Total Drama: Revenge of the Island (also called TDROTI or TDRI for short) is the fourth season of Total Drama. The series' extension was commissioned by Teletoon from the producers, Fresh TV. It is a sequel to Total Drama Island, Total Drama Action, and Total Drama World Tour and is a parody of reality TV shows, with this season taking the contestants back to Camp Wawanakwa (the original setting of the first season), only this time the island is radioactive. Total Drama: Revenge of the Island notably features an entirely new cast. The thirteen new contestants who are introduced in here are Anne Maria, B/Beverly, Brick, Cameron, Dakota, Dawn, Jo, Lightning, Mike, Sam, Scott, Staci, and Zoey. This season has new friendships, new rivalries, and new relationships. However, the season is only half the length of any previous seasons, with just 13 episodes.Read Question #4
Plot Like Total Drama Island, this season is a fictional reality show that follows the competition of thirteen new contestants at Camp Wawanakwa, a summer camp on a fictional island located in an unspecified area in Muskoka, Ontario. However, since the island has been forgotten and left alone for the past two seasons, the island has been used as a toxic nuclear waste dump, transforming it into the perfect location for the most dramatic and brutal challenges yet. The new cast of campers must then participate in competitions to avoid being voted off the island as they all try to get ready to compete with some of the most popular original contestants in the fourth season. They spend almost 2 weeks (13 days) in this camp competing in challenges for immunity and at the end of the season, one winning contestant will have the chance to win C$1,000,000 (US$731,485.00). The competition is hosted by Chris McLean (Christian Potenza), who is assisted by the camp's chef, Chef Hatchet (Clé Bennett).
At the beginning of the season, the thirteen campers are placed onto two teams, the Mutant Maggots and the Toxic Rats. In each episode, the teams participate in a challenge, in which one or more campers can win invincibility for their team. The losing team is called to the elimination ceremony at night, where they vote one of their own members off the island. At the ceremony, Chris declares which contestants are safe by calling their name and giving them a marshmallow, while the one whose name is not called is eliminated from the game and given a radioactive marshmallow. The eliminated camper is then taken to the Hurl of Shame and catapulted. However, an eliminated camper can stay in the game if they find a wooden Chris head (the elimination goes to the contestant with the second most number of votes).
About halfway through the season, the Toxic Rats and the Mutant Maggots are disbanded, after which the challenges continue; the winner of each challenge then only receives invincibility for him or herself, whereupon a camper without invincibility is voted off the island. This process of elimination is continued until two players (Cameron and Lightning) remain on the island, where then they are subject to a final contest for the million.
Episodes
Total Drama: Revenge of the Island premiered on both Teletoon and Cartoon Network in 2012. Teletoon aired Total Drama: Revenge of the Island in Canada on Thursday nights at 7:00 p.m. EST from January 5, 2012, to April 12, 2012,Promo that says premiere date and time. while on June 5, 2012, the U.S. started airing it on Tuesday nights at 7:30 p.m. EST on Cartoon Network.First Cartoon Network Promo for TDRI However, the first worldwide airing for this season was in France via Canal+ Family.
Episode finale variations For every season, the show's producers create two alternate endings for the final episode, such that the winner seen in one country's broadcasts is the runner-up in other countries (and vice versa) where the show airs. Cameron is the original winner in Canada, but he is also shown as the winner in Australia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, France, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Latin America and Brazil (Cartoon Network), the Middle East, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Russia, Serbia, Singapore, Spain, South Africa, Finland, Japan, Latin America, Brazil, Norway, Poland, Romania, and Sweden, Turkey, and the United Kingdom. Lightning is the original runner-up in Canada, but he is also the winner in the United States and the Philippines.
When the season finale aired in the United States, the penultimate episode and finale were aired together and advertised as a 1-hour finale where viewers could vote for a winner. Although Zoey places 3rd no matter what, viewers were allowed to vote for her on Cartoon Network's website.
Characters
Unlike previous seasons, Total Drama: Revenge of the Island features a new set of contestants, which are Anne Maria, B, Brick, Cameron, Dakota, Dawn, Jo, Lightning, Mike, Sam, Scott, Staci, and Zoey.Breaking News! TDRI Characters Revealed! March 27, 2011 This is the very first time the series completely replaces every existing cast member with an all-new cast. All of the new contestants have their own audition tapes for the season. They can be seen online on Teletoon's official website, online on Cartoon Network's official website, or on YouTube.Biographies from Total Drama Online
Staff Character Voice actor Description Christian Potenza Chris returns as the host of the series. Clé Bennett Chef returns as the cook and co-host of the series.
