Total Drama: Revenge of the Island
Total Drama: Revenge of the Island is the fourth season of the Total Drama franchise. The series' extension was commissioned by Teletoon from the producers, Fresh TV Inc. 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 series taking the contestants back to Camp Wawanakwa, only this time the island is radioactive. Previous contestants from past seasons no longer compete in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island since this season features an entire new cast. The thirteen new contestants who are introduced in here are Anne Maria, B, Brick, Cameron, Dakota, Dawn, Jo, Lightning, Mike, Sam, Scott, Staci, and Zoey. This new 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. The season introduced the new cast to what previous contestants have gone through before and prepared them for Total Drama All-Stars. Such a change occurred again in .
Plot
Like Total Drama Island, this season is a fictional reality show that follows the competition of thirteen new 16-year-old 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 fifth season. They spend almost 2 weeks in this camp competing in challenges for immunity and at the end of the season, one winning contestant will have the chance to win one million Canadian dollars. The competition is hosted by Chris McLean, who is assisted by the camp's chef, Chef Hatchet.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 to the Playa de Losers. However, an eliminated camper can still come back to the game if they find a wooden Chris head.
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 on until two players remain on the island, where then they are subject to a final contest. At the end of the season, Lightning is crowned winner of the season and is given the million dollars by Chris. Cameron however, wins in the alternate ending, which airs only in the United States and the Philippines.
Episodes
Total Drama: Revenge of the Island premiered on both Teletoon and Cartoon Network 2012. Teletoon has aired Total Drama: Revenge of the Island on Canada on Thursday nights at 7:00 p.m. EST from January 5, 2012, to April 12, 2012, while on June 5, 2012, the U.S. started airing it on Tuesday nights at 7:30 p.m. EST on Cartoon Network. However, the first worldwide airing for this season was in France via Canal+ Family.| Season | Episodes | Country | Network | First air date | Last air date |
| 4 | 13 | Australia | ABC3 | May 28, 2012 | June 13, 2012 |
| 4 | 13 | Canada | Teletoon | January 5, 2012 | April 12, 2012 |
| 4 | 13 | France | Canal+ Family | December 21, 2011 | December 29, 2011 |
| 4 | 13 | United States | Cartoon Network | June 5, 2012 | August 28, 2012 |
Staff
Contestants
The contestant pool consists of 13 new characters, while several characters from the first three seasons make cameo appearances throughout the season.| Contestant | Original Team | Switched Team | 2nd Switched Team | Merge | Finish |
| Staci Miss Chatterbox | |||||
| Dakota | Original Elimination | ||||
| B Big, Burly, Brilliant Guy | |||||
| Dakota | Disqualified Returned to game | ||||
| Dawn The Moonchild | |||||
| Sam The Nice Guy Gamer | |||||
| Brick The Cadet | |||||
| Anne Maria The Jersey Shore Reject | |||||
| Dakota The Fame Monger | |||||
| Mike Has a Great Personality and then Some | rowspan=6 | ||||
| Jo The Take No Prisoners Jockette | - | ||||
| Scott The Devious | - | ||||
| Zoey The Indie Chick | - | ||||
| Lightning Uber Jock | - | ||||
| Cameron The Wide Eyed Bubble Boy | - |
Cast
Other than Chris McLean and Chef Hatchet, this season featured an entirely new cast of characters. Another new character featured this season was Beverly. However, although he appeared in four episodes, he had no lines during any of his appearances, except the episode he got voted off on, "Ice Ice Baby", where he screams as he gets hurled.| Voice actor | Role | Episodes worked |
| Clé Bennett | Chef Hatchet | Whole season |
| Carleigh Beverly | Dakota | 9/13 episodes |
| Jon Cor | Brick | 8/13 episodes |
| Cory Doran | Mike | 10/13 episodes |
| Kevin Duhaney | Cameron | Whole season |
| Laurie Elliott | Jo | 11/13 episodes |
| Brian Froud | Sam | 8/13 episodes |
| Athena Karkanis | Anne Maria | 8/13 episodes |
| Barbara Mamabolo | Zoey | Whole season |
| Caitlynne Medrek | Dawn | 6/13 episodes |
| Ashley Peters | Staci | 2/13 episodes |
| Christian Potenza | Chris McLean | Whole season |
| Tyrone Savage | Lightning | Whole season |
| James Wallis | Scott | 12/13 episodes |
Voting history
Returning cast
Several characters from previous seasons also made cameo appearances in this season.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. All of the new contestants have their own audition tapes for the new season. They can be seen online on Teletoon's official website, online on Cartoon Network's official website, or on YouTube.Main characters
- Cameron, known as the Wide-eyed Bubble Boy, is the main geek of the show. Because he had an "overprotective" mother, he spent all his life in an inflatable bubble and he was also home-schooled. It's because of this that he is shown to be very weak, short and looks a lot younger than his actual age. However, what he lacks in strength he is able to make up for with brains and he is shown to be extremely smart which helped his team win many challenges. As the season progressed Cameron became a much more physical player which greatly helped him all the way to the final where he faced off against Lightning in a fight dubbed "Brains vs. Brawn". Although Lightning was the more powerful of the two, Cameron with his intelligence was able to construct a metal suit. He loses in the original ending but he decides that even though he didn't win, he was able to survive without his bubble, he decides he doesn't need it to be inflated. In the alternate ending, he wins but decides he doesn't need his bubble anymore and chooses to share the prize money with everyone Voiced by Kevin Duhaney.
