Trent

Trent, labeled our Guitar Dude, was a camper from Total Drama Island on the Screaming Gophers team. He was also a castmate in Total Drama Action and was the captain of the Killer Grips.

Total Drama Island
Trent is a casual musician who tends to get along with everyone. When Trent is not working on his music, he is seen working on motorcycles (though he never made it to the motocross challenge in That's Off the Chain!). His dream is to one day have his own motorcycle shop, although his father wishes for him to become an accountant, to which Trent is vehemently against. Overall, Trent treated nearly everyone fairly and equally, which made him a very likable competitor for the other campers. He was even seen able to get along with Chris at times. Throughout Total Drama Island, Trent is also known for his guitar skills, which impress several competitors throughout the series. He also has a huge crush on Gwen, and in the confessionals, he has mentioned countless times that he would do anything for her. He is also shown as being a pain magnet, as he has suffered several near-death experiences and mishaps during Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action. However, he recovers from these usually by the next episode.

When he arrives on the Island in Not So Happy Campers - Part 1, he knows Chris was the hos of a figure skating show, which makes Chris happy. He is disappointed by the run-down quality of the camp, but when he walks over to Gwen, and she noticed that Harold was no longer next to her, they smile at each other. Afterwards, when Ezekiel arrives, he laughs at him when he does not understand what "What's Up?" meant. He gets placed on the Screaming Gophers team.

In Not So Happy Campers - Part 2, he high-fived Owen before jumping off the cliff. He seemed fine when he jumped off the 1000 foot cliff, as he yelled "Yeah!" all the way down the cliff. He is seen in the boat with Noah when he was done and in the sand after Owen's big jump.

In The Big Sleep, Gwen and Trent depend on each other to stay awake, which begins their relationship. Trent mainly talks to Gwen during the episode, and asks Gwen many questions about her. This helped Trent and her stay awake. Trent really wanted Gwen to stay up, when Gwen said that she was about to go to sleep. When Chris began to read a book about the history of Canada at the eighty-five hour mark, he falls asleep and ends up in third place in the challenge, leaving Gwen sad and 'alone'. Perhaps it is this that inspired Gwen to stay awake and win the contest.

Even though he fell asleep only minutes before Duncan and Gwen did, Trent was not shown as being very sleepy in Dodgebrawl. Trent did not have any lines in this episode, but he did play in rounds two and four in the Dodgeball Game. However, he was only shown to get out Tyler when the jock was distracted by Lindsay. Courtney also said that Trent sucked at dodgeball, just like Tyler, though this may have been a goof.

In Not Quite Famous, Trent once again spends a lot of the episode with Gwen. When the tryouts started, he gave a muffin to Gwen, and was fine with Heather being in charge of the tryouts, despite Gwen's hatred of Heather. He told Owen that he did a good job burping the alphabet after drinking from a large soda bottle, but got a bit disgusted after Owen was saying he could 'gas' Beethoven's Fifth. He makes it into the talent show (even though he was never shown trying out for it) along with Heather and Justin. He and Gwen try to have a moment at the dock of shame, but it is interrupted by Cody and Owen when they jump in the water. Trent successfully plays his guitar and sings about Gwen, which was dedicated to her. He got an 8/10, second only to Harold's 10/10. It is also revealed in Gwen's Diary (by Heather) that she has a crush on Trent in this episode.

In The Sucky Outdoors, Trent tells Heather that her reading Gwen's diary was harsh to Gwen, which Heather doesn't pay much attention to. Even though he tries to reassure Gwen, she doesn't listen and walks away from him. He told Heather, who wanted food, that they had to find their own food. Owen offered to forage, and Trent was very happy when Owen found some fish. Trent was the first one to notice Izzy had gone missing, but right after he said that, a Bear showed up. Like everyone else, he was afraid of the bears.

