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The sequel, "[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5097082/1/TDC2_Total_Drama_Battlegrounds Total Drama Battlegrounds]" (TDB), is a similar story set six months after TDC. Here, however, the twenty-two original contestants are joined by twenty-two ''new'' ones, who can be found on the author's [[Deviant ART]] page [http://comedymagmar.deviantart.com/gallery/# Total-Drama-Comeback-2 here]. The story alternates between "normal" challenges and ones performed via a virtual reality machine, the latter involving tasks that would be impossible in the normal ''[[Total Drama]]'' [[The Verse|universe]] (such as fighting vampires or zombies). This story is ongoing.
The Kobold Necromancer is also the author of [[TDWT Reducks Redux]], a [[Fix Fic]] for season three and [[Love Ain't Easy, It's Ezzy|Love Aint Easy Its Ezzy]], a [[Shipping]] fic about the adventures of Izzy and Ezekiel.
Has its own [http://totaldramacomeback.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page wiki.]
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* [[Abusive Parents]]: Comeback reveals that several of the campers have unpleasant homelives.
** {{spoiler|Tyler}} has a [[Missing Mom]], who {{spoiler|came back after seeing him on TDI... just to berate his father with "I told you so"s and claims that this just ''proved'' that Tyler was absolutely hopeless at sports. She also got him barred from all of the teams at his school.}}
** {{spoiler|Meanwhile, Noah}} suffers from [[Parental Neglect]], to the point that {{spoiler|when he broke his leg at seven years old, he overheard his mother saying, "Well, at least it was only Noah; he barely moves anyway."}}
** {{spoiler|And Courtney's}} parents are [[Education Mama|both big on education]] as well as overdemanding perfectionists. They weren't too thrilled with how {{spoiler|she lost on TDI}}.
** {{spoiler|Harold's}} folks [[Parental Marriage Veto|don't approve of their relationship]] with {{spoiler|Leshawna}}.
* [[Acceptable Targets]]: In-universe. Apparently, picking on and persecuting Christians is A-OK with Chris and the producers (though note, not the author or audience). Less inflammatory, anyone who is taken with a shred of seriousness insults [[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]] and sparkly vampires.
* [[Action Girl]]: Izzy takes out a serial killer and {{spoiler|jellybean smuggler}} (much like Gwen a season before). Also, Heather is oddly adept at the VR challenges.
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* [[Ambiguously Brown]]: As well as the canon bunch, Daisy and Jasmine both qualify according to the drawings on the author's Deviantart page. Colin is [[Ambiguously Brown|Ambiguously Burnt Sienna]].
** [[Word of God]] says that Daisy and Jasmine are both black, Sebastian is Brazilian and Colin is just a tanned Caucasian.
** Also played with in regards to the canon characters: Justin claims to not know his own race due to being a test tube baby (presumably meaning his mom used a sperm donor), while Sierra and Katie both get cut off before saying what race they are. Noah is apparently Indonesian in this universe, though, despite [[Word of God]] recently saying [[Bollywood Nerd|he's Indian]] and Justin being Hawaiian.
*** Justified as the announcement from the [[Word of God]] came after Kobold decided Noah was Indonesian and Justin was a testube baby.
* [[Ambiguously Gay]]: Chef (no really)
* [[Amusing Injuries]]: Alternately played straight and deconstructed: some injuries are [[Played for Laughs]], others [[Played for Drama]]. Reference is made to the canon incident of Cody {{spoiler|being mauled by a bear}}; the fact that this ''amused'' his peers back home is treated as [[Teens Are Monsters|rather horrifying]].
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* [[Arc Words]]: "Everyone deserves a second chance" in Comeback
* [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking]]: "The landslide was a muddy crash of charging fervor, a slimy plow of terrible proportion, a tremendous stampede of slushy earth, and it was rather yucky too."
