Chris McLean

''Total Drama'' is a Canadian animated comedy television series that began airing on Teletoon in 2007 in Canada and on Cartoon Network in 2008 in the United States. The first season, titled ''Total Drama Island'', follows twenty-two contestants on a reality show of the same name. A second season, titled ''Total Drama Action'', began airing in 2009, this time following fourteen (later fifteen) returning contestants. The third season, ''Total Drama World Tour'', began in June 2010, and follows fifteen returning contestants along with two (later three) new contestants. The show's fourth season, '' Total Drama: Revenge of the Island'', began airing in 2012, and was the first season to feature an entirely new set of contestants. The fifth season began airing in 2014, and was split into two parts, ''Total Drama All-Stars'' and ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island''. The first part features contestants from the first four seasons, while the second part introduces new contestants. The sixth season, the 2023 revival, introduced new contestants, completely retiring all previous casts from the show.

A spin-off, titled '' Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race'', began airing on Cartoon Network Canada, in 2016. Like the original series, it follows contestants of a reality game show, ''The Ridonculous Race''. Four contestants from ''Total Drama'' compete in the spin-off, while three other characters make silent cameos. Another spin-off series, titled ''Total DramaRama'', premiered in September 2018. It features several returning characters from ''Total Drama'' and one character from ''6teen'' which includes seven males (Cody, Duncan, Harold, Jude, Lightning, Noah, and Owen) and seven females (Beth, Bridgette, Courtney, Gwen, Izzy, Leshawna, and Sugar). Other characters such as DJ, Geoff, Katie, Sadie, and Trent were shown as background characters.

Cast

Despite his character, Josh, not appearing, Dwayne Hill is still credited at the end of ''Total Drama World Tour''.

Characters

Hosts

*Chris McLean (voiced by Christian Potenza and later Terry McGurrin from season 6 onward) is the Scottish Canadian host of the main ''Total Drama'' series. Although he is a popular television personality, Chris is egomaniacal to a fault, often foregoing or willingly going against the contestants' happiness and well-being if it means getting more viewers. This makes him universally hated by the contestants, with their hatred of him being the only thing they can all agree on. While Chris prefers to remain out of the challenges and act more impartially at the beginning of the series, he increasingly becomes more involved to the point of criminal activity. Chris' narcissism causes him to do more things focusing on him (such as making ''Total Drama Action''’s symbol of immunity a "gilded Chris award"). After the last episode of Season 4, Chris was arrested by the government for turning the island into a highly-contaminated toxic waste dump and was sent to prison until he was bailed out by the producers for another season. Chris does not host in The Ridonculous Race due to Don taking over as the show runner here. However, he is briefly seen in the final episode of the season and it is implied that he was actually on vacation. He has a cousin, Jerd in World Tour and a mother in Revenge of the Island and Pahkitew Island.
*Chef Hatchet (voiced by Clé Bennett and later Deven Mack in ''Total DramaRama'' and season 6) is the African Canadian chef for the ''Total Drama'' series, and the occasional co-host. While not considered an official host, he has hosted on several occasions when Chris is absent. Chef is a large, hunching man with a drill sergeant approach to almost everything. He notoriously only cooks horrible food. In Total DramaRama (which acts as a prequel to the original show), Chef is the only teacher of Happy Tots Daycare Centre, where he teaches and looks after the young students. In Total Drama, he has a mother and a grandmother, Axe. In Total DramaRama, he has a brother and a mother.
*Don (voiced by Terry McGurrin) is the host of ''The Ridonculous Race''. Unlike his ''Total Drama'' counterpart, Don is always trying to be impartial during challenges, and often shows concern for the contestants' safety when in dangerous situations. Although not to the same extent as Chris, Don has shown to have a slight ego, often adding in small comments about his looks.

Contestants

Debuted in ''Total Drama Island''