In Phobia Factor, he reveals his fear of mimes. When he was helping Gwen complete her task of being buried alive, he tells about why he is afraid of mimes (Trent had gotten lost at a circus when he was little and a mime was following him around while he looked for his mom). However, while he is telling her why, a mime appears and begins to chase Trent around the island. Eventually, while he is near the docks, he jumps in the water, and makes the mime give up when he tells it that if he jumps in, his make-up will run. When he is talking to Chris, he suddenly remembers that he had left Gwen buried alive. After digging her up, Gwen threw her walkie-talkie at Trent's head, although he didn't seem to feel it.

In Up the Creek, even though Gwen and Trent were originally going to be canoe partners, Cody got in the way, making Trent have to partner up with Lindsay and Beth. Trent later has a near-death experience when he almost drowned in quicksand, but Cody ended up saving him and Lindsay, who had been stupid enough to jump into the quicksand with Trent. Cody played a part in helping Trent and Gwen hook up, despite his Crush on Gwen, and made Trent and Gwen canoe partners on the way back from the challenge.

In Paintball Deer Hunter, he is chosen as a deer. However, he does not have any lines in the episode, and isn't even seen that much, possibly because he was hiding the whole time. His relationship with Gwen still seems to be stable, as he catches Gwen's can of Beans, and they smile at each other.

In If You Can't Take The Heat..., Trent was taken out of the challenge very early on when Owen tossed a crate of Oranges at him. The crate of oranges accidentally hit Trent in the head, giving him a concussion and making him useless for the rest of the challenge (Ironically, because of his head being under the table and a bowl of barbecue sauce he had dropped, it looked like he had been killed). Despite his injury, he remained safe at the campfire ceremony.

In Who Can You Trust?, Trent once again has a challenge ending injury when he participates in the second part of the challenge. He let Lindsay prepare the Fugu Blowfish, a highly poisonous fish. Because Trent believed that Lindsay had passed biology, he would eat the blowfish. However, Lindsay had only took biology, making Trent get severely poisoned and having to be in the infirmary for the rest of the challenge. Nurse Hatchet actually preformed mouth to mouth, and Trent's garbled scream could be heard all over the island. He appeared to be slightly healed after the challenge, but he still could not speak regularly.

In Basic Straining, Trent seemed to be completely healed by the poisoning. He got placed out in the essay competition because he fell asleep, just like DJ (and Bridgette). This is ironic because he was shown to do very good in the Awake-a-Thon, back in episode three. This is the fourth episode Trent does not have any lines.

In X-Treme Torture, he has to participate in the "Sofa Skydiving" part of the competition. He seems very exited about it, but seems a little more nervous when he got into the plane. When DJ pats his back and wishes him luck, he falls out of the plane. Due to being very scared, he forgot to activate the parachute, causing him to land straight into the sand, breaking every bone in his body. He was shown to be completely wrapped up in casts at the end of the episode on a stretcher.

In Brunch of Disgustingness, it is revealed he and 9 other campers have made it to the merge. When he walks into his new cabin, he accidentally hits Geoff in the head with his guitar. He also says that Geoff deserves to be captain after his extremely loud burp. Trent tells to his team that he has a weak stomach, and throws up 3 times in that episode alone. He is the last one to eat the Pizza after his team has to force-feed it to him. After the force feed, he is shown acting like a young child and being rocked in DJ's arms. Later he says he was just playing it up for the ratings, but eventually barfs as he remembers what he had to eat.

In No Pain, No Game, Trent says that Duncan's challenge was harsh, but Gwen ignores him and says she is still mad at Trent for leaving her buried alive. Trent gets out on his first challenge when he is doing the skunk jump when a skunk sprays him with it's stench, causing him to pass out. Strangely, he is not seen at the campfire ceremony that night.

Trent got eliminated in Search and Do Not Destroy due to one of Heather's meanest schemes yet in order to break Trent and Gwen up (in the words of Heather, 'boyfriend-girlfriend is an alliance, and I will have the only alliance on this island'). He easily got his key from the sharks when he distracted them with a batch of fish. After Trent finished, Trent helped Gwen complete her challenge, and then Gwen and Trent have their first kiss. Seeing this as an alliance, Heather plots against the two and tricks Trent into kissing Heather, and lies about Gwen, telling him that she said his music sucked. This caused the two to momentarily hate each other, and Trent believed Gwen was using her. However, when LeShawna learned about this, LeShawna told everyone on the island about it. Because Heather won invincibility, all the campers voted him off. Heather than revealed to the other campers it was a trick. Chris interrupts a kiss between Gwen and Trent, and then he boards the loser boat and went to Playa Des Losers. Everyone (except Heather) said goodbye to him as he left. Gwen cried about this.