** Mandy's rats are named Death, Famine, War, and Snowflake. It was a snowy day when she named that last one.
** This line , also from Mandy:
{{quote|"Man, the airport security was as bad as my school, where they take my daggers, and my vial of poison, and my lighter, and my scalpel, and my whip, and my taser, and my pepper spray, and my razors, and my gum!" }}
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* [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]]: {{spoiler|Ezekiel and Heather}} at the start of the fic
* [[Berserk Button]]: In TDB, how {{spoiler|Heather}} acts whenever people threaten to vote Ezekiel off.
* [[Betty and Veronica]]: In TDC, Cody is the Betty to Beth while Justin is the Veronica.
** In TDB, Anita and Eva. They don't fit the exact model as well, though.
** And Sierra (or possibly Sadie) might be the [[Third Option Love Interest]].
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* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]:
{{quote|'''Chris:''' "Your punishment is far worse than you could expect! Because tonight, before you discuss who you vote for and then actually do it, you are going to watch the film... [[Seltzer and Friedberg|Disaster Movie]]!"}}
* [[Creator Thumbprint]]: The author dedicates time to all the characters, but his favorites (Ezekiel, Izzy, Bridgette, etc.) usually get the most time, {{spoiler|and were the final three in the first season.}}
** Also, both stories are loaded with lots of nerdy stuff. At one point, Chris even breaks the fourth wall to tell the readers that non-nerds will have a hard time reading the chapter.
* [[The Cuckoolander Was Right]]: {{spoiler|Izzy was right about the jellybean smuggler.}}
* [[Darker and Edgier]]: Not always, but scenes like {{spoiler|Ezekiel’s concussion}} and {{spoiler|the Jelly Bean smuggler}} certainly qualify.
* [[Day in The Limelight]]: Everyone gets this a bit, but in TDC Ezekiel’s part was ''huge.''
* [[Dead Baby Comedy]]: Colin likes this kind of Humor
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* [[Early-Bird Cameo]]: Joel appears several times in TDC.
{{quote|'''Chris:''' "Ahhhh, that's how to sell your audience, folks. Show them a preview of what is in store next season, and they'll eat it up. Works well for [[Pokémon]], I hear."}}
* [[Easily Forgiven]]: Played with during ''Comeback'' after the [[Drama Bomb]] episode: some of the contestants are able to forgive {{spoiler|Courtney's actions}} more easily than others, which makes those who don't forgive them so quickly even angrier. Katie, for example, holds a grudge even into TDB.
* [[Emo]]/[[Emo Teen]]: Clive in TDB.
* [[Even the Guys Want Him]]: As per canon, Owen has a crush on Justin, but in the stories, so does Ezekiel, although it's more [[Played for Laughs]].
* [[Everyone Meets Everyone]]: In the first chapters of both fics, although TDC's is more everyone is re-introduced to everyone else.
* [[Everything Is Racist]]: according to Zachary.
* [[Expy]]: Joel might seem [[Mystery Science Theater 3000|kind of familiar]]…
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* [[Friendship Moment]]
* [[Follow the Leader]]: Although wasn't the first fic of the type, it helped to spawn many other fics.
* [[Full-Frontal Assault]]: Izzy.
{{quote|"What? The Amazons always fought bare-chested! Haven't you ever seen those ancient paintings? Like all warriors, male and female, they went to battle with little armor, just their raging spirits and weapons and loincloths, but I didn't have a loincloth, so…”}}
* [[Fun with Acronyms]]: During the Superhero challenge, the contestant must retrieve the ''G''emstone of ''P''ower ''A''mplification.
** And who can forget the Kool Kids' Klub...
* [[Gainaxing]]: Sierra in the first Aftermath. A rather good example of why this should not be done in print.
* [[Genki Girl]]: Naturally Izzy, but Carol and sometimes Jasmine or Mandy can also fit.
* [[Genre Savvy]]: Xander seems to realize that, once his "mysterious injuries" subplot gets resolved, he'll be voted off.
** In the alien challenge, Heather immediately flees when Rodney dies, realizing that if [[Infant Immortality]] has broken down, she and Alfred don't stand a chance.
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* [[Good Scars, Evil Scars]]: Xander’s facial scar.
* [[Gratuitous Japanese]]: Courtesy by Yoshi, and other, occasionally.
