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''I wanna be famous!'' }}
A popular [[Canadian Series|Canadian animated series]] produced by Teletoon from the creators of [[Sixteen
Due to the nature of the show, all of the main characters are rather obvious and blatant stereotypes of reality show contestants and teenagers in general (such as the goth girl, the party-obsessed guy, the over-eager kid, etc.), and they are mostly [[Played for Laughs]].
The second season of this show also holds special significance for showing that [[Cartoon Network]] understands that older kids can handle more mature humor in cartoons. The first season was heavily censored, but when they removed most cursing for ''Total Drama Action'' and later ''World Tour'' as well, a [[Moral Guardian]] rampage didn't occur, likely due to the show's late airtime. As such, shows where the humor [[Getting Crap Past the Radar|can become slightly off-color]], like ''[[
Has its own [http://totaldramaisland.wikia.com/wiki/Total_Drama_Wiki wiki], which is almost as popular as the show itself.
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** Izzy, for being a [[Ax Crazy|"psycho hose beast"]].
** Courtney, for being a [[Knight Templar|over-achieving goody-goody]].
** Justin, for his [[Distracted
** Ezekiel, since he was a sheltered, [[Homeschooled Kids|home-schooled kid]].
** Blaineley, for her [[Small Name, Big Ego|massive ego]].
** Staci, for her [[Bad Liar|pathological lying]].
** Dakota, for her aspirations to be an [[American Dream|award-winning film actress, fashion model, and pop music star]].
* [[
** Used in the theme song on the words "I want to live close to the sun/Well, pack your bags 'cause I've already won."
** Ezekiel in "Come Fly With Us."
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* [[Award Bait Song]]: "I'm Sorry."
* [[Award Snub]]: An in-universe example occurs during the ''Action'' special {{spoiler|when the characters don't win the Gemmie award for "Best Reality Ensemble"}}. However, this could have just been a part of {{spoiler|Chris' [[Xanatos Gambit]] to get them on season three. A Gemmie is nice but another season is better}}.
* [[Back for
* [[Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work]]: In season three, {{spoiler|Duncan wasted no time trying to get rid of Courtney after she found out about the kiss.}}
* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: Depending on where you live, the ''World Tour'' finale either has Heather (former antagonist) or Alejandro (worse antagonist) winning in some countries.
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* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: Lindsay, Beth and Owen. The latter is a 296 pound [[Gentle Giant]], but when angered, you're in for it! In ''Revenge of the Island'', {{spoiler|Zoey}} is this trope personified.
* [[Big Bad]]: [[Word of God]] says that Chris McLean will always be the true villain of the series.
* [[Big Creepy
** As well as a giant spider {{spoiler|though this turned out to be just Izzy in disguise}}.
* [[Big Eater]]: Owen. So big that in the second season he eats an entire feast in minutes without realizing that it's all prop food.
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* [[Bilingual Bonus]]:
** Alejandro's last name, ''Burromuerto,'' is Spanish for ''dead donkey.'' In the ''Action'' special, after Beth damages the Mona Lisa, a security guard says, "Omelette du fromage?", which means ''cheese omelette'' in French.
** As a matter of fact, that's probably a reference to [[
** And ''cheese omelette'' would be ''omelette au fromage''. The fact that the phrase is mistranslated in the same way as in [[
** The names of ''both'' new contestants are Spanish names. Alejandro means "Alexander" and "Sierra" means "mountain range".
* [[Birds of a Feather]]: Gwen and Duncan.
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* [[Cast of Snowflakes]]
* [[The Cast Showoff]]:
** "The Princess Pride", where Courtney got to sing in order to show off voice actress/jazz singer [[Emilie
** Though Barlow is the most prominent example, [[Word of God]] says the producers were glad that everyone in the cast had good singing voices since it made the Musical numbers much better.
* [[Censored Title]]: Averted with ''The Sucky Outdoors.''
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** Harold, Lindsay when she realizes the truth about Heather.
** Cody can qualify as this too in ''Dodgebrawl.''
* [[Crying Wolf]]: After Izzy dresses as a bear to scare the others, the [[Everything's Worse
* [[Curb Stomp Battle]]:
** In ''Action'', the Screaming Gaffers won eight challenges to the Killer Grips three. Chris lampshades the lopsided nature of the contest:
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'''Gwen:''' Guys, let's get going. }}
** Same thing occurs to Heather when the horn, from the Guys' victory in the Brunch episode, concealed her swearing.
* [[Cursed
* [[Cute Bruiser]]: Courtney and Sierra.
