.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • She and Harold were good friends in the parent show and even had a brief romance. In this series, the two obviously lack their romantic interactions, but they also don't seem to be close friends. This is in stark contrast to how the interactions between Duncan and Courtney/Gwen or Owen and Izzy in this show allude to their romantic relationships as teenagers.
  • Leshawna and Beth generally got along fine in the original series, but in this show, they often fight with each other to get stuff (as seen in "Wristy Business").
  • Gwen and Bridgette were Leshawna's best friends in the parent series. Here however, she and Bridgette aren't shown to be close friends, and in the case of Gwen, it's evident that Leshawna is actually scared of her.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Leshawna in the original series is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold (though mainly in Island and parts of Action) who would not stand for bullies and was very caring towards her friends. In this series, she has taken a page from Heather, acting as a spoiled Alpha Bitch who sees the world revolving around her. One episode even featured her being the Big Bad.
• Alpha Bitch: The four-year-old version of such, anyways. She's much more spoiled and bratty in this series, acting a lot like a little queen and bossing the other kids around.
• Character Exaggeration: Her teen self's negative traits, such as her aggressive "in-your-face" tendencies and great sense of pride, are greatly played up in this series at the cost of her more likeable qualities, such as the deep care she had for her friends and her zero-tolerance attitude towards jerks and bullies.
• Child Prodigy: Downplayed. For a preschooler, she's quite skilled in writing structured sentences that were able to fool Chef into thinking that it was from a secret admirer.
• Eccentric Artist: A minor example. She's quite talented when it comes to flip animation along with romantic poetry.
• It's All About Me: She's shown to be quite vain and egocentric, and is very easily flattered or bribed with promises of power, wealth, and the like.
• Picky Eater: She outright states that she doesn't like vegetables.
• Sassy Black Woman: Still as sassy as she is when she is a teenager.
• Spoiled Brat: Judging by her family photo in Gum and Gummer, Leshawna's family is pretty rich and she has the ego and attitue of someone who has been showered by too many riches.
• Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Like Beth, much of Leshawna's new traits make her comparable to Heather, from her Alpha Bitch tendencies to her being a rich Spoiled Brat who sees herself as a queen (a reference to Heather's label, the Queen Bee). Ironically, anyone who watched the original series will know that Leshawna and Heather absolutely hated each other.
• Take Over the World: To further relate her to Heather, Leshawna mentions more than once that she dreams of taking over the world, similar to Heather's goal of taking over England (according to her TDI profile).
• Thinks Like a Romance Novel: She doesn't think this way herself, but she uses this knowledge to fool Chef with fake love letters in order to have him order pizza for the daycare and it works.
• Time-Shifted Actor: She was voiced by Novie Edwards in the parent series as a teenager, but is voiced by Bahia Watson as a toddler here.
• Tiny Tyrannical Girl: Whereas her teen self was more of a downplayed variant of Big Fun, Leshawna here is notable for being very bossy and something of a bully.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: Is shown to be very afraid of insects like ants and scorpions, enough so to keep an electric bug-zapper.

Lightning

Voiced by: Kwaku Adu-Poku

A character from Total Drama: Revenge of the Island added to the main cast in the Season 3 episode "Sugar & Spice & Lightning & Frights". Lightning is every bit as much the fearless, overachieving athlete that he was in the original show, but is actually a much less aggressive and narcissistic character than before.

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• The Ace: Like his teenage counterpart, Lightning is this when it comes to anything sporty and athletic, which quickly earns him the admiration of most of the other kids.
• Adaptational Intelligence: Lightning was one of the absolute dumbest characters in the original series, but in this show, he's typically portrayed as one of the more sensible and rational kids in the daycare.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: In the original series, Lightning was notoriously ultra-competitive and self-absorbed, took major levels in jerkass as his debut season went on, and was pretty much Jerk Jock defined. In this series, Lightning takes on a much more heroic characterization such as saving Cody from one of Duncan's traps and later chastising him for his cruelty, as well as motivating others.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Lightning's habit of speaking in third person is not nearly as present as before and his habit of using "Sha-" before words is completely gone (with the exception of "Water-Hose Five").
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: In contrast to his teen counterpart, Lightning in this series is always there to help someone in need and is the only one concerned whenever Cody gets injured, always going out of his way to save him whenever he can.
• The Friends Who Never Hang:
  • Jude and Lightning have also not interacted much onscreen, which may be a side effect of Jude being Demoted to Extra in later seasons.
  • Bridgette and Noah have also not interacted with Lightning much, which, like Jude, is a side effect of their reduced roles in later seasons as well.
• Lovable Jock: Unlike his teenage counterpart, this version of Lightning is much friendlier and a team-player whenever he's working together with his fellow toddlers.
• Naïve Newcomer: Along with Sugar, he's repeatedly shocked by the more "out-there" adventures that happen on the regular.
• Time-Shifted Actor: He was voiced by Tyrone Savage in the parent series as a teenager, but is voiced by Kwaku Adu-Poku as a toddler here.

Noah

Voiced by: Cory Doran

Just like his teenage counterpart, Noah here is an extremely snarky and extremely intelligent boy who is Owen's best bud and the brains to his brawn.

