The WORST Eliminations from Every Total Drama Season 

Leshawna’s VA thing? Entirely a rumor, same with Lindsay. Truth is, they just weren’t intended to make it farther than they did, and for some people, it’s hard to accept that. Do you guys really think that they would rewrite the whole season because their voice actor couldn’t make it, but then in the finale they’re perfectly fine? No, that’s not how the animation industry works.

Noah's team technically won. So unfair that he was eliminated

Fun Fact: Ezekiel is the only male contestant whose elimination was not caused by Alejandro in world Tour

The worst part of Noah's elimination in world tour was THE FACT HE AND OWEN DID THE CHALLENGE AND BROUGHT BACK EZEKIEL WHILE AMAZON WON BY BRINGING BACK DUNCAN LUKE WTF

The frustrating thing about the whole Noah and Alejandro bit is that it's really easy to fix. In Slap Slap Revolution Noah is the one to question Alejandro about throwing the challenge, so have that be where Noah becomes suspicious and starts piecing things together. In the next episode, Alejandro tries to manipulate Owen into believing he's the only one who can be trusted on their team. This goes nowhere in the show, but it could've been Alejandro's attempt to isolate Noah now that he's caught onto him (which would add to the London scene, because now Noah has to convince Owen that Alejandro is untrustworthy while the guy's actively being manipulated by him). Then when he gives Noah the task of navigating through the lasers in Paris, that could be a set-up, because if Noah fails then it'll be reason to vote him off. Their fighting could also be made to mirror that of Team Amazon's; Gwen, Heather, and Courtney being very open with their arguing whereas Noah and Alejandro are more passive aggressive and discrete. Like the building blocks were there, they were just never used

Not only was Noah’s elimination unfair, but the scene where he got eliminated was so rushed, like it was funny Chris line, Owen being sad, Alejandro being smug, Noah warning them, and that’s literally it

Ngl, I think Lindsay’s elimination was worse than Courtney’s cuz in that challenge, the first 2 LOSERS were safe, Lindsay got 2nd and her “last to cross the line” was so forced, and Izzy and LeShawna weren’t even competing and got no punishment!

Noahs eleminstion in tdwt was so bad because noah and owen won it for their team but chris just said nuh uh

Noah does show suspicion in the Episode Leshawna got eliminated in, he talks to Alejandro about what hes doing, and is the Character most indifferent on him. It also makes sense that hes least trusting of the hunk he referred to Justin as the anti him, so he probably would feel more threatened by Al.

I headcanon that Gwen's elimination was rigged in show. If Courtney was dropped, the love triangle arc would have ended. Since Chris was willing to void the vote for Duncan for Episode 14, it aint a stretch to assume he rigged it. Also Chris knows about the contestants allergies given thats what Noah's first ever lines were about.

Ella’s elimination from pahkitew island was unfair too, she sang to calm the bear and save her team but chris for some reason didn’t like ella singing when he literally made a season focused on singing (world tour) so yeah I think ella’s elimination was unfair too

I hate Noah’s elimination in World Tour, it was unfair. This is one of the reasons why i absolutely hate Alejandro. (Noah’s my favorite character btw)

I’m honestly surprised, because you didn’t include Mr. Coconuts in this list.

About the Leshawna’s VA thing, yeah that’s bullshit. Both because the main writer of S1 confirmed she was supposed to be booted off 5th anyway, and second because that’s just not how animated projects work. The writing always comes first, then comes the voice acting and then the animation. If Leshawna’s VA had to leave, the writing wouldn’t have changed anyway, so that’s just a rumor that came out of nowhere and people popularized it because they are simply ignorant on how producing an animated show works.

Leshawna’s elimination was total bs to this day like I remember watching that when I was younger being so mad. Like girl didn’t even have a chance.