*Beth (voiced by Sarah Gadon) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'' and ''Total Drama Action''. She is a friendly girl who tends to get along with everybody due to her amiable behavior. She appears geeky with large glasses, a sideways ponytail and braces, the later of which was removed between seasons. She initially forms an alliance with Heather, but breaks it off due to Heather's bossy attitude before she is voted off due to accidentally cursing her team with an idol she took from Boney Island. In ''Total Drama Action'', she forms a strong friendship with Lindsay and eventually makes it to the finale with Duncan. She also claimed to be dating a handsome boy named Brady, which the other contestants doubted until he showed up in the finale. In Total Drama, she has a father and a mother. In Total DramaRama, she has a mother, a brother, and a cousin.
*Bridgette (voiced by Kristin Fairlie) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'', ''Total Drama Action'', and ''Total Drama World Tour''. She is a surfer chick and vegetarian who is passionate about tending animals, even healing a wild bear in Siberia. She starts dating Geoff after both are eliminated during the first season, and the two end up being the first eliminated in the second season due to their constant make out sessions annoying everyone, resulting in them becoming the ''Aftermath'' hosts. During ''World Tour'', Bridgette is eliminated after she is tricked by Alejandro into kissing a frozen pole. It also strains her relationship with Geoff, but they manage to move past it. By the time of ''The Ridonculous Race'', the two are still together, but she was unable to compete with him as she had signed up for a surfing competition in Australia.
*Cody Emmett Jameson Anderson (voiced by Peter Oldring and later Wyatt White on ''Total DramaRama'') is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'' and ''Total Drama World Tour''. He is a geek that tries to be cool but fails constantly. He has a crush on Gwen, who only sees him as an annoying little brother, but puts it aside to help his teammate Trent in the first season. He was voted off after getting mauled by a bear and suffered severe injuries, but recovers after his elimination. During ''World Tour'', he is freaked out by Sierra's creepy devotion to him and constantly tries to get rid of her, but accepts her as a friend at the end of the season. He makes it to the final three, but decides to help Heather defeat Alejandro after the later eliminates him and nearly gets him killed by a shark.
*Courtney (voiced by Emilie-Claire Barlow) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'', ''Total Drama Action'', ''Total Drama World Tour'', and ''Total Drama All-Stars''. She is stubborn, highly uptight and very strict, often trying to commandeer her team to no avail. During the first season, she forms a relationship with Duncan, whom she is initially at odds with for his rebellious nature. She is wrongfully eliminated when Harold tampered with the votes in an attempt to get back at Duncan. In the second season, she files a lawsuit that results in her being allowed to compete when she did not initially qualify and becomes the main antagonist before she is voted off by Duncan and Beth before the finale. In the third season, she becomes friends with Gwen, but turns against her and Duncan after the two become a couple. Courtney is so furious about this to the point that she deliberately plays poorly and sabotages her team in a desperate attempt to make her team lose so they can vote out Gwen (which angers Heather to the point of voting for Courtney under the pretense of voting for Gwen). She is later seduced by Alejandro, eventually resulting in her elimination. In ''All-Stars'', she begins to date Scott and rekindles her friendship with Gwen after the latter breaks up with Duncan, but after the other contestants find out she made a chart to plan their eliminations, her new relationships are ruined and she is voted off yet again.
*Devon "DJ" Joseph (voiced by Clé Bennett) is a Jamaican Canadian contestant on ''Total Drama Island'', ''Total Drama Action'', and ''Total Drama World Tour''. He is kind and considerate to others, is a talented cook, and loves animals and his mother. In the first season, he is eliminated after failing a horror-themed challenge. In the second season, Chef Hatchet forms an alliance with him to make him tougher. However, he decides that being in the alliance is wrong and quits the game. In the third season, DJ develops bad luck and starts accidentally injuring animals during his challenges. Despite his attempts to eliminate himself to save the creatures, he ends up as the last one on his team before losing the game.
*Duncan (voiced by Drew Nelson) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'', ''Total Drama Action'', ''Total Drama World Tour'', and ''Total Drama All-Stars''. He is a rebellious punk and an ex-convict from juvenile detention. During the first two seasons, he develops a relationship with Courtney but eventually breaks up with her due to her strict nature. In ''Total Drama Island'', he makes it to the final four but is eliminated by Chef after he and Owen fail a team challenge (with Chef taking pleasure in it due to Duncan annoying him throughout the season). In ''Total Drama Action'', he is targeted for elimination multiple times after Courtney returns to the show but is often spared by luck or the eliminations of other contestants, which helps him make it into the finale with Beth. In ''Total Drama World Tour'', he initially quits the show in the first episode but is forcibly brought back to compete again. When he returns, he kisses Gwen and begins to date her much to Courtney's ire. After making the final five, he is voted off when Alejandro and Heather form an alliance (though Duncan also formed an alliance with Alejandro in order to weaken Courtney; Alejandro will seduce her while Duncan fakes being jealous to make her believe her revenge is coming to plan when, in reality, Alejandro is turning the tables on her). In ''All-Stars'', he becomes obsessed with getting Courtney's attention and proving to his colleagues and the audience that he is not nice, which causes Gwen to dump him, and he is disqualified and arrested after he blows up Chris's mansion.
*Eva (voiced by Julia Chantrey) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island''. She is a strong athlete with a fiery temper which causes her to be the second one voted off the island in the first season after losing her MP3 player (which Heather secretly stole). She returns later in the season after the teams are merged, but her temper results in a quick second elimination after she targets Bridgette for supposedly getting her eliminated. She was one of the three competitors (alongside Katie and Sadie) that failed to compete after Season 1.
*Ezekiel (voiced by Peter Oldring) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'' and ''Total Drama World Tour''. He is a Canadian homeschooled farm boy and is the first one voted off for making sexist comments about the female contestants. After his elimination, he attempts to develop a rapper-like persona. In ''World Tour'', he is voted off first once again when he costs his team the challenge, but he secretly stays on the plane without Chris' knowledge. Over the course of the season, Ezekiel slowly transforms into a feral creature who roams the plane in a desperate attempt to claim the prize money, resulting in it getting destroyed. He returned in both ''Revenge of the Island'' and ''All-Stars'', serving as an obstacle for both new and old contestants as he remains a permanent resident of Camp Wawanakwa and later Boney Island. By the time of ''The Ridonculous Race'', he is still missing as a missing poster of him is seen in New York.
*Geoff (voiced by Dan Petronijevic) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'', ''Total Drama Action'', and ''The Ridonculous Race''. He is a surfer with a positive attitude and is always up for a party. During the first season, he develops a crush on Bridgette and the two become a couple. While he makes it far, he is voted off by other contestants fearing his positive attitude if it came down to a popularity contest. After he and Bridgette are the first ones eliminated in the second season, they become the hosts of ''Total Drama Aftermath'', where they interview the eliminated contestants and showcase highlights from the season. The fame of the show causes him to act extremely self-centered, but he eventually changes back. He continues to host the Aftermath show in season three, though grows irritated with his new cohost, Blainely. In ''The Ridonculous Race'', he competes with his best friend Brody as his teammate.
*Gwen (voiced by Megan Fahlenbock) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'', ''Total Drama Action'', ''Total Drama World Tour'', and ''Total Drama All-Stars''. She is a goth girl who does not initially like socializing with others. In the first season, she develops a crush on Trent and the two begin dating after she became a finalist with Owen and eliminated her rival, Heather. During the second season, her and Trent's relationship deteriorates after they are placed on separate teams and she eventually breaks up with him when he starts throwing challenges for her. She is eliminated after she throws her team's challenge to make up for Trent's actions on the other team. In season three, she becomes friends with Courtney but destroys their friendship by kissing Duncan and begins dating him, eventually resulting in Courtney eliminating her during a tiebreaker challenge. In ''All-Stars'', she makes several attempts to mend her friendship with Courtney and is eventually successful after breaking up with Duncan, only for it to backfire and fail after she finds out about Courtney's elimination chart. She is the last one of the original contestants eliminated, but she and Cameron help Mike and Zoey during the finale.