- Lightning, known as the Athletic Overachiever, is strong and athletic, while being an over-achiever who says that he always wins and never loses. However, Lightning is very arrogant and doesn't want to help his team. Also, Lightning loves to talk about himself. Lightning always loves saying "-sha" in mostly every word he says. Despite his athletic prowess, he isn't very intelligent and even believes that Jo is a boy since she is the only one who can really keep up with him. His jersey is similar to the jerseys issued to the San Diego Chargers. In the original ending, his competitive drive causes him to get to the end of the season for the final challenge both him and Cameron compete in gladiator match end up in a stalemate until he wins by dumb luck. Lightning then decides he will use the money to build a football stadium to prepare for the season, Chris however says to save it for physiotherapy, Lightning disagrees until shortly after he breaks his leg. However, in the alternate ending, he loses and refuses to believe he lost to Cameron, saying he's sorry he let down his pops. Voiced by Tyrone Savage.
Other characters
- Anne Maria, known as the Jersey Shore Reject, is a parody of Snooki from the MTV series, Jersey Shore. She is involved in a love triangle with Mike and Zoey and always worries about her hair and general appearance. Voiced by Athena Karkanis.
- B, known as the Strong Silent Genius, is really smart and strong, making him very helpful for his team during challenges, but unfortunately B does not speak at all. Since B is very useful throughout the challenges, Scott finds him as a threat and causes his elimination. B's full name is Beverly, as revealed in the second episode of the season. B is modeled after an older design for DJ when the first season was in its beta stage, Camp TV. B is a parody of Silent Bob from Clerks. He was voiced by Jordan Smith.
- Brick, known as the Cadet, is a military cadet who is always interested in serving the army. He sees himself as a very athletic and coordinated person, and wishes to be a great sergeant in the future. However, Brick is rather clumsy and always fails to do things right. Voiced by Jon Cor.
- Dakota, known as the Fame Monger, is a parody of Paris Hilton, and is the heiress to a wealthy family. She is a girl who will do anything to get famous, meaning that the only reason why she joined the show is to get some screen time on television, even though Chris stops any attempt from Dakota for her to get famous. Dakota thinks that she is the most perfect and prettiest girl in the world and calls "regular people" ugly, although later it is revealed that she has a big heart. She was second to be voted off but managed to get back on due to her father bribing Chris, but Chris made her an intern instead of a contestant, to her horror. Exposure to the toxic waste caused Dakota to mutate into an enraged 10-foot tall, green haired monster called the "Dakotazoid", but this only served to make her even more attractive to Sam. Voiced by Carleigh Beverly.
- Dawn, known as the Moonchild, is a hippie environmentalist who is often shy and is frequently seen meditating. She usually studies witchcraft which makes her hold special powers and tries to help her teammates along the way. Dawn is mostly based on the character, Luna Lovegood from the Harry Potter series. Voiced by Caitlynne Medrek.
- Jo, known as the Take-no-prisoners Jockette, is very strong, athletic and dog-eat-dog, but also never feminine, causing Lightning to think that she is a male. She is based on Sue Sylvester from Glee. Voiced by Laurie Elliot.