* [[Gratuitous Spanish]]: Alejandro will some use some spanish words.
* [[Groin Attack]]: Used quite often, to the point that a challenge in Battklegrounds features one at the beginning (Anita kicking {{spoiler|Colin}}) and one in the end (Bridgette kicking {{spoiler|Alejandro}}.
{{quote|'''Noah''': ... Oh... there goes... any chance... of Noah Junior...}}
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{{quote|'''Tyler:''' "...I wonder what Chris meant when he said he'd show these confessions earlier in the show to bring up tension. That'd be mean to the poor viewers."}}
* [[Hypocrite]]: Courtney criticizes on Gwen, Leshawna, and Tyler continuing to hold a grudge against her from her actions in Comback despite her own pathetic grudge she held against Harold as well as anyone else who considered him as a friend (IE Leshawna for being his girlfriend, Geoff for simply inviting him to a party, and Gwen for telling her off), so she was in no position to lecture them about it since their grudges against her was due to her own grudge against Harold.
* [[I Call It Vera]]: Joel's VR machine is called Vera.
* [[I Have Boobs - You Must Obey!]]: Averted when {{spoiler|Heather}} thinks she can try this kind of tactic on {{spoiler|Ezekiel}}. It doesn’t work.
* [[Imaginary Love Triangle|Imaginary Love Dodecahedron]]
* [[Infant Immortality]]: It seems that no matter how bloodily the other contestants die during the virtual reality challenges, Rodney will somehow survive.
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'''Owen''':Yes, they can, you left the intercom on.
'''Katie''': Oh sh- }}
* [[Jerkass]]: Colin in this series’ standout example, though Chris, Zachary and occasionally Duncan get it as well.
* [[Jerk Jock]]: Averted and discussed/defied with Tyler.
{{quote|'''Tyler''':(''talking about the Super Hero challenge in the confessional'')I'm pretty glad I wasn't made a villain. I mean, I know a lot of people think of jocks as jerks, but I like to think I get along with everyone. Even the really out there ones here, I'm down with them!}}
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Gwen
* [[Just Friends]]: Ezekiel and Bridgette, though he clearly had a crush on her early on.
** Also, Duncan and Gwen, despite [[Relationship Upgrade|recent developments]] in canon.
* [[Keet]]: Alfred, the American version of Owen, takes this [[Up to Eleven]].
* [[Kuudere]]: Noah (as in most Total Drama fanfiction).
* [[Large Ham]]: ''Everyone'' in the superhero challenge, bar [[Heroic Mime|Gwen.]]
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** In a sense, Noah (with Katie) and Justin (with Beth) both become nicer after their hook-ups. At least, until [[Morality Chain|Katie gets voted off TDB...]]
* [[Love Triangle]]: In TDC, Cody/Beth/Justin. Cody has more luck as the hypotenuse in TDB, where Eva and Anita vie for his attention.
** Also, Izzy/Ezekiel/Heather. Probably.
* [[Love Dodecahedron]]: Izzy broke up with Owen and might have feelings for Ezekiel, who's with Heather but still has a slight crush on Bridgette who's having trouble with Geoff. Owen and possibly Alejandro have feelings for Sierra who has her canon crush on Cody who's in a [[Love Triangle]] between Eva and Anita, and let's not forget Alejandro/Sandra undertones and Courtney seeing Gwen as a threat to her relationship with Duncan (despite still being with Trent in this fic).
** Arthur [[Ship Tease|may]] have a crush on Sadie, who has a crush on Zachary, who's stringing her along while he has a secret relationship with Valerie.
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** And just about every female contestant to Rodney.
* [[Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game]]: One of the TDB challenges.
* [[Memetic Sex God]]: Cody is an in-universe example.
* [[Mindlink Mates]]: A minor variant, with Ezekiel and Heather having very similar dreams.
* [[Missing Mom]]: Actually, {{spoiler|Tyler}} probably wishes his mom had ''stayed'' missing...