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• Adaptation Personality Change:
  • The older Noah was laid back and cared little about his flaws, while this Noah is quite self-conscious and visibly hurt when Chef says he isn't good at anything. Possibly justified by him being a preschooler and therefore hasn't yet built up much of his self esteem. Though later episodes point to him supposedly not being good at anything being more of an Informed Flaw.
  • He's also capable of performing incredible athletic feats even though he stated in the original source that sports were not his forte.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Noah and Gwen rarely interacted in the original show, but the things they did and said suggested they didn't particularly like each other. Here, they instead possess a minor Odd Friendship.
  • Similarly, Duncan and Noah did not interact very frequently, but the few times they did made it clear they strongly disliked each other. In this series, the two are much friendlier with each other.
• Adaptational Intelligence: Played with. In the original series, Noah is indeed stated to be a Teen Genius, but it was mostly an Informed Ability as he was Brilliant, but Lazy. This Noah has actively displayed his genius, such as being able to use Hollywood Hacking to alter the traffic network.
• Butt-Monkey: Constantly receives the short end of the stick and is the butt of a lot of jokes.
• Child Prodigy: He's every bit as intelligent as his teen self, performing such feats as making his own perfume for Mother's Day, fixing a motorcycle, hacking into a traffic light grid from Chef's computer, and being able to complete intense military training.
• Deadpan Snarker: Just as snarky here as ever, though as a child, he's a bit more upfront and rude.
  Chef: You kids never learn. You NEVER learn!
  Noah: Does that make you feel like you've failed as a teacher?
• Demoted to Extra: While not as bad as Bridgette, Noah's appearances decrease in seasons 2 (where he only appears in thirteen episodes) and 3 (where he only appears in ten episodes), half of them as silent extras.
• Giftedly Bad: Chef makes it clear that Noah sucks at a lot of things, and the only thing he's good at is being loud. Though again, later episodes prove otherwise.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Owen.
• Hollywood Hacking: Noah manages to hack into the town's traffic light grid in an attempt to stop Duncan's parents from showing up at the daycare in "Bananas and Cheese".
• I Got Bigger: Grows drastically taller after a growth spurt in "A Tell Tale".
• Informed Flaw: As mentioned above, the first episode establishes that Noah is a sad Giftedly Bad child who isn't good at much of anything. However, later episodes show Noah to be something of a Child Prodigy capable of installing GPS systems, hacking traffic lights and beating the Frozen Dragon game, something that even makes the military want to recruit him.
• Jerkass Ball: Noah tricks Bridgette into doing a lot of menial favors for him in exchange for helping her cure her hiccups in "Hic Hic Hooray". However, it turns out to be entirely part of his plan to help her get rid of her hiccups.
• Odd Friendship: With Gwen. You'd think a know-it-all Deadpan Snarker and a goth would get along as well as they did in the original series, but here they seem to be friends.
• Only Sane Man: Not as much compared to Courtney, but he is the voice of reason among the boys.
• Potty Failure: Usually doesn't make it to the bathroom on time.
• Time-Shifted Actor: He was voiced by Carter Hayden in the parent series as a teenager, but is voiced by Cory Doran as a toddler here.
• True Companions: With Owen. The two share an even stronger friendship than their teen selves did, as seen in episodes like "A Licking Time Bomb" and "Inglorious Toddlers".
• Voice of Reason: To Duncan and Owen, especially.

Owen

Voiced by: Scott McCord

Owen here is the same chubby, cheerful, and gluttonous goofball he was back on the original Total Drama (complete with the gas issues), just now pint-sized.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: In the main series, he has black eyes. Here, they're dark green.
• Animals Hate Him: Like his teen self, Owen has pretty bad luck when it comes to animals, such as being repeatedly attacked by squirrels in "Not Without My Fudgy Lumps" and being tormented by the class hamster in "Stop! Hamster Time".
• Big Eater: He wouldn't be Owen if he didn't have an insatiable appetite.
• Big Fun: But in a smaller package, now.
• Black Comedy Cannibalism: Yes, Really. In "That's a Wrap", Owen eats what looks like Jerky from the museum. When his friends reveal it is mummified human organs, he keeps eating it anyway.
• Butt-Monkey: Like his teen self, he frequently encounters misfortune and gets harmed as a result.
• Cannot Keep a Secret: Admits to this in "A Licking Time Bomb", where he's shown to uncontrollably blurt out any secrets he has.
• Cheerful Child: He's still got all the positive attitude of his teenage counterpart.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: Just like in the main series, Owen can have some pretty strange thought processes here.
• Does Not Like Spam: Whereas teen Owen was noted for his Extreme Omnivore tendencies, little Owen is shown to have a distastes for certain foods, especially health foods like vegetables and granola bars.
• The Ditz: He's not much smarter than his teenage self.
• Fat Best Friend: To his Voice of Reason, Noah.
• Follow Your Nose: Followed the lovely scent of pizza, to lead him and the others out of the air vent.
• Gasshole: Even as a 4-year-old, Owen's still got it.
• Growling Gut: When hungry enough, Owen's stomach can gurgle so much, it shakes the floor of the daycare.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Like his teenage self, his blond hair matches his jolly and friendly personality.
• Heterosexual Life-Partners: With Noah.
• Nice Guy: Like in the main series, Owen is affable to everyone, especially Noah. In "Ant We All Just Get Along" he shares his spare hot dogs with Jude and an ant, in the same episode he comes up with a compromise solution when Courtney and Leshawna want to destroy the ant hill. He also helped Courtney hide her Extremo-Saurus egg from the other students despite Courtney refusing to share it with him as well.
• The Nose Knows: His sense of smell is unbelievable when food is involved.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Shares this trait with his older counterpart, having the most appearances of all the kids in the show. In fact, his first absence in the show was not until "Duncan Disorderly", which was the 39th episode of the series, as well as the only episode of the first season that he didn't appear in (though in "Soother or Later", he only appears in the end-credits scene).
• Sudden Anatomy: Owen temporarily grew a third arm, while considering whether to listen to Duncan or Noah in "Venthalla". Even he was startled by it.
• Sudden Eye Colour: He has dark green eyes in this series, whereas his teen self possessed black eyes.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Arguably loves pizza more than everyone else. Even Noah, a pizza fanatic, noted his overblown obsession for the food.
• True Companions: He and Noah are shown to have an extremely strong bond and to be very loyal to each other, as highlighted in such episodes as "Inglorious Toddlers" and "A Licking Time Bomb".
• Unwitting Pawn: Easily manipulated by anyone who convinces him of anything.
• Youthful Freckles: Has freckles here, despite his older self not having any.

