List of Total Drama challenges

Chris McLean likes to torment the campers with various challenges (most of which are painful and hated by the campers). The challenges usually come with a twist (which Chris does not tell the campers about until they need to know about it). Usually if something happens in a challenge, it turns out to be Chris's special idea (though this has not been the case in certain challenges. When a camper wins a challenge they (or their team) receive invincibility from elimination (and getting voted off). Sometimes a camper will be eliminated depending on how they perform in the challenge (in the case of Lindsay, Heather, and DJ). A few of the challenges seem to be based off of some campers' hobbies, talents or personalities.

List of challenges in Total Drama Island

 * 1) Jump off a 1000-foot cliff into the shark infested water, Pull crates back to camp, and build a hot tub from scratch.
 * 2) Stay awake the longest after running 20km and eating a huge meal
 * 3) A best out of five Dodgeball challenge.
 * 4) A talent Show.
 * 5) Go into the woods, build a camp, and stay out there for a day.
 * 6) Face your very own worst fears.
 * 7) A three part canoe race to Boney Island.
 * 8) Hunt the other team dressed as deer with paintballs.
 * 9) Create a three course meal for Chris to judge.
 * 10) Participate in a set of trust exercises.
 * 11) Survive Chef Hatchet's boot camp.
 * 12) Participate in three extreme sport challenges.
 * 13) Eat as much disgusting food made by chef as you can handle.
 * 14) Get through a number of tortures without complaining.
 * 15) Collect keys to open chests in one of the many dangerous places.
 * 16) Avoid getting sprayed by Chef with a gigantic water gun in a game of hide and seek.
 * 17) Build and race a motor bikes.
 * 18) Watch a Slasher Movie and then survive one.
 * 19) Go on a safari to catch an animal without hurting it.
 * 20) Win a Tri-Athalon while being handcuffed to another camper.
 * 21) Find Chris and Chef after being washed away by a storm.
 * 22) Find your way back to camp after being left in the wild.
 * 23) Survive a series of dares from the voted-off campers.
 * 24) Win a rejected Olympic Race.
 * 25) Find a case with $1,000,000 inside and bring it to the Dock of Shame before anyone else.

List of challenges in Total Drama Action

 * 1) Search through the movie lot to find the cast trailers while avoiding the giant monster robot. Based off the Monster Movie genre. Then look for a key in false food.
 * 2) Search for and retrieve alien eggs while avoid being hunted down by an alien. Based off the Alien Movie genre.
 * 3) Set up a film set and perform a skit to make Chef show emotion. Based off Soap Opera Drama genre.
 * 4) Balance on a surf board, build a sand castle and a dance off. Based off Teen Beach Movie genre.
 * 5) Land on a horse from a high diving board and cattle roping the other team. Based off Western Movie genre. Although it was not performed, there was also a quick draw contest planned.
 * 6) Select a teammate to be locked in a cage while eating gross food made from the opposite team, select a team member to push a laundry cart with the rest of the team in it through an obstacle course, and dig a hole to the trailers. Based off of the Prison Movie genre.
 * 7) Assemble and revive a 'FrankenChris' (not completed); Cure a 'fatal' outbreak of disease. Based off of medical trauma movies and medical school practices.
 * 8) Choose a "Serial Killer" for each team; Participate in three challenges in which the Killer's job is to frighten their opponents, whoever's team screams the loudest overall wins; Attempt to scare the losing team from the past challenge out of the Craft Services Tent. Based on the Horror Movie genre.
 * 9) Complete an obstacle course including earthquake-like vibrations, hail-sized golfballs, lava (tomato soup) and objects thrown at you by Chef; Escape from a submarine while it is filling up with water. Based on the Disaster Movie genre.
 * 10) Jump from an airplane "three kilometers" off the ground; Arrange a collection of paint bombs so, when ignited, they splatter in a creative and controlled way and form a pattern; Play a version of "capture the flag" using the "big trunk of mind-blowing secrets". Based on the War Movie genre.
 * 11) Rescue a teammate who is locked in a vault; Rob a bank; Build and Race Go-Karts. Based off of the Bank Heist Movie genre.
 * 12) Create fire by using rocks; Battle a member of the opposite team using bones. Based off of the Prehistoric Movie genre.
 * 13) Conditioning; Boxing; Badminton; Ball pit wrestling; Slam Dunk competition; Cheerleading contest. Based off of the Sports Movie genre.
 * 14) Retrieve a heavily-guarded package; Escaping an "exploding" building; defusing stinkbombs. Based off of the Spy Movie genre.
 * 15) Make a super hero costume, with a name and superpower; race through a superhero obstacle course and rescue a sack of potatoes in a dress. Based off of the Superhero Movie genre.
 * 16) Put on a glass "slipper" (actually, a combat boot) to be dubbed a princess (girls only); cross a bridge that is guarded by an "ogre" (played by Chef) while blindfolded; slay a "dragon" (the animatronic monster from "Monster Cash" reused as a dragon) and rescue the princess from the "ivory tower" (actually, a radio antenna disguised as a castle tower). Based off of the Fairy Tale Movie genre.
 * 17) Collect a part of DNA of one contestant and discover who killed the host (Chris). Based off murder mystery movie genre.
 * 18) Play an electric guitar, walk the red carpet, and trash a hotel room. Based off of the Rock n' Roll movie genre.
 * 19) Train a fighter in a unique fighting style, use a remote control to make the fighters fight the way the trainer wants them to, climb up a hill carrying a glass of water to a "kung-fu master" to collect a bonsai tree from the top to bring back down to the bottom of the hill. Based off of the Kung-Fu movie genre.
 * 20) Spend the rest of the night in a zero-gravity space ship themed roller coaster, survive a ride on the "Vomit Comet" the longest. Although it was not performed, there was going to be a challenge that involved recycling waste on a spaceship. Based off of the Outer Space movie genre.
 * 21) Pick an Animal, Train it to be like you and Find your back to Lot. Based off of the Animal Buddy Movie Genre.
 * 22) Clean up a bathroom stall, climb your flag to the top of a greasy pole, launch yourself out of a cannon to the movie lot, go through a treasure hunt through all of the season's challenges, and finish before your opponent. Based off of the Pirate movie genre, though it can also be considered a movie marathon, seeing how challenges from most of the episodes were used.
 * 23) Contort your body to fit through shapes cut into wood. Answer a question (or do a challenge) of the eliminated contestants' choice, which includes a dance-off and a healthy eating challenge, to break the tie. Based off of no movie genre.