Cameron and Mike

This article focuses on the interactions between Cameron and Mike.

Overview
Cameron is one of the first people to know about Mike's alternate personalities, but keeps Mike's secret away from Zoey, Mike's crush. Cameron also tells Mike that he will help him to control his personalities, leading the two of them to become friends. Meanwhile, Cameron learns how untrustworthy Scott is, and tries to get Mike's help in order to vote him off, but fails as Scott uses the McLean-Brand Chris Head to save himself from the elimination. Knowing how big of a threat the two are, Scott breaks their alliance by voting Mike off in Grand Chef Auto.

In Total Drama All-Stars, Cameron and Mike are once again placed on the same team. When Mike is unable to summon any of his personalities and has lapses in his memory, Cameron attempts to help, unaware of his evil personality, Mal. As the season progresses, Mal starts playing mind games with Cameron. This deception makes him believe the other campers are untrustworthy, and he refuses to have faith in anyone other than Mike and Zoey. Mal reveals his true identity to him before Cameron leaves the competition due to injury. In The Final Wreck-ening, Cameron is chosen to return to help Zoey compete against Mal. He originally is doubtful Mike has a chance to reclaim control, but is joyful when he proves to be wrong.

Truth or Laser Shark
Cameron is the first to catch on to Mike's condition, observing Mike as he has a conversation with "Chester" in his sleep. During the challenge, Cameron is amazed by Mike's incredible athletic prowess. He even notes how he referred to himself as "Svetlana." Mike plays off his lapse in memory and hands the maggot to Cameron so he can continue in the obstacle course.



Ice Ice Baby
Cameron further studies Mike’s condition enough to know how to bring certain personalities out. When their team finds themselves losing the challenge with their ice fort melting around them, Jo tried to get Mike to become “Svetlana” and be catapulted over to the enemy team’s fort. Knowing Mike couldn't be able to transform voluntarily, Cameron gave “Svetlana” a dramatic, announcer-style introduction that instantly brought out Svetlana.

Finders Creepers
As Cameron attempts to retrieve the first clue from the hole in the tree, Mike encourages him and refers to him as “Cam,” in a manner similar to how Zoey encouraged him in the previous episode. Later, after Zoey, Brick, and Jo were taken by the spider, Cameron found himself in charge of the team. He tries to get Mike (who was stuck in his “Vito” personality) and Anne Maria to stop making out and come help him in the challenge, eventually resorting to yelling at them for the first time ever. This convinced them to come along with him into the cave, where he himself was eventually captured by the spider before their team lost.



Backstabbers Ahoy!
Cameron is watching Mike interact with his various personalities in his sleep once more, describing him as “a walking, talking psychology book.” Thus, Cameron was now eagerly studying Mike’s behavior and taking notes in a small sketchpad. During the second part of the challenge, Cameron once again manages to bring out Svetlana, who aided them in the challenge.

A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
Cameron and Mike develop a strong friendship in this episode. Mike and Cameron first share the first mine cart as they head down the tracks, and as a result are separated from the others when they hit a fork in the tracks. When Cameron wakes up to find Mike still unconscious, he eventually manages to wake him up by hitting him in the head with a flashlight. Later, as Cameron became weaker due to the radioactivity setting in, Mike carries him on his back. When Mike refers to Cameron as “buddy,” Cameron was very happy about finally having a real friend. When Mike sees Cameron and Zoey under attack by a giant mutated gopher, he races over to save them and tried to hold the gopher back by grabbing onto its jaws. All three of them were eventually saved by Brick, who was eliminated later in the episode. Right before the elimination, Cameron talks to Mike behind the Maggots’ cabin, telling him that he knows about his Multiple Personality Disorder. Mike is at first scared about his secret being out, and frantically asks Cameron how he knew, to which Cameron replies that sixteen years in a bubble makes one very observant. He then tells Mike that he can help him control his personalities, in exchange for an alliance between them against new teammate Scott, whom Cameron doesn’t trust. Mike is more excited about the chance to control his personalities and picks up Cameron in a tight hug, thanking him vigorously.



The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean
Cameron is seen helping Mike be himself and winning Zoey's affections which Mike is grateful for. Cameron listens to Mike whenever he has a suggestion on how to do the challenges. In the confessional, Cameron explains all the triggers of Chester, Svetlana, Vito and Manitoba Smith. Cameron does tell Mike that he should tell Zoey about his condition which Mike says he will do (in about ten years). Before the elimination ceremony, Cameron is tricked by Scott into accidentally telling him about Mike's condition, and later, Mike and Cameron both vote for Scott during the elimination ceremony.

Grand Chef Auto
Cameron feels guilty that he accidentally told Scott about Mike's multiple personalities during the challenge. During the challenge, Mike attempts to tell Cameron that they need to only use a little bit of paint to make a mark until Scott forces him to go. Cameron realizes that he has not been helping Mike throughout the episode and feels like a bad friend. Cameron is saddened when Scott chooses Mike to be eliminated.

Brain vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown
Mike is one of Cameron's most vocal supporters during the final challenge and cheers with everyone else when Cameron defeats Lightning. In Lightning's ending, Mike tells Cameron to try and get up to avoid losing to Lightning; however, Cameron states he can't move the suit without any power, leading to Lightning's winning.

