Wham Episode in this series.
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Total Drama Island
- In "Search and Do Not Destroy", Heather kisses Trent in front of Gwen threatening their relationship, then she gets invincibility, and despite LeShawna's best efforts to rally the other campers to vote Heather off, Trent is eliminated.LeShawna: Looks like we got played.
Total Drama Action
- "The Chefshank Redemption", Gwen's elimination means that both teams have to work without their respective captains.
- "The Sand Witch Project", DJ's hallucinations of his mother being angry at him has forced him to quit the competition, resulting with the contestants contending with the most gut-wrenching challenge yet...Chef's cooking!
- "Top Dog", While we all knew that Duncan and Beth would be the final two, nobody expected both Courtney and Owen's elimination, nor the breakup of Duncan and Courtney due to the former voting out the latter.
Total Drama World Tour
- In "Jamaica Me Sweat", Alejandro's sabotage, and reveal that the symbol on Irene was a fake, has caused the downfall of Team Victory.
- "I See London...", combined with Genre Shift. First, we saw what happens if you're left in a cargo hold for too long without civilization. Then we find out Noah's Obfuscating Stupidity, the biggest fan-favorite getting voted out due to it. Finally, there's Duncan's return and the Duncan/Gwen kiss, which completed the shift.
- The season finale Hawaiian Punch/Aloha, Finale!. Basically Alejandro confessed his love for Heather, but she rejected him in favor of the million dollars. However, Ezekiel showed up, took the money, and plunged into a volcano, essentially making the whole season pointless. The cast then fled Hawaii in response to an oversight by Chris causing the volcano to erupt, ending up in the water as flaming rocks came at them; Ezekiel was shot out of the volcano and landed on Chris's boat, sinking it; the show went to static as a giant flaming rock was about to hit Heather; and, in The Stinger, it was shown that Alejandro, (who had been trampled by the escaping campers and drenched in hot molten lava from the volcano) was placed in the Drama Machine, a'la Darth Vader. While the last part was most likely a joke, this was a pretty dark finale for a show that's usually known for using Rule of Funny to the extreme. The tiebreaker challenge in that same episode also qualifies as people were expecting Cody to win, not get swatted aside like a fly by Alejandro.
Total Drama: Revenge of the Island
- "The Enchanted Franken-Forest", which featured, quite possibly, the most shocking elimination in the entire series. Zoey, who had been portrayed as the season's protagonist up to this point, is unceremoniously eliminated by Lightning, also breaking the tradition of the finalists being opposing genders.
- The Season Finale Brains Vs Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown, has a wham episode in regards to one character. It's revealed that Scott has been reduced to a vegetative state with a robot body, unable to talk or walk. He can only express "yes" or "no" through blinking lights. While the season as a whole was Darker and Edgier than the other three, the true whaminess comes from Scott's fate (he gets much better however by Total Drama All-Stars), and Chris getting arrested.
Total Drama All Stars
- "Evil Dread" has Mike getting hit over the head by Scott's Shovel after Scott got frightened by bees, re-awaking Mal as a result.
- "No Egg-spects the Spanish Opposition" has Mike hitting himself in the head with a giant boulder in order to reawaken his other personalities, only to have himself sealed away in his mind, shackled to a boulder, while Mal runs free while pretending to be Mike. Also Duncan finally knows Mike prior to Island (albeit offscreen, and that Mike wasn't introduced until Revenge of the Island) by recognizing him whistling "In the Hall of the Mountain King".
- "The Final Wreck-ening" has Mike finally defeating Mal by erasing him from existence with a push of a button, but at the cost of losing his other four personalities, yet he gains access to all of their skills in the process, but no matter who wins the million dollars, due to a Didn't Think This Through Moment from Chris, the episode ends with Wawanakwa sinking to the bottom of the sea.
Total Drama Pahkitew Island
- The episode "Scarlett Fever". In it, quiet, nerdy Scarlett is revealed to be a murderous, sociopathic Big Bad. The same episode also reveals that Pahkitew Island is completely artificial and controlled by a computer and all the wildlife are robots.
- "Sky Fall" as Jasmine, who was one of main characters of the season and seemingly finale bound gets a tree pushed onto her by Sugar and is eliminated.
Total Drama: The Ridonculous Race
- The episode "My Way or Zimbabwe" had the Ice Dancers (Jacques and Josee) deciding to become more dangerous competitors, after being saved in the non-elimination round.
Total Drama Island (2023) Part 1
- "Jurassic Fart" has Julia finally reveal her true nature through her "The Reason You Suck" Speech to a raptor, which MK catches on her phone's camera.
- Following MK uploading Julia's aforementioned outburst online, the latter completely drops her Nice Girl act and takes on the role of the main antagonist in "Launch Back of Notre Game".