*Harold Norbert Cheever Doris McGrady V (voiced by Brian Froud) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'', ''Total Drama Action'', and ''Total Drama World Tour''. A parody of Napoleon Dynamite, he is an awkward nerd who is constantly bullied by Duncan. Despite his demeanor, he displays several talents such as beatboxing, poetry, and quick reflexes. After his elimination, he reveals he has feelings for Leshawna, and the two kiss before he leaves the island. During the second season, he is initially bullied by Duncan again and is the first to discover Owen was sabotaging the competition, but was eliminated before he could warn the others. In the third season, he quits the show early after causing his team to lose the challenge in Japan.
*Heather (voiced by Rachel Wilson) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'', ''Total Drama Action'', ''Total Drama World Tour'', and ''Total Drama All-Stars''. She is a malicious, insolent and snobby girl who will not stop at anything to win the million-dollar cash prize. She acts as the main antagonist during the first season. Heather manipulates Lindsay and Beth to join her secret alliance before ultimately getting them eliminated, and picks extreme rivalries with Gwen and Leshawna, despite all three of them being teammates. She makes it to the final three but is eliminated after Gwen and Owen team up against her in the dare challenge, which also results in her hair getting shaved off. During the second season, she is obsessed with trying to find a way to cover up her bald head and is eliminated by her team after losing to Beth in a badminton challenge. In the third season, she forms an intense rivalry with Alejandro but eventually develops feelings for him as well. She manages to make it to the final round where Alejandro confesses his feelings for her and she uses it to manipulate him turning the game in her favor, but ends up losing the money after she either accidentally gives Alejandro the win or Ezekiel steals it from her. In ''Revenge of the Island'', she attempts to steal the cash prize of the season, but is stopped by the new contestants. In ''All-Stars'', she competes against Alejandro once more, who eliminates her before the teams merge by stealing the immunity statue from her. After he is eventually voted off, the two begin dating.
*Izzy (voiced by Katie Crown) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'', ''Total Drama Action'', and ''Total Drama World Tour''. She is a zany girl who is very hyperactive and a compulsive liar. In the first season, she leaves early after the Royal Canadian Mounted Police chase her out for causing a major explosion during the challenge, but later returns as a contestant after the teams are merged. Before her second elimination, she begins a relationship with Owen. In the second season, she goes by the aliases of "E-Scope" and "Explosivo" and is eliminated twice in this season. In the third season, several blows to her head result in her becoming a genius and breaking up with Owen. She is taken out of the competition by the military, who plan to put her new mind to work, though she eventually receives another blow to the head and returns to her zanier personality.
*Justin (voiced by Adam Reid) is a model contestant on ''Total Drama Island'' and ''Total Drama Action''. He is a handsome boy who makes girls, boys and animals swoon when he stares into their eyes. He is mostly silent in the first season and eliminated early on thanks to Heather manipulating her teammates in a talent-themed challenge. In ''Total Drama Action'', he displays more of a shrewd and vain personality and keeps worrying about his appearance while scheming and plotting, serving as the main antagonist before Courtney returns and overshadows him. During a princess-themed challenge, he develops feelings for Courtney, but she does not reciprocate them and votes with Duncan to eliminate him. His main admirers are Katie, Sadie, Lindsay, and Beth.
*Katie (voiced by Stephanie Anne Mills) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'' and Sadie's best friend. They dress alike by wearing a black and white striped tube top and pink hot pants, but she is taller and skinnier with a tan. Katie was voted off after she and Sadie cause their team to lose a camping challenge, with Katie receiving the extra vote. She was one of the three competitors (alongside Sadie and Eva) that failed to compete after Season 1.
*Leshawna (voiced by Novie Edwards) is a sassy and bold contestant on ''Total Drama Island'', ''Total Drama Action'', and ''Total Drama World Tour''. She is a curvy African Canadian girl with a particularly large behind. During the first season, she forms a strong friendship with Gwen and a fierce rivalry against Heather. When Harold is eliminated, he reveals his feelings for her before he leaves the island. Despite their mutual attraction, she breaks it off with him due to believing they went too fast into it, though they remain friends. She made it to the final five in the first season before she was accidentally voted off by the eliminated campers. In the second season, she tricks her team into giving her the spa reward from one of the challenges and bad-mouths the other contestants to her cousin Leshaniqua, leading everyone to distrust her and eventually vote her off. In the third season, she is eliminated early after being seduced and tricked by Alejandro, but rekindles her relationship with Harold.
*Lindsay (voiced by Stephanie Anne Mills) is an attractive contestant on ''Total Drama Island'', ''Total Drama Action'', ''Total Drama World Tour'', and ''Total Drama All-Stars''. She is a stereotypical dumb blonde who has a sweet, bubbly personality. In ''Total Drama Island'', she becomes part of an alliance with Heather, who forces her to various demeaning tasks. She also begins dating Tyler, but has a hard time remembering his name and who he is after his elimination. She ultimately learns how cruel Heather is when the former's actions result in her elimination and finally stands up to her. She later attains revenge by being the one to initiate Heather getting her head shaved during the dare challenge. In ''Total Drama Action'', Lindsay becomes best friends with Beth, who was also part of Heather's initial alliance. Despite getting far in the competition, she ends up accidentally voting herself off. In ''Total Drama World Tour'', Lindsay eventually remembers who Tyler is and the two resume dating before getting eliminated after losing to DJ in a tiebreaker challenge (despite DJ's attempts to throw the challenge). In All-Stars, she is voted off first for costing her team the challenge.
*Noah (voiced by Carter Hayden) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'', ''Total Drama World Tour'', and ''The Ridonculous Race''. He is a cynical, sarcastic boy who is voted off quickly in the first season for refusing to participate in the dodgeball challenge and constantly insulting his teammates. In the third season, he becomes best friends with Owen, but is eliminated in London after expressing his distrust of Alejandro to Owen. He was withheld from ''Total Drama All-Stars''. In ''The Ridonculous Race'', Noah competes with Owen as the "Reality TV Pros", as the two have competed on several reality shows since the third season. During the competition, he falls in love with Emma of the "Sisters" team and the two eventually begin dating after both teams were eliminated.
*Owen (voiced by Scott McCord) is an overweight bumbling contestant on ''Total Drama Island'', ''Total Drama Action'', ''Total Drama World Tour'', and ''The Ridonculous Race''. Owen is contestant who loves to eat and has an enthusiastic personality, and he always sees people in a positive light, becoming the only contestant to befriend Chris. He dates Izzy until she breaks up with him in the third season. Despite the odds, he eventually becomes a finalist in the first season with Gwen. In the second season, he is eliminated by Courtney before the teams merge, but is brought back as a mole to get the other contestants to sabotage each other. He is eliminated once more after Courtney and Beth find out his secret. During the third season, he becomes friends with Noah and unintentionally annoys Alejandro with his energetic personality and constantly calling him "Al" but grows suspicious of the latter after Noah warns him of Alejandro's true nature. After the teams merge, Alejandro manipulates the others into voting him off due to his popularity. He later competes with Noah in ''The Ridonculous Race'' as "The Reality TV Pros", as the two have been on several reality shows since the third season, and he and Kitty help Noah and Emma develop a relationship. Owen is the only original competitor to make a guest appearance in the reboot.
*Sadie (voiced by Lauren Lipson) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'' and Katie's best friend. The two dress alike by wearing black and white striped tube tops with pink hot pants and have similar personalities, but Sadie is heavier and shorter with fair skin. She struggled to compete after Katie's elimination and was eventually voted off after she injured Courtney during a trust-based challenge. She was one of the three competitors (alongside Katie and Eva) that failed to compete after Season 1.
*Trent (voiced by Scott McCord) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'' and ''Total Drama Action''. He is a guitar player with a laid back attitude who has a crush on Gwen during the first season, but is eliminated after Heather tricks him into kissing her and Leshawna convinces the other contestants into voting him off for Gwen's sake. Despite this, he and Gwen eventually become a couple in the finale. During the second season, his relationship with Gwen is strained after they are put on opposite teams. He becomes desperate to impress her to the point where he starts throwing his team's challenges, eventually resulting in his elimination and Gwen breaking up with him. Though he continues pining for her, he ends up becoming the object of affection for Katie and Sadie.
*Tyler (voiced by Peter Oldring) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island'' and ''Total Drama World Tour''. He is an uncoordinated athlete who frequently injures himself. In the first season, he is eliminated after his fear of chickens costs his team one of the challenges. He and Lindsay begin dating during the first season, but after his elimination, Lindsay has a hard time remembering who he is. In the third season, Lindsay does not even remember his name until soon before Lindsay's elimination challenge. He allies himself with Alejandro, but is eliminated after costing his team the win during the Area 51 challenge.