* [[Cute but Cacophonic]]: The [[Killer Rabbit]] guarding Bridgette's key in ''Search and Do Not Destroy,'' Season 1.
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** Chef Hatchet is nearly locked into this look.
** Dawn gives one to Scott {{spoiler|prior to her elimination in "Backstabbers Ahoy"}}.
* [[Defeat
* [[Defrosting Ice Queen]]:
** Gwen visibly learns to care more for many of her fellow campers as the show goes on, though she'd never admit it.
** Happens ''somewhat'' with Heather in Total Drama Action. Though most people prefer to think of it as [[Villain Decay]].
** It's more legit in season 3, where she does show that she has a heart at times.
* [[Depending
* [[Development Gag]]: Several character designs from ''Camp TV'', ''Total Drama's'' prototype series, are often used as minor characters in the finished product.
** The early designs of DJ, Cody, Tyler, and Katie are quite often seen as interns.
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** Leshawna beating up Heather and knocking a tooth out for ''just saying the truth''.
* [[Dissonant Serenity]]: Mostly the glee that [[Big Bad|Chris]] takes in giving the contestants life-threatening challenges (seriously, ''a thousand foot jump followed by four days with no sleep?''). Some other instances are also played with remarkable casualness: Cody being mauled by a bear, Owen being fifty thousand dollars in the hole, Lindsay and Beth sitting in a French prison for months, and DJ and his momma losing everything in the special. Then again, it is a kids' show.
* [[Distracted
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: In Celebrity Manhunt Special, Courtney and Duncan are fighting for the custody of a pet raccoon.
* [[Don't Try This At Home]]: "This episode of Total Drama contains scenes of extreme stunts performed by ANIMATED TEENS. Do NOT try any of what you see here at home. Seriously, you could get really messed up."
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* [[Everyone Meets Everyone]]: The first episode has the campers meet each other for the first time, with the exception of Katie and Sadie who were friends beforehand.
* [[Everythings Better With Bunnies]]: DJ's bunny, along with other bunnies that show up from time to time.
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Better
* [[Everything's Worse
** This show ''loves'' this trope. Even with {{spoiler|koala bears, who maul Gwen and Courtney's faces in Picnic at Hanging Rock, and they aren't even technically bears!}}
** The one in ''Can't Help Falling In Louvre'' had a [[Chainsaw Good|chainsaw]].
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* [[Expy]]:
** Harold of Napoleon Dynamite.
** Basically the entire show of ''[[Sixteen|6teen]]''. Also the characters: [[Jerk
** Of the 13 new cast members, 3 stand out as expies of real life people: Anne Maria is one to [[Jersey Shore|Snooki]], Sam is one to [[Seth Rogen]] (at least physically), and Dakota is one to [[Paris Hilton]]. In regards to other fictional characters: Jo is an expy to [[Glee|Sue Sylvester]], Dawn is an expy to [[Harry Potter|Luna Lovegood]], Mike is an expy to [[Jimmy Two
** It's worth noting that the Expy in this show is actually not that subjective but in fact a specialized form of [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]. Many characters were actually based off of real-life personalities appearing on Reality TV shows. [[Survivor|Russell Hantz]] has two expies in the form of Alejandro (Even being turned into a Ratings machine!) and Scott (in terms of idol-play and sabotaging his team.) Several contestants are an expy of the [[I'm Not Here to Make Friends]] or [[Arrogant Kung Fu Guy]] who show up on these kinds of shows. Heck, Staci almost makes one wonder if she was inspired by [[Survivor|Coach]].
* [[Extreme Omnivore]]: Owen, full-throttle.
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* [[Flip-Flop of God]]: On whether Courtney is Asian or Hispanic. She's been confirmed [[Spicy Latina|Hispanic]] now, though.
* [[Follow Your Nose]]
* [[Food
* [[Foot Popping]]: Gender inversion in the Ex-Files when Gwen and Duncan kiss.
* [[Force Feeding]]: Leshawna does it to Duncan as part of the first challenge in "Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon".
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* [[Frying Pan of Doom]]: Chris uses one to knock Owen out during the first episode of ''World Tour''.
* [[Gender Equal Ensemble]]: The contestants are split eleven boys and eleven girls.
** One of the [[Total Drama Island
** ''Revenge of the Island'' tips the scale a bit by having seven boys and six girls.
* [[Genre Savvy]]:
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** In universe example: Japan loves the Total Drama Series, but [[Americans Hate Tingle|hates the]] ''[[Gag Dub|voices]]'' of the kids themselves.