The real reson behind Leshawna bs elimination is that concept of the episode was diffrent in original pitch. It was supposed to be a fashion contest (I thing even episode name suggested it) where Leshawna won the challange. But she gave up her immunity to Gwen, and because of it Leshawna was eliminated with Heather saying something like "you should never give up your invincibility to enemy". And one of the main reasons why consept of the episode was changed: too many costumes changes. And ironically about half year later situation like this happened in reality show which Total Drama was parody of (giving up immunity and getting voted out).

The thing about Noah's elimination that doesn't make sense is how is it him that goes home that night? Alejandro doesn't have immunity so Noah and Owen vote for him and Al and Tyler vote for Noah. But why would Duncan vote for Noah? We didn't even get a scene showing anything about this, or even Al talking to Duncan. Are we supposed to believe that Duncan is better friends with Tyler than Owen, and then takes Tyler's side to vote off Noah? If anything, Al could have thrown Tyler under the bus, got Duncan to vote for Tyler and then convinced Owen to vote for Tyler. This could be a good way to create a downward spiral for Noah as it makes him believe Owen doesn't listen to him or trust him, making him do things alone and then gets eliminated in the merge. This elimination is way worse than the others just because it's improbable and doesn't make sense.

The Vegans were done so dirty in Ridonculous Race. They were forced to eat meat since their fossil was stolen, and it was a non-elimination challenge so they did that challenge for nothing. And THEN the next episode Laurie’s face was destroyed by bullet ants, so Miles had to do the costume challenge by herself. Cause of that, they were about to win the leg, but Don gave them a 30-minute penalty since Laurie also had to make her own costume. Leading them to fall from first to last. This all happened cause, they were vegan, I guess? They did absolutely nothing wrong all season, and they didn’t even lose cause they were vegan. They lost cause the medical twins accidentally pushed them into bullet ants, and it was right after they had to break their veganism just to not go home. The Vegans literally showed how badly they wanted to win, and the show gave them the dirtiest treatment out of every team that season. It felt so cynical for absolutely no good reason.

Both of Sam's eliminations feel very unfair to me! Both eliminations have Sam's team refusing to include him in the challenge because they think he's too "fat and lazy" then utterly failing the challenge and putting their team at a massive disadvantage, this then leads Sam to leading his team to success like his idea to ask Dakota for fashion advice, being the only player on his team to climb up to the sasquatch, and eating his teams entire pancake and still being able to beat Alejandro at a race! But he fails at the last second and all the blame gets put on him!

AWESOME LIST 🗣️‼️ I definitely agree with alot of these takes.

no one's talking about ezekiels elimination in world tour bc my boi was the most robbed character in total drama history ;-;

TY FOR SHOUTING PLUSH OUT! they’re so good with their videos! PS, one of the best unfair elimination videos on TD I’ve seen! ❤

Fixing some misinformation: - as explained by one of the top comments, Leshawna's VA thing is just a rumor, not how animation industry works. - Courtney didn't have special privileges just because her lawyers threatened to sue the show, they went with it and won. - Noah did show signs of suspecting Alejandro earlier, specifically in Episode 7 after Alejandro threw the challenge. One might also interpret Noah not being impressed with his idea ("Meh, I guess") for an ad in Episode 3 as another sign as well. Surprised the Vegans didn't at least make an honorable mention.

Honestly both of Tyler’s eliminations were pretty bs. Loved his character and I think his eliminations were pretty unfair

My picks 1. Leshawna, Lindsay, Trent, Tyler 2. Lindsay, Owen 3. Lindsay, Noah, Tyler, Gwen 4. Dawn, Brick, Anne Maria, B 5. Lindsay, Gwen, Alejandro 6. Jasmine, Max, Sammy, Ella 7. Fashion Bloggers, Goths 8. Damian, Hockey Bros, Zee 9. Nichelle, Damian

Personally Father and Son’s elimination was a bit unfair because Don was about to say it was a non elimination round

Don't u just hate how nerfed everyone was in all stars

Also Anne Maria being eliminated In roti was completely bs

I’d have voted Owen off from Action too, or Justin, since Courtney was doing all the legwork for her team that episode 😆

I'd also include Sammy's alimination - just straight up awful and dissatysfying.