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** Rodney for Courtney in Battlegrounds
** {{spoiler|Katie}} for Noah, in a way. He's at least less cynical with her around.
* [[Ms. Fanservice]]: The TDB producers hired Anita specifically for this reason, ordering her to wear revealing outfits. Since her motive for joining the show was to prove she was ''more'' than just an empty-headed pretty girl, you can imagine she’s not pleased with the situation.
** However, Izzy is usually more than happy to provide (see any trope that involves full frontal shots).
* [[Never Accepted in His Hometown]]: The reason Cody isn't aware of his popularity after TDI is he avoided any mentions of the show online. Why? Because everyone at ''his'' school harassed and teased him about ''being mauled by a bear''. [[Teens Are Monsters|Eeesh]].
* [[Noodle Implements]]: We never did find out what Katie did with those soy beans...
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** These frequently occur in the series, thanks to all the [[Friendship Moment|Friendship Moments]].
* [[Official Couple]]: Every canon and non-slash fanon pairing from the first series. With the exception of {{spoiler|Owen and Izzy}}, they're all still together.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Chris, using the confessional, points out that Duncan and Owen are the only reasons the majority of their audience watches the show (which is probably true for [[Total Drama Island|the real show]]). He then remembers that {{spoiler|both of them were long-eliminated at that point.}}
** Chris also gets one upon realizing his [[Epic Fail|Epic Failure]] with [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]].
** The camper responsible for the [[Drama Bomb]] gets one after being eliminated and discovering {{spoiler|Leshawna}} is still pissed about what they did.
* [[Ostentatious Secret]]: Katie’s crush in TDC.
** In TDB, how Xander got his scars and limp.
** Not to mention whoever the hidden "villain" is in both seasons. More for the fans, although TDC characters speculated about it. Expect lots of shadowed faces and question marks whenever the person makes a confessional.
* [[Pair the Spares]]: As per [[Word of God]], ''every contestant'' will hook up with somebody by the end of the fic. The only two exceptions are Rodney (because he's just 8) and Colin (because he's an obnoxious [[Jerkass]]).
* [[Pet the Dog]]: While he mostly [[Took a Level in Jerkass]], Chris ''does'' occasionally show a softer side, like in Comeback after {{spoiler|Harold's allergy attack}}, or stepping in and showing everyone confessional footage to prove that {{spoiler|Cody's}} didn't help vote off {{spoiler|Trent}}.
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* [[Pretend Prejudice]]: Though he’ll constantly whine about white people, Zachary seems to quickly click with Owen and Colin, and joins forces with Valerie after only slight hesitation.
** Well he only seems to hate racist people, which he views almost everyone as, but Colin hates everyone and Owen's way too nice.
* [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]]: Yoshi.
* [[Real Life Writes the Plot]]: More that the events of the actual show write the plot. Some elements are played straight (Courtney being a [[Clingy Jealous Girl]] is inspired by ''Action''), but most are a way to subvert or correct the "wrongs" done by the show that Kobold doesn't like (Duncan and Owen, the supposed "fan-favorites" {{spoiler|getting voted off very early in TDB}} and the general treatment of Ezekiel and Bridgette, especially as of the events in ''World Tour'').
* [[Reformed but Rejected]]: guess who again.
* [[Retcon]]: Originally, ''Total Drama Comeback'' was supposed to be a season set between ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' and ''Total Drama Action,'' referred to as season 1.5. Later, TDC just became the second season in this universe, and TDA [[Canon Discontinuity|never happened]]. Both [[Lampshaded]] and [[Handwaved]] by the contestants and Chris respectively.
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* [[Shallow Love Interest]]: Crystal took up karate to avoid looking like one of these
* [[Shipper on Deck]]: Pretty much Crystal’s whole point.
** Which makes even more sense if we consider she's an [[Expy]] of WinterRae (everybody believes that [[Shout-Out]] was a coincidence...).