At Playa Des Losers in Haut Camp-ture, Trent was first seen laying down on a chair relaxing with DJ, saying that the place they were at was a whole lot better than Total Drama Island. He also gave a piece of bologna to Harold, who was hiding from Courtney. He wanted Gwen to win, and also told Noah that he did kiss a guy when Izzy was teasing him about it. He was one of many people to accidentally vote off LeShawna.

In The Very Last Episode, Really!, Trent, Cody, LeShawna, and Eva are the only people to remain on Gwen's side even after Owen announces the yacht party. He helps Gwen out a lot, even though Gwen still doesn't really trust Trent after the Heather and Trent incident from long ago. Despite this, Trent still did many things for her, such as wiping off butter off her flagpole, blocking out Justin so than Gwen can stay focused in the challenge, and even carried a large rock to prove he still loved Gwen. Although Gwen lost, she forgave Trent.

In Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island, Trent teamed up with LeShawna and Gwen to look for the case. Trent got annoyed when the Girls fell for Justin's charms and gave away all their hard worked information to him, making rent say "What IS it with that guy?" His group is the only one to see Heather being attacked by Beavers, but instead of helping, they laughed at her. Trent actually never finds the case, but he still qualifies for Total Drama Action.

Total Drama Action
Unlike last season in which he was strong and confident with everyone, Trent starts to make a turn for the worst due to his relationship with Gwen. Although the couple starts out strong at first, an unexpected twist occurs when he and Gwen win the challenge in Alien Resur-eggtion; their win means that the two of them will be in charge of picking out members for the two teams, which forces Gwen and Trent to compete against each other. The blow is made worse when Trent starts to notice that Gwen and Duncan have so much in common. Trent becomes very upset and jealous because of Gwen's friendship with Duncan, making him and Duncan enemies this season. In a desperate attempt to make Gwen happy, Trent starts to throw challenges for her (which she does not approve).

Due to the winning the challenge of Alien Resur-eggtion, Trent becomes the founder of the Killer Grips team. In Riot on Set, he picks Lindsay, Justin, Beth, Owen, and Izzy to be his teammates. Because he was still jealous of Gwen being close to Duncan, Trent made a point to pick "the beautiful" Lindsay as his first teammate in an attempt to make Gwen jealous of him. The two were able to make up by the end of the episode. However, ever since then, Trent starts to lose his sanity.

During the sand castle building part of the challenge in Beach Blanket Bogus, Trent named his team's sand castle after Gwen. She found it a little disturbing, although she was comforted by the fact that Trent did everything in nines (like putting nine flags on his sand castle), saying that at least he wasn't as obsessed with her as with his obsession with the number nine. Duncan then pointed out to Gwen that there were five letters in Trent's name and four in hers, adding up to nine. Harold informed Gwen that Trent's obsession with the number nine started becoming apparent after he first became interested in Gwen, convincing her that he truly was going over the top with his obsession over her.

The next part of the challenge in Beach Blanket Bogus required the teams to select a team member to compete in a dance contest. The Screaming Gaffers chose LeShawna, and the Killer Grips chose Trent. Trent threw the challenge so Gwen wouldn't be disappointed from losing (this was a non-elimination challenge, anyway). Gwen then said that she liked Trent, but hated being responsible for his mental distress. After Trent told her he threw the challenge, Gwen and Trent again made amends. They almost kissed, but Owen's voyeurism interrupted them.