** Real life example, {{spoiler|in the first day of the voting in ''Action'' in Brazil, Beth was winning by '''94%'''! She ended up winning with 82%, but still...}}
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: [[Total Drama Island
* [[Girl Posse]]: Heather, Lindsay and Beth
* [[Girlish Pigtails]]: Sadie, Katie and Zoey.
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** In season two, Beth and Lindsay fill this role.
** Owen and Noah in season three.
* [[Hoist
* [[Hollywood Atlas]]: World Tour, in spades.
* [[Hollywood Healing]]: Played around with. The show relies on [[Amusing Injuries]] a lot (see: [[The Klutz|Tyler]]), but it also shows some injuries taking a realistic amount of time to heal, most notably Heather's black eye that took about 2 or 3 episodes to disappear. (see [[Beauty Is Never Tarnished]])
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* [[Kick Chick]]: Gwen near the end of ''Hook, Line, and Screamer.''
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Almost every character does this at some point.
* [[Kick the Son of
* [[Killer Rabbit]]:
** Yep, the island has one, just ask Bridgette. Also, do ''not'' annoy any cute chipmunks or beavers that happen to be hanging around.
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** Heather does this in the fake finale of the first season. She offers Gwen a laxative-spiked cupcake. Unfortunately for everyone wanting Owen to win, Owen eats the cupcake instead...
** In the second season, the pizza they all (well, everyone but Leshawna, because "dairy and [her] do not agree.") eat is laced with itching powder and laxatives.
* [[Leaning
* [[Leet Lingo]] - Sierra in World Tour.
{{quote| "O-M-G, Chris! I am just so L-O-L!"}}
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* [[Loud of War]]: One episode featured the contestants being tortured in various off-kilter ways, including being forced to listen to new-age music.
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]:
** The most frustrating subplot of ''World Tour''. [[Stalker
** This one actually got started in season one. Cody liked Gwen, who liked and hooked up with Trent, who Heather kissed to make sure he'd be eliminated. Then in season two, Cody left, Trent went insane while Gwen started getting closer to Duncan, and everything went downhill once Courtney came back in the middle of the season...
* [[Love Triangle]]: Several, particularly in season three: Gwen/Duncan/Courtney, Heather/Alejandro/Courtney, Sierra/Cody/Gwen, and possibly Duncan/Gwen/Trent.
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** Also, he gets this treatment many times by Sierra
* [[Mass "Oh Crap"]]: All the contestants get one when their bus starts heading towards a cliff and Team Amazon gets one when {{spoiler|Owen, the human cannonball, destroys their boat}}.
* [[Meat
* [[Mean Character, Nice Actor]]: Thanks to Christian Potenza's series of [http://www.youtube.com/user/TheChristianPotenza video interviews] of the series' voice cast, we can see that behind the voices of all the [[Jerkass|Jerkasses]] and [[Alpha Bitch|Alpha Bitches]] populating the show are some of the nicest people in entertainment, particularly Rachel Wilson (Heather), Emilie-Claire Barlow (Courtney), and Drew Nelson (Duncan).
* [[Meaningful Name]]:
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* [[Messy Pig]]: In ''I Triple Dog Dare You!'' Heather gets cannon blasted into a pigs' mudpile.
* [[Mid-Battle Tea Break]]: The Confession Cam pretty much serves as this. How else do you explain someone being able to make their way back to it when they're located miles away and in the middle of the challenge?
* [[Minion
* [[Misplaced Vegetation]]: Chef Hatchet [[Lampshade Hanging|asks what those palm trees are doing in Ontario]].
* [[Modesty Towel]]:
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** Lots: Alejandro {{spoiler|getting trampled and drenched in boiling lava}}, Trent falling 5,000 feet from a plane, Cody getting swallowed by a shark (Sierra got him out), Ezekiel {{spoiler|getting blasted out of a volcano on fire}}, eight contestants being stuck in a [[Drowning Pit]], Izzy and Owen having the plane fall on them, DJ and Gwen almost having an anvil dropped on them, Sierra {{spoiler|getting caught in the explosion of the plane}}...
** They even had a ''musical number'' about this.
* [[Never Say "Die"]]: The show defies this trope every which way.
* [[Never Trust a Trailer]]:
** The third season is still a musical. Good luck determining that from any of the marketing past the original trailer and pamphlet.
** An ad for the wild west themed episode of ''Action'' showed Duncan and Bridgette in a showdown. Not only did this not happen in the episode, but Bridgette had been eliminated by that point, and did not make an appearance.
* [[New Powers
** Somewhat Harold, who has a tendency to use random and usually obscure skills during [[This Looks Like a Job For Aquaman]] situations.
