Mike and Zoey

This article focuses on the interactions between Mike and Zoey.

Overview
Mike and Zoey interact from the moment they meet on the way to the island and are both placed on the Mutant Maggots. They appear to get along rather easily from the get-go, with Zoey seeing him as a sweet guy and Mike seeing her as a nice, good girl. However, someone (well, several "someones") gets in the way of it being a stable relationship: due to Mike's personality disorder, the way he sees Zoey changes when one of his other selves takes control. Mike tries to explain it to Zoey as it being an act, but it becomes even more difficult when Vito, a more masculine, aggressive side, begins to make moves on fellow teammate Anne Maria, bringing stress between the two. Even after Anne Maria left, Mike's personalities would still show up and confuse Zoey. In Grand Chef Auto, Mike finally reveales his multiple personality disorder to Zoey (after conquering them) and she accepts them. From here on, they started a relationship, but was interrupted as Mike took the Hurl of Shame that night.

Total Drama Revenge of the Island Promo Picture/ Main Group Shot
Mike is standing next to Zoey with his left arm holding her shoulders.

Opening Sequence
Mike and Zoey are seen in a raft on a waterfall. Zoey appears to be irritated, while Mike is shown as his alternate personality, Svetlana. As they come closer to the edge, Mike and Zoey are scared to fall off. They both land on a log which is seen being lifted by Lightning. The log underneath Lightning breaks and falls due to the weight capacity, and all three fall off-screen. At the end of the sequence, Zoey and Mike are seen at the campfire ceremony, sitting together, gazing into each other's eyes (similar to Gwen and Trent's part in the Total Drama Island sequence). They hold each other's hands until Chef Hatchet comes between them holding the Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom in a pair of pliers. They are both stunned and move away awkwardly.

Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!
When arriving on the yacht, Zoey elbows Mike, asking him if he can actually believe that they're in the show together. Mike responds saying "Yeah, it's beautiful," while looking into Zoey's eyes. The romantic moment is then interrupted when Lightning pops up between them, showing off his muscles. Zoey lands in Brick's arms, only for Brick to drop her and salute when he is introduced next. Afterwards, as the cast swims across the lake, Staci starts drowning, and Zoey and Mike swim over to help her. As they see each other, they insist that one another go save her first. Staci grabs Mike's head and pulls him into the water, while Zoey watches in fear. After a few seconds, Zoey dives in to get them. When Zoey pops up from the surface, she is seen holding Mike, who is holding Staci. In the confessional, Mike explains how really nice Zoey is and doubts that she will ever go out with a guy like him because of his disorder. When everyone arrives ashore, Staci brags about her ancestors inventing swimming, while Zoey and Mike gaze at each other. While Zoey is talking with Dawn, Mike is seen still gazing at her. Later, when Chris reveals the team names, a "massive animal" approaches from the distance, knocking down every tree in its path. While all the campers are horrified, Mike and Zoey are holding onto each other. While doing the challenge, Mike breaks out into an old man personality. Zoey is noticeably confused, and in the confessional, she thinks that Mike is doing some sort of comedy routine. When the Mutant Maggots cut down the totem, they go on top of it and ride down the hills and lake to the cabins. When Zoey slips off the totem and is barely hanging onto the back, Mike switches out of his old man personality when Zoey calls his name for help. He barely managed to grab her hand just as she lost her grip, and pulled her back up. Zoey clings onto Mike's back and thanks him. After the Maggots are declared the winners, Zoey is seen carrying Mike while they all weakly cheer for their victory.

Truth or Laser Shark
Zoey and Mike converse at the beginning of the episode about action movies. Mike is surprised that she likes them and jokingly tells Zoey that, if she likes action films, he may have to marry her. While everyone was bickering about the challenge, Zoey was seen comforting Mike after he was slapped by Jo. Later, they share a moment when their hands touch while passing along the maggot for the challenge, which is interrupted by the maggot throwing up onto Mike's face.

Ice Ice Baby
Zoey and Mike seem to be enjoying each other's company during breakfast, even when Chester pops up in the middle of it. Zoey confesses that Mike is the perfect combination of "hot" and "smart," which she thought didn't exist, comparing this combo to "Perfect Hair" or "Unicorns, and knowing only jerk jocks back home. When Zoey almost falls off of the tree branch she was clinging to, Mike pulls her back up. They both smile at each other before being knocked off by a bunch of rocks that Lightning kicked down. During the capture the flag snow ball fight, Mike warns Zoey about Scott since he believes the Scott is "psycho." Later, during the snow fort challenge, Mike switches to a new personality, Vito, and starts to act full of himself and walk around without a shirt and gelled-back hair. This makes Anne Maria attracted to him, but Zoey looks especially concerned. At one point, when Zoey tried to approach "Vito," he shoved her away roughly. In the confessional, Mike admits that this personality is very hard to control, and worries about him re-emerging in the future.