Trent's determination to win Gwen over is ultimately what led to his downfall, as he made a habit of throwing challenges on purpose so Gwen could win, which was made very apparent in 3:10 to Crazytown. Owen had previously given him advice that Gwen likes to win, and letting her win would win her over to him. This turned out to be a giant flaw in logic, as Gwen noticed Trent purposely losing challenges just for her sake when she wanted to win the competition fair and square. His nine-obsession still made her uncomfortable as well. Trent showed great concern for Gwen when she had come down with a sinus infection in this episode, but treated her as if she were a terminally ill patient by making everyone lay off on her. When the second challenge was about to start (which was to be a shoot-off), Trent purposely chose Owen to participate because his large size guaranteed that Gwen's team would hit him. Owen's antics ultimately canceled the challenge, but by this point Trent's own teammates were becoming well aware of Trent's focus being somewhere other than winning. Justin in particular was privy to this detail.

After Trent's team lost the third challenge (and thus had to eliminate someone from their team that night), Gwen approached Trent and informed him of how she was aware of him throwing challenges for her sake. She could no longer take the guilt by allowing it to happen any longer, and broke up with Trent, but still wanted to remain on good terms with him. Trent was depressed to hear the news, but surprisingly took it maturely. What neither of them knew was that Justin was listening in on the entire conversation. His suspicions were true, so he dragged out Gwen in front of the rest of Trent's team (minus Trent) and ordered her to tell the truth that she allowed Trent to make his own team lose numerous times just to win her over. The others were aghast at this, but Gwen insisted that she never wanted it to play out this way and wanted to win fair and square. Justin refused to believe her, so in order to retain her own integrity (and possibly her sanity), Gwen suggested that the team vote off Trent that night to not only prove that she was being honest about wanting to win, but to ease off the tension that had been stewing in their relationship and friendship. The Killer Grips did as Gwen suggested and voted Trent off that night. Trent was surprised at this, and struggled against Chef Hatchet's grip, wanting to at least bid Gwen farewell before he was thrown into the Lame-o-sine. However, it was not meant to be, as Trent was sent away without Gwen to see him off this time. To rub salt in an open wound, Chris showed Gwen the tape of his elimination, much to her regret.

Trent showed up one episode later in The Aftermath: I, which was a talk show showcasing the characters who did not qualify for the second season along with the characters who did qualify and already lost the competition. Up until Geoff and Bridgette inadvertently blabbed about it, Trent was unaware of Gwen's involvement in getting him kicked out of the competition and cried about it after learning the truth. Several of the characters feel sorry for Trent's situation, especially after Trent explains that his obsession with the number nine actually had nothing to do with Gwen, it became his lucky number during his childhood when his grandfather gave him a toy train. A wheel fell off the train shortly before his grandfather died, leaving only nine wheels. His mother then told him that nine was now his lucky number. Most who had taken Gwen's side of the break-up situation switched to Trent's after learning about this. Trent sang a song with his guitar about his broken heart due to Gwen (most of the campers get emotional and Geoff and Bridgette reconcile), but eventually conceded that he would have to move on from her and find someone else.

Trent makes another appearance in The Aftermath: II as a commentator just like the people who weren't on season 2 at all. Apparently Trent has been getting a lot of fan mail since his breakup and elimination. He also has a lot of fans now, one of them being a girl who makes a life-sized Trent doll and kisses it nine times, leaving Trent disturbed and freaked out. He ends up stepping in to stop Gwen when she was about to be forced to enter a piranha-infested dunk tank. Trent confesses that he was the one rigging the challenges and that it was his fault, and that he saw it coming. The audience then cheers for him. As of right now, he and Gwen are on even terms, but are not a couple yet.

In The Aftermath: III, he is sitting next to Gwen. He is the only commentator to speak, aside from Izzy who greets Owen, when he warns Owen to tell the truth. Not much is referred to him in this episode.

In The Aftermath: IV, Trent is the first former cast mate to ask the question of who deserves the money more. He possibly did not vote for the winner, as he passes out in the outhouse due to the smell.

Audition tape
In his audition, Trent sings a love song about searching for the woman of his dreams while playing the guitar in a recording studio. He later then says "Ah, crap." after a string breaks.