** Also in Comeback, Courtney shipped Cody/Beth while LeShawna shipped Beth/Justin.
** More recently, different characters have recently started taking sides in the [[Hot Amazon|Eva]]/[[Chivalrous Pervert|Cody]]/[[Ms. Fanservice|Anita]] [[Love Triangle]]. So far Beth, Izzy, Bridgette, Sadie, Gwen, Courtney and Heather are rooting for Eva (Despite Eva ''yelled at'' Heather for supporting her, she didn't switch sides) while Ezekiel, Tyler, Harold, Noah and Rondey favors Anita.
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** Alfred has recited anecdotes about [[Left 4 Dead|weird situations he's gotten into with a friend named Keith]].
* [[Sleep Cute]]: Ezekiel and Heather in TDC.
** [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] in TDB when Joel and Daisy are found doing this, but deny that it necessarily has any romantic connotations. It really doesn't count as anything but [[Ship Tease]], as they both wind up with other people soon after.
* [[So Beautiful It's a Curse]]: Anita plays this trope straight to an annoying level.
* [[Spaghetti Kiss]]
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* [[Strawman Political]]: The rampant "picking on Christians" by Chris and the producers starts to sound a lot like a persecution complex after the first few times.
** Though to be fair, K.N. says he's not a Christian. Still comes off a bit [[Anvilicious]], though.
** [[Word of God|TKN]] has stated that he avoids specific politics for Valerie, so people will not think he is trying to make one side of the political structure is wicked (since Valerie is a villainess).
* [[Strip Poker]]
* [[Stop Being Stereotypical]]: The reason of Hannah and Anita auditioned for TDBG was to prove that not all Christians are fundamentalists zealots and that not all attractive girls are [[Brainless Beauty|airheads]], respectively. You can expect how much they succeeded.
* [[Stupid Evil]]: Colin repeatedly backstabs his teammates during challenges for no useful reason.
* [[Sure Why Not]]: Very likely; the initials "TDC" showed up in the TDA special. Ironically, TDC is considered to be the [[Fix Fic]] to ''Action''. Another, more interesting example, is that Kobold often inserts details about the OC's clothes based on how people draw them into whatever the next chapter is, ascending them ''into'' fanon.
* [[Take That]]: A few examples:
** The vampire challenge in TDB, which is basically meant to parody/bash ''[[Twilight (novel)|Twilight]].''
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'''Gwen''':How can you win then?
'''Chris''':Well, first you need to know how to score, (''Girls start to glare at him'')What? Oh, you weirdos, I didn't mean ''that''! I meant how to score points for your team so that you can win this contest! }}
* [[The Man Behind the Man|The Woman Behind The Man]]: The Producer.
* [[This Is Sparta]]: "I! HAVE! A! SWORD!" - Chapter 28
* [[Throw the Dog a Bone]]: The reason why Kobold made this fic in the first place was to do this for Ezekiel, but also to an extent Harold, Tyler and Cody (The latter more so in Battlegrounds)
* [[Throwing Off the Disability]]: {{spoiler|Harold}} manages to do this in TDC. A type two variation, i.e., it’s established as something he could recover from.
* [[Throwing the Fight]]: {{spoiler|Chef, as a payback from Chris.}}
* [[Time Skip]]: Six months passed between TDI and TDC, and another six pass between TDC and TDB. This is important, since events that occurred in several of the contestants' normal lives effect their actions in the game. {{spoiler|Ezekiel, Tyler, Harold and Courtney}} are among those most affected in TDC.
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* [[Took a Level In Badass]]: Most of the characters during the virtual reality challenges, most obviously Heather.
** Even [[The Scrappy|Sadie]], [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|Clive]] and Rodney.
** But that's virtual reality challenges, not real. There should be a trope named EveryoneCanBeBadass.
* [[Took a Level in Jerkass]]: as if he wasn't bad enough, Chris
* {{spoiler|[[Tsundere]]: Heather and Eva}}
* [[All the Tropes Will Ruin Your Vocabulary]]: Well, it ruined Harold's.
{{quote|'''Harold''': Oh, I know all about these kinds of things. See, Leshawna is my [[Tsundere]], how could she resist in the end how my awesome skills are taken [[Up to Eleven]]? (''Superimposed on the screen as he talks is "WTH IS HE SAYING?"'')}}
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