Sugar

Voiced by: Rochelle Wilson

A character from Total Drama: Pahkitew Island added to the main cast in the Season 3 episode "Sugar & Spice & Lightning & Frights". Like her teenage self, Sugar is a country girl with a history of appearances in child pageants and TV commercials who thinks quite highly of herself and won't hesitate to get her hands dirty when she has to.

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• Adaptational Curves: The younger Sugar hasn’t reached the morbidly obese levels of her teenage self and has a more average frame for a child her age.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Sugar loses a lot of the more disgusting habits that she displayed in the original series.
• Attention Whore: Much like her teenage self, Sugar always wants to be the center of attention.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Sugar may be a pageant queen, but she is also a rough n' tumble farm girl.
• Naïve Newcomer: Along with Lightning, she's repeatedly shocked by the more "out-there" adventures that happen in the daycare.
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Like her older self, Sugar is based on Alana "Honey Boo Boo" Thompson, circa 2011 and 2012, when she appeared on Toddlers & Tiaras.

Other Children

DJ

A character from Total Drama Island who in this series occasionally cameos as a former daycare student.

He appears in "Gum and Gummer" and "Gumbearable".

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• all lowercase letters: As a little design joke, while teenage DJ has a capital "D" on his shirt, child DJ has a lowercase "d" on his shirt.
• Black Bead Eyes: He is one of only a few characters that has simple dots for eyes.
• The Cameo: DJ, along with Katie, Trent, and Geoff, are characters from the parent franchise. They could've been used as regular students, but instead were introduced as former students who only on rare occasion make an appearance, and never for more than a few seconds.
• Death by Cameo: Not death exactly, but DJ is introduced as a daycare student who one day blew a large bubble and was carried off by the wind. And this is why the daycare nowadays has a "no bubblegum" policy.

Ella

^{Click here for her dark side.}

Voiced by: Sunday Muse

A character from Total Drama: Pahkitew Island, who is Gwen's cousin in this show. Just like her teenage counterpart, Ella is an extremely sweet girl who has dedicated her life to being a living Disney Princess. However, unlike her teenage self, Ella here has a dark side.

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• Adaptation Species Change: Apparently, this incarnation of Ella's part dragon-born.
• Adaptational Badass: Young Ella can shapeshift into a Kaiju-sized dragon capable of desolating everything in her path. A slight upgrade over the ditzy pacifist she is in the parent series.
• Adaptational Jerkass: Downplayed. In the main series, Ella was an Actual Pacifist who never showed any form of aggression, aside from getting upset at Chris when he scared her team's pig in the second episode of Pahkitew Island. Here, while Ella is seemingly the same sweetheart as her teenage counterpart, she had to go to an etiquette school for young girls to temper her attitude; however, while Ella has gotten better, she will still Hulk Out when angered sufficiently, as Max found out the hard way.
• All-Loving Heroine: Just like her teenage self, she bears absolutely no ill will towards anybody... So long as no one makes her mad.
• Ambiguously Human: The show doesn't clarify if Ella is a normal human who can morph into a monster or if she was always a monster who can turn into a human. Gwen doesn't go into detail outside of praising her cousin's dangerous side.
• Berserk Button:
  • Hurting unicorns. Her skin turns green and scaly briefly, but she quickly reverts back to normal.
  • What sets Ella off is when Max told her that he didn't like her.
• The Berserker: Her true form is a deranged beast ripped right out of a fairy tale. In Gwen's words, once unleashed there's "no turning it off."
• Beware the Nice Ones: Making her angry causes her to turn into monstrous fire-breathing dragon that is apparently what she used to be before she turned all nice.
• Clashing Cousins: Gwen is very dismayed to learn of her perpetually cheerful personality, having only known her from when she was bad. Thus, she becomes determined to break her.
• The Cutie: She's every bit as adorable as her teenage self... at least when she isn't her original bad self.
• Disney Creatures of the Farce: Just like in the old show, Ella's singing attracts woodland animals to help her out.
• Friend to All Living Things: Just like in the original show, she loves all animals and they all love her.
• From Nobody to Nightmare: Goes from a being a cute wannabe princess to a raging dragon when angered.
• Hulking Out: She transforms into a giant dragon when angry.
• Humanoid Abomination: Implied. Ella may or not be entirely human, as it's never quite clarified if her dragon form is the real her or if she is a regular human who can turn into a monster.
• Loved by All: She only appeared for less than a minute and has already won the hearts of the kids at the daycare, thanks to her incredibly sweet character. She even lampshades this, saying that she has never met anyone who disliked her.
• Nice Girl: She's every bit as sweet and kindhearted as she was in the original series... so long as you don't make her mad.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Her monster form is strongly hinted at being a dragon. However, she evidently has the power to change into a human girl and a dragon.
• The Pollyanna: She's every bit as sunny and optimistic as her teen self.
• Princesses Prefer Pink: Much like her older self, Ella's outfit is almost entirely pink, except the only non-pink element of her younger self's outfit is her gloves.
• Related in the Adaptation: She is now stated to be Gwen's cousin despite them never being related on the main series or even meeting each other for that matter.
• Retired Monster: According to Gwen, she used to be the scariest kid in the world, yet she's currently grown into quite the angel when she debuts.
• Stepford Smiler: A quality never hinted at in the parent series. According to Gwen, she used to be a very nasty girl, but after she got her act cleaned up, it's now hidden under the sweet and cheerful personality we're all familiar with, albeit still at the risk of emerging when under stress.