 * View Trent's audition video

Camp TV
Like many of the characters, Trent was present in Camp TV. Trent was also one of the main characters of the show, however, he was a late-comer to the camp. In terms of design, Trent is one of the five characters (the others being Duncan, Geoff, Lindsay, and Harold) to go virtually unchanged from his design in Camp TV. The only difference is that his shirt reads "Smith's" instead of having a hand symbol. His character, however, was almost completely different than the current show. While he and Gwen are a couple in Total Drama Island, the two of them were bitter enemies in Camp TV (as they are seen in a number of pictures trying to strangle each other). Trent also was very unpopular amongst the other campers, while in the current show he is popular amongst all the campers. His lack of popularity is apparently because he was the only camper considered "normal." This is almost like Heather. However, some art for Camp TV shows Geoff with his hand over his shoulder and both are smiling happily, which could indicate that he was later accepted by the other campers.

Trivia

 * Trent returned as a competitor in Total Drama Action.
 * Both of Trent's eliminations were caused by the antagonist of the series (when his relationship with Gwen fails):
 * In Search and Do Not Destroy, Heather kissed him in front of Gwen, and once Gwen told LeShawna what happened, LeShawna formed a temporary alliance to vote off either Heather or Trent. Since Heather won invincibility, Trent was eliminated.
 * In 3:10 to Crazytown, Justin overheard Gwen breaking up with Trent, and thought the two were forming an alliance to get to the final two. In order to prove that she and Trent were not in an alliance, she told the Killer Grips to vote him off.
 * He is the only male contestant who competed in both seasons that did not participate in any horror movie challenges.
 * Trent is one of the several campers to have a crying fit:
 * After Heather tricks Trent into thinking Gwen hates him and kisses him, he goes to the beach to cry (without tears) in Search And Do Not Destroy.
 * In The Aftermath: I, Geoff accidentally reveals that Gwen was the cause of Trent's elimination in 3:10 to Crazytown, Trent cries.
 * Oddly, Trent has never had tears in his eyes when crying.
 * He is the only character to have a proven mental disorder (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Izzy may have a mental disorder, but it is said that her crazy personality is caused by her high IQ.
 * Trent's favorite song is "She Would Be Loved," (an obvious spoof of Maroon 5's "She Will Be Loved").
 * Trent's least favorite food is broccoli. His parents had to force-feed him broccoli when he was a kid. His team uses the force-feeding tactic to make Trent eat in Brunch of Disgustingness.
 * Trent has a weak stomach and throws up more than any other contestant.
 * Trent is one of the most unfortunate competitors; becoming gravely injured or narrowly evading certain death five times:
 * He accidentally steps in quicksand and nearly drowns in it with Lindsay in Up The Creek.
 * He sustains a concussion after Owen accidentally throws a giant crate of oranges at his head in If You Can't Take The Heat....
 * He is severely poisoned from eating an improperly-prepared Fugu blowfish meal in Who Can You Trust?.
 * He falls several thousand feet in the air straight into the Earth's crust, breaking nearly every bone in his body in X-Treme Torture.
 * He falls several feet in the air, and sustains a severe blow to his groin, after landing on his crotch into a gate's post, which leaves him reeling in pain for the rest of the challenge in 3:10 to Crazytown.
 * Three of the five injuries Trent sustained were caused by others who meant well:
 * Owen meant for Trent to catch a crate of oranges in If You Can't Take The Heat... (saying, "Trent! Heads up!") but ended up giving him a concussion when the crate hits him in the head.
 * Lindsay failed to prepare the highly poisonous Fugu blowfish correctly in Who Can You Trust? to feed to Trent.
 * DJ put his hand on Trent's back, which caused Trent to fall out of the helicopter on accident. Trent was too terrified about the incident to remember to activate his parachute, causing his very harsh landing.
 * Trent's biography says that he is smart, but that his grades do not reflect that. However, in the last episode, Trent says he is a Straight-A student.
