Gwen and Trent

This page is about the relationship between Gwen and Trent.

Overview
Gwen and Trent have arguably the most focused, dramatic relationship that has been going on for the entire series. In Total Drama Island, a lot of drama goes on between the two of them, but in the end is solved. In Total Drama Action, however, the relationship hits a bumpy road, as they compete against each other.

Theme song
The song ends with Gwen and Trent looking lovingly into each other's eyes until Cody pops in between them to break them up.

Not So Happy Campers - Part 1
It was first hinted when Trent smiles at her when all of the campers arrive at the Dock of Shame. Gwen looks away, and then smiles.

The Big Sleep
The was where the first major step of the relationship took place, where they tell their secrets and deepest thoughts to each other in an effort to stay awake for the Awake-a-Thon. This resulted in Gwen and Trent being the last two campers standing in the competition for their team; when Trent finally succumbed to slumber, Gwen was devastated.

Not Quite Famous
The next major step took place in this episode, where Heather reveals Gwen's true feelings for Trent by reading her secret diary, whom had just performed a song about his feelings towards Gwen (without mentioning her name). This is also the episode where Trent is shown sneaking an extra muffin from breakfast for Gwen; an action which is referenced in future episodes. However, because Heather manages to humiliate Gwen in front of all the campers and the entire viewing world over her affections for Trent, Gwen interacts with him much more cautiously in the future. Even before this situation occurred, Gwen feared about openly showing her feelings to Trent as she replaced her enthusiastic reactions to spend time with him with a more blasé response, such as "Whatever" when others were witness to the two interacting.

The Sucky Outdoors
Trent was seen defending Gwen when Heather says she should be the next one to be eliminated. referencing to the incidents in the previous episode. Also when LeShawna falls out of the tree, Gwen snuggles near Trent.

Phobia Factor
Trent helps Gwen conquer her fear before deserting her after being chased away by a mime, leaving her buried under several tons of sand for much longer than she was supposed to be. Gwen held a grudge over Trent for several episodes because of this until Trent finally apologized in No Pain, No Game. Trent also references to Gwen's courageousness in this episode to convince the others that she was indeed a team player in Haut Camp-ture.

Up the Creek
Cody saves Trent's life, and gets him to sit next to Gwen in the canoe in return. Although he also loves Gwen, Cody sacrifices his feelings for Gwen's happiness, knowing that she only likes Trent. He is the one who informs Trent outright that Gwen has feelings for him. Trent looks relieved about this after Cody assured him that he was telling the truth. At the end of the episode, Gwen and Trent are seen sitting next to each other on the dock at night.

Paintball Deer Hunter
Trent catches a can of beans that Chris tossed that would have otherwise hit Gwen in the face. She smiles to him in appreciation for the save.

If You Can't Take The Heat...
Gwen and Trent are seen working on the ribs together (smiling at each other), until Owen accidentally gives Trent a concussion by throwing a large crate of oranges at him. Later, at the Campfire ceremony, Gwen and Trent are seen enjoying their marshmallows together.

Who Can You Trust?
Gwen talks about how she trusted Trent, only to be let down in the Confessional stall after the events of Phobia Factor. Interestingly, Trent had no reaction (that we saw) when Gwen's panties were shown during the rock-climb challenge. Quite possibly, they were trying to keep in the PG rating.

X-Treme Torture
Gwen tried to find out if Trent wrote her a romantic Haiku for her and feuded with Bridgette over it, who thought it was written for her by Geoff. They repeatedly insulted each other's crush while defending their own. Gwen not-so-subtly asked Trent about it before he took off on his skydiving challenge, but his reaction told her that he had no idea what she was talking about. Gwen feels bad for Trent after he fails to activate his parachute, resulting him crashing deep into the ground and breaking most of the bones in his body. It is notable that this is the first episode where Gwen does not try to deny her feelings for Trent to another person other than Cody. Ultimately, the haiku was written by Harold for LeShawna instead.

No Pain, No Game
Trent apologizes for leaving her buried alive, and they begin to mend the relationship. They whisper to each other intermittently between other campers' challenges throughout the episode.

