Survivor (TV series)/Characters/Marquesas

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Vecepia Towery

  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Betrayed Kathy at the final three immunity challenge by making a deal with Neleh (right in front of Kathy even!) and letting her take it, which at the time was one of the most underhanded and despised moves the game had ever seen.
  • Dark Horse Victory: The first person to win the game when their tribe entered the merge in the minority.
  • Guile Heroine
  • Hypocrite/HolierThanThou: Certainly in the eyes of Tammy.
  • Nakama: With Sean. They were both devoutly religious, both African-American, and both had similar upbringings. His vote to her was basically guaranteed.
  • Only Known by Their Nickname: "V"
  • Out of Focus: Played under the radar, especially when in contrast to early alliance mates Rob and Sean. It caused a lot of uproar at the time when a "nobody" or "unknown" won the game over a Final Four including people with much more screen time.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue to Sean's Red.
  • Sole Survivor
  • What Measure Is a Non-Badass?: Is frequently overlooked as a competent Survivor winner, despite the fact that she was the first person to win in a game where her tribe entered the merge in the minority, not to mention she kickstarted the downfall of Hunter, seamlessly backstabbed Rob, played a big part in the downfall of the Rotu 4, and was able to switch sides and backstab allies in such an efficient way that the jury still voted for her in the end.

Neleh Dennis

Kathy Varvick-Obrien

Paschal English

Sean Rector

  • Angry Black Man: In the earlier episodes he was this, but he mellowed out later on.
  • Badass Boast: As he made his vote against John and kicked off the downfall of the Rotu alliance:

"Checkmate, bro. Thought you had me. Tell you any time you go to Vegas, bet on black."

Rob DeCanio

Tammy Leitner

Zoe Zanidakis

  • Alliterative Name
  • Backstab Backfire: Attempted to ditch the Rotu alliance once John was voted out, and claimed she was never loyal to them. She still got voted out next.
  • Bad Liar: When Kathy asks her if she's going to vote Kathy out, Zoe pauses for over ten seconds. Then she says no. Oops.
  • The Chick: Of the Rotu alliance.
  • Graceful Loser: The only member of the Rotu alliance willing to admit that Neleh could beat her. As a result, she's also the only member to vote for Neleh to win.
  • Out of Focus
  • The Quisling: In Episode 8 she betrays the Rotu 4 by voting for John, seemingly for no good reason.
  • Shout-Out: She references Kon-Tiki(the famous raft used to demonstrate that indigenous people from South America may have settled in Polynesia at one point) in one episode.

John Carroll

  • Ascended Fanboy: He applied three times to get casted(ever since Season One), and this is the lucky time he made it on.
  • Big Bad Wannabe
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Attempted to be the mastermind behind an alliance that would take him to the end, and had some early success (most notably getting rid of Boston Rob immediately after the merge). He then got cocky about it and paid the price immediately, as everyone not in his alliance former a counter-alliance against him.
  • Kick the Dog: Voting out Gabriel under a baseless assumption that he would align with the new Rotu members after the swap.
  • Mean Character, Nice Actor: Fans that have met him say that he's one of the more "approachable" contestants out there.
  • Out of Focus: Until the fourth episode, odds are you only knew him as the male nurse on Rotu

that once got peed on by Kathy.

Rob Mariano

Gina Crews

Gabriel Cade

  • Afro Asskicker
  • The Heart: Of the Rotu alliance. After he's gone, they begin to implode.
  • Intergenerational Friendship: With Paschal.
  • Mr. Fanservice
  • The Nicknamer: He dubbed Pashcal "Pappy" and Neleh "Sweet Pea". John was called "Johnny Pots And Pans", but that may have been invented by someone else.
  • The Pollyanna
  • Something Completely Different: Most players on Survivor are in it to win it. They may appreciate the experience, but by and large people want the money first and foremost (Either this or they are looking for their Fifteen Minutes of Fame). Gabriel was one of the few people, except for maybe Greg from the first season, "Flica" from the thirteenth season, and Jimmy Johnson from the twenty-first season, who seemed to have little to no interest in actually winning and was genuinely there for the experience.
  • Spanner in the Works: After Gabriel revealed that he had no interest in playing the game to get ahead, John became paranoid and thought that Gabe would become this to his alliance, so he orchestrated a blindside. That's why he was unanimously booted a day or two later.

Sarah Jones

Hunter Ellis

Patricia Jackson

  • My Beloved Smother: After she survives the first vote, she becomes this to her entire tribe!

Peter Harkey

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