User blog:Mister.. E./Total Drama - Rankings *World Tour!*

Hello. I am Mr. E, and I am the guy who doesn't really do much on the wiki. And I have been thinking this over for a while, and I have decided... I am doing Total Drama character rankings! These will be updated slowly, since I have to rewatch all 4 seasons, in the mean time, while I am ranking all 38 contestants, I might do season rankings, individual season character rankings (such as I liked the TDI incarnation of Duncan more than the TDI incarnation of Owen, but it's the other way around for TDWT). So... yeah.

Total Drama: Revenge of the Island Rankings
This season, while half as long, was twice as painful to watch and I can honestly say I hated most of the contestants. The main problem with this season lies in, well, everything! It's too focused on showing us the "wacky characters and insane monsters" than actually giving any plot development at all, as a result, most characters are flat and we never really care about them, also, everything just seemed forced or not really that natural. Such as... about half of the cast. Even our winner, came off as extremely forced, but, more on that later.

#13 - Mike - 6th Place
"Oh well, there goes my whole plotline."

This season is by far the worst of the four, and Mike is easily the poster child for why it's gotten so bad. One word explains it all: Gimmicks. Total Drama doesn't focus on giving any characters development any more, and would rather focus on crappy gimmicks then take the time to give any contestant any smidgen of personality. And nobody showcases this a blatantly obviously than Mike. If you didn't catch them (which trust me, they're hard to miss.) Mike has four other personalities other than his main persona. These personas are: Chester, a crotchety old man who bickers and complains about everything. Svetlana, a russian olympian who basically cheats and godplays and gives Mike's team the win, a lot. Vito, a plot device arrogant jerk who is based off of "The Situation" from Jersey Shore. And Manitoba Smith, who is Indiana Jones with... an Australian accent...?

When you think about it, all of these personalities are... pointless. The only one who holds any relevence to anything is Vito, who makes a kinda vague "Betty and Veronica" plot with Mike, Zoey, and Anne Maria for like three episodes. Otherwise, the personalities don't really matter. But, really, the one problem I have with Mike is that we never get to know Mike himself. Hell, we probably know more about Mike's personalities than Mike himself. They spent too much time focusing on the cartoony, OTT gimmick then actually giving us any insight or personality of the character we're actually supposed to "root for". It becomes impossible to find anything distinguishable about Mike other than "heh heh he has a bunch of funny personalities!" or something of the sort, and that's what makes him the poster-child for what has gone wrong in TD. Every character is based upon a gimmick, or focused solely on a gimmick, we'll get more into them when we get to those certain characters (which trust me, is extremely soon), but Mike is a good place to see the root of the problem.

All in all, a character like Mike could have almost been enjoyable if executed correctly, but they decided to take it to the extreme, and made it over the top and unfunny. A common theme in the show today.



The Clue for the 12th Placer is: This contestant made the merge.

#12 - Cameron - Winner
"Ow! Ow! Are you feeling sorry for me yet?"

This should come as no surprise to anyone who ever pays attention to me in chat. Cameron is another one of those gimmicks I was talking about, in this case: The underdog. This guy is a walking underdog card, and I despise it. With Cameron, they literally go out of their way to make us feel sorry for him. The entire time he's on the island, he's painted as the "nice guy nerd who is totally underestimated by everybody! How will he ever survive!" Of course they fail to mention that the only reason Cameron wasn't first boot was because the Rats sucked at challenges, and that the only time his tribe went elimination, it was a non-elimination and Brick had volunteered to leave anyways, otherwise he completely overcame the odds and made merge! Also this is never addressed, so everyone thinks he made it on his own merit, right.

The thing about Cameron that I dislike more than anything is that he is constantly shoved down out throats as "the guy you don't expect to win", which makes him, exactly the guy you expect to win. Seriously, for the whole post merge, it's fairly obvious it's him or Zoey winning, so, what's the point? Maybe make it to where people take him seriously, or maybe eliminate him as a shock, do SOMETHING! Not just the generic "underdog" story. I would have appreciated Cameron a lot more if he hadn't actually won, maybe he managed to establish himself as a threat and got sent home in like, fourth, and he leaves with confidence, I would've enjoyed THAT story much more than... this disgusting "nerdy underdogs can do anything (as long as their team never loses and they have several human-shields in the post-merge)" story.

Basically, Cameron was a failure winner who only won due to his team being the superior team in challenges and Scott not taking him out before he got voted out. Also, IRON CAMERON, REALLY?



The clue for the 11th placer is: This contestant is a female.

#11 - Staci - 13th Place
"Yah, my great-great-great-aunt Sonja invented first boots, before then people just stood around on the island and got bored, so sad."

Really, what is there to say about Staci? She is a complete gimmick who was completely pointless and was put in solely for filler. I honestly don't get why people like her. Her voice was rather annoying, and she has the record for least episodes in ever. Since she was only in one episode. Ever.

 The Clue for 10th Placer is: This character was supposedly based off of someone.

Overall Character Rankings
To be started after all other rankings are done.
 * 1) 38 - To be announced!