Search And Do Not Destroy
The episode starts out with Gwen admiring Trent from afar while he is taking a swim. She is shown to be drawing Trent in his swimming trunks while doing so, pushing the cameramen away when she realizes she is being watched. Trent affectionately calls her "beautiful" when he asks what she is drawing. She blushes, telling him it was nothing. This is immediately followed by a confessional stall scene where Gwen tries to convince the viewing audience (and/or herself) that she is over Trent, but quickly runs out of steam on that claim. She admires Trent's intelligence as she watches him retrieve his key for this episode, and in return, Trent helps Gwen retrieve her own key when he finds out that she is repulsed by skunks, which is where her key is located. This leads to another couple of confessional stall scenes where Trent admits that he finds Gwen amazing for being smart, independent, and "incredible to look at". Gwen's second confessional starts with her trying to brush off Trent's good deed to her as nothing special, but quickly gives up the act and gushes over him.

After this, Gwen finally kisses Trent, and the two become a couple. Heather sees this, thinking they are forming an Alliance. She had been against this relationship since the beginning, and wanting a monopoly on all alliances, she resolves to break them up. By enlisting Lindsay's help to forge a love letter by Trent to meet Gwen at the Dock of Shame at a certain time for a "surprise", Heather lures Trent to the dock first to convince Trent that Gwen never loved him, and was only using him to get further in the competition. After telling him that Gwen confided in her that she found him to be a cliché with horrible music, Trent was suddenly kissed by Heather just as Gwen arrived at the dock. Seeing Trent kissing her mortal enemy breaks Gwen's heart as she runs off, stomps on the love letter and cries. Trent, not seeing Gwen, goes an opposite way and vents his frustration on the beach. They then call each other names in the confessional stalls, both feeling betrayed by each other.

LeShawna spots Gwen crying in the cabin later, and asks what happened. After hearing Gwen's side of the story, she immediately runs out to recruit everyone but Heather, Trent, Izzy, and Lindsay into a temporary alliance to vote off either Heather or Trent for what they put Gwen through, preferably Heather (as LeShawna was also an enemy of Heather). Unfortunately, Heather wins solo-invincibility in her challenge, leading to most of the campers eliminating Trent from the island. Heather reveals his elimination was all of her doing all along, which at least allowed Gwen and Trent to make amends before Trent boarded the Boat of Losers. Though Trent was the one voted off, Gwen told Trent that even after what happened, she was not one of the many who voted for him. Trent makes Gwen promise to fight to the bitter end for him, saying he would cheer for her watching from his TV. Gwen follows through on this promise by becoming the runner-up to Total Drama Island. They almost kiss again before Chris interrupts them to send Trent away. Trent says farewell as he sails away, giving Gwen a look of reassurance. She returns this gesture, but cries as he disappears into the distance.

Hide and Be Sneaky
At the beginning of the episode, Gwen admits to LeShawna that she is still depressed about Trent being gone. LeShawna tries to help her feel better by promising to make Heather's life a living nightmare, and assured Gwen that they would do so together for Trent.

Haut Camp-ture
At the losers' resort, Trent said he hoped for Gwen to win and admitted that he fell in love with her. Trent reminded everyone of the selfless and brave acts Gwen did throughout the series to make her more of an appealing choice to the other campers who had lost and doubted her worth.

The Very Last Episode, Really!
Trent and the other losers return to the island to watch the final competition between Gwen and Owen. Trent aligns himself with Gwen and decides to run along with her throughout the competition, helping her in any way he could to convince her that he truly loved her, even though Gwen is skeptical about the claim. This led to Trent carrying a boulder for the later half of the episode, apparently to show Gwen that he was willing to go through any kind of physical endurance to remain by her side. Due to the massive, overwhelming support for Owen, he was the one who ended up winning, though he gave Trent encouragement that he could win over Gwen eventually before crossing the finish line. Trent was there to pick Gwen up after the race. He then lifted her up on his shoulders, and asked her to go on a date with him, to which she finally agrees. He then takes her to Owen's party, as a couple.

Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island!
Gwen is seen mostly hanging out with Trent and LeShawna in the hour-long special, saying that the best part about the competition was meeting the two of them. She looked forward to bringing them both over to where she lived so they could meet her friends from home. The three form a single team to look for the million-dollar case later on, rejecting Heather's request to join and laughing at her being tormented by the beavers. There was not much in the way of romance for Gwen and Trent in the special, but they both ultimately qualified to compete for the million dollars again in the second season. Unlike the other groups who came together in the search for the case, Gwen, Trent and LeShawna suffered no internal conflict over who would receive the money.

