List of Total Drama challenges

Chris 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 doesn't 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 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 cliff into the shark infested water 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. The challenge seems to based off of Tyler's love for sports.
 * 4) A Talent Show. Seems based off of Justin's love for attention. (Ironically, he was voted off in this challenge.)
 * 5) Go into the woods, build a camp, and stay out there for a day. Seems to based off of Harold's scout training.
 * 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. Seems to be based off Ezekiel's love for hunting.
 * 9) Create a three course meal for Chris to judge.
 * 10) Participate in a set of Trust games. The challenge seems based off of last challenge's tensions.
 * 11) Survive Chef Hatchet's boot camp. Seems based off of Duncan's time in Juvy.
 * 12) Participate in 3 Xtreme sport challenges.
 * 13) Eat as much disgusting food made by chef as you can handle. The challenge seems based off of Owen's obsession for food.
 * 14) Get through a number of tortures without complaining. Seems based off of Eva's toughness (She was also voted off in this episode)
 * 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. Seems based off of Trent's hobby for motorcycles.
 * 18) Watch a Slasher Movie and then survive one. The challenge seems based off of Izzy's love for Horror Movies (though she was actually the very first one to fail).
 * 19) Go on a safari to catch an animal without hurting it. Seems based off of DJ's love for animals.
 * 20) Win a Tri-Athalon while being handcuffed to another camper. The challenge seems based of off Katie and Sadie's habit for sticking together.
 * 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.