Chris

Chris Mclean (Louis Mercier in French) is the central antagonist and host of Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action. He hosted every Total Drama Island episode except Are We There Yeti.

Total Drama Island
Chris is a famous celebrity that everyone on the show (except for Lindsay) knows well. His previous television appearances include hosting a figure skating TV show (stated by Trent in the first episode). Chris is known to be unabashedly sarcastic, egotistical, and a self-admitted sadist.

Aside of being the show's host, Chris is also the show's writer, background designer, director, executive producer, and assassin. In X-Treme Torture, it is also revealed (by himself) that he is training to get his pilots' license while he is flying a rickety death plane held together by duct tape. He, along with his "sidekick" Chef Hatchet and the camera crew, is not a contestant of the show. He makes it clear that he really enjoys torturing the campers, taking delight in pointing out how life-threatening the current challenge is and matching them up depending on their hatred for each other. Chris really does not care what the campers do or what happens on the show as long as it is legal... and he gets paid.

He has ego-maniacal tendencies, which are shown in Paintball Deer Hunter, when he is introducing the show and closes with asking if his teeth could get any whiter. He also pauses the tape in X-Treme Torture and is embarrassed about how he looks (even though he looks the same as always). He also seems to be irresponsible and careless, as he mentioned to Trent once that when he thinks he has forgotten something, he usually ignores the thought until it goes away. Throughout the series he mentions of all the interns dying or being in the hospital. He loves to torture the campers, but hates being forced to take the hits himself, and example of this is shown in Hide and Be Sneaky when he is hit by Chef's Water Gun and is blasted back a long distance, and clearly not happy about it. When wayward accidents come his way, he shouts angrily at other campers to not hit his face.

He has many catchphrases, but his most common one is "AWESOME DUDE!", especially when a challenge is particularly life-threatening. Despite the fact that he loves torturing the campers, he has shown that he can be completely dissatisfied with certain results. When Heather managed to avoid being eliminated and Justin was kicked off instead, Chris stated that he felt the result was completely unfair, whereas he usually makes some snotty remarks at the campers when they leave. In Paintball Deer Hunter, He pitied Cody after Heather manages to get him voted off because he was severely mauled by a Bear to the point where he was unable to move on his own. In Who Can You Trust?, he allowed Katie to board the Boat of Losers to be reunited with Sadie. He also has shown that despite his harsh challenges, he does care for the camper's lives (as he rushed to save Gwen from the psycho killer because he was worried about lawsuits, though tried to see a positive in it in regard to the show's ratings). He also seemed concerned that Owen kept doing so many dares in I Triple Dog Dare You! (that may have eventually killed him), and in Brunch of Disgustingness, he allowed the campers to do an alternate eating round when they all refused to eat dolphin hot dogs (though the alternative challenge turned out to be much grosser than dolphin hot dogs).

At the end of the season, Chris is subdued by Owen, Duncan and Geoff and tossed off the Dock of Shame (ruining his hair). Chris reveals at the end of the season that the campers can win one million dollars and so can Owen (if he gives up the money he has now). However Chris' plan winds up causing a fourteen-way tie, so he is forced to perform the tie-breaker known as season two (Total Drama Action).

Total Drama Action


Upon returning to host the new season, Chris continues to do what he does best: humiliate the campers - now castmates - through some strange and awkward challenges. He also had some upgraded facial expressions as the animators thought that it was difficult to portray much emotion through his dot eyes. Chris starts up a large number of challenges based off of movie genres for the new season. He once again has Chef dress up in humiliating outfits, however throughout season two he starts to lose control as Chef begins to rebel against him (mainly because Chris never sends him his paycheck). Chris actually operates a number of challenges himself from the safety of his control room (though he is not afraid to get himself involved if he feels a challenge is not up to his cruel standards). Once again Chris is an egomaniac and nearly all the props and awards of the season are modeled after himself. Unlike the last season, Chris seems to show nearly no care at all for the contestants (as he brings Gwen up to his viewing room and makes her watch Trent be eliminated just to make her feel bad). Chris has also worn many costumes this season, more than the previous season.

In 3:10 to Crazytown, Chris starts to have problems as his lawyers (and some of the castmates) start to warn him that his challenges are getting too violent and he has to start toning them down. While Chris does not like to do so, he does simply to avoid trouble and keep the contestants calm.

