How much shipping drama can there be for a series that's basically a Survivor spoof? You'd be surprised.
- Beth made a lot of enemies for kissing Cody in "Paintball Deer Hunter", although their lack of interaction and the introduction of Sierra in season three eventually caused the hate to die down.
- Justin for Gwen/Trent, due to his involvement in their breakup (even though he was never actually attracted to Gwen), as well as Duncan/Courtney and Scott/Courtney fans (despite the fact Courtney never reciprocated Justin's feelings for her).
- Alejandro drew the ire of those who shipped Duncan/Courtney, Harold/Leshawna, Geoff/Bridgette, Tyler/Lindsay and Owen/Izzy. This is because, even though Alejandro was just using the girls (and all of them ultimately got over him), he was still able to damage those couples' relationships to varying degrees.
- He also gets this from people who ship Heather with other people (especially Cody/Heather shippers), either because they see his flirting with her as sexual harassment or they think that realistically they wouldn't be a good relationship outside the show.
- When Gwen and Trent were an official couple, shippers who wanted to see Cody get the girl would often portray Trent as a shallow, abusive jerk. The Trent hate abated after Gwen dumped Trent on the show, ironically for the opposite reason that he was too clingy, needy and jealous.
- Another major shipping war: Duncan/Courtney vs. Duncan/Gwen. A rare example when the writers briefly took away Duncan/Courtney's canonical status and gave it to Duncan/Gwen, before later sinking that ship as well. Then there's the third option of shipping Gwen with Courtney; these shippers tend to dislike Duncan for how he treated both girls, and a lot of Gwen/Courtney content involves them bonding over how much they hate Duncan.
- The Love Triangle in World Tour stirred antagonistic feelings for both Gwen from Duncan/Courtney shippers and Courtney from Duncan/Gwen shippers. Duncney fans hate Gwen for kissing Duncan while he was taken (and, for some, for her snarky goth girl shtick), while Gwuncan fans hate Courtney for her explosive temper and for not letting Duncan ne himself. To a lesser extent, Duncan gets hate from Gwen/Courtney shippers for ruining the girls' friendship.
- And then in All-Stars, Courtney entered a relationship with newcomer Scott, adding a new ship into the fray and thus further exacerbating the shipping wars. It probably also didn't help that fans of Scott/Dawn disliked the pairing every bit as much as Duncan/Courtney fans did. That said, Scott is also despised by those who prefer to ship Dawn with somebody else, due to Scott's involvement in Dawn's very cruel elimination. Those who ship her with B have twice the reason to dislike him, as Scott got B eliminated as well.
- Sierra gets crucified for her massive crush on Cody, due partly to having other undesirable traits and being poorly received in general. This was foreshadowed, in a way, when Beth kissed Cody on the cheek as he was voted off in Season 1 and got pilloried for it.
- Cody himself gets a lot of hate from Gwen/Duncan shippers due to his behaviour in the season where the pair became an Official Couple, as unlike Gwen/Trent, Cody did not back off and choose to respect Gwen's new relationship, which also made him seem extremely hypocritical, given Sierra's behaviour towards him.
- Justin and Duncan are frequently despised by fans of Gwen/Trent due to the involvement the two had in the couple's breakup during Season 2. Duncan in particular gets even more hate because of his Relationship Upgrade with Gwen in the third season, with Gwen/Trent and Duncan/Courtney often being Ship Mates against Gwen/Duncan.
- About the only Gwen ship that escapes fandom drama is the Gwen/Cameron ship that sprang up from All-Stars, especially after Gwen gave Cameron a friendly peck on the cheek. It mostly lucked out because its fans are a very minuscule faction and the ship itself seen as unthreatening, plus it also sprang up during a time most of the fandom had just grown tired of all the in-universe relationship shipping drama and out of universe shipping drama related to Gwen.
- Owen's detractors largely overlap with those who pair Izzy with anyone else. It doesn't help that he once had a What the Hell, Hero? moment when he pushed her in front of a serial killer to save his own life. The Owen-hate died down after Owen and Izzy's breakup on the show left shippers free to pair off Izzy without impediment and gave Owen a lot of sympathy due to how heartbroken he was by it.
- Geoff is an unusual example. Season 2 turned him into a massive Jerkass and nearly broke him and Bridgette up, but he regained his moral compass by the end of the season and won her back. Shippers who want to pair Bridgette with somebody else sometimes use Geoff's Jerkass period as an excuse to create an AU where he remains a jerk. Others however use it, along with the couple's notorious makeout sessions, as an excuse to wholly demonize Geoff and argue that Bridgette deserves someone far better.
- Blaineley is loathed by Geoff/Bridgette shippers for her constant attempts to cause tension in their relationship and how she relished in the strain Alejandro caused between them. Not helping is how Blaineley is implied to be a cougar, with some shippers interpreting her interactions with Geoff as flirty, creating a fandom for Geoff/Blaineley (despite the fact Blaineley is more than twice Geoff's age).
- There are many reasons for Total Drama fans to hate Heather. One of these is that she's seen as a threat to the semi-canonical Harold/Leshawna ship due to the minor Odd Friendship she develops with Harold in the second season (with a few hints that she may in fact be attracted to him). On the other hand, Leshawna herself is on the receiving end of it from Harold/Heather shippers, especially due to her behaviour during Action and World Tour. (although the former died off in the third season with the introduction of Alejandro as Heather's official love interest).
- Tyler was the butt of many Trent/Lindsay jokes during the early years of the fandom when he was largely an ignored character. However, this started to die out around World Tour when Lindsay finally started remembering who Tyler was, allowing him and his relationship with Lindsay to get some more development, with the pair showing themselves to be one of the most stable pairings in the whole series.
- Anne Maria is pretty much Public Enemy #1 for Mike/Zoey shippers, due to her involvement in the Love Triangle with them. Which is also rather unusual because Anne Maria was infatuated not with Mike himself, but rather with Vito, who is one of his Split Personalities, and seems to believe Mike was just a part Vito was playing.
- Mike gets this from people who ship Zoey with just about anyone else. Usually, this is used to have Mike take on Mal's villainous nature to justify Zoey dumping him, or otherwise exaggerate his MPD to be "too unpredictable" for her.
- Duncan has started to get these from fans who believe Scott/Courtney was more healthy as it is kind of believed that Duncney also backfired on Courtney as a Toxic Friend Influence (not helped by her going back to her Action personality after Duncan cheats on her). Whereas with Scott, it was like seeing the original season 1 Duncney and Scott was actually okay with Courtney's attitude.
- Rodney for Jasmine/Shawn and Max/Scarlett... despite the fact that neither girl is even interested in him (or aware of his interest in them).
- Scott gets a lot of hate from Mike/Zoey shippers for getting Mike eliminated in Revenge of the Island. The fact that they didn't get a chance to share their first kiss until All-Stars doesn't help.
- When the people who shipped Dave with someone else found out that Sky had a boyfriend back home, they hated her even more.
- Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race gave Noah an official love interest in the form of the likeminded Emma. Naturally, those who shipped Noah with other characters (and he gets shipped with a lot of characters) hated on the new character immensely.
- Caleb for Damien/Priya shippers because his plot with Priya in their second season basically turned the Ship Tease between Damien and Priya from their first season into an Aborted Arc. However, with the two eventually gaining some genuine connection to each other, as opposed to Caleb just wanting to be in an alliance and Priya only gushing over his looks, Damien will also conversely be this for Caleb/Priya shippers.
