Survivor (TV series)/Characters/Borneo: Difference between revisions

{{quote| (Referring to Rudy) They think ''he's'' arrogant? I'm out of here!}}

* [[Small Name, Big Ego]]: [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]]. While Richard is the first person to admit that he's an arrogant bastard, in this case he really ''is'' the smartest guy in the room(...er, on the island).

* [[Sole Survivor]]: The [[Ur Example]].

* [[Straight Gay]]

* [[Action Girl]]: Her impressive streak of immunity challenge wins is the reason she made it to the final, as the Tagi alliance was gunning for her from the moment she defected.

* [[The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes]]: She was a whitewater rafting guide so you'd think she'd have an easy time beating Gervase, who had no experience with boats whatsoever, in a challenge that involved operating a canoe. Instead, he beats her easily. Sue makes sure to turn this into a [[Take That]] at Final Jury.

* [[Foe Yay]]: With Sue after she left the alliance.

* [[Hard Work Hardly Works]]

* [[Shout-Out]]: After leaving Richard's alliance out of guilt([[Alternate Character Interpretation|or out of strategy to make herself look better in front the jury]]), she said she felt that not voting her conscience made her feel like [[Star Wars|Luke Skywalker]] being tempted by Darth Vader(Richard).

* [[Sixth Ranger Traitor]]: To the Tagi alliance.

* [[Tall, Dark and Bishoujo]]

 

'''Rudy Boesch'''

 

* [[Badass]]

** [[Badass Grandpa]]

* [[Hair-Trigger Temper]]

* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: In a bonus scene from the "Greatest and Most Outrageous Moments" DVD, he mentions that he won't eat a rat until he's truly starving, "And then I might eat my buddy", with Richard standing right next to him.

* [[Intergenerational Friendship|Intergenerational]] [[Odd Friendship]]: With Richard

{{quote| [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}eoCLK6KKMt8 Me and Richard got to be pretty good friends,(but) not in a homosexual way. That's for sure.]}}

* [[The Nicknamer]]: In the companion book, she refers to her male tribe-mates as (Sean) "[[Bunny Ears Lawyer|a neurotic doctor]]", (Dirk) "[[The Fundamentalist|a confused virgin]]", (Richard) "a [[Straight Gay|masculine gay guy]]", (Rudy) "and an [[Grumpy Old Man|old grump]]."

* [[Obfuscating Stupidity]]: Sue claims that this was part of her strategy. Odds are she's decidedly smarter than she initially let on (right up until she snapped at Colleen at a Tribal Council for complaining about the alliance and likened it to corporate lobbyists), but perhaps not as smart as she thought she was.

* [["The Reason You Suck" Speech]] and [[Take That]]: Her "Rats and Snakes" speech.

* [[The Dragon]] or [[The Starscream]]: Depending on what point of the season it is she's either the most ardent supporter of Richard's alliance or planning to backstab him with Kelly.

'''Sean Kenniff'''

 

* [[Being Good Sucks]]: He made the choice to vote alphabetically only because he was trying to find a way to vote that wasn't based on emotional decisions, and thus not upset the person he was voting for.

* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: While it's viewed as ridiculous and stupid now, his Alphabet Strategy actually had some merit to it - everyone from the other tribe had names that started with letters at the start of the alphabet (''C''olleen, ''G''ervase, ''G''reg, ''G''retchen, ''J''enna) as opposed to his own tribe (''K''elly, ''R''ichard, ''R''udy, ''S''ue), so it was a way to get rid of the other tribe members without forming an alliance, which was seen at the time as underhanded.

* [[Power Hair]]

* [[Plucky Girl]]

* [[Shorttank]]

 

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]

* [[Nice Character, Mean Actor]]: Perhaps not mean as much as supposedly incredibly difficult to deal with and edit around. Apparently he drove Jeff Probst and the production crew nuts.

* [[Stealth Parody]]: Several, but his "pick a number" request is perhaps the most well known.

* [[Troll]]: If Mark Burnett's descriptions of his antics are anything to go by, he certainly qualifies as this.

* [[Pointy-Haired Boss]]: What most of his tribe thought of him.

* [[Stupid Boss]]: Gretchen repeatedely told him that the Pagong shelter should be moved back farther from the ocean, but he didn't listen until the said shelter was almost flooded.

* [[Workaholic]]: This trope certainly applies to B.B in one respect, as he was a workaholic, but he doesn't totally fit into the trope on account of him being a millionaire in real life.

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Parodied in the Mad Magazine article about the show, BB was thought of as too bossy to be kept around after he was done building the shelter.