Evil Dread
Cameron places a fedora on Mike's head so then they can use Manitoba Smith's skills to aid them in the challenge.

Saving Private Leechball
While the two are getting ready for bed, Mike makes a comment about how awesome the spa hotel is. Cameron agrees but feels guilty looking at Sam's empty bed, as the latter is exiled on Boney Island. At the start of the next day, Cameron and Mike along with the rest of the Heroic Hamsters enjoy breakfast together and comment on how great the food is. The two, along with Zoey, then finally motions each other to steal some of the food to take to Sam. During the challenge, Mike later attempts to summon Svetlana for the challenge. After a moment, Cameron asks if she has taken control. Mike sighs and responds that he's still himself. At the elimination ceremony, Mike is concerned when Cameron volunteers for exile. When everyone exchanges worried glances, Mike suggests that Cameron's small size might let him go unnoticed by all the animals.



Moon Madness
At the beginning of the episode, Mike, as Mal, trips Cameron while he is descending from the cabin stairs and breaks his glasses. While everyone believes that it was an accident, Zoey is the only one who saw what Mike had done. After being told by Zoey, Cameron confronts Mike about what happened to which he apologizes and tells Cameron about his inability to transform to his other personalities. Cameron forgives Mike and says he will help him figure out his problem. Under the effects of the Blue Harvest Moon, Mike becomes Mal and leads Cameron away from the group while still pretending to be Mike. As Cameron begins to deduce what may have happened to Mike after Scott hit him in Evil Dread, Mal causes Cameron to slip and tumble down a slope. During the elimination ceremony, Cameron was transferred to the Villainous Vultures when he attempts to leave the island. Cameron then tells Mike that he will find a way to solve his alternate personalities problem, not realizing that he is actually talking to Mal instead of Mike.



You Regatta Be Kidding Me
When Chris said the teams were merging, Cameron allowed Mike into his and Zoey's alliance but in the confessional he says it will only be temporary, as he worries about Mike's condition. Cameron seems aware of the potential of an evil personality and mentions to Zoey that Mike always comes back when she was in danger. During the elimination ceremony, it is revealed that due to an unanimous vote, Cameron is eliminated. Zoey and Cameron both stand up in protest confessing that they didn't vote for Cameron. Chris then reveals that Cameron will not be eliminated due to Duncan being arrested, therefore he is not out of the game. Mike (as Mal) then reveals in the confessional that he tampered with the votes.

Zeek And Ye Shall Find
Cameron begins to distrust the other contestants due to the tampered votes from the last episode. Mal tries to calm Cameron down and offers to search around for clues on who might have rigged the elimination ceremony. In the cabins, Cameron finds the votes underneath Mike's bed but is unsure if Mike really did it. The next morning, Mike regains Cameron's trust by warning him that everyone is out to get him, including his new friend, Gwen. The two of them are paired up during the challenge. Inside the mines, Mal encourages Cameron to kiss Courtney in order to pull Scott into their alliance to which he complies. Later, Cameron fell into a hole but manages to hang onto a root. Mal leaves in order to find something to pull him up but reveals that he is going to let Cameron fall to his death by dropping a rock at him. However, by the time he came back, Cameron had already fallen and Mal believes that there is one less loose end to be worried about. After Cameron was removed from the competition due to his injuries, Mal reveals himself to Cameron and tells him of his true intentions back in the mines, causing Cameron to scream in terror.

The Obsta-Kill Kourse
Mal explains his reason for eliminating Cameron in the previous episode. He then later compares Cameron to gum stuck on the underside of a shoe. During the zipline portion of the challenge, Mal comes up with a plan to defeat Alejandro which reminds Zoey of Cameron.

The Final Wreck-ening
Cameron is brought back as one of Zoey's helpers in this episode. When Zoey asks Cameron if there is any chance of Mike returning, Cameron melancholy states he doubts so, and believes Mike may have merely been another alternate personality and is lost forever. After Cameron's bubble accidentally rolls over to Mal's side, he kicks it back and calls Cameron "garbage". During the challenge, Mal picks Cameron up and throws him down to the lower moat. When Mike regains control, Cameron is very happy to see his friend again. After the island sunk, Mike tells Cameron, along with Gwen and Zoey, that they should compete again, only for all of them to say no.

Trivia

 * This friendship is closely associated with the friendship between Cameron and Zoey and the relationship between Mike and Zoey.
 * Both their original designs have white skin and lighter hair, but were changed to darker skin tones and darker hair.
 * In both seasons they participate in, one reaches the finale and the other is eliminated in the ninth episode.
 * Mike was eliminated in Grand Chef Auto in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, while Cameron was a finalist.
 * Cameron was eliminated in Zeek And Ye Shall Find in Total Drama All-Stars, while Mike was a finalist.
 * Both have forced Scott to face his fear of sharks in the eighth episode of a season.
 * In The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean, Mike shoves him into the water and orders him to push the Mutant Maggots' raft to shore.
 * In You Regatta Be Kidding Me, Cameron uses Scott as bait so his team can have a "motor" for their raft.
 * Their voice actors are two out of only three thus far who have voiced someone of the opposite gender.
 * Cameron's actor provides his mother's voice in Brain vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown and Mike's actor also voices his alternate personality, Svetlana.