Killer Grips

The Killer Grips is one of the two teams in Total Drama Action. Their team symbol is a beige circle containing a red fist, with a red, circular outline. They appear to be the Total Drama Action equivalent of the Killer Bass of Total Drama Island, but have proven to be a much weaker team than their Total Drama Island counterpart, as even though both the Killer Bass and the Killer Grips had five members make it to the merge (counting Eva returning in Total Drama Island and Owen returning in Total Drama Action), the Grips lost almost all of the challenges before the merge. The team members were chosen by team captain Trent, and they consisted of himself, Lindsay, Justin, Beth, Owen, Izzy, and later in the game, Courtney, though she is placed on this team by Chris.

Total Drama Action
The team suffers their first loss in Riot On Set, becoming the first team to lose a challenge in Total Drama Action, similar to the Killer Bass. In that episode, Izzy is voted off because she lost the acting challenge for the Grips. The team goes on to lose once again in Beach Blanket Bogus, due to the fact that Trent begins throwing challenges so Gwen can win and believes he is helping her win by doing so. This continues in 3:10 to Crazytown, but Trent is voted off once Justin discovers that he is cheating.

The Killer Grips finally win their first challenge in The Chefshank Redemption, due to Gwen trying to even the score with them, since Trent started throwing challenges. In this episode, Justin takes charge of the team. Izzy also returns to the team in this episode during the prison escape challenge, much to everyone's surprise. Despite this win, the Gaffers resume their winning streak by One Flu Over the Cuckoos.

In The Sand Witch Project, Lindsay takes charge of the team, and she helps them almost win the challenge. However, the others see this as her being bossy and rude, landing her in the bottom two, and possibly eliminated if DJ had not quit the game due to his guilt. The Grips lose again in Masters of Disasters, due to their inability to work with Izzy without Owen by their side, as he had been hurt earlier in the challenge. Izzy is disliked even more in Full Metal Drama, especially by Justin, and is voted off for the second time in this episode, due to Justin convincing Lindsay and Beth to vote her off for saying that he isn't good looking.

The Grips are once again on even footing with the Gaffers, with four members on each team, by Ocean's Eight - Or Nine. After they rescue Owen from his vault and arrive at the bank teller area, they are disappointed to learn that Courtney is joining their team as a constellation prize of the challenge. She immediately assumes leadership of the team, bossing them around. They almost win the challenge, but the Gaffers pass the finish line first when the Grips' "car" breaks down. Even though the Grips plan on voting Courtney off, it is Owen who is sent home due to Courtney winning invincibility due to her lawyers, since she votes for Owen and only her vote counted.

With Courtney on their team, the Grips wins their first challenge fairly in One Million Bucks, B.C., thanks to Courtney's bitter rivalry with Duncan. They win again in Million Dollar Babies, after they suck up to Chris during the tie-breaker cheer challenge. Courtney also seems to be nicer to her teammates in this episode than she had in the past.

The Grips, along with the Gaffers, are merged in Dial M for Merger, with Beth, Courtney, Lindsay, and Justin going on to the merge. Justin was eliminated in The Princess Pride due to him falling for Courtney's charms, throwing the final challenge for her and then her betraying him. Owen returned to the competition in Rock n' Rule because Chris paid him $50,000 in order to stir up some trouble among the other contestants. In that same episode, Lindsay was eliminated after accidentally voting herself off when she got distracted by Beth. Both Courtney and Owen were eliminated in Top Dog. Courtney was voted off by Beth due to previous actions between the two and Duncan because he was tired about the rules of their relationship, and Owen was fired by Chris seconds later due to Beth and Courtney finding out about his work as a traitor, leaving Beth as the last surviving Killer Grip in the competition. In the season finale of Total Drama Action, Beth lost to Duncan for the million dollar prize.

Only half of the former Killer Grips advance to Total Drama World Tour, as Trent, Justin, and Beth fail to qualify for the season.