Debuted in ''Total Drama World Tour''

*Alejandro Burromuerto (Burromuertos in Total Drama All-Stars) (voiced by Marco Grazzini in TDWT and Alex House in TDAS) is a contestant on ''Total Drama World Tour'' and ''Total Drama All-Stars''. He is a handsome Spanish young man who is the main antagonist of the third season. He instigated the eliminations of nearly every other contestant in the season, either by exploiting his looks or sowing discord among the others. He also talks about his impressive family from time to time (crediting his relatives for the skills he has garnered to this day), but loathes his brother José for being subjectively better than him and for calling him "Al" on purpose (the latter which Owen does repeatedly since he cannot pronounce "Alejandro"). He creates a long lasting rivalry with Heather, one of the few people to actually see through his manipulations and actively work against him, but he eventually falls in love with her (although he tries hard not to admit it). Amidst the chaos of the final challenge, he is trampled by the other contestants and burned by lava, forcing Chris to place him inside the robotic "Drama Machine" so he can sign release forms for the incident, and allowing him to recover from his injuries for a year. He returns in ''All-Stars'', where he attempts to warn the other contestants of Mal's evil nature, but is voted off due to the contestants' own distrust of him and his heinous actions. After his elimination, he begins dating Heather.
*Blaineley O'Halloran (voiced by Carla Collins) is the host from ''Celebrity Manhunt'' before moving to ''Total Drama Aftermath'' and she was briefly a contestant on ''Total Drama World Tour''. She frequently clashed with Bridgette and Geoff as she attempted to incite drama in their love, leading the latter to trick Blaineley into winning the "Second Chance" challenge to become a contestant on ''Total Drama World Tour''. She is voted off alongside Courtney when it is revealed she attempted to make a secret alliance with Chef to help her win (both were eliminated and did not have a tiebreaker challenge due to budget cuts on the show), after which she reveals that she was supposed to be the host of Total Drama, but Chris became the host because she turned down the job.
*Sierra (voiced by Annick Obonsawin) is a contestant on ''Total Drama World Tour'' and ''Total Drama All-Stars''. A ''Total Drama'' fan girl and blogger who has an obsessive crush on Cody. During the third season, she makes multiple attempts to make Cody fall in love with her, leaving the latter often terrified at her advances. Sierra ultimately places fourth after Chris disqualifies her for accidentally blowing up the plane they were traveling on. She returns in ''All Stars'', where her mind begins to slowly deteriorate and causes her to mistake Cameron for Cody. Cameron convinces his teammates to vote her off for both of their sakes.