Contestants +List of Total Drama: Revenge of the Island contestants Contestant Label Voice actor Team Finish Original First swap Second swap Merged Placement Episode Staci The Compulsive Liar Ashley Peters rowspan="5" 1 Dakota (Returned to game) 2 B/Beverly The Strong, Silent Genius 3 Dawn The Moonchild Caitlynne Medrek rowspan="3" 5 Sam The Nice-Guy Gamer Brian Froud 6 Brick The Cadet Jon Cor rowspan="2" 7 Anne Maria The Jersey Shore Reject Athena Karkanis rowspan="3" Dakota The Fame-Monger Carleigh Beverly 8 Mike The Multiple Personality Disorder Cory Doran rowspan="2" rowspan="2" rowspan="6" 9 Jo The Take-No-Prisoners Jock-ette Laurie Elliott 10 Scott The Devious James Wallis rowspan="2" 11 Zoey The Indie Chick Barbara Mamabolo 12 Lightning The Athletic Overachiever Tyrone Savage 13 Cameron The Wide-Eyed Bubble Boy Kevin Duhaney
Original concepts
In the early production stages, the character lineup had twelve contestants, and most of them had body shapes, colors, clothing, heights, hair styles, and faces that were completely different from the final designs. The thirteenth character who was added later was B. His design was similar to that of the character in the Total Drama Island special as the man in the car when Courtney "discovered" civilization. That character also happened to be DJ's prototype from the original Camp TV promos.Skip to 7:54 to see the "original" B. Jo was later renamed to B (which stands for Beverly) while also getting his final design. The only other characters to have their name changed was Mary; she ended up using the name 'Jo'. Despite the rename, this character underwent the least amount of change in design. The other contestant who got renamed was Molly, being renamed to 'Zoey', while also carrying over her label. Anne Maria, Brick, Lightning, and Scott had minor modifications made to their outfits. Sam and Scott had different facial hair. The characters who had the most changes made to their designs were Dakota, Staci, and Zoey, who was originally named "Molly". Zoey's final design actually used the clothing and body shape from the original design for Dakota. Mike and Cameron had their ethnicities changed. Dawn, who was not in the original lineup, replaced an unused character named Zoey. Cameron's initial design would be reused for Jay and Mickey on Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race.
Cameos Although the original contestants did not compete again in this season (according to Chris, they had outlived their usefulness), nine of them still had cameo appearances throughout the season:Read Question #5 Bridgette, DJ, Duncan, Ezekiel, Gwen, Heather, Izzy, Lindsay, and Owen. However, at the beginning of the season, all of the original contestants (except for Blaineley) were seen together on a yacht, revealing their status after Total Drama World Tour. They were all last seen (except for the nine who cameo) leaving on the yacht right before the new contestants were first introduced.
A list of all the cameos in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island and their roles during their cameos are shown below:
Episode Character Role 1 OwenScroll Down to January 9th He asked Chris why the boat with the original contestants was leaving, but then Chris blew him away with a bomb. 4 Izzy She was disguised as a gigantic mutated spider to terrorize and capture the contestants during the challenge. Also, she captures Chef at the end. 5 Bridgette She was used to help Chris chum the water and test the challenge, along with Dakota. 6 Lindsay She was used as a judge in a fashion model contest, and later also used as a hostage against Sasquatchanakwa during a challenge to rescue her. 7 Ezekiel He was found underground in the mine by Anne Maria as the leader over giant mutated gophers. 8 Gwen She was found buried underground, along with Sam, as a damsel for the contestants to rescue in a challenge. 9 Duncan He was used as a challenge demonstrator, but he escaped and later returned to blow up Mt. Chrismore. 10 Heather She was used as a test dummy to fly through rings of fire, but she later steals the million dollar case and attempts to flee away. 11 DJ He was used as a food eater and a judge for the cooking challenge, but he later runs away in fear. 12 Ezekiel He was found trying to get out of the mine he was stuck in, but was then pushed back down by Lightning. 13 Ezekiel He was used as one of the mutant creatures who were released to interfere with the final challenge. He saves Anne Maria from a mutant animal before proceeding to kiss her, much to her disgust and dismay.
The fifteen original contestants who no longer appeared after the first episode of the fourth season were Alejandro, Beth, Cody, Courtney, Eva, Geoff, Harold, Justin, Katie, Leshawna, Noah, Sadie, Sierra, Trent, and Tyler. Harold was thought to have a cameo as soon as Brian Froud was confirmed to be part of the cast, but it turned out that Brian voices Sam instead. Out of all the cameos, Ezekiel is the only original contestant who made cameos in more than one episode in the season (by this point in the series, however, he was a completely feral beast who was incapable of speaking English and his role served as a plot antagonist), while DJ is the only cameoing character who has the same voice actor as a main character (Chef) already with a major role.
Elimination Table Contestant Episode
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 Cameron colspan="2" SAFE SAFE SAFE Lightning SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE colspan="2" SAFE Zoey colspan="2" SAFE SAFE SAFE Scott SAFE SAFE SAFE SAFE colspan="2" SAFE Jo SAFE SAFE Mike colspan="2" SAFE Dakota Anne Maria Brick SAFE colspan="2" Sam SAFE SAFE SAFE Dawn SAFE SAFE SAFE B SAFE Staci
Production