 * Trent is the last male camper from the Screaming Gophers to be voted off.
 * He is one of the few characters who can play a musical instrument. The others are Courtney, who can play the violin and guitar, Harold (and possibly Cody), who can play the keyboard, and Chef, who can play the harp and drums.
 * He is one of three male characters (the others being Justin and Owen) who takes off his shirt on-screen. That does not include when the cast is swimming.
 * It is debatable that his last name could be Smith, mostly because his shirt has "Smith's" written on his original design.
 * This could, however, be a detail in homage to his guitar talent, as Smiths is a guitar brand. Coincidentally, the hand on his revised design resembles the Epiphone logo as well.
 * Here is a list of Trent's obsession with the number nine (as revealed in Beach Blanket Bogus):
 * At breakfast Trent has nine eggs on his plate, after Duncan ate one, Trent was upset that he only had eight left.
 * When Beth gives Trent a friendship bracelet, he taps it on his head nine times (he does this twice).
 * Despite the weight to the sandcastle, Trent puts nine shells on the team's first sandcastle, which causes it to collapse.
 * He gathers nine sticks.
 * He waves to Gwen nine times (counting as he does so).
 * His team's sandcastle has nine moats, nine flags, and nine jam rooms.
 * For the dance contest, in order for him to compete for the team he demands that his team says his name nine times.
 * In 3:10 to Crazytown, Trent gives Gwen a drink from his water bottle, after she drinks out of it he wipes it off nine times.
 * Chris said that Trent was the ninth camper to arrive on the island in Not So Happy Campers - Part 1 (though he was actually the tenth).
 * In Not So Happy Campers - Part 2, Trent was actually the ninth Gopher to jump off the cliff, (since Beth did not jump.) Noah was already in the water when Trent jumped.
 * In The second aftermath, one of Trent's fans kisses her life-sized rag doll of Trent nine times.
 * In Cartoon Network's Best. Game. Ever. one of the things Trent says is that if he won he would give 1 dollar back so he would have 999,999 dollars.
 * Before his Total Drama Action elimination aired in the United States, his profile on Cartoon Network's site for the second season said he wrote "no less than nine songs about his new girlfriend".
 * Trent is the first castmate to get a Gilded Chris Award.
 * He seems to be right-handed.
 * Trent can do the moonwalk, which was first seen in Beach Blanket Bogus. He can also dance like in Michael Jackson's Thriller music video seen in Basic Straining.
 * The hand print on Trent's shirt has 5 fingers (including the thumb), while Trent and everyone else has 4 fingers on each hand (this is not uncommon in cartooning).
 * In his audition tape for Total Drama Island, Trent sings a song about finding "that one woman", possibly foreshadowing his relationship with Gwen.
 * Trent is the only competitor from Total Drama Action (besides Geoff and Bridgette) that doesn't appear in That's Gonna Leave A Mark!.
 * Trent is one of few characters to be featured as a nood on Cartoon Network's bumpers.
 * Trent, along with Heather and Duncan, has kissed two different people on the show.
 * Trent kissed Heather when she tricked him.
 * Trent kissed Gwen in Search and Do Not Destroy.
 * Unlike Heather and Duncan, Trent kissed both of them in the same episode.
 * Trent is the one of few characters to not to show a form of nudity in the show so far.
 * Trent shares the same voice actor as Owen.
 * Trent is one of the seven characters to sing solo, the others being Lindsay, Heather, Owen, Chris McLean, Courtney, and Harold. He has also sung more than any other character on the show.
 * Trent and Izzy are the only people other than the hosts to have lines in every Aftermath show.
 * A common goof throughout the series is the ends of Trent's hair being shown on only one side, while another shot may make them visible on both sides.
 * Not including the returning contestants in Total Drama Action, Trent placed 11th in both seasons.
 * Trent's fear of mimes is mentioned again in Mutiny on the Soundstage by Beth, she says a mime snuck up on Trent and made him wet his pants in front of everyone.
 * Trent is one of the boys in the Total Drama series (along with Justin and Duncan) to have more than one girl show or talk about being attracted to him. The three are Gwen, Katie and Sadie, and possibly Lindsay and Beth.