Debuted in ''Total Drama: Revenge of the Island''

*Anne Maria (voiced by Athena Karkanis) is a contestant on '' Total Drama: Revenge of the Island''. She is a woman who is obsessed with her looks, and is involved in a love triangle with Mike and Zoey as she is infatuated with Mike's alternate personality, Vito. During the mine challenge, she receives a large diamond from the feral Ezekiel. Thinking she no longer needs the million, and not knowing the diamond is worthless, she quits the show.
*Beverly "B" is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Revenge of the Island''. He is an intelligent individual who does not speak. In the second episode, his real name is revealed to be Beverly. He is voted off after Scott throws a challenge for his team and frames B for the loss.
*Brick McArthur (voiced by Jon Cor) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Revenge of the Island''. He is a military cadet that always follows his creed and forms a rivalry with Jo. Even though he is a disciplined cadet, he often displays a sensitive side that his enemies take advantage of. He is voted off for rescuing the other team during the challenge in the mines.
*Cameron Corduroy Wilkins (voiced by Kevin Duhaney) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Revenge of the Island'' and ''Total Drama All-Stars''. He is an intelligent computer nerd who is physically frail as a result of his mother raising him in a bubble. He eventually makes it to the finale of the fourth season with Lightning. In ''All-Stars'', Cameron becomes the target of Sierra's affections as she begins mistaking him for Cody. During the 100th episode, he is severely injured after he and Gwen rescued the contestants from Ezekiel, resulting in his elimination. He later assists Zoey in the final two with Gwen.
*Dakota Milton (voiced by Carleigh Beverly) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Revenge of the Island''. She is a fame-hungry girl who is eliminated early in the competition after her desire for camera time costs her team the challenge. She returns to the island to get more screen time, which Chris accepts by making her an intern. After Chris sends her into a mine filled with radiation to test it for the contestants, she mutates into a giant monster that Sam calls "the Dakotazoid". She begins dating Sam after her mutation. She also began competing again in Anne Maria's place, but was eliminated again immediately (which she did not mind this time) when Scott protected himself with the immunity statue.
*Dawn (voiced by Caitlynne Medrek) is an English Canadian contestant on ''Total Drama: Revenge of the Island''. She is a nature lover who is shown to be able to read peoples' feelings through aura. She is voted off after Scott frames her for stealing the other contestants' belongings.
*Jo (voiced by Laurie Elliott) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Revenge of the Island'' and ''Total Drama All-Stars''. She is a competitive jock who's willing to go to any lengths to win. She forms intense rivalries with Brick and Lightning and makes multiple alliances along the way to stay in the game before eventually betraying them. Her last alliance with Cameron led to her downfall after he betrays her, something she was proud of. In ''All-Stars'', she is voted off shortly afterwards for her confrontational attitude and costing her team the challenge.
*Rudolph "Lightning" Jackson (voiced by Tyrone Savage) is a jock bully contestant on ''Total Drama: Revenge of the Island'' and ''Total Drama All-Stars''. He is an arrogant athlete who is talented at football and almost always refers to himself in the third person. Despite his lack of intelligence, he makes it to the finale and faces off against Cameron. After getting struck by lightning indirectly by Cameron in the final episode, his hair turns white. In the following season, he is eliminated early after his egotistical attitude costs his team the challenge.
*Mike (voiced by Cory Doran) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Revenge of the Island'' and ''Total Drama All-Stars''. Mike is a boy who has multiple personalities: the grumpy old man Chester, Russian gymnast Svetlana, Italian tough guy Vito, Australian adventurer Manitoba Smith, and hidden evil Mal. In the fourth season, he develops feelings for Zoey, but is afraid to reveal his disorder to her, which Scott takes advantage of to win the go-kart challenge and eliminate him. In ''All-Stars'', his alternate personality Mal takes over his body and becomes the main antagonist for the season. Mike and his other personalities work together inside his subconscious to escape and kill Mal by hitting a "reset button" that leaves Mike as the sole personality as he competed in the finale with Zoey.
*Sam (voiced by Brian Froud) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Revenge of the Island'' and ''Total Drama All-Stars''. A gamer with a generally optimistic attitude. He develops a crush on Dakota and eventually begins dating her after she mutates from radiation exposure. He is eliminated after his lack of physical strength costs his team the challenge. In ''All-Stars'', he is eliminated after he was caught cheating during the pancake-eating challenge in an effort to save food in case he got sent to Boney Island.
*Scott (voiced by James Wallis) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Revenge of the Island'' and ''Total Drama All-Stars''. Scott is a selfish, sociopathic scheming farmboy who serves as the main antagonist of the fourth season. He continuously sabotages his own team so he could control who ends up being eliminated. He also is constantly chased by the mutant shark Fang after he lost one of his teeth to Scott, eventually injuring Scott to the point of him needing to heal in a "trauma chair". In ''All-Stars'', Scott develops a relationship with Courtney, but eventually breaks up with her after she depicts him as a rat in her elimination chart. He gets eliminated by Zoey due to her making a promise with Mike to bring to the finale.
*Staci (voiced by Ashley Peters) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Revenge of the Island''. She is an extremely talkative girl who is voted off first due to exaggerating about her family and lying on how they invented everything.
*Zoey (voiced by Barbara Mamabolo) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Revenge of the Island'' and ''Total Drama All-Stars''. She is a kind, retro girl from a small town. During the fourth season, she develops feelings for Mike, but finds it difficult to start a relationship due to the latter's attempts to hide his multiple personalities and Anne Maria's crush on Vito. In ''All-Stars'', Zoey is warned by the other contestants about Mal's manipulations, but does not initially believe them due to their own distrustful nature and her relationship with Mike. She makes it to the finale with Mike and eventually helps him overcome Mal's influence.

Debuted in ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island''