Geoff

A character from Total Drama Island who in this series occasionally cameos as an implied former daycare student.

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• Adaptational Modesty: In the parent franchise, Geoff wears his shirt open, leaving his chest exposed. Here, he keeps his shirt buttoned.
• The Cameo: Geoff, along with Katie, Trent, and DJ, are characters from the parent franchise. They could've been used as regular students, but instead were introduced as former students who only on rare occasion make an appearance, and never for more than a few seconds.
• Innocent Bystander: In "Duncan Disorderly", he and Katie are building a sandcastle, but it gets destroyed by Beth, Cody, and Duncan as they play around. It leaves Geoff and Katie in tears.

Janet "Jaws" Jannetty

"Oh, and don't let the bedbugs bite. That's my job!"

Voiced by: ???

A child not based on a pre-existing character. Jaws is a girl who's known around town as a biter and feared for it by children and adults alike. She's a fierce and competitive bully who can chomp through any material.

She appears in "Breaking Bite".

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• Alliterative Name: "Janet Jannetty" already is alliterative, but just as fitting is her nickname, Jaws.
• The Bully: Jaws is feared by both adults and children for her willingness to bite and the strength behind her bites. The stories about her are so absurd that she's mistakenly believed to be an urban legend, but they're mostly true.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: Jaws not only can gnaw through anything, but she's also shown to be able to take an object into her mouth and chew it into a new object. The first time, she chews splinters into a goat figurine. The second time, she chews a bucket into a hammer. All this is implied to be acquired by nothing more spectacular than mere training, since Beth tried to match Jaws with training of her own.
• In-Series Nickname: Janet Jannetty is best known as Jaws, in reference to her many sharp teeth and powerful jaw.
• Repetitive Name: Jaws's official name is Janet Jannetty, which makes for only three letters difference between them.
• Reused Character Design: Her physical appearance bears a lot of resemblance to a female intern who apepared in the later few seasons of the show. They have roughly the same head shape, similarly thick eyebrows, and a ponytail held together with red hair bands (though Janet has two instead of one).
• Scary Teeth: Jaws's teeth can look normal when she's not up to anything, but when she goes in for the attack, they become a broad row of finely aligned sharp gnashers.
• Speech Impediment: Jaws has a subtle lisp.

Katie

A character from Total Drama Island who in this series occasionally cameos as a former daycare student.

She appears in "Gum and Gummer", "Duncan Disorderly", and "Gumbearable".

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• Adaptational Modesty: In the parent franchise, Katie is among the characters showing the most skin by wearing a short top combined with hotpants. Here, she wears a full-length tank top and quarter-length shorts.
• The Cameo: Katie, along with Trent, DJ, and Geoff, are characters from the parent franchise. They could've been used as regular students, but instead were introduced as former students who only on rare occasion make an appearance, and never for more than a few seconds.
• Death by Cameo: Not death exactly, but Katie is introduced as a daycare student who one day blew a large bubble and was carried off by the wind. And this is why the daycare nowadays has a "no bubblegum" policy.
• Heart Symbol: In keeping with her label as The Sweet Girl in the parent franchise, child Katie has a pink heart embroidered on her shirt.
• Innocent Bystander: In "Duncan Disorderly", she and Geoff are building a sandcastle, but it gets destroyed by Beth, Cody, and Duncan as they play around. It leaves Katie and Geoff in tears.

Max Mayhem

Voiced by: Tristan Mammitzsch

A character from Total Drama Pahkitew Island, who is Owen's cousin in this show. Like his teenage self, Max has the heart of a supervillain and dreams of achieving world domination someday.

He appears in "Dissing Cousins", "Cartoon Realism" (in the credits), and "Snack to the Future".

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• Adaptational Badass: Teenage Max was a lousy excuse for a villain treated as a joke by everyone around him and mostly just committed petty deeds. In this series, he's more serious and competent with his evil schemes and deeds, earning the respect of the other kids at the daycare. Even Duncan.
• Adaptational Jerkass: In the main show, Max was an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain who was shown to have soft spot for babies and a few other good qualities. In this series, he's got none of his teen self's nice traits, is shown to be extremely cruel and sadistic, and is far more competent at villainy in general.
• Card-Carrying Villain: Just like his teen counterpart, he's very shameless in expressing how evil he is.
• Clashing Cousins: Owen is terrified of him and has firsthand experience with Max's villainous antics and deathtraps.
• Enfant Terrible: He's a toddler who's already scheming to take over the world. He also shows no remorse about putting the other kids through potentially fatal minion tests and even hopes some of them will die.
• Evil Genius: A far more competent one than his teen self actually.
• Named by the Adaptation: His last name is Mayhem in this series, though it might be a surname he gave himself to suit his evil identity.
• Pet the Dog: Despite his torment of Owen, Max lets him borrow his time machine so that Owen can get snack time sooner.
• Related in the Adaptation: Despite having never met in the original series, he's now written as Owen's cousin.
• Time-Shifted Actor: He was voiced by Bruce Dow in the parent series as a teenager, but is voiced by Tristan Mammitzsch as a toddler here.

Nikki Wong

A character from 6teen. She used to go to the daycare, but has since moved away.

She appears in "Duck Duck Juice".

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• The Cameo: Only appears in a flashback as a victim of Chef's rampage.
• Dissonant Serenity: During Chef's rampage she is shown nonchalantly sitting on the couch while everyone else is fleeing in panic. That is until Chef actually captures her.
• Hair Color Dissonance: Even as a child, her hair was dyed multiple shades of purple.
• Mythology Gag: Owen admitting that she and her family moved away is a reference to what becomes of her in the series finale of 6teen.
• Remember the New Guy?: She's only remembered in flashbacks when the kids bring up what happens when Chef doesn't have his unicorn drink.