Ella's, in my opinion, was such an unfair elimination. No one even voted for her, she literally got kicked out because Chris got sick of her singing, like how petty can you get?! I get that not everyone is a fan of Ella, either because of her constant singing or because she's just a one note character, but I still love her; In a season where half the cast were needlessly crule jerks, she stood out to me as one of the few good ones. I knew from the get go she wasn't going to win, but I at least would've liked her to get a fair elimination. At least she went out on her own terms and got to sing one last song before leaving.

I’d say Tyler’s Elimination in Island could go on par with these eliminations! He literally got booted for doing nothing wrong! The challenge for him was sitting in a pen for 3 minutes with a chicken! That’s it! It wasn’t like he ran away from the pen, no, he did what was asked and stayed in the pen! If that’s not a forced elimination, then I don’t know what is!

Leshawnas elimination could have been more acceptable if someone made the point that nobody wanted Heather at the retreat. If someone made that argument, then that would make it more believable

Bro they did my boy max dirty😭 I want to see him again so bad

I would've put Scary Girls elimination in season 2. Mostly because if Chef didn't call her name (he shouldn't have cuz she didn't do anything wrong) she wouldn't have had her speech nor possibly her elimination.

Ngl imo an honourable mention for action would've been dj

I cried when people like Axel and Jay and Mickey got eliminated

Fun fact: dj was the only character that wasn’t normally eliminated

What doesn't make sense about Nichelle's second elimination is how Julia was even able to make that contract anyway. Do the contestants have access to a computer and a printer? We've never been shown that before. And it's hard to believe that Julia can write a fake contract so convincing it looks real. Nichelle is a Hollywood star, so she would have read many movie contracts before. Did Julia use ChatGPT or something? 😂 If the writers wanted to eliminate Nichelle that episode, why not have her receive a real contract? There's no reason to attribute her elimination to Julia.

Zee Elimination from season 1 was unfair

bro you cannot throw surprise onepiece spoilers in the middle of a total drama video

Max was super unfair I liked LeShawna’s elimination

The Leshawna rumor is completely fake. The real reason leshawna had that elimination was because her original elimination felt even more unfair. Leshawana won a competition and gave her immunity to Gwen so she can vote Heather out, but Gwen voted out Leshawana instead

. Ezekiel .Lyndsey . Ezekiel . Staci . Ella . Jay/Micky . Scary girl . Lauren

ROTI will always be Mike for me, the fact that he didn’t even get a mention is wild

my opinion: Island: Leshawna and Courtney Action: Lindsay World Tour: Sierra Revenge: Mike All-Stars: Gwen or Scott Pahkitew: Max RR: Carrie and Devin Reboot 1: Wayne and Raj Reboot 2: Damien and Ripper

Tbf, Lightning's elimination feels like an unpopular opinion, but at the same time I think it's definitely top 3 worse eliminations! I get it, he just won the other season, it's not expected to stay for long...BUT GOD DAMN WHAT THEY DID WAS STUPID! He was never exactly the smartest character, but they somehow made him EVEN DUMBER!! He deserved to stay a hit longer imo. Also, here I'm a bit biased, but I wanted Kitty and Emma to win the Ridonculous race and their elimination was... Really sad. Like... They were doing great! They totally deserved the win! They could have had the win, but unfortunately not meant to be. These two were my favs and as you can imagine It feels bad seeing your favs loosing just an episode o two before the final, especially since they were doing good! Another very unfair to me was Justin in TDI. It was the most random thing in the world! Everyone hated Heather, they could have got her out, but instead....they git out Justin for....yeah, only the guy who gave Heather plot armor knows! And I bet that even he can't answer that question! Not much talked about, but Justin TDI will forever be (at least to me) the WORST elimination ever! So bad that even CHRIS said it's messed up!

