Killer Grips

The Killer Grips were one of the teams in Total Drama Action. Their team's symbol is a red and yellow circle with a red fist. They appear to be the Total Drama Action equivalent of The Killer Bass of Total Drama Island, but have proven to be a weaker team as they lose most of the challenges before the merge. The team's members were chosen by team captain Trent, and consists of himself, Lindsay, Justin, Beth, Owen, Izzy, and later in the game, Courtney (though she was put on this team by Chris, not Trent).

The team suffered their first lost in Riot On Set, becoming the first team to lose a challenge on Total Drama Action, not unlike their counterpart. In that episode, Izzy was voted off because she lost the acting challenge for the Grips. The team looses once again in Beach Blanket Bogus, due to the fact that Trent began throwing challenges so Gwen could win. This continued in 3:10 to Crazytown, but Trent was voted off once Justin discovered he was cheating.

The Killer Grips finally win their first challenge in The Chefshank Redemption, thanks to Gwen trying to even the score with them and Justin's spying which caused his team to get upset and Gwen. During this episode, Justin takes charge of the team. Izzy also returns to the team in this episode during the prison escape challenge much to everyone's surprise. Despite this win, the Gaffers resume their winning streak by One Flu Over the Cuckoos.

In The Sand Witch Project, Lindsay takes charge of the team, and she helps them almost win the challenge. However, the others see this as her being bossy and rude, landing her in the bottom two. But nobody was sent home once DJ quit the game for his pride and guilt. The Grips lose again in Masters of Disasters, due to their inability to work with Izzy without Owen by their side as he had been hurt earlier in the challenge. Izzy is hated even more in Full Metal Drama, especially by Justin, and is voted off for the second time in this episode, due to Justin convincing Lindsay and Beth to vote her off for saying that he isn't good looking.

The Grips are once again on even footing with the Gaffers, with four members each, by Ocean's Eight - Or Nine. After they rescue Owen from his vault, and arrive at the bank teller area, they aren't very excited to learn that Courtney will be joining their team. She immediately assumes leadership of the team, bossing them around. They almost win the challenge, but the Gaffers pass the finish line first when their "car" breaks down. Even though the Grips had planned on voting Courtney off, it was Owen who was sent home due to Courtney getting invincibility from her lawyers.

With Courtney at their side, the Grips win their first challenge fairly in One Million Bucks, B.C., thanks to Courtney's bitter rivalry with Duncan. They win again in Million Dollar Babies, after they suck up to Chris during the tiebreaker cheering challenge. Courtney also seems to be nicer to her teammates in this episode than she has in the past.

The Grips, along with the Gaffers, are merged in Dial M for Merger, with Beth, Courtney, Lindsay, and Justin going on to the merge. Justin was eliminated in The Princess Pride due to him falling for Courtney's charms, throwing the final challenge for her. Owen returned to the competition in Rock n' Rule because Chris paid him $50,000 in order to stir up some trouble among the other contestants. In that same episode, Lindsay was eliminated after accidentally voting herself off when she got distracted by Beth. Both Courtney and Owen were eliminated in Top Dog. Courtney was voted off by Beth due to previous actions between the two and Duncan because he was tired about the rules of their relationship, and Owen was fired by Chris seconds later due to Beth and Courtney finding out about his work as a traitor, leaving Beth as the last surviving Killer Grip in the competition. In the season finale of Total Drama Action, Beth lost to Duncan for the million dollar prize.

Only half of the former Killer Grips move on to Total Drama World Tour, as Trent, Justin, and Beth failed to qualify for the season. Due to there being three teams in Total Drama World Tour, there is no definitive counterpart of the Killer Grips.

Original Members

 * Beth
 * Owen
 * Lindsay
 * Justin
 * Izzy
 * Trent

Additional Members
When one former contestant filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination, she is returned to the game with unfair advantages and is placed on this team, as a "consolation prize."
 * Courtney

