User blog comment:Epic~00/Why Total Drama All Stars Was Such An Abysmal Season (PART 4)/@comment-24971793-20141030161213/@comment-24971793-20141031152608

She was hiding behind a bunch of big rocks holding a slingshot, when she failed to hit Jo she threw away her weapon??? ran towards a far away Sam so that Jo would target him instead of her. And hid behind him. She could have tried to run out of the cave, she could have remained hidden after the rocks, she could have sacrificed herself, or she could have at least apologized towards Sam and admit that what she did was wrong. She was very clearly a villain in this episode.

Courtney and Gwen both didn't want the villain status. The key difference between two characters: Gwen goes to extremes to try to correct her mistakes and therefore earn back her hero status. Courtney does absolutely nothing and just demands that people see her as a hero. She feels like she's entitled to it and never realises or learns from her mistakes.

I don't believe Courtney wants to be a villain. I believe Courtney has a very distorted egotistical self-image where she sees herself as the perfect a-type that can't do any wrong and is therefore often unaware of her behaviour and how she comes across towards others. Did she ever (in any season) genuinely show remorse about one of her actions or self-reflect? One of my favorite Lindsay moments is when in TDI she made the really smart comment that Courtney would have been voted out eventually, since nobody liked her that much. On which Courtney went in denial. Until they give her an arc in which she does realise she's not perfect I don't think she could make a believable protagonist. AS and WT where packed with hints that she was still the same old very flawed Courtney. All the way through.