** Sierra as well. Her ancestors teachings go from Chris McLean Scholaring to basket-weaving.
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** ''Revenge of the Island'' sees {{spoiler|Anne Maria walk off in the seventh episode, after getting a giant diamond from [[The Cameo|Ezekiel]] in the mine. Too bad it turned out to be a fake.}}
* [[Notable Original Music]]
* [[Not Good
* [[Not So Different]]:
** Never said on the show but reading the character bios at Teletoon and Cartoon Network reveals how similar several characters are. Like Heather and Courtney.
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* [[Obviously Evil]]: Alejandro.
* [[Odd Friendship]]:
** [[The Cheerleader|Lindsay]] and [[Not Good
** [[Loony Fan|Sierra]] and [[Dogged Nice Guy|Cody]], in spite of his initial fear of her, after {{spoiler|he warms up to her when she gives him the first birthday he's had in years.}}
* [[Off-Model]]: Some of the character heights vary a bit for particular scenes, and that's just the tamer part. Heather has been drawn [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20101125133724/totaldramaisland/images/7/7b/TrentTossHeather.png with her original hair] early in ''Action'', when she was supposed to be bald, and Katie was once ''[http://images.wikia.com/totaldramaisland/images/e/ed/Katie%27s_Missing_Arm_Goof.PNG missing an arm.]''
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** The cowboy hat Chris wears in "3:10 to Crazytown" is a grey recolor of Geoff's hat.
** Since there is [[Cast of Snowflakes|no standard character design in this show,]] many ''Total Drama'' fan-created original characters are recolors of the main cast.
* [[Pandaing to
* [[Panty Shot]]:
** Lindsay in the opening for the first season.
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* [[Power Trio]]: The show loves this trope. [[Freudian Trio|Geoff, DJ and Duncan]] (season 1), [[Token Trio|Leshawna, Trent and Gwen]] (season 1), [[The Hecate Sisters|Heather, Lindsay and Beth]] (season 1), [[Beauty, Brains, and Brawn|Heather, Courtney and Gwen]] (season 3)
* [[Precap]]
* [[Pretty Fly for
** Harold apparently has mad beatboxing and rap skillz.
** Also, Ezekiel as a wannabe gangsta.
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'''Tyler:''' "NEVER! LEAVE! A MAN! BEHIND!"<br />
'''Chris:''' "TOTAL! DRAMA! [ISLAND!/ACTION!/WORLD TOUR!/REVENGE OF THE ISLAND!]" }}
* [[Put
** Izzy and Eva [[The Bus Came Back|reappeared]] once the teams were disbanded, though Eva [[Back for
** This is what will happen to the entire cast when Total Drama Revenge of the Island airs, though it has been confirmed some of them will make cameos. Respectively, Owen, Izzy, Bridgette, Lindsay, Ezekiel, Gwen, Duncan, Heather, and DJ made cameo appearances in TDRI, and all but Owen and Ezekiel were (officially) involved in the episode's challenge, either demonstrating the challenge (Bridgette and Duncan), being a part of the challenge itself (Izzy, Lindsay, Gwen, and DJ), {{spoiler|or in Heather's case, both}}.
* [[Putting a Hand Over His Mouth]]: Sierra does this to Gwen in "The Am-AH-Zon Race".
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** Also, {{spoiler|Beth}} if one uses the alternate ending. The money was used to pay off the damage done to the Mona Lisa in the special, and {{spoiler|she's completely left out of the third season.}}
* [[The Quiet One]]: Justin only has TWO LINES of dialogue in the first season (not counting TDDDDI), and they were both in the first episode. It didn't help much that he was one of the earlier people to be voted off(Episode 5).
* [[Rashomon Style]]: One of the show's [[Total Drama Island
** '''What really happened:''' DJ pats the mummy dog. It disintegrates.
** '''DJ's version:''' DJ, wearing Harold's tinfoil hat for some reason, pats the mummy dog. [[Made of Explodium|It explodes.]] [[Stuff Blowing Up|Then the pyramid explodes too.]]
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* [[Scary Black Man]]: [[Lethal Chef|Chef]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Hatchet]]
* [[Screw the Rules, I Have Connections]]:
** Courtney has her lawyers get her back on ''Action'' in episode 13, and make her immune from being voted off. She also gets the unfair advantage of using her PDA, letting her keep in touch with the outside world, and gains other luxuries such as her own private bathroom ([[What Happened to
** Dakota's rich dad [[Screw the Rules, I Have Money|pays Chris a large bribe to let her back on the show]]. Chris accepts, though he makes Dakota an [[Mauve Shirt|intern]].
* [[Screw the Rules, I Make Them]]: Chris. [[Rule of Funny|All the way.]]