Cody had an unfair elimination in island but admittedly, he didn’t really do much

The real reason Noah's TDWT elimination is so frustrating is how forced it all is, honestly. Team Chris got Zeke just like they were supposed to, then Chris changed the wording to "find a criminal," then pushed Duncan back in with them and didn't let him get cut. Super clearly felt like they just wanted to be done with Noah, and then following that up with Tyler being the next gone meant the game was basically nothing but the usual main characters + Al/Sierra/Cody for the entire back half. Least Heather's role was great all season. If any elimination was BS in RR it was the Rockers. Rock as this hypercompetent dude, Spud starting to come into his own as a worthwhile partner after being carried throughout the first half, they make it to the end in the nick of time against the stepbrothers, who were underrated but at least their arc was clearly done... And then Don just randomly declares this the only double elimination leg in the entire season, and they're gone just like that. It was real frustrating, especially with how many non-eliminations there were throughout. I'll defend the Best Friends going out early precisely because they seemed like such Protagonisty material, though. The rumors are that they and the Sisters were going to be the original finalists, and that's just... both way more predictable and way less fun than the Surfers/Police/Ice Dancers final three we ultimately got.

Lindsay’s TDI elimination was at least justified, and Courtney’s twist elimination made for a really good narrative (the shock from that elim is what got me hooked on the series in the first place). Leshawna’s just felt vapid and arbitrary by comparison, which is why it left such a bad taste in viewers’ mouths.

I never had a problem with Brick’s elimination. It felt in character for Jo and Lightning to vote him off for costing them a challenge, regardless of how deadly it was. It also feels like a turning point for the season, with the antagonists starting become more ruthless as the merge drew closer. I like Brick, but his elimination was well timed and well executed in my eyes.

Revenge of the island is brick and Ann Maria for me

6:38, maybe you should do a vid rewriting that plotline then, as I agree with u. edit, also, I feel like Bowie should have swapped with one of the hockey bros in season 2.

Mk got booted in the first season or the reboot just cause julia said Mk’s seen everyone pooping

VG just posted. It’s a good day.

Ella’s elimination was unfair in Pahkitew Island, her team was about to lose and the only way was for her to sing which Chris had forbidden, and Sugar had to snitch on her despite it nearly saving them

TDI: Tyler. It feels like the episode is building up Courtney as the episode’s elimination with her arrogantly bragging about being fearless and being unable to accomplish her challenge. TDA: Lindsay and honorable mention for Harold. Two BS eliminations in a row where players with major stories are yanked away prematurely. Lindsay feels insanely contrived and Harold’s feels like a slap in the face for anyone who wanted him to win his rivalry with Duncan. TDWT: DJ. I wasn’t heartbroken by it, but it was an impossible scenario for him with the race course being sabotaged. It was his time, but the episode would have been fine if he had lost by his own accord. TDROTI: Anne-Maria: It was her time to go, but her elimination is so fast and rushed that it doesn’t really land. Just happens so fast without any build-up. TDAS: Heather: Hiding the idol is really out of character. TDPI: Max: Happens so fast that it doesn’t land. Same as Anne-Maria. TDRR; Jay and Mickey: I could write an essay about why. Carrie and Devin are an honorable mention. Reboot 1: Zee: Kinda contrived to have him be voted out for refusing to commit to either voting bloc. He wasn’t winning, but there could have been a better way to eliminate him. Reboot 2: Ripper: Same as Anne-Maria and Max.

I wish we had a world tour final of Noah vs Heather vs AL

Funny you mentioned how people keep saying VA availability was the reason for unfair eliminations, because the producers have gone on record before saying that's not the case at all. Also there's a theory on why Harold messing with the votes to eliminate _Courtney_ instead of Duncan: since Duncan is Harold's number one enemy, his team would quickly find out that it was him who did something fishy behind the scenes and he would be in hot water. Plus Duncan definitely wouldn't care if he got eliminated, especially this early into the game. So getting rid of Courtney would not only hurt Duncan more, but nobody on his team would know exactly what happened (they'd probably just think Chris and Chef hated her attitude and decided to get rid of her instead of Harold).