*Amy (voiced by Bryn McAuley) is a contestant on '' Total Drama: Pahkitew Island''. She is Samey's older twin sister, whom she constantly bullies. When Amy frames Samey for losing one of the team's challenges, Samey is able to convince the others that she is Amy, after Amy eats a poisonous apple and loses her ability to speak. After Amy's elimination, she swims back to the island to get revenge on her sister, resulting in both of their eliminations and she will be shot out of the cannon again by Chris to avoid the confusion but this time with Samey. It's unknown how the conflict will continue.
*Beardo (voiced by Clé Bennett) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island''. Beardo annoyed the other contestants with his ability to make convincing sound effects, which results in him getting voted off first.
*Dave (voiced by Daniel DeSanto) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island''. A germophobe who sees himself as the only "normal" contestant on the show, Dave thinks logically about challenges but is very critical of his teammates. He develops a crush on Sky, but when she rejects his advances, he convinces the other contestants to vote him off. He becomes Sky's teammate in the finale, but turns against her after finding out she was dating someone prior to coming on the show. He tries to win the $1 million to burn it in front of her as revenge, but fails. At the end of the episode he is accidentally abandoned on the island by Chris and the other contestants and is forced to face the scuba bear 3.0 again. It's unknown what happened to him after the show ended.
*Ella (voiced by Sunday Muse) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island''. A parody of Disney's Snow White, Ella is a girl who loves singing and gets along with animals. After Chris threatens to eliminate her if she sings any further, Sugar convinces her to sing to help her teammates during a challenge before sending Chris an anonymous tip to get her eliminated.
*Jasmine (voiced by Katie Bergin) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island''. Jasmine is a tall Australian survivalist who is very outgoing and intimidating, but also cares a lot about her teammates and her crush, Shawn. She makes it to the final four, but is eliminated after Sugar sabotages her during the challenge. In the finale, Chris turns her against Shawn by revealing how he did not want to split the prize money with her, but the two are able to reconcile regardless if Shawn ends up winning or not.
*Leonard (voiced by Clé Bennett) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island'' and ''The Ridonculous Race''. A lover of Live Action Role Playing Games, he dresses as a wizard and believes he has magical abilities, which result in early eliminations on both of the shows he competed on.
*Max (voiced by Bruce Dow) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island''. He is an aspiring supervillain who constantly schemes, but in actuality is very incompetent. He sees Scarlett as his evil assistant, greatly annoying her in the process.
*Rodney (voiced by Ian Ronningen) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island''. Rodney is a kind and caring country boy who constantly falls in love with any girl for the simplest of gestures. He is eventually voted off when his crushes on multiple contestants causes his team to lose a truth-or-dare challenge.
*Samey (voiced by Bryn McAuley) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island''. She is the younger twin sister of Amy. The polar opposite of Amy, Samey is very kind, but timid due to constant abuse from her sister. She prefers to be called Sammy, but Amy gets everyone to refer to her as Samey, as she is the younger twin. Samey gets revenge on her sister by tricking Amy into eating a poisonous apple that makes her unable to talk, allowing her to deceive the others into thinking she is Amy. She pretends to be Amy to remain in the competition before the real Amy returns to the island for revenge, resulting in both of their eliminations and she will be shot out of the cannon by Chris to avoid the confusion but this time with Amy. It's unknown how the conflict will continue.
*Scarlett (voiced by Kristi Friday) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island''. She is a quiet, highly intelligent girl who helps out Max with his "evil" doings, much to her ire. When she finds the control room for the island, she is revealed to be twisted and psychotic and threatens Chris and the other contestants' lives to get the prize money, but she is defeated and eliminated shortly afterwards.
*Shawn (voiced by Zachary Bennett) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island''. A firm believer in zombie apocalypse conspiracy theories, Shawn believes he is constantly on the run from zombies. He has a crush on Jasmine, but his fear of zombies often gets in the way of their relationship. He eventually makes it to the finale with Sky.
*Sky (voiced by Sarah Podemski) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island''. An aspiring Olympic gymnast, Sky tries to concentrate solely on winning the million dollars, but is often distracted by Dave. She eventually makes it to the finale with Shawn.
*Sugar (voiced by Rochelle Wilson) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island''. Sugar is an unintelligent yet fearless pageant lover with disgusting habits. She develops an intense hatred for Ella despite the latter wanting to become friends with her. Sugar then tricks Sky into forming an alliance with her, which she actually wants Sky out of the game, but backfired. After making it to the final three, she is eliminated after performing the worst in her talent show challenge.
*Topher (voiced by Christopher Jacot) is a contestant on ''Total Drama: Pahkitew Island''. A huge fan of the show's host, Topher is often more focused on becoming the new Chris than the challenges. He eventually steals Chris' phone and attempts to convince the show's producers (later revealed to be Chris playing a trick on Topher) to allow him to replace Chris, eventually costing his team the challenge.

Debuted in ''The Ridonculous Race''

