Mike's alternate personalities

This article focuses on Mike's alternate personalities. Mike admits to having Multiple Personality Disorder in Ice Ice Baby, but has been shifting into other personalities since Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!. Mike is aware of his alternate personalities, but says he cannot control them. When another personality takes over, Mike does not remember what happens during that time. Whenever Mike is about to change personality, he breathes in deeply and bulges out his eyes. Mike tells all of the other contestants that his personalities are part of a comedy routine that he practices, because he does not want anyone to know the truth. All of the personalities do not seem to get along with each other, as seen in Backstabbers Ahoy!. Eventually, Mike finally overcomes his Multiple Personality Disorder in Grand Chef Auto, after winning a fight against them in his mind.

Chester
Chester is the first alternate personality seen on Total Drama: Revenge of the Island. He debuted in Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er! when the team was trying to cut down the totem pole. Chester is a grumpy old man who has a hunched back, a wrinkled face, one eye shut, and complains about the youth of today. He appears whenever Mike is frustrated.

Chester was also seen in Truth or Laser Shark. While he was sleeping, he began fussing over the youth and going back and forth from Chester to Mike.

Chester appeared when Mike was accidentally hit with a spoon in Ice Ice Baby. He was annoyed and said people used to eat with their hands.

In Backstabbers Ahoy!, Chester is shown in the beginning of the episode while Mike is asleep saying how his other personalities are "punks."

In Runaway Model, Chester appears and complains that Anne Maria and Zoey were making Jo's make-up too complicated, and that they just needed to "add a bit of rouge." He proceeded to apply the make-up on her himself, but ended up making Jo unbelievably ugly. Jo later found out and threw barrels at Mike, while calling him Chester, to which Mike had no idea of what he had done.

Chester also makes a few appearances in The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean. First, he appears in a flashback where it's explained that Mike turns into Chester whenever he gets frustrated. Mike stubs his foot on a rock, causing him to change into Chester and kick the rock, which just hurts him more. The second time is when the Mutant Maggots are rowing back to shore, and the team falls into disarray, frustrating Mike to the point of turning into Chester.

Chester appears in the confessional in Grand Chef Auto. He is skeptical that Zoey will not think they are weird.

Svetlana
Svetlana is a Russian gymnast who debuts in Truth or Laser Shark. Speaking in a Russian accent and in third person, she has: long eyelashes, thick lips, and a graceful figure, appearing whenever Mike needs to complete a physical task. She appears proud and confident in her skills whenever she appears. Jo compliments her on her athletic skills. Svetlana is Mike's only female alternate personality and has unique eye irises. Svetlana also appears in the opening sequence, performing acrobatics in front of Zoey. She first appears during the second challenge of Truth or Laser Shark. When Mike starts giving himself a pep talk, he changes to Svetlana, who finishes Mike's part of the relay with ease.

In Ice Ice Baby, Cameron purposefully tries to get Mike to change to Svetlana because of her great athletic skill by calling her up to perform. It works, and Svetlana launches herself towards the Rats' fortress. Svetlana is the only one of Mike's alternate personalities he has ever tried to change to on purpose.

In Finders Creepers, Mike changes to Svetlana in order to save the other contestants from the spider.

Svetlana makes a brief appearance in The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean, first time being in a flashback, and the second being when Mike is climbing a tree, and begins to struggle. After landing, with perfect form, he changes back to Mike in order to rescue Zoey.

Svetlana admits that she does not want Mike to be the boss of his body in Grand Chef Auto.

Vito
Vito is a tough and aggressive man who debuts in Ice Ice Baby. He seems to enjoy picking fights and flirting. Vito also seems a little clueless and lazy at times as seen in Finders Creepers, and he appears when Mike takes his shirt off.

This personality likes Anne Maria, as shown throughout the show. He is muscular, usually shirtless, and has hair that is gelled back. Vito, just like Anne Maria, is based on the Jersey stereotype. This attraction is disapproved of by Mike and has subsequently caused a love triangle between himself, Zoey, and Anne Maria.

The first mention of Vito was in Anne Maria's Total Drama Online biography, where she mentioned that her dream date would be with Vito. Mike is shown to not like Vito because he is harder to control than Svetlana and Chester. Unlike the actual scenario, Anne Maria believes Vito is the real personality and Mike is the real "act."

Vito appeared in Grand Chef Auto when Scott ripped off Mike's shirt. Vito wanted to know where Anne Maria was and Scott promised to take him to her, but he didn't. Whenever Vito appears, "Duncan's theme" is played.

Manitoba Smith
Manitoba Smith makes his first appearance in A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste. He has a thick Australian accent and is able to track what is nearby just by observing the ground. He is fairly cocky and quick to take charge, but is also quite witty. He is hinted to be rather sexist, saying that the mine carts would be too dangerous for girls, which noticeably upset both Zoey and Anne Maria. This personality is triggered by him wearing a fedora.

