Total Drama DISASTER: How Shipping RUINS Characters

A little late but finally followed through on making this!

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Artist: Causmic
Title: Much Higher

[SarcasticChorus]

Thanks to everyone who completed the video, and apologies for that one jumpscare mistake around the two hour and 18 min mark that I didn't catch.🤦‍♂

[eatatjoe]

Also, former Gwent shipper here, I liked how chill Trent was.

*Until he wasn't.*

[valentinkambushev]

Surprisingly, the shipping drama never bothered me. Even as I kid, I knew the romance in this show was going to be a dumpster fire. The show is named "Total DRAMA", after all. I just accepted the shipping drama and had fun watching it.

[nairobicataluna]

Literally screamed outloud "THREE HOURS!?" Welp looks like it's my daily documentary time

[XanderMatthews-nvzf]

Harold rigging out Courtney over Duncan is easily one of the most unbelievable moments in the entire show and it continues to stun me why on earth he didn’t eliminate Duncan who was actively bullying him

I have yet to hear any good explanation that doesn’t make Harold look worse than Heather

[meowmeowmorwligjtbu]

honestly Trent x Gwen would have been a peak ship if the show had given him more of a personality besides just being Gwen’s boyfriend. That’s basically all he was in the show.

[gothikaxenon]

I blame Cartoon Network and Teletoon’s executives for forcing unwanted pairings and triggering shipping wars.

[valentinkambushev]

Real talk: Chris and Chef are the best couple.

[rolay]

Cortney was a counselor in training at a summer camp? THAT IS WHAT C.I.T. MEANT???? When I was young, I thought she was training in some legal profession, and that is why she was so full of herself. I assumed she had so many lawyers because she was training at a law firm or something. Knowing she was just going to be a camp counselor completely changes how I see her.

[beansandrize]

I feel like someone in the writing room just hated Courtney. As a kid she was always my favorite in S1 but after that i felt like she was slowly just becoming a different person for literally no reason. That's why i chose to believe that the show within the show of total drama is staged and all the characters are actors.

[spinestealer]

With how obsessed with legality and lawyers she is, I feel like the producers really made a pun out of the name COURT-ney

[fio]

Haven’t watched the video yet, but can I just say: I was so mad when Trent and Gwen broke up. Even more mad that Gwen and Duncan got together. They ruined all 4 of their characters for drama. The creators didn’t even want to break up Gwen and Trent, but the network did to show kids that breakups can happen. AND let me also just say, Trent could’ve been one of the best characters but he was set to the side after the breakup. I was so disappointed.

[seekerblackout]

Courtney did seem to be friends with Bridgette in the first season. Admittedly the show barely shows them interacting but there's a few little moments, most notably the Boney Island episode, where Bridgette picks Courtney to be her partner, they both look enthusiastic about it, and they're shown talking to each other in multiple scenes. I've always wished the show ran with that friendship a little more because I always really liked it as a kid, I could see Bridgette as being a patient enough person to see the good in Courtney and bring out the best in her.

[randomname]

As a Courtney fan I always wanted her to fix herself after the whole Duncan thing. As a Total Drama fan, I love how it went from “I hate him” to “I can fix him” but it actually was a “I can ruin her” that spiraled into a “fuck I ruined her too much”

Also I kinda wish we could’ve seen Courtney x Trent out of this, because in retrospective Courtney is an aggressive tsundere and Trent a closed yandere which is a rare ship dynamic in western media

[amelyacooper]

Honestly, the one couple that I wish was handled more in the show was Alejandro and Heather. They were the ideal villainous power couple that we didn't get to see much of.

[delix]

Just because Gwen was Gothic and Duncan was punk that does not mean they were similar at all with personalities. They just like the same style. 🥲

[fanaticalistic]

11:47 You calling Courtney his future ex instead of future girlfriend is so funny, and honestly, a fitting description.

[whosindee]

okay as someone who’s writing career began as a beta reader for tdi/tdi/world tour fanfic in the early 2010’s, this is my roman empire. this almost encapsulates the infighting i witnessed daily. you’re a hero

[crafthermanos]

honestly, i agree with the point of: all of the campers should have been on their early 20's instead of 16, because of what you said, juvie would be prison. homeschooled would be dropout and there'd be a lot of beer. Some characters always felt older than others and they all felt older than 16, the thirsty moments like all of lindsay, or naked gwen, heather boobs, etc would have been remedied by just making them legal.

[_Asvaria]

Breaking up Duncney and Gwent was something I never forgave CN for. Why? These two relationships worked so well in s1. If they REALLY wanted to end them, at least they could do it with grace. What they did to Duncan, Trent, my girl Courtney and Gwen was anything but grace.