Team Heathers elimination was the worst 👇

Bro! But Geoff's elimination was also VERY BAD! Heather was safe, and then for no reason Owen, Duncan and literal LESHAWNA voted for GEOFF who did nothing wrong. 💀💀💀💀💀 Justice for my boy Geoff

actually leshawna was supposed to be eliminated in a fashion challenge where she wins immunity but gives it to gwen and gwen betrays her thats where the episode title is from

My least favorite elimination was the rockers

Most unfair S1- Courtney and Heather + Lindsay S2- Owen and Owen (not Lindsay, it was fair) S3- DJ and Noah (13 days later and now I say Sierra as well) S4- Anne Maria and Dawn (Dawn because Scott shouldn’t be allowed to make fake carvings) S5- Gwen and Duncan (even if both are overrated) S6- Ella and Max (Max had most unfair) + Amy (SORRY, but it was unfair) When it comes to worst it’s Tyler’s and Cody’s Harold and Lindsay’s Noah and Tyler’s Brick and Dawn ---- Amy, Ella and Max I don’t like Jasmine, Jasmine is annoying and overrated, she is Dave level for me

My take: TDI - Ezekiel, Katie/Sadie, Trent, Leshawna TDA - Trent TDWT - Ezekiel, Leshawna, DJ, Gwen, Sierra (I REALLY don't care for this character, but Chris being an ass is never pleasant), Cody TDROTI - B, Dawn, Mike TDAS - *Duncan* , Gwen TDPI - *Samey* , Ella, Dave (yes, he eliminated himself but what drove him to leave was just wrong). TDI23 - Caleb, Nichelle, MK, Emma (to some extent), *Millie* TDI24 - *Millie* , Damien

Izzy´s elimination in tdwt was also unfair like the others "too injured to continue" i dont see why she wasnt here like the others

Total drama inside out 2 9th Ennui 8th Disugst 7th Envy 6th Anixety 5th Sadness 4th Riley 3rd Embarrassment 2nd Joy 1st Anger

Brick I wouldn’t say his elimination is worst, in fact it’s basically genuine as the friendship trio saluted him back no bad by any means. IsayDawnselimationisworstandiamnotok!!!

I feel like zee was also unfairly eliminated in season 2 the fact he lost because he blurred out secrets could've voted Julia because of course she told him

The Lashawna in Island was crazy. Still I would argue that Owen should have been kicked off in the first elimination round, not Ezekial.

The goths in RR were so robbed because they had the stuff to go to the finale but were screwed over by the ice dancers

💡Y’all wait i just realized….. in season 1 Chris says to Damien if he quits he owes them a million dollars, Then how does Nichelle and Ripper quit in season 2?

Haven’t finished the reboot seasons (following max’s release schedule) but I think I was the most disappointed with MK’s elimination. The subtle sabotaging behind the scenes would’ve been a really interesting and unique villain arc. And though I appreciate Julia, it just feels like something I’ve seen before.

I loved LeShawnas and elimination, then again I find her overrated Courtney’s elimination I really don’t mind, Harold had to do it Lindsay should’ve got 7th and Izzy should’ve been 9th Lindsay’s was ok, it was funny, odd but funny Owen’s was really bad Noah’s definitely wasn’t a good elimination Harold’s was bad, he should’ve made it further, I just like Harold Gwens was ok Bricks was horrible to watch, he needed another chance, he is more of an All Star than Sam B needed to go early Dawns elimination was really bad, Scott shouldn’t be allowed to create fake statues I love when Duncan gets eliminated, I really hate Duncan Heathers was bad, really bad Alejandro’s was mid Jasmines elimination was amazing, I dislike Jasmine Maxs was really bad, he needed an episode without Scarlett Devin and Carrie are overrated and should’ve gone earlier Mickey and Jays elimination was horrible, they were my favourites and needed a chance Zee went in the oddest way possible Wayne and Raj’s was mid Damien was mid Nichelle’s was good Damien’s was ok Bowie’s was ok

Dawn Brick and Anne Maria was robbed

Please continue your ranking of the episodes in the seasons you didn't do, or the "entire story of x season". The ones you did were really good and well made. Also Harold's elim in Action was BS.