*Brody (voiced by Scott McCord) is a contestant on ''The Ridonculous Race''. He competed with Geoff as the Surfer Dudes team. At the beginning of the race, he did not really take the race seriously, but starts to after he and Geoff eventually return after being previously eliminated. He also develops a crush on MacArthur, one that she reciprocates over time but does not act on due to the competition.
*Carrie and Devin (voiced by Kristin Fairlie and Jeff Geddis) are contestants on ''The Ridonculous Race''. They compete as the Best Friends team. In the beginning of the season, they are best friends. However, it is quickly revealed that Carrie has been in love with Devin since the third grade, but Devin has a girlfriend named Shelley. After Shelley breaks up with him, Devin realizes he loves Carrie after going through the five stages of grief, but at this point she has given up hope of ever being with him. Eventually, they confess their feelings and begin to date, only for Devin to suffer a freak accident that seriously injures him, forcing them to quit the race. They choose the Surfer Dudes team to take their place in the race.
*Chet and Lorenzo (voiced by Darren Frost and Carlos Díaz) are contestants on ''The Ridonculous Race''. They compete as the Stepbrothers team. Before the race, Chet's mother marries Lorenzo's father, and the two have hated each other since then. In an attempt to get them to get along better, the parents forced Chet and Lorenzo to join the race. During the course of the competition, they begin to form a close bond as they realize they have similar interests.
*Crimson and Ennui (voiced by Stacey DePass and Carter Hayden) are contestants on ''The Ridonculous Race''. They compete as the Goths team. Despite their apathy for everything, especially the competition, they prove to be a competent team. While in Australia, they adopt a bunny and name him Loki. After Loki is stolen by the Ice Dancers, the Goths are eliminated while trying to look for him.
*Dwayne and Junior (voiced by Neil Crone and Jacob Ewaniuk) are contestants on ''The Ridonculous Race''. They compete as the Father & Son team. Dwayne is a middle-aged man who is desperately trying to please his son by acting cool and younger than he is. Junior is usually embarrassed by his father's antics and clumsiness. Despite Dwayne often failing to impress his son, they end up closer as the race progresses, with Junior appreciating his father's attempts.
*Ellody and Mary (voiced by Emilie-Claire Barlow and Katie Griffin) are contestants on ''The Ridonculous Race''. They compete as the Geniuses team. During the race, they often let their need to plan slow them down, which eventually results in their elimination during a sandcastle challenge.
*Emma and Kitty (voiced by Stacey DePass and Stephanie Anne Mills) are contestants on ''The Ridonculous Race''. They compete as the Sisters team. Emma is a no-nonsense, competitive law student who is distrustful of others after her last relationship, while Kitty is cheerful and carefree. During the race, Emma falls in love with Noah, with both of their respective teammates helping to push their relationship forward, despite it causing some setbacks for both of their teams.
*Gerry and Pete (voiced by David Huband and Adrian Truss) are contestants on ''The Ridonculous Race''. They compete as the Tennis Rivals team. They are two retired professional tennis players who had a fierce rivalry during their competition days and decide to compete in the race so they can finally get along.
*Jacques and Josee (voiced by Scott McCord and Julie Lemieux) are contestants on ''The Ridonculous Race''. They compete as the Ice Dancers team. They are two highly competitive Canadian figure skaters who hate to finish anywhere other than first after embarrassing themselves at the Winter Olympics. They become the main antagonists as they typically resort to sabotaging the other contestants in a desperate attempt to claim first place, especially during the later parts of the season.
*Jay and Mickey (both voiced by Lyon Smith) are contestants on ''The Ridonculous Race''. They compete as the Adversity Twins team. They are a pair of frail identical twins who were born with many different allergies, phobias, and disorders on top of the terrible luck they tend to have.
*Jen and Tom (voiced by Ashley Botting and Jeff Geddis) are contestants on ''The Ridonculous Race''. They compete as the Fashion Bloggers team. Jen is from Cuba. As best friends, the two developed a very popular fashion blog and are always looking for new styles to try and promote. During the race, they get into an argument over who truly started the blog, but they eventually resolve their differences before they are eliminated.
*Kelly and Taylor (voiced by Julie Lemieux and Bryn McAuley) are contestants on ''The Ridonculous Race''. They compete as the Mother & Daughter team. Hailing from a rich family, Kelly is a trophy wife who is desperately clinging to her youth in a bid to appease her daughter. Taylor, who is rude and disrespectful towards her mother, believes she is a strong athlete as a result of being given many fake awards growing up. Kelly eventually takes Dwayne's advice and starts being stricter towards her daughter.
*Laurie and Miles (voiced by Emilie-Claire Barlow and Katie Griffin) are contestants on ''The Ridonculous Race''. They compete as the Vegans team. Much to their dismay, they end up being forced to eat meat during the Iceland leg. Laurie attacks Don after being told that the leg turns out to be a non-elimination leg, the resulting karma leading to their elimination in the next episode.
*Rock and Spud (voiced by Carlos Díaz and Carter Hayden) are contestants on ''The Ridonculous Race''. They compete as the Rockers team. Between the two, Spud is significantly more dim-witted and has a slower reaction time, leaving Rock to put in more of the work.
*Ryan and Stephanie (voiced by Joseph Motiki and Nicki Burke) are contestants on ''The Ridonculous Race''. They compete as the Daters team. Despite their initial strong passion, they grow to detest each other as the race goes on and break up, eventually calling themselves "The Haters" team. Near the end of the race, they make up and become a couple again.
*Sanders and "MacArthur" (voiced by Nicole Stamp and Evany Rosen) are contestants on ''The Ridonculous Race''. They compete as the Police Cadets team. Between the two, MacArthur is much more aggressive while Sanders is often the voice of reason. After MacArthur accidentally breaks Sanders' arm during one of the challenges and nearly costs them the race, she begins letting Sanders take charge more often. They form an aggressive rivalry with the Ice Dancers team and manage to eliminate them in the finale. In the episode "Got Venom," while stuck up in a tree surrounded by komodo dragons, MacArthur revealed that her full name is actually "Valentina Escobar".
*Tammy (voiced by Nicki Burke) is a contestant on ''The Ridonculous Race''. She is Leonard's childhood friend and competed with him as the LARPERs team.

Debuted in ''Total Drama Island (2023)''