Signs of Change
As the second season begins, Trent and Gwen start out strong, but Trent is soon overcome with jealousy when he notices that Gwen and Duncan are getting along so well that it makes him uncomfortable. The tension escalates when Gwen and Trent are made to be founders of opposing teams, and Gwen's first pick for her team happens to be Duncan. The full extent of this snag in the relationship remains to be seen.

Theme song
Although no longer the main couple focused upon in the new theme song intro, Gwen and Trent are seen riding a limousine together and are smiling at each other as Trent opens the door for Gwen.

Monster Cash
Gwen confirms in the confessional make-up room that Trent is officially her boyfriend, and talks about his good qualities as they are being chased by an animatronic monster for their first challenge. She admired Trent for his selflessness and apparently his ability to state the obvious. Trent calls Gwen "babe" as they fall into the jumping castle after being dropped by the monster.

Alien Resur-eggtion
During the science fiction challenge where they have to find some alien eggs, Trent becomes jealous when he thinks that Gwen likes Duncan more than him after seeing them laughing and talking about their favorite movie together. He attempts to fit in with their conversation by pretending he knows what they are talking about, but Gwen and Duncan see right through him, making the situation, as Gwen called it, awkward. Throughout the challenge, Gwen and Duncan are really into the game and are still mentally on the same page, and Trent still fails to keep up with them, though he, Gwen, and Duncan are the last competitors standing near the end of the challenge. Once Duncan is hit and Gwen pokes fun at him for it, Trent is all over this action in his confessional, priding Gwen on sticking it to Duncan for what he thought was out of spite. However, when Duncan laughs along with Gwen, Trent realizes that they are still friends, much to his displeasure.

Suddenly, one of the lost alien eggs is about to fall off the edge and break just as Gwen's lucky necklace is about to fall in the sewer. Trent chooses her necklace over winning the game (Duncan admits he would have done the opposite). Gwen gives the necklace to Trent for good luck, which seems to immediately work for him as Trent finds two other eggs on the ground. In the end, Gwen and Trent win the challenge of this episode, which makes them in charge of picking the members for their respective new teams (meaning they will be competing against each other). This twist takes them both by surprise.

Riot on Set
Trent's jealousy is further aggravated when Gwen picks Duncan first for her team. Out of spite, he picks "the beautiful" Lindsay for his team in an attempt to get back at Gwen. Later, while running up the hill, Gwen trips and begins to fall, but Duncan catches her. Trent sees this is asked what Gwen is doing with Duncan, to which she replies that they're on the same team. Trent trips a moment later and Lindsay helps him up, to which he tells Gwen that they too are on the same team. Once all the light equipment is up on the hill, Trent gets Owen to help bring up the trailer and brags about it to Gwen calling her and Duncan punk wannabes, after which she remarks, "Oh, don't worry. We're taking Trent, I mean, that team down." She later calls Duncan "...hot, sexy, stud like" after Heather called him a pretty boy, much to Trent's surprise.

At the end of the episode, Gwen and Trent met outside of the trailers, where Gwen assures Trent that Duncan is just a friend and Trent apologizes.

Beach Blanket Bogus
Trent's obsession with Gwen and paranoia that he will lose her to Duncan starts to affect his mental health in this episode, Trent constantly performing various acts up too or insisting that there be nine of everything. This likely stems from there being nine letters in both Trent and Gwen's name put together. After the sand castle building contest, the two meet up in the woods where Trent mentions that he feels he hasn't spent very much personal time with Gwen, to which she replies (after seeing he is holding nine sticks) that she has to focus on the game and runs. Disappointed, Owen reminds Trent that Gwen is focused on winning. After he is chosen to go up for the dance off, he mentions in a confessional that if winning is so important to Gwen, he doesn't see why its wrong to help, as he is Trent first and a Grip second. This leads to him throwing the challenge. Gwen is worried that it's her fault that Trent is acting so disturbed, but Duncan insists that its not her fault. After the challenge, Gwen calls Trent into the woods where she tells him how good of a dancer he is. She comments that his ankle seems better, to which he replies "I'm weird like that". Just as the two are about to kiss, Owen appears to ask if they are about to make out, to which they promptly throw sticks at him.

Camp TV
Gwen is shown to not get along at all with Trent in the initial form of the show. Instead, she has a crush on Geoff. See the Gwen-Geoff Relationship page for more information.