Finders Creepers
At the beginning of the challenge, Mike and Zoey are shown standing next to each other and smiling when the other person talks. Both Mike and Zoey confess to an attraction to one another in the Confession Cam. First, Zoey said that Mike is so sweet and she loves that he always encourages other people positively. She also said that she thinks Mike's comedy routine is weird but she added "nobody's perfect". Then, Mike says that Zoey is the only thing he thinks of, when he's in control. Zoey gets kidnapped early on in the competition, which causes Mike to search for her everywhere. Mike only stops when he falls off a high tree and lands on a tombstone and turns into Vito. Mike and Anne Maria make out in front of Zoey, held tied up on a spiderweb, and yells at them to stop. Zoey shrieking in terror is enough to make Mike come back to himself and notice all the tied up contestants. He starts climbing the wall to try and reach them, but slides back down instead. He thinks it is hopeless until Svetlana comes out to leap up onto the web, landing right next to Zoey. At the elimination ceremony, Zoey appears to be disappointed and heartbroken after seeing Mike kissing Anne Maria in front of her and Mike's face shows that he feels the situation is extremely awkward, and does not sit next to Zoey, but next to Anne Maria.

Backstabbers Ahoy!
Zoey confronts Mike about kissing Anne Maria during the first part of the challenge, with Zoey stepping on the air hose Mike was pumping for Jo. Mike explains that when he gets so into character, he sometimes loses control. And he tells Zoey that she is the greatest girl he has ever met, which made Zoey feel so touched. He says he will try to tone it down which Zoey accepts until Vito appears and begins to flirt with Anne Maria. Zoey walks offby herself and thinks until she is interrupted by Dawn. Dawn explains that the Mike part of Mike really likes Zoey, which makes Zoey happy but she is confused by the statement. Dawn disappears before she can ask her what she meant by it.

Runaway Model
Mike compliments Zoey on her hair but Zoey is still mad at him and states that Vito would like Anne Maria's hair. In the confessional Zoey says that she thought Mike was nice and is confused on who he really likes. Mike in the confessional realizes that their relationship is suffering because of his multiple personalities. Later, Mike, as Chester, are annoyed that Anne Maria and Zoey took too long to apply make up on Jo, so he push them aside and finish the job. Later as his normal self, he asks Zoey what had they done to Jo's face. After Scott moved to their team, Mike felt disturbed when Scott interacts with Zoey.

A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste
When Mike turns into Manitoba Smith he calls Zoey pretty, but he implies that women are naturally scared, annoying Zoey and Anne Maria. Zoey tackled Mike in happiness when they were reunited in the mine. During the last few seconds of the challenge, Mike went back to save Zoey and Cameron. Mike wanted to tell Zoey about his secret because he thought certain doom would struck them, until Brick saved all three. Mike, Zoey and Cameron saluted Brick off the island in a show of gratitude.

The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean
After Mike found a fedora hat and turned into Manitoba Smith, he was talking to Zoey. When Mike returned to his normal self, Zoey admits she likes Mike the best. She explains why she likes him, the fact that he keeps changing characters makes it hard to know him. When their team was being attacked by a mutant alligator, Mike helped Zoey climb a tree to escape it. Cameron notes that it is Zoey that causes Mike to become himself when in another personality. Zoey was annoyed when she thought that Vito came back after Mike got stuck on a thorn which Cameron helped Mike get back to normal. Cameron advised Mike that he should tell the truth which Mike said that he will in ten years. After the Mutant Maggots lost, Mike asked Zoey to vote for Scott but did not pressure her. Throughout this episode Scott planted seeds of doubt about Mike's trustworthiness in Zoey's mind.

Grand Chef Auto
Because Chris destroyed the Mutant Maggots lodging, Zoey is forced to dig through the rubble to find clothes. Mike finds a pair of Brick's boots and gives them to her. When she falls, he catches her, which she is shown to be extremely grateful for. Later, Zoey notices that Mike is being used by Scott and tells him to stand up for himself. During the challenge, she becomes stuck on the totem pole Mike goes to help her despite Scott's threat. Scott then forces Vito, who had earlier angered and abandoned Zoey, to come out. She is concerned when she sees Mike unconscious and decides to accept the fact he has multiple personalities. Mike and Zoey try to kiss before he takes the Hurl of Shame, but he is catapulted immediately before they can do so.

Up, Up and Away In My Pitiful Balloon
As a revenge for eliminating Mike in the previous episode, Zoey commands the mutant goats to fire at Scott in Mike's name. She had earlier sworn to get even with Scott for having gotten him eliminated, declaring that he needed to pay.

Trivia

 * They were both the first contestants of Total Drama: Revenge of the Island to use the confessional. Mike is the first male (and first overall) and Zoey is the first female.
 * This is the first relationship to be revealed in the fourth season.
 * This relationship is in a love triangle with Anne Maria and Mike.
 * This couple along with Anne Maria and Mike forms the second love triangle of the series. The first is Duncan with Gwen and Courtney.
 * Both of these love triangles feature one male and two females.
 * This is the Duncan and Gwen counterpart of the love triangle as the female is attracted to the male's sweet side.
 * Coincidentally, both females are being called "pasty" by the male (although it was Vito, not Mike, who did so).
 * Gwen and Zoey had their love rival kiss their lover before they did (mainly because Gwen had interest in a different person before she had feelings for Duncan).
 * In the end, both Duncan and Mike chose Gwen and Zoey over their love rival.
 * This is the fourth couple whose kiss is interrupted before being separated. The others are Gwen and Trent in Total Drama Island, Owen and Izzy in Total Drama Action, and Lindsay and Tyler in Total Drama World Tour.
 * This is the second couple to yet to have any on-screen kiss. The first is Beth and Brady.