Cameron and Lightning

This article focuses on the interactions between Cameron and Lightning.

Overview
The two of them have little interactions early in the season, as they are placed on opposing teams. After the merge, however, the two quickly find themselves trying to form an alliance with each other, with Lightning first trying to team up with Cameron in order to eliminate Jo, and then Cameron trying to get Lightning's loyalty in order to eliminate Scott. However, any signs of camaraderie between the two are quickly destroyed when Cameron manages to trick Lightning into carrying him to the finish line in Eat, Puke and Be Wary, resulting in Cameron stealing the win from Lightning and greatly upsetting him. Both of them eventually become the final two, where their conflict reaches its boiling point. For the most part, Lightning views Cameron as being weaker and inferior to him (as he views everyone else), however initially he appeared to respect Cameron's intelligence and always refers to him as "Smart Guy".

Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!
When Cameron was struggling to stay afloat after the yacht exploded, Lightning appeared under him and lifted him out of the water with one hand, offering to save him and beginning to head back to shore with him. However, Lightning mistakenly thought that Cameron was a little girl, which Cameron tried to correct him about

Ice Ice Baby
Lightning tries to knock Cameron, alongside Mike and Zoey, off Mt. Looming Tragedy, by knocking down rocky debris.

Up, Up And Away In My Pitiful Balloon
When the challenge began, Lightning quickly ran up to Cameron and asked if he could help him build a helicopter. As Cameron started listing all of the necessary components for such a machine, Cameron was taken away by Jo, who told Lightning to get his own nerd. Lightning noticed how much Jo was trying to keep Cameron and his expertise for herself, and the two of them ended up in a battle for Cameron's loyalty. Although Jo had the upper hand and complete control of Cameron throughout most of the episode, Lightning finally confronted Cameron after their vehicles had already taken flight, and told Cameron that Jo was just playing him just as she had played Lightning. This managed to convince Cameron to betray Jo, setting off an explosive in the fog machine she had stolen from him and sending her balloon crashing into the ocean. This allowed Lightning a clear shot at Heather in an attempt to win the challenge for himself, but Cameron's rocket destroyed Heather's newly-hijacked blimp and ultimately won invincibility for himself. At the Bonfire that night, both Cameron and Lightning voted Jo off, solidifying their alliance.

Eat, Puke and Be Wary
In the beginning of the episode, Cameron felt that he and Zoey had to secure Lightning's vote in order to eliminate Scott. He tried talking to Lightning while he was playing basketball, but Lightning didn't hear him. Nevertheless, they teamed up once more in the challenge, with Cameron promising to remove the tracking collars around their necks if Lightning would take him to the finish line in return, which Lightning accepted. Cameron rewired his watch to deactivate the collars, and Lightning initially fulfilled his part of the deal. After a while, Cameron started to get tired and slow down both of them. He asked Lightning to carry him on his back to the flagpole, but Lightning refused, saying that he was in this for himself only. He started to run off, but Cameron jumped onto his back and held on without Lightning knowing. This allowed for Cameron to win immunity instead of Lightning when Lightning backed up against the flagpole in his celebration for making it there first, making Cameron touch it first. Lightning was noticeably angry about this, and berated Cameron for stealing "Lightning's immunity," and calling him "smart guy." In the final confessionals of the episode, Lightning vowed to get revenge on Cameron.

The Enchanted Franken-Forest
In the beginning of the episode, Lightning was practicing his hits on a punching bag modeled after Cameron, repeatedly shouting insults at it, and even continuing to beat it up in the confessional. At breakfast that day, just as Cameron commented that Lightning might eat him alive, Lightning actually took a bite out of the Cameron dummy. Before the challenge began, Cameron commented that the Venus Flytrap only eats meat, to which Lightning said that Cameron would be safe, calling him "pipe cleaner." Cameron responded by saying that it'd be too busy eating his "big, chewy head." Lightning roared and tried to attack Cameron, with Zoey fending him off. Just as Cameron was about to reach the flower inside the giant Venus Flytrap, Lightning swung in on a vine, knocked Cameron out of the way, and snatched the flower. When he saw both Zoey and Cameron being eaten by the flower, he initially considered doing something, but ultimately decided to snatch the flower up off the ground and leave them. After deciding to vote off Zoey, Lightning stated that he did it, so that he could take Cameron to the finale with him and "eat him alive."

Brain vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown
At the beginning of the episode, Lightning taunted Cameron with what seemed like an inevitable victory by Lightning in the challenge, saying that he would crush Cameron "like a grape." Lightning made fun of Cameron's video conversation with his mother, and when Lightning was horrified by his father betting all four of his championship rings on Lightning's win, he violently attacked Cameron out of anger. Throughout the entire challenge, Cameron and Lightning bantered back and forth, with Cameron taunting Lightning's inability to make a decent insult, and Lightning focusing entirely on attacking Cameron even though Cameron was trying to save the other contestants from the mutant creatures. Eventually, Cameron used an electromagnetic pulse from his suit to turn Lightning into a giant magnet, drawing a dozen radioactive barrels to him and causing a lightning bolt to strike him, turning his hair white. Cameron then fell on top of Lightning, pinning him down for three seconds and winning the challenge and the season. Even though Cameron and Lightning fiercely battled for the million dollar prize, Cameron decided to split his money with all of the other contestants, including Lightning. Lightning, along with all of the others, was excited to hear this and cheered.

Alternatively, Lightning fell on top of Cameron instead, making Lightning the winner of the season.

Trivia

 * This is the first final two in Total Drama history to be of the same gender, as both are males.
 * However, despite this significant difference, this pair still retains some similarities with past final twos.
 * The final two features members of opposite teams competing against each other, similar to Total Drama Action and Total Drama World Tour.
 * Both form an alliance with another contestant a few episodes earlier, which has completely fallen apart before this episode, similar to Total Drama Action and Total Drama World Tour.
 * They are the only male contestants of the new cast to never receive the Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom because they are the final two of the fourth season.
 * Audio from their audition tape were used in an episode of the season, as this happened to Cameron in Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er! and Lightning in Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er! and Truth or Laser Shark.
 * This is the first final two of the series in which neither contestant is in a relationship with another contestant at the time, attracted to another person, or has a lover outside the competition.