Chris does not appear in person in The Aftermath: I, but instead he talks live over the television set dressed as Steve the Yeti. He apparently was not informed of Total Drama Action Aftermath's production, as he angrily questions Geoff and Bridgette and why they have a show now. He's caught in the act by Chef.

In The Chefshank Redemption, it is revealed that Chris allowed Izzy return to the show because in Riot on Set, she had been eliminated as "E-Scope", not Izzy. Therefore, he considered E-Scope's elimination as a technicality and brought Izzy back after she abandoned this nickname.

In Masters Of Disasters, Chris forces the two teams to compete in a submarine challenge in which they must escape before it floods with water. When the castmates cannot find away out, Chris, for the first time this season, shows grave concern when the castmates are threatened with drowning. He fears that if they drown, the show will be canceled, he won't get paid, and his "luxurious lifestyle" will end. Even when Chef shows no care at all, Chris watches frantically as the castmates struggle to escape. Fortunately for all of them, they get out.

It is clear that Chris will face increasing legal troubles, as recent sources have confirmed that Courtney is due to return after winning a new lawsuit against the show. However, he has joked about his legal troubles more than once, such as when Owen was smacked by Chef's manifesto and when Heather swore to sue him for her overdue loss.

Camp TV
While Chris was in Camp TV, he was never meant to appear. He supposed to be the unseen host of the show. His name was mentioned in the promo when Geoff says "Hey Chris, I love that guy." It's unknown if he was referring to the host or a fellow camper, but it is likely the former since no listed camper from Camp TV has an altered name.

Trivia

 * He is considered to be one of the major antagonists by the characters, the others being Heather and Justin.
 * Chris bears a comical resemblance to Jeff Probst, the host of the American version of Survivor.
 * There are several goofs that the creators of the show made which involve Chris counting incorrectly. For example, in the very first episode he says that Trent is the ninth arriving the island, but he is the tenth. Another example is much later on in the show when Chris said that there were eleven campers from the last episode instead of twelve from the episode X-Treme Torture. It is possible that these goofs are on purpose to emphasize how bad Chris is at counting.
 * Like other characters, Chris has upgraded facial expressions for Total Drama Action, first seen in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island and used during various parts of TDA.
 * Chris' voice actor also plays 6teen's Jude Lizowski, made obvious by the two sounding alike.
 * Other than Chef Hatchet and Harold, Chris is the only character so far who has a confirmed last name.
 * Chris might be a model for hair-gel, as seen in Hook, Line, and Screamer.
 * There is some dispute over how to spell Chris's last name. It may be Mclean, McClean, Maclean, or McLean with a capital L.
 * Chris, along with Chef Hatchet and Lindsay, has had more changes in wardrobe than any other character:
 * He sometimes wears a variation of his usual outfit with shorts and sandals instead of pants and sneakers.
 * He wears a Star Wars rebel pilot uniform while flying a plane in X-Treme Torture.
 * He wears a pirate outfit in Search And Do Not Destroy
 * He wears a light blue suit with a red tie during the award ceremony in Total Drama Action.
 * He has worn a red scarf and a matching beret along with sunglasses in Riot on Set.
 * He wears a cowboy outfit in 3:10 to Crazytown.
 * He wears a Sasquatchanakwa costume in The Aftermath: I and calls himself "Steve the Yeti".
 * He wears a police officer's uniform in The Chefshank Redemption.
 * Chris is the only male on the island who never takes his shirt off.
 * He is the only one of the show's three producers to be shown. He mentions that the other two are members of a "board of shadowy figures composed of producers, directors and Harold-haters".


 * He has suffered two near-death experiences:
 * Choking on a burned cake in If You Can't Take The Heat...
 * He narrowly avoided getting struck by lightning in Camp Castaways.
 * Even though he is the host, he does not appear in every episode (he is completely absent in Are We There Yeti? and later The Aftermath: II).
 * He seems to be right-handed.
 * He has displayed the most eccentricities out of any character:
 * He wears an inexplicable pirate outfit in Search and Do Not Destroy, despite the fact that the campers were not even looking for the chests, but rather the keys that open them.
 * At the beginning of Wawanakwa Gone Wild!, he is seen placing a beaver on his head for no apparent reason whatsoever.
 * He refers to breakfast as "brekkie" on multiple occasions. He also uses several phrases that are not commonly used by adults.
 * It is strange that Chris found out Harold rigged the votes against Courtney in Basic Straining (he talked about it in the next episode's recap), but didn't say anything about it.
 * His age is debatable because Duncan called him old in Beach Blanket Bogus