*Axel (voiced by Tamara Almeida) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. Axel is a serious survivalist who, like Shawn, is preparing for a hypothetical zombie apocalypse. Unlike Shawn, who is bent on surviving by either blending in or using zombie weaknesses to his advantage, Axel is a fighter armed with every weapon possible and seeks to prepare her team for such an event by any means.
*Bowie (voiced by Brandon Arrington) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. Bowie is Total Drama's first openly gay contestant, and is incredibly competitive and strategic. He is very focused on the game and knows the importance of waiting to start a relationship with someone until the game is over knowing the inevitable hindrance it will cause. This is proven when Raj comes out as gay, and Bowie promises that he will go out with him once the game is over knowing that an alliance with someone he likes will not only hinder his game but probably lead to them going against each other.
*Caleb (voiced by Kwaku Adu-Poku) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. He is a gorgeous hunk who can make even animals fawn over him. He is calm, quiet, and observant, but his athletic build can have people easily view him as a powerful threat in physical competitions.
*Chase (voiced by Julius Cho) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. Chase is part of a livestream with two of his friends and his on-again-off-again girlfriend, Emma. Chase does love Emma, but his constant disregard of safety, selfish personality, and love of dares and pranks, have strained their relationship. Chase has trouble comprehending why Emma broke up with him despite the obvious reasons, yet misunderstandings end up bringing the two together.
*Damien (voiced by Daniel Keith Morrison) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. Damien is fun, supportive, intelligent, scientifically knowledgeable, and cares for his friends. Unlike everyone else, Damien has never even heard of Total Drama, let alone watched it, until his friends dared him into making an audition. Not realizing how dangerous Total Drama turned out to be until arriving, Damien ends up scared of the show to the point where he campaigns for his elimination and tries to vote himself off. Once Damien gets used to the competition's crazy nature, however, he proves to be a strong asset and becomes eager to continue playing but is too late to change everyone's mind due to how much he wanted to leave originally.
*Emma (voiced by Melanie Leishman) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. Emma was originally Chase's boyfriend and part of his livestream until his careless nature, selfishness, and lack of empathy caused her to break up with him. Emma yearns to use part of the prize money to fix the damage Chase caused her to do. While Emma is nice with a mindset of winning, her hatred of Chase easily distracts her from the competition. However, misunderstandings result in their relationship being repaired, but the toxicity of their relationship overall makes people concerned and confused regarding Emma's choices.
*Julia (voiced by Julie Sype) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. At first, Julia seems to be a social media influencer with a platform focusing on peace, nature, and positivity. As the competition went on, however, Julia is revealed to be a selfish, fame-seeking, very temperamental person who is the opposite of what her platform stands for. After being exposed, Julia uses her true self to get a bigger following and has no qualms about playing the role of a villain. She also is rarely seen without a cell phone, which she uses to keep up to date with her followers.
*Millie (voiced by Barbara Mamabolo) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. Millie is a researcher/writer who is studying how the mindset of her generation has taken a turn for the worse compared to her parents' generation. Using Total Drama as a source for her research, Millie is out to learn how reality TV, social media, and a simple Wi-Fi connection have ruined her generation. Seeing Priya as the prime example, Millie uses her as her research only to befriend her and realize that she is only writing her book to mask her own insecurities. Unlike most competitors, Millie is not competing on Total Drama for the money but for research, hence why she is more focused on repairing her friendship with Priya over winning when she makes it to the final three.
*Mary Kate "MK" (voiced by Kimberly-Ann Truong) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. MK is a minor thief who likes working behind the scenes by using contestants' personal information to her advantage if it means going far. MK is sarcastic and does not want to make friends as she is a lone wolf who wants to win. She even goes as far as hacking the confessional to get dirt on everyone just to ensure her safety. Unfortunately, her overconfidence can be her downfall as learning personal secrets no one else knows about can expose her game. She was originally yellowish color during its initial broadcast in Italy, but her skin was modified to its usual peach color in later airings to avoid such controversy. According to Fresh TV, her ethnicity is undisclosed.
*Nichelle LaDonna (voiced by Tymika Tafari) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. Nichelle is a film and TV star who sees herself as #1 and is somewhat rules-focused as shown when she voiced her disapproval of Emma targeting the other team instead of the team's ship like they were supposed to. Nichelle is also over-confident and claims to be super strong and unbeatable only to reveal that all the stunts she did in the movies and TV shows she starred in were performed by a stuntman when she tries to do a physical challenge and proves incapable of doing so. She is also very emotional as she has a breakdown when she has to come clean about her skills and a tantrum when she loses the challenge for her team. Nichelle is also incapable of accepting her own failure and blames her stuntman for her loss in the game when she was not even competing.
*Priya (voiced by Eman Ayaz) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. As the daughter of two huge Total Drama fans, Priya has trained her whole life to compete on Total Drama and the reality TV circuit as a whole just so her parents would let her follow her dreams of becoming a doctor. She befriends Millie, who finds Priya on the right path but is worried about her toxic parents only focusing on Priya living out their dreams. Her training pays off as she gets to the finale of her debut season, but her friendship with Millie is briefly strained by Bowie when she learns that Millie was originally using her for her research. Nevertheless, she does not let this interfere with her mindset as she yearns to make her parents proud and be able to follow her dreams.
*Raj (voiced by Varun Saranga) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. Raj is Wayne's best friend and fellow hockey teammate from Northern Alberta, Canada. During his time in the competition, when he was not having a blast with Wayne, Raj learns that he is gay after discovering his feelings for Bowie, Raj does not know how to react to his own coming out story and is worried about how Wayne and others around him would react. Upon realizing that Bowie loves him too and getting support from even the meanest of contestants, Raj is able to reveal that he is gay to Wayne. Like Bowie, Raj is willing to wait to go out with him knowing that their relationship could be destroyed by the game and sees past Bowie's competitive nature and finds him a wonderful person regardless.
*Ripper (voiced by Fred Kennedy) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. Ripper is described as a major jerk who does not care what anyone thinks and is basically the blend of all the worst personality traits known to man. He is sexist, cocky, willing to hurt others to get what he wants, has a criminal record, and is disgusting to the point where he wishes to set a world record for the "world's longest fart".
*Lauren a.k.a. Scary Girl (voiced by Katie Griffin) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. Lauren loves everything that can maim, scar, brutally injure, and just plain hurt anyone. She enjoys hearing people scream and does not care that her unhinged behavior scares people. She also does not mind being called "Scary Girl" and shows no objections to the nickname. Lauren is unpredictable and strong. She is believed to be weak, only to win a challenge for her team by taking down a bear with one hand, skip across grease, and has no need for a soft platform as a landing pad. While easily distracted by all things creepy, like a fake skull, as well as choosing to attack Damien just to hear his screams, Scary Girl is also strategic as she comes up with the idea to ram the ship so nobody wins when only her and Zee remain in the challenge for their team. It is also hard for people to try and befriend Scary Girl due to her behavior, but once they do, they are guaranteed to be safe from her.
*Wayne (voiced by Jack Copland) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. Wayne is Raj's best friend and fellow hockey teammate from Northern Alberta, Canada. Wayne is the definition of the friend anyone would dream of as he is super supportive of Raj and is eager to help him come out as gay when Raj discovers his feelings for Bowie. Wayne also does not care that Bowie has antagonistic intentions during the game as he is just happy Raj found someone he loves.
* Hezekias "Zee" (voiced by Gerardo Gismondi) is a contestant on ''Total Drama Island (2023)''. Zee is a laid-back, go-with-the-flow, fun dude with a love of orange soda. Zee is also Total Drama's first amputee, having been born without the lower half of his left leg. Zee is so laid-back that he can forget what he is supposed to do, but he is also super friendly, brave, and unpredictable. He is one of the few contestants not afraid of Scary Girl, and he is also capable of stomaching Chef's food, and even coming up with a good strategy, albeit for the wrong reason.

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