His next appearance was a brief one at the beginning of The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean when Mike puts on a fedora. However, Cameron quickly removes the hat, changing Mike back to his normal self. He is a parody of Indiana Jones, although his accent parodies both "Crocodile" Dundee and the late Steve Irwin.

Manitoba lassos Mike in Grand Chef Auto and says that Mike gets in the way of his flirting.

Trivia

 * Cameron, Chris, Dawn, Scott, and Zoey are currently the only people on the show to know of Mike's multiple personalities.
 * Cameron asked Mike how he was able to do well during the obstacle course in Truth or Laser Shark and seemed suspicious of him when he did not give a straight answer. In Ice Ice Baby, he noticed that Mike said personalities accidentally and tried to bring out Svetlana by making a grand announcement. In Backstabbers Ahoy!, Cameron reveals in the confessional that he has been recording Mike's personalities because they are interesting. In A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, he tells Mike that he can help him control his different personalities.
 * Dawn realizes it through an aura reading, picking out different ones for his different personalities. This is demonstrated when she specifically tells Zoey that the "Mike parts" of his aura love her.
 * Chris may have known before hand or just by watching the confessional videos.
 * Scott was accidentally told by Cameron that Mike has Multiple Personality Disorder, when Scott suspected Mike was hiding something.
 * Zoey was also accidentally told by Cameron in Grand Chef Auto, moments before Mike fought his personalities for control.
 * Each time Svetlana appears, similar music to when Owen climbs the waterfall in The Big Sleep and when Owen uses himself as a human cannonball in Sweden Sour is played.
 * Mike often acts as if they are a comedy routine as he does not want anyone else to know about him having multiple personalities.
 * Anne Maria believes that Mike only pretends to act as he normally does, and whenever the two are alone, Mike returns to who Anne Maria thinks that he actually is, Vito.
 * Ice Ice Baby is the first and only episode of the fourth season in which the order the personalities came in were the same order they debuted in.
 * Vito may be a homage to Jersey Shore cast-member Michael "The Situation" Sorrentino, thus possibly explaining Anne Maria's interest in him.
 * Chester is the only personality that no other contestant seems to like.
 * According to the Total Drama Panel at Fan Expo 2011, Svetlana was originally Swedish, Vito was called Vince, and Manitoba Smith was called Manitoba Mike.
 * Mike is able to change personalities through certain events:
 * Mike: Whenever Zoey is in trouble.
 * Chester: When Mike gets injured or complains about something.
 * Svetlana: When Mike is determined to get something done or when someone mentions the Olympics.
 * Vito: Whenever Mike loses his shirt.
 * Manitoba Smith: Whenever Mike puts on a fedora or somebody puts it on his head.
 * However, Mike is able to change to his alternate personalities in his sleep without these requirements.
 * So far, all of Mike's personalities were hinted at in his biography.
 * Manitoba Smith parodies the famous fictional character, Indiana Jones, as both of their first names are the names of locations, along with the fact that Indiana Jones' name was originally Indiana Smith.
 * Unlike other personalities, Manitoba Smith is currently the only personality to have a full name.
 * In Mike's biography, it is mentioned that Manitoba Smith is married.
 * Mike switches back to himself whenever somebody yells his name, when Zoey is in danger, or in Manitoba's case, whenever his hat is removed. Vito will also change back into Mike when he puts a shirt on and is awake.
 * Occasionally, he will switch back randomly.
 * While sleeping, Mike's personalities shift of their own accord, without the use of triggers.
 * Mike seems to be able to talk to them in his sleep, but it is likely that he cannot while they are triggered.
 * Three of his personalities are hinted at in Mike's audition tape:
 * "Agile and graceful" - Svetlana
 * "Tough and scrappy" - Vito
 * "With a keen sense of a wilderness survivor" - Manitoba Smith
 * Chester is the only personality which was not mentioned.
 * Chester is the only personality who appeared in the confessional.
 * During an interview, Cory Doran, Mike's voice actor, admits that Vito is his favorite alternative personality. He says that "I think Vito was my favorite just because of the whole love triangle that came from it. It gave Mike a real hard time trying to win over Zoey, and it's fun to see him scramble to make it up to her."
 * During an interview, Cory Doran, Mike's voice actor, he admits that Svetlana is his favorite alternative personality to voice. He says that "Svetlana can kick anyone's butt in a challenge. She can flip, run and dodge almost anything. Plus in the recording booth, I got to crazy with her lines. It's not often that I get to do the voice of a female Russian Olympic Gymnast."
 * During an interview, Cory Doran, Mike's voice actor, if he had to pick another personality for Mike, it would be "total crazy guy like the Joker or The Monarch (Venture Bros.). I think someone over the top and addicted to mayhem would be great. It's such a departure from Mike and his other personalities."
 * Chester has appeared the most of all of Mike's personalities, while Manitoba Smith has appeared the least amount of times, returning on only three occasions.
 * Mike, along with his personalities (except Manitoba Smith), were on the Halloween 2012 episode of Skatoony.