- Mike, known as the Multiple Personality Disorder, unfortunately has a disorder called DID which causes him to have split personalities. Mike is the host of his "alters" which are: Chester, Svetlana, Vito, Manitoba Smith and Mal who will be introduced in the next season. Mike has a relationship with Zoey, and while Vito is fronting he's with Anne Maria, though in the end he overwhelmed his personalities and stayed with Zoey for which it makes Mike uncomfortable for their body to be in two separate relationships. For Zoey, Mike's shared body and brain is hot and smart. Mike has headspace, which is presented in scenes where there is multiple "Mike"'s. Everyone with DID has headspace differently. Voiced by Cory Doran.
- Sam, known as the Nice Guy Gamer, is a video game expert but also an addict. He is always seen playing video games as Dakota is always seen on her cellphone, eventually causing Sam and Dakota to get together. He is a parody of Seth Rogen. Voiced by Brian Froud.
- Scott, known as the Devious Guy, is a farm boy with a rosy complexion and the main antagonist of the season. He is very devious, doing anything from taking advantage of his teammates to eventually getting them eliminated with his manipulative strategies. He also deals with multiple attacks from a mutated shark named Fang, who wishes to eat him after he unintentionally takes one of his teeth. Lightning then takes over Scott's role as the villain after his own eventual elimination, due to Cameron stealing immunity from Lightning. He is based off real life Survivor contestant Russell Hantz who was one of the most notorious villains on the show. Voiced by James Wallis.
- Staci, known as the Compulsive Liar, is known for her compulsive lies about her ancestors when she continues to talk and lie for a long time, making everyone around her get annoyed really fast, causing her to be the first eliminated. She became permanently bald after touching the toxic marshmallow. Voiced by Ashley Peters.
- Zoey, known as the Indie Chick, is a nice and friendly redhead who tries to be friends with everyone. Throughout the entire season, she mostly has a relationship with Mike which causes both her and Mike to fall in love with each other, but when Mike gets eliminated, Zoey goes into a mental breakdown and changes her personality into an evil side of herself called "Commando Zoey", for both the eleventh and twelfth episodes. She later reverts to her nice girl self thanks to Cameron. Voiced by Barbara Mamabolo.
Teams
- Toxic Rats: B, Dakota, Dawn, Lightning, Sam, Scott, and Staci.
- Mutant Maggots: Anne Maria, Brick, Cameron, Jo, Mike, and Zoey.
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 'Jo'. His design was similar to that of the character used 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 T.V. promos. Jo was later renamed to B while also getting his final design. The only other character 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. 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. 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 'Molly'. Cameron's initial design would be reused for Jay and Mickey on .Cameos
Although the original contestants did not compete again in this season, nine of them still had cameo appearances throughout the season: Bridgette, DJ, Duncan, Ezekiel, Gwen, Heather, Izzy, Lindsay, and Owen. However, at the beginning of the season, all of the original contestants were seen together on a yacht, revealing their status after Total Drama World Tour. They were all last seen 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 | Owen | Asked Chris why the boat with the original contestants was leaving, but then Chris blew him away with a bomb. |
| 4 | Izzy | Disguised as a gigantic mutated spider to terrorize and capture the contestants during the challenge. Also, captures Chef at the end. |
| 5 | Bridgette | Used to help Chris chum the water and test the challenge along with Dakota. |
| 6 | Lindsay | Used as a judge at a fashion model contest and also used as a hostage against Sasquatchanakwa during a challenge to rescue her. |
| 7 | Ezekiel | Found underground in the mine by Anne Maria as the leader over giant mutated gophers. |
| 8 | Gwen | Was found buried underground along with Sam as a damsel for the contestants to rescue in a challenge. |
| 9 | Duncan | Used as challenge demonstrator, but escaped and later returned to blow up Mt. Chrismore. |
| 10 | Heather | Used as a test dummy to fly through rings of fire, but later steals the million dollar case and attempts to flee away. |
| 11 | DJ | A food eater and a judge for the cooking challenge, but later runs away in fear. |
| 12 | Ezekiel | Found trying to get out of the mine he was stuck in, but then pushed back down by Lightning. |
| 13 | Ezekiel | Used as one of the mutant creatures who were released to interfere with the final challenge. |
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, while DJ is the only cameoing character who has the same voice actor as a main character already with a major role.