"P"

"How fun is that, huh?"

Voiced by: Scott McCord

A child not based on a pre-existing character. "P" is a boy who's made it into the stories told about Jaws as the kid she bit in half. In truth, she only took a bite out of him, which he takes in stride.

He appears in "A Licking Time Bomb" and "Breaking Bite".

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• Childish Tooth Gap: "P" has a central tooth gap in his upper jaw, which gives him an innocent look to highlight Jaws's brutality.
• Only Known by Initials: "P"'s name is not given, but he wears a shirt with the letter "p" on it, so that's all he is known by.
• The Pollyanna: "P" lives with a hole in his back from where Jaws bit him. Does it make him despair? No. He grabs a stick and uses himself as an idiophone.
• Reused Character Design: "P"'s body model is reused from DJ's body model, notably with DJ's "d" being flipped to become "P"'s "p".
• Youthful Freckles: "P" is a redhaired child with freckles, which gives him an innocent look to highlight Jaws's brutality.

Trent

A character from Total Drama Island who in this series occasionally cameos as a former daycare student.

He appears in "Gum and Gummer" and "Gumbearable".

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• The Cameo: Trent, along with Katie, DJ, and Geoff, are characters from the parent franchise. They could've been used as regular students, but instead were introduced as former students who only on rare occasion make an appearance, and never for more than a few seconds.
• Death by Cameo: Not death exactly, but Trent is introduced as a daycare student who one day blew a large bubble and was carried off by the wind. And this is why the daycare nowadays has a "no bubblegum" policy.
• Four-Fingered Hands: Averted. Trent himself has four fingers just like everyone else, but the handprint on his overalls has five digits rather than four.

Cavey

"Damp you. Poo poo, Dunquin!"

Voiced by: ???

A child from prehistoric times who was stuck inside an iceberg on Antarctica. Chef brings it back to the daycare with him as an illegal souvenir from his vacation, where Duncan inadvertently frees him. Because of their shared penchant for vandalism and chaos, Duncan and Cavey become fast friends.

He appears in "Ice Guys Finish Last".

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• All Cavemen Were Neanderthals: Cavey is a human from the days of the mammoth who reached modern times as a Human Popsicle. He's stocky, hairy, strong, violent, simple-minded though quick to learn, and energetic kid who's first course of action upon coming to is to make a spear. He's also very fond of drawing.
• Big Ol' Unibrow: Cavey has a unibrow made more prominent by his protruding forehead. It's part of his caveman look.
• Morality Pet: Duncan initially takes interest in Cavey as a tool of destruction he can guide in ways that entertain him, but after a while he comes to care about him. He admits to feeling bad about lying to Cavey and when he rats him out he sacrifices his own happiness to make sure Cavey has his.
• No-Neck Chump: As a stereotypical stocky caveman, Cavey has no visible neck between his head and torso.
• Scary Teeth: Being from a more ferocious time, Cavey's teeth are jagged and spaced.

Wendel

"Hold onto your mules, children, for this will be a shock! I am Wendel!"

Voiced by: Taylor Abrahamse

A child not based on a pre-existing character. Wendel is a champion at everything and therefore dubbed the Winningest Boy of All Time. However, this left him with no one to compete with in his own time, so he stored himself in a time capsule to be unearthed in future times where he hopes to find worthy rivals.

He appears in "Way Back Wendel".

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• The Ace: Left ambiguous. Wendel claims that he is famous as the Winningest Boy of All Time and that he specifically has locked himself in a time capsule to find worthy competition in future eras. However, he loses every challenge against Courtney except the one she lets him win. In some cases, he's at a distinct disadvantage because he's unfamiliar with 21st century technology, but he's also shown to be a little clumsy and outright isn't as strong as Courtney.
• Deliberately Monochrome: To indicate that Wendel is from a past era, he's drawn in monochrome. He also comments that the world has become more colorful and as a plot point, his presence slowly causes the whole world to become old-timey monochrome.
• Really 700 Years Old: Wendel is a child like the main cast is, but he's way older because he stored himself in a time capsule. His exact age is vague, but seems to be a 100 years or more. Eventually, he returns to his time capsule and wakes up again in some far-flung future era, upping the discrepancy between his appearance and year of birth even more.
• Straw Misogynist: Upon the suggestion that Wendel should compete against Courtney if he wants a proper challenge, Wendel bursts out laughing that a girl could hold her own. He does, however, concede that if her friends call her the best, he should accept her as his rival.
• Vague Age: Wendel's possessions and language cover about 80 years of history. He rides on a penny-farthing, which was popular from the 1870s to the 1880s and then discontinued when safer bicycle models were invented. He calls Courtney a "suffragette", which is a word invented in 1906 (the Women's Rights Movement itself is older). He uses a flash lamp, which was in use from the 1900s to the 1920s and then discontinued when safer flash models were invented. His line "Jeepers Creepers, my peepers!" references the 1938 song "Jeepers Creepers", but the phrase "Jeepers Creepers" is assumed to go back to the 1920s. And his propeller beanie is a 1947 invention. This isn't all, but it shows the range of eras Wendel could be from. It's possible some of these indicate he's awakened several times before, but then one would expect him not to view a penny-farthing as the one true bicycle. Furthermore, a newspaper article indicates that the last time a time capsule was unearthed was in 1863 and said capsule looks like Wendel's, so his year of birth could be much earlier than the 1870s.

Beach Day Boy

Voiced by: ???

A child not based on a pre-existing character. The boy enjoys a day at the beach that gets only slightly ruined by Izzy's and MacArthur's antics.

He appears in "Robo Teacher", "MacArthur Park", and "Chews Wisely".

