User blog:Igor Castro Chucre/The villains' tactics

I'm gonna analyze every villain of Total Drama, not on their personality, but on their tactic to win the show with pros and cons. I will not analyze Justin, Jo or Lightning because they're not major villains in whichever season they're in. Also I didn't put any Pahkitew character here because some of them are antagonistic, but not outright villains, at least not to the point of planning ahead into the game.

Heather (Island): Make an alliance with Beth/Izzy and Lindsay, later Owen to make sure she has enough votes to keep her out of the chopping block or when she sees anyone as a threat. Also use them to win the challenges for her team/herself.

Pros: It got her really far in the game, Heather left little to no chance for luck and she played mostly fair.

Cons: It hurt her in the long run, she got the scrutiny of the ones she eliminated and her alliances, mainly because she was open about her dislike of everyone.

Courtney (Action): Try to win every challenge so she would never be at risk of elimination.

Pros: She did get far in the game and would always twist the game to keep the few allies she had nearby.

Con: Getting her too many eliminations showed how strong of a competitor she was, in fact, too strong. With her allies quickly diminishing in count, she was at a bigger risk of being eliminated than before in case she lost.

Alejandro (World Tour): Manipulate the other competitors into lowering their guard into losing (Team Victory) or fighting each other (Team Amazon).

Pros: Since he was new, he used his knowledge of everybody to eliminate Team Victory because of the strengh and popularity, therefore threat such team posed; and being the one to reveal Gwen and Duncan's secret steered drama away from him.

Cons: Steering Drama away from Heather and Sierra three people that he thought he could manipulate. Also, he was not subtle with his tactics as Owen and Noah, and subsequently Duncan became aware of his intentions.

Scott (Revenge of the Island): Quoted by him: "Make his own team lose so the other one would lower their guard".

Pros: In a case of 'keeping the enemies closer', Scott got rid of the strongest competitors on his own team and also acquiring the Invincibility Statue would keep him safe in case some competitors got the right idea.

Cons: As soon as the teams merged, he was forced to change the tactics, and with Cameron and Zoey very much aware of what he did, and keeping Lightning as a pawn for elimination didn't work.

Mike (All Stars): Althought he seemed to not have a plan, he was constantly threatening to make competitors go like Cameron did that season.

Pros: The Mal persona would be excused with his condition so he could act under the radar. And breaking their stuff made Sam and Sierra lose their minds. Also Courtney's chart.

Cons: He barely did anything worthwhile, while he did get rid of Alejandro by manipulating others, the fact Mal had to keep pretending he was Mike prevented him from acting (ie. hitting Zoey over the head near a cliff in Moon Madness).

From all of those strategies, Heather and Alejandro seem to be the most rounded and the way they keep adapting to the circumstances around them proves how versitiles they're as villains. Scott and Courtney's strategies are a little one-sided, considering the game isn't about challenges alone, these ones need to have a little more thought into them. And Mal, I can see why he's seen as the weakest villain, as the shows' rating could only allow him to act so far in the competition, I can say that he's not evil for the sake of being evil, he just likes inflicting pain on others. I also see that the luck factor favors some more than others, so Courtney and Scott are in a sense avoiding random variables by getting specific results in the challenges;

There's no right way of playing this game, just methods that are some better than others. I am just organizing my thoughts to when season six arrives, there might be a new villain with new tacts, an old villain with new tactics or anything in between.