Production
Total Drama: Revenge of the Island was developed and produced by Fresh T.V. Inc. and distributed by Cake Entertainment. Since all the characters in this season are completely new, the studio had to hire several new voice actors to come and voice the new characters, but Brian Froud has returned to voice Sam, one of the new characters. This season was directed by Keith Oliver and Chad Hicks, and Todd Kauffman had a small role in the making of this season. Production started in early 2010 when the season was first announced as Total Drama Reloaded, and the new characters were first released to the public by then. Production continued for almost a year well on schedule for a 2011 release date. However, major delays in 2011 caused the season's air date to be pushed back to 2012, since many scenes consisting of radioactive material had to be cut out or edited. There were some other things that did not make the final cut also, like some backgrounds, extra scenes, a flying squirrel concept and an episode about Dakota hosting the show when she locks Chef and Chris in a closet.Air date conflict and production delays
As revealed by Christian Potenza on the Total Drama: Live Action Panel at Canada's 2011 Fan Expo, Total Drama: Revenge of the Island was originally scheduled to air in July 2011 in the United States and in September 2011 in Canada, but due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami and the nuclear accident which caused many Japanese citizens to receive radiation poisoning, many staff members found some of the season's scenes of radioactive material and creatures to be considered insensitive to victims of the disaster. This initiated the producers decision to modify the storyline of the season in order to remove some of the radioactive references, leading to many scenes being edited out.This process of re-editing the entire season required more production time, causing the U.S. air date to be delayed until September 2011, but failure to complete the full season by then now caused more delay for both the U.S. and Canada, until the season was fully finished by late 2011 for an early French airing. Now, Total Drama: Revenge of the Island aired three months later on Canada than originally expected on January 5, 2012, while the new rescheduled air date for the U.S. was not until June 5, 2012. However, France has aired the entire season in just 8 days from December 21, 2011 to December 29, 2011, becoming the only country in the world to air the season still in 2011. Although, they only aired the French spoken version of the season that did not include the voices from the original voice actors.
On May 28, 2012, Australia also began to air the season almost as fast as France did, but this time in English. Italy started to air the season on January 9, 2012, while Cartoon Network also aired the season in the Netherlands, Romania, Scandinavia and Hungary starting on March 5, 2012, Russia and Bulgaria on March 6, 2012, Poland and Africa on March 8, 2012 and Latin America on April 2, 2012. Originally, the season finale was set to air in the U.S. on September 11, 2012, but was instead pulled up to August 28 due to that date being a national memorial holiday. The final two episodes were then combined into a one-hour full-length season finale.
History
On March 25, 2011, all the shapes of all the 13 contestants were revealed in . On March 27, 2011, all the names and personalities of the contestants were revealed in a press release. On April 5, 2011, Christian Potenza posted a YouTube video of him recording the first line of Total Drama: Revenge of the Island. The quote was:This line is used for the that Teletoon showed at the end of the Total Drama World Tour finale, which was first released on April 24, 2011. On June 1, 2011 Christian Potenza released on his Facebook the new season logo along with more final designs of the characters. On June 3, 2011 there were snapshots of radioactive Camp Wawanakwa. On August 25, 2011 the new Total Drama: Revenge of the Island flipbook was released. On August 28, 2011, the first official cast image was released to the public via Facebook. On September 24, 2011, the third official trailer was released which contained new scenes and confirmed the team assignments. On September 27, 2011, at the Total Drama: Live Action Panel at Canada's 2011 Fan Expo, Cory Doran confirmed all of Mike's personalities, and Christian Potenza said that the team name for the Radioactive Rats was scrapped. On October 13, 2011, Christian Potenza revealed some stuff about the intro of the season and said that promos will be out soon. On November 28, 2011 the official Canadian air date for the season was announced for January 5, 2012. On December 14, 2011 an animated interview with Chris McLean and a fan was released and revealed that the new team name is now "Toxic Rats". On December 18, 2011, the official Canadian TDRI website was launched that includes interactive menus and biographies of all the new contestants, as well as videos and season descriptions. On December 21, 2011, France began to air the season's episodes, two weeks before Canada. On Christmas 2011, all of the auditions of the 13 new characters were released on Teletoon's official Total Drama site. Cartoon Network viewers were able to vote for Zoey before the finale due to them airing Episode 12 and 13 in the same day.