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• The Fool: The boy nearly gets eaten by a tiger on a jetski, but is saved by a lifeguard. The lifeguard gets mauled badly, while the boy, ignorant of his predicament, runs off laughing.
• Innocent Bystander: In "MacArthur Park", he's building a sandcastle, but it gets destroyed by MacArthur in a moment of frustration. The boy is left in tears.
• No Name Given: The boy goes unnamed in the series.

Claw Crane Girl

"Ah'mma gonna win da head. GIMME DA HEAD!"

Voiced by: Kristin Fairlie

A child not based on a pre-existing character. The girl is a patron at the arcade hall with a slightly sadistic disposition.

She appears in "Robo Teacher", "A Tall Tale", and "Chews Wisely".

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• Baby Talk: The girl speaks in a more babyish way than the other children. She doesn't enunciate her words and sometimes uses the wrong form, such as when she says she "was borned for this job."
• Creepy Child: Upon seeing Owen's head inside the claw crane's cabin, she wants it, and she keeps pushing the controller even as Owen screams his head is not a prize and his neck prevents the claw from going back up. In the end, the girl's persistence causes Owen's neck to be stretched by a lot, which puts him in danger. The other children visit the arcade hall to also get their necks stretched and give Owen group protection. The girl is eerily happy to be of assistance.
• No Name Given: The girl goes unnamed in the series.
• Race Lift: The girl debuts in "Robo Teacher" with skin so pale it'd make any goth jealous. For her reappearances in "A Tall Tale" and "Chews Wisely", she's got tan skin.

Princess Penelope Poodle Commercial Girl

A child not based on a pre-existing character. She stars in the commercial for Princess Penelope Poodle.

She appears in "Stay Goth, Poodle Girl, Stay Goth".

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• Anatomy Anomaly: Like the other two child actors, Sugar and the Everything Horse commercial girl, and the the character performer Princess Ephemera, the Princess Penelope Poodle commercial girl has (upper) eyelashes, a design trait no character besides them has.
• No Name Given: The girl goes unnamed in the series.
• Pink Means Feminine: The girl's hair is dyed pink and she is dressed in two shades of pink and two shades of purple to fit in with the Pink Product Ploy that is Princess Penelope Poodle.

Everything Horse Commercial Girl

"Wow!"

Voiced by: ???

A child not based on a pre-existing character. She stars in the commercial for the Everything Horse.

She appears in "Melter Skelter".

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• Anatomy Anomaly: Like the other two child actors, Sugar and the Princess Penelope Poodle commercial girl, and the the character performer Princess Ephemera, the Everything Horse commercial girl has (upper) eyelashes, a design trait no character besides them has.
• The Ditz: In a shout-out to Owen's stupidity in "Sweden Sour", the girl can't tell the difference between pirates and vikings.
• Girlish Pigtails: The girl in the commercial for the Everything Horse has high pigtails coupled with a pink outfit to heighten the girlish cuteness needed to get audiences invested in the product.
• No Name Given: The girl goes unnamed in the series.
• Pink Means Feminine: The girl is dressed in white and two shades of pink to fit in with the Pink Product Ploy that is the Everything Horse.

Produce Stand Boy

"Wow!"

Voiced by: ???

"Get your rotten tomatoes here!"

Voiced by: ???

A child not based on a pre-existing character. The boy has a nose for business and goes around town setting up stands where he thinks he'll turn a profit.

He appears in "TP2: Judgement Bidet".

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• Childish Tooth Gap: Due to his young age, the boy misses one of his upper incisors.
• Evil Redhead: The boy's hair is red and the way he runs his business is opportunistic at best. He charges $20 for leaves during a massive toilet paper shortage and later stands ready with rotten tomatoes during Sewer Mike's performance.
• No Name Given: The boy goes unnamed in the series.
• Young Entrepreneur: The boy is introduced selling "big, soft, assorted leaves" during a toilet paper shortage. There's a line waiting to buy from him, even for $20 per leaf. Later, he's set up a rotten tomatoes stand inside the theater where Sewer Mike performs. He starts selling once it's discovered that Sewer Mike is an alligator.

Other Adults

Abigail Paine

"Screaming is just the sound of weakness leaving your body."

Voiced by: Nicki Burke

An expert in child fitness whom Chef brought in to get the children in shape and prevent them from becoming couch potatoes.

She appears in "Exercising the Demons", "Tu Ba Or Not Tu Ba", and "Thingameroo".

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• Action Girl: Abigail is introduced jumping from a plane in a monster truck, both of which blow up. From the truck emerges a motorcycle, which also blows up. Then Abigail is left hanging from a parachute that also blows up before she crashes into Chef's car. All of this was intentional, because Abigail is just that extreme.
• Drill Sergeant Nasty: Abigail is about the kindest variant of a demanding drill sergeant possible. That is, she still insults slackers and sics bears on her students, but she's mindful of her students' limits and meets success with words of praise.
• Hot-Blooded: Abigail has little patience for people, even if those people are toddlers, who are resistant to an all-in workout session.
• In-Series Nickname: Abigail's name is usually shortened to "Abs" in reference to her 18-pack.
• Lovable Jock: Abigail is introduced as a Jerk Jock, but it quickly becomes clear that while she's socially awkward, she does want the best for everyone in her care and is a fair coach. The children come to like her for that.
• Reused Character Design: Abigail's model is Eva's model from the parent series with many small modifications. Abigail has medium instead of light skin, short blonde instead of medium black hair, no beauty mark or unibrow, and wears red instead of blue clothes.

Brightly

"As a token of how much we appreciate our fans, your class can take ONE toy from our reject box."

Voiced by: Stephanie Anne Mills

A tour guide at the Chinchilli Chinchilla studios who may seem an unpleasant nobody, but is neither.

She appears in "Cartoon Realism".

