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* [[Acceptable Targets]]: [[Captain Obvious|Guess who!]] Then again, that's why they came.
*[[Asshole Victim]]: Adrian from Season 13 qualifies as this for several reasons. He, along with his sister Daphne, were eliminated before making it on campus, but made it back in Week 5 after losing a combined 50lb at home. The Red Team immediately became hostile towards him for no reason other than he was still a complete stranger to them, which seems unfair to say the least....at first. As the week went on, he started showing off, getting snarmy with his teammates, and just acting abrasive in general. It became clear that Adrian loved to run his mouth at the worst possible moments, including shit talking his teammates again, right after Nancy was eliminated. Even Dolvett was getting tired of him giving it large, but not producing results. Despite his trainer's advice to "do it, not say it", Adrian continued to play the victim, and was eliminated the first opportunity presented.
*[[Author's Saving Throw]]: Season 13 was mostly hated by fans just for the amount of drama caused by a select few contestants (mostly Conda). Season 14 introduced a new elimination format for the teams that eliminated the lowest scoring player on the losing team would be eliminated on the spot, most likely to reduce the drama. Seasons 14 and 15 were much better received by the fanbase as a result, as well as featuring far more likable contestants in both seasons.
*[[Batman Gambit]]: Often invoked when players try to spur on a gameplay mentality by convincing the others to eliminate the "greater threat".
*[[Beware the Quiet Ones]]: there are a few contestants who keep their heads down and rarely speak, but are not to be written off.▼
**Melissa from Season 9 is a notable example who ''attempted'' to play this angle when she came back in Week 11, by swaying the other contestants to vote for whomever falls under the yellow line with her; that way, they can ensure that the stronger player goes home each week, thus make their journey to the end a little easier. Key word here: '''attempted'''. Despite her efforts to invoke a gameplay spirit, her pitch seemed more self serving than anything else, and the other players saw right through it. In Week 12 (her second week back), she fell under the yellow line, was unanimously eliminated with no fanfare.
▲*[[Beware the Quiet Ones]]: non-violent examples, but there are a few contestants who keep their heads down and rarely speak, but are not to be written off.
**Lauren from Season 13; she was one of the few contestants who didn't stir up any drama while on campus. Though she eliminated Week 3, she came back with a vengeance in the final week where the eliminated players fought for the final spot among the finalists. She, along with Mike (who was eliminated the week before she was), made the final round, outperforming contestants who had more time on campus, and even had a better weight loss percentage at the finale than most of the other eliminated players.
**Another non-violent example, Chelsea from Season 15; she may have looked like the typical cute blonde girl that often appears on the show, but she was more than capable of keeping up with some of the season's stronger players, and proved herself to be an asset to her team week after week (save for two weak numbers). She even managed to go
▲* [[Beware the Cute Ones]]:
▲**Chelsea from Season 15; she may have looked like the typical cute blonde girl that often appears on the show, but she was more than capable of keeping up with some of the season's stronger players, and proved herself to be an asset to her team week after week. She even managed to go for almost the entire season without ever facing elimination, and was only eliminated in the final week due to impressive numbers from both Bobby and David (who lost 17lbs and 16lbs, respectively) despite a respectable 7 pound weight loss.
*[[Crosses the Line Twice]]: Harassing fat people [[Dude, Not Funny|generally isn't cool.]] When it comes to Jillian, however, who often spouts things along the lines of "'''IF YOU'RE NOT PUKING OR DYING''', '''''KEEP WORKING YOUR [[Precision F-Strike|F***ING]] ASS OFF'''''", it can often [[Actually Pretty Funny|flop over.]]
*[[Dull Surprise]]: Anna Kournikova. Part of it may be due to English not being her native language, but she's very monotone.
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**Subverted with Amanda from Season 8: she didn't face elimination often, but her weight losses were pretty poor for the most part (her final weight loss of 87 pounds was vastly overshadowed by contestants who were eliminated within the first few episodes, including Sean and Antoine, whom were both eliminated in the third episode).
**Sam from Season 9; a strange variant, not because he was a weak player, far from it. Rather because he reached his goal weight while still on campus (the only player to ever do so), yet almost made it to the end. The only reason he lasted as long as he did was because of his cousin, Koli, who needed to be there more than he did. Sam was eventually eliminated in Week 16 having come off worse in a hung vote against Michael, who still weighed over 330lbs and thus needed to be on campus. To make a long story short, Sam could've gone home Week 11 or 12, and he probably would've achieved the same result come the finale.
***Melissa tried to play this trope to get rid of more capable players, but no one bought it, and was swiftly eliminated the first chance they got.
** Elizabeth from Season 10; it would be easier to count the number of times she '''wasn't''' under the yellow line than the number of times she was.
** Kaylee from Season 11; put up poor numbers (even gaining weight '''''three times''''') and still made it further than her more capable father, Moses.
** Bonnie from Season 12; outside of one week where she had immunity as the highest percentage on her team, Bonnie spent four weeks on the chopping block before she was eliminated with a total weight loss of just 43 pounds as of week 9.
** Conda from Season 13; an interesting case. In addition to facing the elimination room 7 times before the teams were dissolved, she was almost universally hated by the show's fanbase due to her bratty attitude, inconsistent weight losses, and being a major source
**Played with when it comes to Tanya from Season 15: she was only ever up for elimination 3 times all season, mostly due to the Red Line format that eliminated the lowest scoring player on the losing team. That said however, outside of Week 1 and the extended Week 5, Tanya threw up consistently poor numbers week after week
**"Woody" from Season 16 can be seen as this due a constant string of less-than-impressive numbers, yet was the last player to be eliminated proper.
**Felicia from Season 17; to the point where Roberto and Luis got in an argument over the latter narrowly missing out on immunity, with the former scolding his twin brother with this line: "You let the weakest player win immunity!" She rarely had a decent weight loss all season, only getting a good number in 2 episodes past Week 1.
**In the third UK season, Sadie was up for elimination for 4 consecutive weeks, one of which she survived due to a surprise twist that allowed half of her team to stay in the house, resulting in her mum, Jennifer, being eliminated.
*[[Harsher in Hindsight]]: any time a contestant achieves tremendous results on the show, only to regain the weight years later.
**After Season 7, Jillian Michaels was accused of giving her players performance enhancing supplements. In Season 15, she was caught doing just that, giving caffeine pills to her team without the doctor's permission, which resulted in her team being penalised for it.
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*[[The Woobie]]: Trainer Shannon in the Australian version had a nightmare season 7 (Singles). Starting out with the male under-25's team, including Ryan, the heaviest contestant in Biggest Loser history, he knew from the get-go he'd have his work cut out for him. What he didn't count on was having one contestant leave the competition early in favor of taking a $20,000 temptation, having Ryan be eliminated the very next week, being forced to expel the only decently-functional man on his team not long after for a severe breach of the rules, and then having the other teams gang up on his last standing member just as he was starting to get the act together, resulting in his entire team being eliminated while the others all had three members apiece left in the game. The culminated in a distraught Shannon storming out of the Biggest Loser compound, remarking he felt like a failure as a trainer.
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