Can you still rank the crystal gems by strength

For me bridgette could get more screentime in action especially in world tour i could rlly see her developing a relation (friendly) woth leshawna gwen or courtney and she'd manage to get further

I think, on a list like this, it's important to differentiate between "in-universe unfair" eliminations and "narratively weak" eliminations. From a certain perspective, all Total Drama eliminations are unfair, because Total Drama, the in-universe franchise, is an unfair reality show. But that doesn't mean we, the out-of-universe audience, are going to dislike it. I was personally very ok with Nichelle's 2nd season elimination, in part because her character wasn't interesting to me, and in part because I kinda assumed she was being disingenous when she was saying she had "moved on" from Hollywood, so that being her downfall worked for me. And unlike Damien's immunity idol, Julia providing the contract off-screen didn't make if feel cheap, because I don't need to see a montage of her writing a contract in order to believe that she could do it, whereas her just "having" Damien's immunity idol with no explanation given is actually a problem.

Leshawna Lindsay Cody Brick Gwen Max Scary Girl Nychelle

Sorry but Courtney had it coming in island. She dodged 2 eliminations because she was more popular than the characters on the hot seat lol. Zeke was an idiot and Tyler actually DID his challenge or attempted it.

Gwen total drama world tour elimination would’ve worked if they at least mention her allergies at any point in the episode. Or heck have Courtney win but fairly

island 09 Ezekiel and Lindsey action Owen and Lindsey world tour Noah and Ezekiel ROFL brick and B AS Lindsey and Duncan PI Sammy and max RR carrie and devin & surfers island reboot s1 zee and Wayne and raj island reboot s2 chase and Damian

I’m surprised you didn’t say Courtney for All Stars because her elimination was horrible due to bad writing and plot holes

Well you can't get mad over any Pahkitew Island character elimination if you don't care about any character (one of the few positives of the season)

One of my least favorite elimination from TDI is still Tyler. Bro did the challenge twice (something no one else had to do), and neither one counted, and he still got voted out over Courtney, who didn’t even do the challenge. Makes sense in the narrative but someone on the staff really wanted Tyler gone 😔

dawn's and B's elimination pissed me off so much. i wanna like scott but...maannn

Here's my opinion for the ridonculous race. I think that Owen and Noah should've been eliminated in "I Love Ridonc and Roll," with Mickey and Jay going farther. But, make "Got Venom" a non-elimination and make Jay or Mickey get too injured to continue. It could be like, Mickey fell from a really high tree or the got teampled by some komodo dragons, then have them agree to have Owen and Noah be brought back, because they would've seen how much Emma misses Noah. Then, have both The Reality TV Pros and The Sisters be eliminated in the Hawaii episode, a final five, down to a final three.

Justin’s elimination was very unfair, Heather cost her team the win by reading Gwens diary out of spite, which got a zero while Justin got a good score for his team and had made zero enemies.

DAMIAN NEEDS TO WIN REBOOT SEASON 3. 💯

I think Max was the most unfair elimination. As much as I dislike him, Chris was just like, “no evil, bye for no reason”.

WHERE IS RIPPER S2 BRO GOT OUT CAUSE THE WRITERS

What about Anne Maria in revenge of the island?

Sierra's elimination was so unfair too... They of course didn't have a reason to eliminate her so they had to make some bs up.

1:39 I was actually thinking you were gonna put this one in there I was right 3:22 ever as a td Courtney lover that was actually unfair 3:33 fr 5:38 I thought dawn was gonna be one- 6:17 oh never mind 7:13 fr 7:57 I👏🏻agree 9:12 ikr

Yassss!!!! New upload!!!!

The funniest part about Lindsies elemination was her 🤬

Courtney's elimination in wourld tour was also unfair

noah got eliminated for winning the challenge. (ik owen also helped winning the real challenge)

Leshawna’s elimination is S1 was bullshit