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• Almighty Janitor: Brightly is ostensibly a mere tour guide, but she can order security into action at her own discretion, is more competent than security, has all the details about Chinchilli's situation, and knows how to operate the portal to the Alternate Tooniverse.
• The Cameo: She appears in the Total Drama Island 2023 reboot as one of Damien's friends.
• Heel–Face Turn: Brightly has a My God, What Have I Done? moment when Beth points out how cruel Chinchilli's imprisonment is and goes from preventing his escape to making it happen.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Throughout the tour with Chef and the kids, Brightly talks down to them, ignores them, is overall impolite, and that's still a lot better than her behavior when Beth and Gwen go missing and she calls a tour guide's arrest on the group. She ends up being the one employee to confront Chinchilli before he can escape, but actively aids in his escape when Beth begs for his happiness. Chinchilli thanks her for it.

Josh

"You really have to see it in person. Anyone watching this on TV is missing out and should just go ahead and be very, very sad."

Voiced by: Dwayne Hill (all appearances except "Way Back Wendell"), Robert Tinkler ("Way Back Wendell")

A character from Total Drama Action. Here, he is the local news reporter.

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• Age Lift: Like Chef and MacArthur, Josh retains his age from the parent franchise instead of being aged down like the contestants are.
• Ascended Extra: Josh only has a role in one special in the parent franchise. In Total DramaRama, Josh periodically appears in as the resident news reporter.
• Costume Evolution: For his first two appearances, Josh wears a blue version of the black tux he wears in the parent franchise. In his later appearances, he wears a brown version of the outfit and replaces the bow tie with a regular tie.
• Recurring Extra: Josh appears in five episodes of the series when the cast watches the news or a commercial.

Paul

"Is my time-out over yet? I'm 97."

Voiced by: Scott McCord

A once-child who was put in the time-out corner at the Total Drama Daycare because he chewed gum, which is not allowed. He's in his 90s now and he still may not come out.

He appears in "Gum and Gummer", "Mooshy Mon Mons", "Stingin' in the Rain", and "Bad Seed".

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• Adults Dressed as Children: Paul, who's in his 90s, dresses in stereotypical boys' garb from the 1950s complete with propeller beanie. He doesn't dress like this on purpose, but rather because he never got to move on from childhood due to being in the time-out corner all this time. Of course, in the 1950s he'd have been in his 30s, so there's that.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Paul has been stuck in the time-out corner for decades for the crime of chewing gum. And the only reason Chef's forbidden gum in the daycare is because it's not safe to chew.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Downplayed. None of the children want to have anything to do with Paul, to the point that Izzy forbids her sapient plant from associating with him in "Bad Seed". Yet, that doesn't mean she finds it acceptable for her plant to eat Paul.
• Recurring Extra: Paul appears in four episodes of the series when the time-out corner is relevant.
• Vague Age: In "Gum and Gummer", Paul claims to be 97, while in "Mooshy Mon Mons", he claims to be 94.

Sammy

"You know, back in the day, my partner Soup did a lot for me. And to me. Now, I finally have a chance to pay him back for all that kindness."

Voiced by: Deven Mack

Three years ago, Sammy and Soup (Chef) were Hot Lunch, a wrestling duo that was going to make it big until Soup betrayed and humiliated him. They both quit wrestling after that and Sammy never forgave Soup.

He appears in "OWW".

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• Accuser of the Brethren: Ever since his betrayal, Soup has been doing nothing but punishing himself and trying to rekindle their friendship. It's all not enough to Sammy, who only wants Soup to suffer and jumps at the chance to give him a few kicks of his own.
• Finishing Move: Sammy's signature move is The Ham Slamwich, which is a throw performed while the victim is wedged inside a giant sandwich as the titular ham. Soup had the nerve to use The Ham Slamwich against Sammy and they haven't spoken since.
• Masked Luchador: Sammy is a masked wrestler who, unlike Soup, apparently never stopped wearing his costume even though he's not a wrestler anymore. Even if he has to dress casually over it, the costume stays on.
• Stage Names: Sammy is short for Sandwich, a stage name that works as part of Hot Lunch. Presumably, it doesn't double as his real name. Chef only ever calls him Sammy, but Sammy only ever calls Chef by his stage name, Soup.
• Top-Heavy Guy: The legs make up at most 30% of Sammy's body mass. The rest is all torso and arms, giving him a powerful appearance befitting his past as a wrestler.

Chef's Mom

"And that is how it's done."

Voiced by: Alana Bridgewater

The mother of Chef Hatchet (and his older brother), who occasionally visits the daycare. She's a strict but kind woman.

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• Cool Old Lady: Chef's mom is a lot better with the children than he is, being both more authoritative when needed and kind when deserving. The children have a good dose of respect and appreciation for her because of it.
• Friendly Rivalry: Chef's mom forms a rivalry with Leshawna's grandma in "Last Mom Standing" over who is the mother with the most love to share. As dangerous as their competition becomes, when they're both declared the winner, they happily celebrate together (and let Chef clean up the mess they made).
• Sink or Swim Mentor: In "Supply Mom", Chef's mom takes over from Chef when he has a medical emergency. Duncan tries to control her by giving her a list he made but claims are Chef's instructions for the day. Chef's mom sees right through it, but lets it play out in a game of chicken. She puts the children in increasingly dangerous situations as per the instructions, such as taking them to a monster truck rally by actually participating with the school bus, daring Duncan to come clean. She wins.

Duncan's Parents

Father (left) and Mother (right)

Voiced by: Katie Griffin (Mother) and Lyon Smith (Father)

A children's folk singing duo that go by the name of Bananas and Cheese.