Original members

 * Beth
 * Izzy
 * Justin
 * Lindsay
 * Owen
 * Trent

Additional members
When one former contestant filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination, she returned to the game with unfair advantages and is placed on this team as a "consolation prize," much to her disappointment.
 * Courtney

Trivia

 * A Grip is a stagehand in film or television production that mainly helps in shifting scenery, adjusting sets, lighting, and props.
 * This team may be considered to be one of the weakest teams in the history of Total Drama, alongside Team Victory and the Toxic Rats. Of the eleven episodes of the season in which the two teams competed against each other, the Grips won only three of these, with one of them being only because Gwen threw the challenge for them.
 * Thus, the Grips hold the record for the most amount of challenge losses of any team in the series, as they lost eight times.
 * Despite the significant amount of losses, however, they managed to stay nearly even with the Gaffers in terms of the amount of members due to many episodes being non-elimination/reward episodes. In addition, two returning contestants and one member of the Gaffers quitting when the Grips were supposed to send someone home also contributed to their staying even. Team Victory, however, always came in last place in an elimination episode, and received no benefit from returning contestants or quitting contestants. Thus, they only lost six challenges (one for each member).
 * This is the only team in the series so far to be the weaker of the two teams in its respective season, yet have three members in the final four of the season.
 * Despite being based on the Killer Bass, the Killer Grips only have one former Killer Bass member (Courtney), but before her return, it completely consisted of former Screaming Gopher members.
 * This team also has the most amount of former Screaming Gophers on it of any team in the series, with six.
 * Interestingly, Courtney also proved to be the strongest contestant on the Killer Grips once she returned, despite being the only former Killer Bass member on the Grips. Ironically, the Killer Bass were considered to be the inferior team to the Screaming Gophers throughout Total Drama Island.
 * The Killer Grips are the first team in the series to lose more than three challenges in a row. The second is Team Victory.
 * The Killer Grips are one of only two teams whose highest-ranking member is a female. The other is Team Amazon.
 * The Killer Grips have the most non-merged contestants from season one.
 * All of the contestants that Heather used to vote Justin off in Total Drama Island are on this team: Lindsay, Owen, Izzy, and Beth.
 * Despite all the eliminations that they had to go through, and their loss in almost every elimination challenge, the Grips have had equal or more teammates than the Screaming Gaffers since The Chefshank Redemption. This is because of Izzy's return to the competition, increasing the number of Grips, DJ quitting even though the Gaffers won that week's challenge, and Courtney's return to the competition as a member of the Killer Grips, increasing the number of members on the team again.
 * Also, it is worth noting that after Courtney's return to the competition, the Grips start winning challenges on their own.
 * Izzy, Trent, and Owen were the only Killer Grips eliminated before the team merge, although there have been four eliminations and five ceremonies. Izzy was voted off two times, first as E-Scope and secondly as herself.
 * Owen, however, later returned to the competition in Rock n' Rule.
 * When Owen was eliminated, Justin became the last male cast member on the Killer Grips. However, Justin was eliminated in The Princess Pride, and Owen later returned in Rock n' Rule, making Owen the last male cast member from the team.
 * By the time of the merge, the Grips had only won three times; two times with Courtney's help, and once without Courtney.
 * Though this was due to Gwen letting them win, meaning that they never won without someone's help.
 * The Killer Grips are the only team to have all three returning cast members (cast members who have entered the show at an irregular time, and after their elimination).
 * Beth is the last Killer Grip to be eliminated, and is also the last female to be eliminated on the Killer Grips. She won Total Drama Action in the her ending.
 * Owen is the only male on the team to compete in all of the first three seasons.
 * Owen is the only cast member on this team to make it to the merge in all of the first three seasons.
 * Beth is the only female on the team to compete in only two seasons.
 * The Killer Grips have five contestants that make it to the merge, just like the Killer Bass did.
 * The Killer Bass had Bridgette, Geoff, Duncan, DJ, and Eva (who had to return), while the Killer Grips had Lindsay, Beth, Justin, Courtney, and Owen (who, like Eva, had to return).
 * This is the only original team Izzy was on that she didn't switch out of, although she did help out the Gaffers in The Chefshank Redemption.
 * Owen is the highest ranking member of Total Drama Island to be on this team.
 * Justin is the lowest ranking member of Total Drama Island to be on this team.
 * Justin is the only male Killer Grip to originally make it to the merge, whereas Owen and Trent didn't (although Owen returned later on). Ironically, he was the only male on this team and in Total Drama Action overall who was eliminated before the merge in Total Drama Island, whereas Owen and Trent did make it.
 * Both of Total Drama Action's main antagonists are on this team.
 * Owen, Izzy, and Lindsay are the only members of this team to make cameo appearances in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.