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** World Tour episodes premiered first in Australia, and future episodes have been leaked out of Youtube ever since.
** Again with Revenge of the Island; it premiered in France first, a few weeks before it premiers in Canada.
* [[Shout-Out]]: [[Total Drama Island
* [[Show Within a Show]]:
** ''Total Drama Island'', ''Total Drama Action'', ''Total Drama World Tour'', and ''Total Drama Revenge of the Island'' are all reality shows within the ''Total Drama'' universe.
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* [[Squee]]: Katie, Sadie, and Sierra are big time squee-queens. Lindsay (and Beth, to a lesser extent) also have some moments.
* [[Stab the Salad]]: Harold does a non-violent variation of this during "Super Happy Crazy Fun Time in Japan". When selecting a someone to vote off he dramatically raises his passport-stamper over his teammates passports and then brings it down... onto a deflated beach ball.
* [[Stalker
{{quote| '''[[Deadpan Snarker|Noah]]''': ''(in complete monotone)'' Ooh, stalker-licious.<br />
'''Cody''': She's like the stalker girlfriend I always wished I had... until I ''got'' one! }}
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* [[Those Two Guys]]: Noah and Tyler in ''World Tour''.
* [[Three Faces of Eve]]: Heather's Alliance in the first season. Lindsay was the sweet one, Beth was the "wife-like" one and Heather was the seductress.
* [[Throw the Dog
** "The Am-AH-zon Race" almost feels like the writers are apologizing to Team Victory, not only giving them the win but giving them the least amount of trouble throughout the hike.
** After a season and a half of forgetting who he was, Lindsay FINALLY remembered Tyler in "Slap Slap Revolution", and it brought back their relationship.
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** Within Team Amazon: Sierra and Gwen (tomboys) to Heather and Courtney (girly girls).
** Within the Mutant Maggots, Jo (tomboy) and Zoey and Anne Maria (girly girls).
* [[Tongue
* [[Tonight Someone Kisses]]
* [[Too Dumb to Live]]:
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** There was also a couple of cases of [[Vomit Chain Reaction]]
* [[We Can Rule Together]]: Alejandro {{spoiler|offers this to Heather as a way to prove his love, "Together we can take over the world," then she [[Groin Attack|rejected it]].}}
* [[We Cannot Go
* [[We Will Meet Again]]: Ezekiel delivers one while managing to hang on to the plane after his ''World Tour'' elimination.
{{quote| '''Ezekiel:''' I'm not going anywhere! This game's mine, eh! MINE!}}
* [[We Will Not Use Photoshop in
* [[Whale Egg]]: Mutant fire-breathing goat eggs are part of the challenge in "Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon".
{{quote| '''Cameron:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|Goats don't lay eggs.]]<br />
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* [[Wham! Episode]]:
** ''I See London'', in which everything was fairly normal until {{spoiler|[[Fan-Preferred Couple]] Gwen and Duncan became canon.}}
* [[What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?]]: Songs about a person [[Tongue
* [[What Happened to
** What happened to Brady?
** What happened to DJ's second pet bunny?
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* [[Who Is Driving?]]?: Happens when Chef decides to join Chris in the main body of the plane during ''World Tour''.
* [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?]]: An episode had the campers face their fears (Snakes was one of them). Some have legitimate fears while others have weird or silly fears.
* [[William Telling]]: Inverted in an episode of ''[[
* [[With Friends Like These...]]: In ''Anything Yukon Do, I Can Do Better'' Bridgette gets her tongue frozen stuck to a pole. It doesn't even seem to occur to her close friends Gwen and Courtney to help. Okay, she was on a different team but still, that's [[Incredibly Lame Pun|pretty cold.]]
* [[The Worf Effect]]: Team Victory in ''World Tour''. Among their advantages in the competition, they had six people on their team, while the other teams had five, of those six, five of them were in the final 10 in ''Island and/or ''Action'' and competed in the first three seasons. Despite this, Team Victory was quickly wiped out in six straight elimination episodes. Four of those eliminations were caused by the new [[Big Bad]] Alejandro to quickly establish how much of a threat he was.
* [[World Gone Mad]]: While the universe they exist in is relatively sane, the Total Drama show-verse is very much this. [[Only Sane Man|Saner]] characters like Gwen will occasionally [[Lampshade Hanging|hang a lampshade]] on how odd and/or psychopathic almost everyone related to the show is.
* [[World Limited to
* [[Would Hit a Girl]]:
** Duncan explicitly states that he has no issues with fighting a girl. {{spoiler|Doesn't stop Courtney from kicking his butt though.}}
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