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

* [[Beware the Nice Ones]]: She managed to plant the seeds at the merge which turned all of Galu against Erik, which gave Foa Foa their chance to make it further in the game.

* [[Catch Phrase]]: If you did a drinking game based on how many times she says "oh mah werd" in a single episode you'd pass out in 15 minutes or less.

* [[The Chick]]

* [[Dark Horse Victory]]

* [[Ditzy Genius]]

* [[Dumb Blond]]: Subverted? Try obfuscated!

* [[Hair of Gold]]

* [[The Heart]]

* [[The Pollyanna]]

* [[Plucky Girl]]

* [[The Smart Girl]]

* [[Sole Survivor]]

* [[Statuesque Stunner]]

* [[The Woman Behind the Man]]: They were a power of one and the only two players whose every vote was for the eliminated contestant.

'''Russell Hantz'''

* [[Asshole Victim]]

* [[Badass]]

* [[The Big Guy]]: Visually subverted, as he was five six.

* [[Breakout Character]] / [[Breakout Villain]]: [[Your Mileage May Vary]] on this one though. He wasn't ''truly'' a breakout character since they naturally become popular through good word of mouth, while Russell was shoved down our throats by the editing the entire time.

* [[The Chessmaster]]

* [[Determinator]]

* [[Entitled Bastard]] - Potential [[Trope Namer]].

* [[Evil Cannot Comprehend Good]]: See [[Genre Blind]] below.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]

* [[Genre Blind]]: Early in the season, he chose to keep Natalie as an ally instead of Liz because "If we merge, we need somebody on the inside, and Natalie's doin' a good job talkin' to Laura around the camp." In other words, he took her to the end ''knowing'' that she'd get in good with the jurors, overlooking the very reason why Natalie eventually won in a landslide.

* [[I'm Not Here to Make Friends]]

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Large Ham]]

* [[The Napoleon]]

* [[Never My Fault]]: He refuses to accept responsibility for the way the jury voted, though it was for a very valid reason.

* [[Nothing Can Stop Us Now|Nothing Can Stop Me Now]]: At the finale. He honestly couldn't understand why he lost.

* [[One Steve Limit]]: With Russell Swan.

* [[Poor Communication Kills]]: He doesn't know how to work the jury.

* [[The Runner Up Takes It All]]

* [[Second Place Is for Losers]]

* [[Smug Snake]]

* [[The Sociopath]]

* [[Ted Baxter]]

* [[Villain Protagonist]]

* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: To everyone he blindsided and voted out, especially John, Shambo, and Jaison.

* [[Good Is Boring]]

* [[Out of Focus]]: Part of it is because the producers seemed to forget he was there (same with most of the Galu tribe), but he also blends into a crowd easily, so it can be easy to miss him until the end when the numbers start to dwindle. Shambo and Russell at least had distinctive appearances, and Jaison was large.

* [[Supporting Leader]]: Being more of the "supporting" than the "leader" bit him hard in the end.

* [[Boring but Practical]]: His strategy; the only reason we even noticed him was his immunity run.

* [[Determinator]]

* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]

* [[Graceful Loser]]: See [[Thanatos Gambit]] below.

* [[Nice Guy]]

* [[Out of Focus]]: Several people had joked on boards about saying "Who's this 'Brett' guy they're talking about?" He did get some screentime at the end, though. In fact, Funny 115 made a page [http://funny115.com/v2/107.htm dedicated] to how the editors suddenly realized that there was someone called "Brett" in the game.

* [[Thanatos Gambit]]: According to interviews, he actually sat down with Natalie before they went to Tribal Council when he was eliminated and worked on her strategy in front of the jury with her.

* [[The Quiet One]]: Normally you don't see these people cast on these sorts of shows because there's making an interesting show and an interesting game. What makes a good show doesn't always make a good game, and vice versa. And to be honest; look how far it got him. He was ''literally'' the last Galu member to be elminated... and the last to even be ''targeted'', for that matter. Having immunity runs certainly didn't help, either.

* [[Its Pronounced Tropay]]: Pronounced "Jay-SAHN", with [[Accent On the Wrong Syllable|emphasis on the second half]] of the name.

* [[Genius Bruiser]]

* [[Improbable Hairstyle]]

* [[The Lancer]]: To Russell Swan.

* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: With Laura, and then once she's gone Dave becomes this for her.

* [[The Quisling]]

'''Monica Padilla'''

* [[Ms. Fanservice]]

* [[Nerds Are Sexy]]

* [[Spicy Latina]]

* [[Statuesque Stunner]]

* [[We Hardly Knew Ye]]

* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Russell admits before voting her out that if she was on the same tribe as him before the merge, he would have seen her as this.

'''Dave:''' "Not often enough." }}

* [[Deadpan Snarker]]

* [[Large Ham]]: In confessionals.

* [[Logic Bomb]]: During a later Tribal Council:

'''Dave:''' ""If this vote tonight goes the way I am expecting it to go... ''I'' will be shocked."<br />

''[Jeff starts laughing]'' }}

* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: To Shambo.

* [[Out of Focus]]: Like most of Galu.

* [[The Quisling]]

* [[Absurdly Youthful Mother]]

* [[Hot Mom]]

* [[Sitcom Arch Nemesis]]: Also to Shambo.

* [[Number Two]]: To Russell S.

* [[Out of Focus]]: Until the evacuation of Russell S.

* [[Running Gag]]: A recurring visual of the season is that most of Erik's confessionals were either delivered in a tree or very close to one or more trees.

* [[Dumb Muscle]]

* [[Jerkass]]

* [[Cool Old Guy]]

* [[Determinator]]

* [[Non Gameplay Elimination]]: Had the ''record'' for the earliest - Episode ''two'' until Kourtney Moon's evacuation in One World in the first episode. According to him, this turned out to be for the better because he lost around 60+ pounds. (While not obese)