Total Drama Comeback Series/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Better Than Canon: Did you see the actual second season of this show?!
  • Non Sequitur Scene: Two in Chapter 16 of TDC; the first is in the very beginning where we are treated to a ninja version of the season 1 opening titles (done in Photoshop...by Chef). The second was a ninja-parody song done by Ezekiel based on, of all songs, In the Navy. Though it does prove that Kobold can write parody songs really well, both instances come out of nowhere, have nothing to do with the plot, and neither are mentioned again outside said chapter.
    • Technically the second is mentioned a couple times as a reason why the cameras were not focused on the epic fight scene
    • Chapter 29 of TDC starts with a Soap Opera parody with lots of surprise pregnancies. May be Chris's way of mocking the Drama Bomb nature of the episode overall, but it still comes as a Mood Whiplash.
    • The next chapter, Ezekiel has a dream in which Heather asks him to redeem her through his love. For some reason, there was also a bear in a pink tutu dancing "It's peanut butter jelly time".
  • Complete Monster: Kobold seems to make it a point to demonstrate just how evil Colin is at every possible opportunity.
  • Crack Pairing: Beth and Justin, Ezekiel and Heather, Katie and Noah. The first two were already popular fanon pairings, the third went on to become fairly popular.
  • Crowning Moment of Awesome: Both of the endings to the vampire challenge:
  • Crowning Moment of Funny: Comeback's 11th chapter features the campers having to imitate each other for a challenge. Among the highlights: Beth mimicking Izzy.
  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Cody comforting Izzy in Chapter 34 of TBC, when she becomes convinced nobody likes her.
    • The end of Chapter 42.
  • Die for Our Ship: Poor Owen...
    • It could've been worse, They stayed together through Comeback and Izzy's still his friend and might even play matchmaker for him.
    • But the point is that if some author has to break up some couple, most would chose Owen/Izzy. The Irony is that, in the canon, they're most stable couple.
      • Not true anymore, seeing as how they broke up
      • For some time, he had a poll asking reviewers which of the original six canon couples (and only those six) should be broken up, probably to make way for fanon.
  • Draco in Leather Pants: Averted; though Duncan and Courtney get this in most fanfics, in TDC they’re main antagonists working with Heather for the first half of the story.
  • Dude, Not Funny: Chris did not think through his use of Xtreme Kool Letterz for the Kool Kids' Klub.
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Clive ranked second in a poll asking who'd you like to see winning TDBG. The first was, unsurprisingly, Noah.
    • Joel and especially Hannah are rather popular characters too. People went nuts when these two were eliminated
  • Fan Dumb: There is quite a bit of this, mostly the people who don't realize that all the Fanon about Ezekiel's character is not actually how he is in the show, declaring him their "favorite character ever" because he's underappreciated and such a doggone nice guy. As far as the special is concerned, he's basically a slang-slinging poser boy, which is probably a more well-rounded and better characterized flaw than TDC's Ezekiel. Not to mention those that hail the fics as the second coming of Total Drama and scream at the creators to read it and learn from it.
  • Fanon: This story established lots of it, especially about Ezekiel.
  • Fixer Stu: Ezekiel, as it turns out he was the reason Total Drama Action never happened in the fic.
  • Harsher in Hindsight: After the zombie challenge, Izzy breaks up with Owen. A few months later in TDWT, the same thing happens (albeit under different circumstances.
    • Not likely, due to the hatred of the pairing in the fandom.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Noah's line "The challenges get more and more degrading and dangerous, until by the end of this contest, he'll have us eating live bugs over an active volcano." Now, where did the contestants go in the finale of TDWT?
    • Zeke prefers zombie movies. After seeing what he became in World Tour, this was hilarious.
      • Although Kobold was quite displeased.
    • After the Super Strikers challenge, Harold says (although he probably wasn't serious) that Chris may be a Sith Lord. Cue the ending of World Tour...
    • Here's another one (boy, Kobold is indeed the prophet of TDI): during the cosplay challenge, Duncan had to imitate Trent. He actually sang a song about how much he loved Gwen. Again, let's go to World Tour...
  • Hype Backlash
  • Mary Sue: Hannah and Joel, to some.
  • Moe: Sakaki, who is pretty much at and past the point of being a moe-blob.
  • Narm: Katie repeating "I CANNOT BE CONTAINED!" over and over, after her elimination ended falling in this category.
  • Nausea Fuel: Its relatively late emergence in Comeback (compared to canon) is even Lampshaded by Chris.
  • No Yay: Judging by the AN's in the beginning of some chapters, this was the reaction of the readers when Kobold started to set up Ezekiel and Heather. They got better.
  • Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Rodney, after the author noted numerous reviews about him being overly competent at everything. Afterwards he started to mess up more, and his personality was expanded to show him terrified of failure.
    • Ezekiel's Character Development in Comeback compared to Canon is another example, and several other 'unpopular' characters get the same treatment.
  • Romantic Plot Tumor: Not any one specific couple, but the Pair the Spares of nearly every single character takes up about half the chapter that could be devoted to action, or heck, even the friendships or conflicts. You'd think a girl was writing it at some points.

Eva: "What am I saying? I'm here to compete, COMPETE! Not get flustered in romance like if this was some stupid teen romance written by a love struck girl!"

    • Actually, it's maybe because there's various challenges that may have romantic theme, but, in other challenges, the chapters are so great that makes the romantic plot relative.
  • Rule-Abiding Rebel: Xander.
  • Running the Asylum: TV Tropes in a way is doing this: after a trope appears on the page, it is acknowledged in the next chapter, either by playing it straight, lampshading, or subverting it in some way that will stick it to that particular trope. Examples include the Fridge Horror, Infant Immortality, Romantic Plot Tumor, Schemer (to a lesser extent), Shout-Out, and Spotlight-Stealing Squad examples on the very page page.
  • Spotlight-Stealing Squad: It's not like all the characters don't get decent screentime in Total Drama Comeback, but it's pretty obvious that Ezekiel's the main character.
    • Chris lampshades the fact that Duncan and Owen get this treatment in canon.
  • Wangst: Carol doesn't find a boyfriend, and that sucks because of other reasons...
  • What Could Have Been: The story changed a lot while it was being written, for example:
    • Bridgette was supposed to break up with Geoff, and become Ezekeil's love interest.
    • Katie's crush was originally going to be Cody, however, when the vast majority of reviewers and fans guessed Noah and said how much they loved that, the author changed his mind.
    • Ezekiel was going to be eliminated halfway through the fic and have a heartwarming goodbye, but Kobold decided to keep him in the game after viewers started to react positively to the Ezekiel/Heather tease.
  • The Woobie: Several, but Ezekiel, Cody, and Clive in particular.
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