User blog comment:The Anonymous User/Total Drama: The Works Characters/@comment-1315493-20100529214312

That is very true, but it also gives Oliver a good reason for his arrogance: he can out-do almost everybody in a physical challenge. He tricked Tiger because he felt threatened by Tiger's strength possibly proving to be greater than his own.

Oliver is not a criminal partly because I didn't want to take that route, and partly because when I wrote his bio, he was supposed to be the main protagonist. Things changed when the only other potential villains left out of the mix were Kana and Raphael, and I couldn't see Kana as being hardcore evil, while Raphael had other plans.