Survivor (TV series)/Characters/The Australian Outback

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Tina Wesson

Colby Donaldson

Colby: When I wake up in the morning, there's two things I'm thankful for: I'm thankful I'm alive, and I'm thankful I'm a Texan.

Keith Famie

Elisabeth Filarski

Rodger Bingham

Amber Brkich

Nick Brown

  • The Hero: To Kucha.
  • Lazy Bum: Subverted. He was edited this way, but by all accounts from fellow cast members, this was Manipulative Editing.
  • The Stoic: By far the least emotional player in the game. Even when one of his Kucha tribemates ends up badly burned his reaction is far more understated than anyone else's.
  • Worthy Opponent

Jerri Manthey

Alicia Calaway

Jeff Varner

Michael Skupin

  • The Big Guy
  • Crazy Survivalist: He seriously manages to catch and kill a pig. The editors also had fun portraying him as this every now and then with some judicious use of close-up shots and eerie music.
  • Cool Old Guy
  • Dead Star Walking: The early episodes build Michael up as the undisputed(well, other than Alicia) Large Ham leader of Kucha, with some viewers even seeing him as the second coming of Richard Hatch. He's arguably the biggest character from this season other than Jerri. And he ends up falling into the fire a day or two before the merge.
  • Game-Breaking Injury
  • Gory Discretion Shot: Averted. They show the burns on his hands after he falls into the fire, and they are very, very cringe-inducing.
  • Keet: Michael is a GROWN version of this.
  • Large Ham
  • Shocking Elimination: The first castaway to be eliminated by the actual day-to-day life in camp as he accidentally inhaled smoke and passed out, falling into the fire. Not only was this hugely pivotal in how the game played out as Kucha was forced to go into the merge even instead of having a chance to go in with the numbers advantage, but on top of that it happened to the person with very arguably the strongest survival skills on the show.

Kimmi Kappenberg

  • Alliterative Name
  • Break the Cutie: After Mike caught and killed the pig, Jeff started to mock Kimmi for her vegetarianism. Later, Jeff instigated an argument between her and Alicia over when to cook the chickens. The latter argument is what contributed towards Kimmi getting getting voted off.
  • Fatal Flaw: Kimmi is a vegetarian who is on a game show where she might have to eat food made from animals.
  • Innocent Fanservice Girl: According to her audition tape, she enjoys being in the nude, but only because she enjoys to and she doesn't consider anything sexual about it.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: She accidentally revealed to Tina during a reward challenge that Jeff had a previous vote against him. This knowledge caused Ogakor to have an advantage during the merge when they manipulated the votes so that Jeff would leave after a 5-5 deadlock tiebreaker.
  • Noodle Incident: There was a montage of Kimmi chatting it up with her tribe during the first night, and the excerpts of what we heard sounded pretty kinky.

Mitchell Olsen

  • The Load: Considering he's taller than most of the cast, he needed way more food and nutrients than the rest of his tribe. As said by Tina when she votes him out:

Tina: "This game isn't easy. I didn't come out here to starve myself and face the elements to keep the weakest person."

Maralyn "Mad Dog" Hershey

Kel Gleason

  • Arch Enemy: Jerri was this to him. On the post show "Back From The Outback" special, he even had a Dartboard of Hate with her face on it.
  • Fish Out of Water: Like Debb below, he had trouble relating to people who weren't from the military.
  • Noodle Incident: The infamous "Beef Jerky Incident" (the question of whether or not he smuggled food into the game) has never been answered, and we never actually saw the footage of Kel chewing on whatever it was that he was chewing on (he claims it was a shard of grass).

Debb Eaton

  • Fish Out of Water: Had trouble relating to her tribe, leading to her tribe ousting her first.
  • Tomboy: A prison guard, and particularly intimidating one at that.