Shark

Sharks are animals that appear throughout the Total Drama series. A shark's first appearance is in the opening sequence of Total Drama Island. Sharks have been responsible for numerous injuries and even the deaths of several interns. The sharks are occasionally shown to be able to breathe on dry land, but are usually seen in water.

Total Drama Island
In Not So Happy Campers - Part 2, the contestants have to jump off a cliff and dive into Lake Wawanakwa. The lake is infested with sharks that would attack anyone that landed outside a circular area called the safe zone. A flashback shows Chef getting bitten by one of the sharks after he tested the challenge. During the challenge, the only contestant who lands outside of the safety spot is Justin, who is spared by the sharks, due to their attraction towards him, and is even carried to the shore by them.

In Who Can You Trust?, a snake eats DJ's pet rabbit, Bunny, then the snake is grabbed by an eagle, and finally, a shark jumps out of the water and eats the eagle, taking a large chunk of the docks with it.

In Haute Camp-ture, the sharks are seen having seaweed mud wraps with Beth. After Izzy bites Sadie, she asks one of the sharks if they like to bite objects, and one of the sharks shrugs after she asked.

In Camp Castaways, the sharks were seen swimming around some of the campers.

The sharks were featured briefly in I Triple Dog Dare You! in a dare from Leshawna, where Gwen had to tightrope walk across a chasm where three sharks were swimming below, while carrying a long pole covered in giant steaks and wearing a steak necklace as well. She was able to complete this dare, and earned a freebie for doing so.

In The Very Last Episode, Really!, the sharks appeared in a lake over which two beams were suspended, the challenge involved the contestants having to walk across the beams without falling into the shark-infested lake; An intern then falls into the lake and is eaten by one of the sharks.

In Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island, fourteen of the contestants end up in the water with the case, but a shark suddenly rises up and eats it, abruptly ending the challenge and forcing the contestants into a tie.

Total Drama Action
In the second season's opening sequence, a shark is seen chasing Owen below the water in a shark tank, that would later be seen in Beach Blanket Bogus, until Owen passes gas into the shark's mouth, making it choke. On the beach set, two more sharks are seen receiving spa treatments with Beth, while relaxing on beach chairs and wearing sunglasses.

In the recap of Monster Cash, Chris says that the fourteen contestants will be competing for another million dollars. He then chuckles and says that it's actually the same money the shark had eaten. This implies that they either managed to somehow retrieve the case from the shark, or they intended for the shark to eat the case from the start so that season two could happen in the first place.

The sharks appear in Beach Blanket Bogus, in a challenge where the contestants need to stay on a surfboard simulation above water. The sharks are still in love with Justin, so when he falls into the water, one of the sharks rescues him and gives him mouth to mouth resuscitation. After he revives, the shark hugs him, pushing Beth and Lindsay away when they rush over, showing its "affection" towards Justin. Chris then gives the sharks a break due to union rules.

The sharks makes a brief appearance in Masters of Disasters when the challenge requires the teams to escape from a submarine being filled with water, Justin and Izzy open a hatch and a shark's head emerges and tries to bite Justin, only to have the hatch door slammed in its face.

A shark is seen once again in Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen as one of seven dangerous ingredients that Beth and Courtney had to cook to prepare Kung-Fu noodle soup, until it was caught by a giant squid.

A shark is chosen as Courtney's "animal buddy" during Top Dog's challenge. The shark aggravates Courtney throughout the entire episode and she constantly fights with it. While punching the shark's stomach, the shark's lunch comes out and Courtney prepares sashimi out of it, giving the meal to Chris and Chef Hatchet. A pack of sharks fight her in the second part of the challenge, with her nearly beating them as she knocks out two of the three. She is thwarted when the last one grabs her personal digital assistant, makes calls with it, and throws the PDA over a waterfall, making her dive after it.

Total Drama World Tour
In Jamaica Me Sweat, the first challenge involves swimming in shark-infested waters. One of the sharks repeatedly punches Cody in the face while gripping his neck after he dives in the water. Later, the same shark chases Gwen after she dives in, however, Gwen is able to escape from it.

The sharks also appear in Niagara Brawls, commandeering a boat in the lake below the falls. When the contestants fall off the tightrope, the sharks are seen waiting at the bottom.

In Hawaiian Punch, the sharks are used for the tiebreaker challenge between Alejandro and Cody to make it more dangerous. After Alejandro defeats Cody, he knocks him off the platform that they were competing on and one of the sharks swallows Cody whole. A protective Sierra wheels herself into the ocean, grabs the shark, brings it to the beach, and slams it against the sand multiple times, ordering the shark to spit out Cody, which it eventually does.

Total Drama: Revenge of the Island
Although the season has yet to air, a shark appears in a promotional picture released for the season. On it, the shark appears on one of many small screens in the control tent, alongside the thirteen new contestants, Chef Hatchet, and one screen that is just static.

In the image, the shark has a different design from sharks seen in the series before. The skin on top of the shark is a much lighter blue, its snout is shorter and more rounded, its eyes are no longer dot eyes and are much wider, and its teeth are much larger and thicker than before.

Trivia

 * Out of all of the animals, the sharks are the most affected by Justin's good looks, as seen in Not So Happy Campers - Part 2, when they carry Justin to the shore instead of eating him. This is shown again in Beach Blanket Bogus when they save his life after he drowns.
 * The sharks are largely responsible for Total Drama Action, as one shark eats the one million dollar case in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island.
 * They are one out of only two animals in the series to have killed a human, as they eat an intern alive off-screen in The Very Last Episode, Really!.
 * The other is the scarab, an army of which swarmed an intern and ate him alive, reducing him to only a skeleton, in Walk Like An Egyptian - Part 2.
 * The shark is the only animal in the Total Drama series that appears in the first two openings of the series.
 * The shark is shown in the Total Drama Action Alternate Realities video from Cartoon Network Video, when Duncan was using Harold as bait to catch a shark.
 * Oddly, the sharks can survive outside the water, as shown in Haute Camp-ture, the Total Drama Action opening sequence, and Beach Blanket Bogus.
 * The sharks seem to enjoy human relaxation techniques, such as seaweed mud wraps, spa treatments, watching the beach, and drinking tea.
 * All of these relaxation techniques are done alongside Beth.
 * The sharks are the first animals to be a part of a challenge.

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