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• Adaptation Dye-Job: Their designs have been significantly modified since the Total Drama Island: Message from Home segment. Duncan's mother now has red hair, a darker shade of blue eyes and fairer skin. The father appears to be considerably younger and resembles teenage Duncan more.
• Adaptational Job Change: Duncan's TDI biography implies that his father is a police officer. In this universe, they are a children's folk singing duo named Bananas and Cheese.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In his appearance in the Total Drama Island: Message from Home, Duncan's father was rather stern and grouchy and openly questioned whether he loved his son. Here, he's a preppy folk singer.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Duncan didn't want his classmates finding out that Bananas and Cheese are his parents.
• Casting Gag: Lyon Smith voicing another lead singer of a band. Bonus points in that he's married to a red haired girl.
• Crazy-Prepared: While imitating Chef, Noah tries to tell Duncan's parents that everyone at the daycare has a copious number of diseases, including a few fake ones; however, they reveal that they are inoculated against almost any childhood disease.
• Famed In-Story: They are local celebrities beloved by all the kids. Even a police officer knows and adores them.
• Like Father, Unlike Son: They are peppy children's folk singers while their son is a juvenile delinquent in training.
• Strong Family Resemblance: This version of Duncan’s dad looks pretty much like an older version of him, with the same facial structure. In particular, he looks pretty much identical to the older Duncan from the parent show.
• Over-Enthusiastic Parents: To the point where they came to the daycare to sing a song about how much they love Duncan.

Non-Humans

Chinchilli Chinchilla

"I've been living at the studio for five years and every day they tell me, "Today's the day you get to go home." They say it every day and they said it again this morning and I believe them."

Voiced by: Lyon Smith

An anthropohorphic chinchilla from another dimension where cartoons are real. He was brought to this dimension as an easy means to create cartoons and easily misled into staying.

He appears in "Cartoon Realism" and Duncan watches his show in "Ice Guys Finish Last".

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• Funny Animal: Hailing from an Alternate Tooniverse, Chinchilli Chinchilla is a merry humanoid chinchilla who abides by Toon Physics and has neither sense of self-preservation nor any dose of skeptism to hold against others.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: As a humanoid chinchilla, Chinchilli is naked except for White Gloves, shoes, and a shawl.
• The Klutz: Greatly affecting his value as a source of comedy is Chinchilli's inherent clumsiness that negates the need for writers. Give him anything and he'll mess it up into something funny. Even his final farewell as he returns home is taken down a peg when he trips and falls off the stairs into the portal.
• Too Dumb to Live: Chinchilli lives as a prisoner for five years and during that time has to endure numerous painful antics for the sake of the show he's the star of. He is aware that he's told daily he gets to go home that day, yet continues to believe that self-evident lie every single day it's told. He gets upset when Beth and Gwen make him realize his trust is misplaced.
• White Gloves: Chinchilli's outfit includes white gloves. They're hardly visible against his light grey fur, but it helps sell him as a cartoon figure.

Lenny

A hamster who serves as the daycare's pet. He's cute and cuddly until he's not properly taken care of, at which point he becomes dangerous.

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• Class Pet: Lenny is the class pet of Total Drama Daycare alongside the goldfish Richard Swimmins.
• Killer Rabbit: Lenny is dangerous. He can drive a toy car, fly a toy plane, knows how to work a voodoo doll, can walk on the ceiling, knows how to box, and is ridiculously strong, fearless, merciless, and determined. The only thing keeping anyone safe is to keep him from wanting anything, which is what the rule about not giving him human food is for. Once he gets a taste, he only wants more and nothing can stop him.
• Whip of Dominance: In "Stop! Hamster Time", Lenny twice readies his miniature whip. Once to force Bridgette to cook him a fancy meal and once to intimidate Beth.
• A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Even though he's dangerous, Lenny still is a hamster. He makes it work for him by returning to his cage and putting up big eyes whenever someone tries to tell others about Lenny's disapprovable actions.

Richard Swimmins

A goldfish who serves as the daycare's pet. The kids have a tendency to accidentally kill him, forcing Chef to buy a replacement every time.

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• Class Pet: Richard is the class pet of Total Drama Daycare alongside the hamster Lenny.
• Punny Name: His name is a pun on fitness personality Richard Simmons.
• Replacement Goldfish: Every time he dies, Chef buys another goldfish, without the kids knowing.
• They Killed Kenny Again: Richard Swimmins is always dying, because of the irresponsible behavior of the kids.
• Wingding Eyes: Has "X"s in his eyes whenever he dies.

Sewer Mike

"I'm Sewer Mike and you guys... are my new best friends! Let's get matching tattoos!"

Voiced by: Robert Tinkler

Sewer Mike is an anthropomorphic alligator who lives in the sewers. He is very lonely and longs to make friends, but he's both socially inept and aggressive so no one wants to hang out with him.

He appears in "Royal Flush", "TP2: Judgement Bidet" and "Be Claws I Love You, Shelley".

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• Arch-Enemy: After his failed attempt to befriend them and after they took his toilet paper audience from him, Sewer Mike has grown a particular hatred towards the daycare kids.
• Companion Cube: For a while, Sewer Mike's desperation for friends is so big that he resorts to stealing toilet paper to keep around as company. This comes to end only because the children come to take the toilet paper back because no one in town can clean their butts anymore.
• Disembodied Eyebrows: When Sewer Mike is not angry or concerned, his eyebrows float above his eyes.
• Friendless Background: As a humanoid alligator, Sewer Mike's options for friends are limited to people who come down into the sewer and who haven't learned to fear alligators yet. To make matters more difficult, Sewer Mike is socially inept and the people that reject him for being a bore subsequently learn that alligators, in fact, are critters to be feared.
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Sewer Mike is an anthropomorphic alligator who exclusively goes around dressed in a blue aloha shirt.
• Sewer Gator: Sewer Mike is an alligator who lives in the sewer. No information is given how he got there or how he came to be so human-like.