Trivia

 * A Grip is a stagehand in film or television production that mainly helps in shifting scenery, adjusting sets, lighting, and props.
 * The Killer Grips are easily the weakest team in Total Drama history, with the most amount of losses of any team to date. Out of the 11 episodes of Total Drama Action where the two teams competed against each other, the Grips lost 8.
 * This is especially due to the fact that it consists almost entirely of former Screaming Gophers, which was the superior team in the previous season.
 * It is also worth noting that, of the only three victories they had prior to the merge, they required some kind of help. In The Chefshank Redemption, they only won due to Gwen throwing the challenge because of a favor she owed Justin. In One Million Bucks, B.C., they mainly won due to Courtney's ferocity in the challenge. Million Dollar Babies is the only episode where they won due to actually working together as a team, and several of their members contributed to the victory.
 * Beth, Izzy, and Owen are the only Grips that do not take on a leadership role for the team.
 * Despite being based on the Killer Bass, the Killer Grips contain only one Killer Bass member (Courtney), but before her return it was an all Screaming Gopher team.
 * Interestingly, Courtney also proved to be the strongest competitor for the Grips once she returned, despite being the only Killer Bass member on the Grips. This is interesting because the Killer Bass were considered to be the inferior team in Total Drama Island.
 * She also was awarded to the team in Oceans Eight - Or Nine, halfway through the season, making all of the members until Courtney's arrival Screaming Gophers.
 * The Killer Grips lost the first two challenges in Total Drama Action just as the Killer Bass lost the first two challenges in Total Drama Island.
 * The Killer Grips are the first team in the series to lose more than three challenges in a row. The second is Team Victory.
 * The Killer Grips have the most non-merged competitors from season one.
 * The Killer Grips lost the first three challenges due to Trent throwing challenges for Gwen. This is slightly similar to when Beth cursed her team with the Tiki Idol in Total Drama Island, as each cost their team three challenges.
 * Trent, the team captain, was the second member to be voted off.
 * The Killer Grips never won with Trent as captain, due to him throwing competitions for Gwen.
 * Coincidentally, the contestants Heather used to vote Justin off in Total Drama Island, are now his team, being Lindsay, Owen, Izzy and Beth, with the exception of Trent.
 * In Riot on Set, it wasn't Izzy who was eliminated, but it was E-Scope. This means that E-Scope doesn't exist anymore (in the game) and Izzy returned in The Chefshank Redemption.
 * In Full Metal Drama, Izzy used the name Explosivo. She also used the name Esquire in The Aftermath: II, but she never returns under this new title.
 * In Ocean's Eight - Or Nine, the Killer Grips were "awarded" Courtney as an addition to their team.
 * The Grips won their very first reward challenge in One Million Bucks, B.C..
 * Despite all the eliminations that they had to go through and their loss in every elimination challenge except two, the Grips have had equal or more teammates than the Screaming Gaffers since The Chefshank Redemption. This is because of Izzy's return to the competition and increasing the number of the Killer Grips; Gwen purposely costing her team the challenge and getting herself voted off, therefore saving another Grip from being eliminated and lowering the number of Gaffers by her own elimination; DJ quitting even though the Gaffers won that week's challenge and therefore not only lowering his own team's number of players but preventing another Killer Grip from being eliminated; and Courtney's return to the competition as a member of the Killer Grips, increasing the number of members on the team again.
 * Also, it is worth noting that after Courtney's return to the competition, the Grips start winning challenges on their own.
 * Izzy, Trent and Owen were the only Killer Grips eliminated before the team merge, although there have been four eliminations and five ceremonies. Izzy was voted off two times, first as E-Scope and secondly as herself (both of which were before the merge as well).
 * When Owen got eliminated, Justin became the last male castmate on the Killer Grips. However Justin was eliminated in The Princess Pride, and Owen later returned in Rock n' Rule, making Owen the last male castmate from the team, until his firing by Chris.
 * By the time of the merge, the Grips only won three times, two times with Courtney's help, and once without Courtney.
 * Though this was due to Gwen letting them win, meaning they never won without somebody's help.
 * The Killer Grips are the only team to receive all three returning castmates (castmates who have entered the show at an irregular time, and after their elimination).
 * The two final female Killer Grips (Beth and Courtney) were the final females on the show. Interestingly, they are the only two females that competed in Total Drama Action who did not make it to the merge in Total Drama Island, and are also the two lowest ranking females (and two of the three lowest-ranking contestants) from Total Drama Island to be in Total Drama Action.
 * Beth is the last Killer Grip to be eliminated and is also the last female to be eliminated on the Killer Grips. She won Total Drama Action in an alternate version. She was the first member of a "Killer" team to make it to the final two on a Total Drama series season the same season they were on a "Killer" team.
 * This is the only team Lindsay has been on without LeShawna.
 * Owen is the only male on the team to compete in all three seasons.
 * Beth is the only female on the team to compete in only two seasons.
 * They have five contestants during the merge episodes, just like the Killer Bass did (the Bass had Bridgette, Geoff, Duncan, DJ, and Eva, who had to return. The Grips had Lindsay, Beth, Justin, Courtney, and Owen, who, like Eva, returned as well).
 * Only four members of the team (Courtney, Owen, Izzy, and Lindsay), which is barely over half, moved on to the next season. They are the team to have the least amount of members move onto the next season so far.
 * This is the only original team Izzy was on that she didn't switch out of (Although she did help out the Gaffers in The Chefshank Redemption.)
 * This team has lost the most challenges of any team in the series with eight loses (Team Victory only lost six times before they all were eliminated).
 * But Team Victory had less members, meaning they were able to be eliminated faster.
 * Justin, Izzy, and Trent are the only members of this team not to be in Total Drama Action's final six.
 * Owen is the highest ranking member of Total Drama Island to be on this team.
 * Justin is the lowest ranking member of Total Drama Island to be on this team.
 * Courtney is the highest ranking member of Total Drama World Tour to be on this team.
 * Lindsay is the lowest ranking member of Total Drama World Tour to be on this team.
 * Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot is the only Total Drama World Tour team to contain two former Killer Grips (Izzy and Owen), since Courtney was on Team Amazon and Lindsay was on Team Victory.
 * Many of this team's members have interesting parallels in the competition.
 * Both Trent and Justin have competed in twenty-one episodes.
 * Justin competed in five episodes in Total Drama Island and sixteen in Total Drama Action.
 * Trent competed in sixteen episodes in Total Drama Island and five in Total Drama Action.
 * All members have made it to the merge at least once.
 * Trent, Lindsay, Owen, and Izzy made it to the Total Drama Island merge.
 * Lindsay, Owen, Beth, Courtney, and Justin made it to the Total Drama Action merge.
 * Courtney and Owen made it to the merge in Total Drama World Tour.
 * They were the only two former Killer Grips to do so.
 * Izzy, Courtney, and Owen have all returned to the competition at some point.
 * All members of this team, excluding Justin, have kissed someone else on the show.
 * All members dislike Heather.
 * Both Justin and Courtney were the show's antagonists in Total Drama Action.
 * Although Justin was a secondary antagonist.
 * Owen, Courtney, and Beth were all in Total Drama Action's final four.
 * Both Owen and Beth have been in the final two.
 * This is the first team on the show to have seven members.
 * Trent, Lindsay, Justin, Beth, Owen, and Izzy, the six original members.
 * And Courtney who returned to the show and joined their team.