Dakota

Dakota Milton, labeled The Fame-Monger, was a camper in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island as a member of the Toxic Rats before returning as a member of the Mutant Maggots. She was previously eliminated in Truth or Laser Shark, but thanks to her father, returned in Ice Ice Baby as an intern, and she finally returns as a contestant in A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, but she was eliminated again in The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean and also turned into a mutant monster.

Total Drama: Revenge of the Island
Dakota first appears in Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er! on a boat with the other twelve contestants. When Chris introduces her, she begins to talk, but is cut off when Chris introduces Anne Maria. This annoys her, and she shoves Anne Maria out of the camera's view. Anne Maria angrily sprays her face with spray tan. After Chris blows up the boat, Dakota is seen in a lifeboat being photographed by paparazzi. She playfully asks how they found her, only for them to reply that she texted them the location. This annoys Chris who assigns Chef to blow up the paparazzi boat. Dakota is later placed on the Toxic Rats team after finishing the race in tenth place. When Anne Maria arrives after her, Dakota waves to her, which causes Anne Maria to glare back at her. When a mutated squirrel appears in front of the teams, she kneels down to it, saying she wants one. However, when the squirrel roars and shoots electricity out of its eyes, she screams and runs away, jumping into Sam's arms. In the first challenge of the season, Dakota saws down the Rats' totem using a saw despite not knowing how to use it until Dawn tells her to pretend it is "daddy's steak knife". Although the Toxic Rats arrived first, her team loses the challenge after their selected cabin explodes and she, along with the others, end up annoyed with Staci's chatter. Dakota ends up in the bottom two in the first Campfire Ceremony of the new season, but ends up safe and receives the final marshmallow after Staci receives the Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom.

In Truth or Laser Shark, Dakota is woken up by Dawn's conversation with a bird. When Dawn reveals she knows why Dakota wants fame, she freaks out and tries to go back to sleep. Later, she wakes up with bags under her eyes, saying she needs more beauty sleep. She talks to Sam, who develops an attraction towards her and tries to complement her, but fails. She is confused by his compliment and tries to return the favor but has nothing good to say to him. Before the first challenge, Chris takes away Dakota's phone. However, Dakota uses a back-up phone in the challenge, which is ruined by water. In the challenge, the two teams tie which leads to part two. Before part two, Sam says he and Dakota have a lot in common. She dislikes this at first, but then understands that Sam was only talking about the electronic withdrawal. In the second part of the challenge, Dakota is at the end of the challenge, with Cameron. She becomes too distracted by the paparazzi to compete and ends up losing the challenge for the Toxic Rats. All of the Toxic Rats (besides Sam) vote for Dakota. At the campfire ceremony, Dakota is eliminated but she does not take the Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom. She is in shock, saying she never got her spin-off series yet and proceeds to run away. She is asked by Chris if she has any last words but before she can say them she is shot in the sky by the Hurl of Shame shortly after.

In Ice Ice Baby, Dakota crashes her hang glider into the campfire during the Toxic Rats' elimination ceremony, colliding into and landing on top of Sam. She asks Chris to let her return to the competition, saying she needed more time on the camera. Reluctantly, he brought her back as an intern after getting a call from her father, who offered him a large amount of money to bring her back.

Dakota made a more prominent return in Finders Creepers, as Chris' new intern. She was tasked with preforming different duties around the camp during the challenge, after waking the remaining contestants with an airhorn. As the challenge progressed, she found Sam, who had fallen into a grave, and unknowingly poured kitchen grease all over him, attracting the presence of several large maggots. She considered apologizing to him, but found this disturbing and instead left Sam. When the Mutant Maggots lost, Brick was spared as Chris decided to have him switch teams, and decided to make Dakota take the Hurl of Shame instead, for the second time. Despite this, he did inform her that she still has a job as an intern as long as she swims back.

After being thrown into the lake to be mauled by piranhas by Chris, Dakota returns to the island (again) with former contestant Bridgette on a canoe in Backstabbers Ahoy!. The two of them are required to demonstrate the challenge to the other contestants. When Fang attacks the canoe, Dakota quickly clings on to Bridgette. Later, the two of them has to demonstrate to the others on how to set off the mine. When the mine explodes, Dakota was sent flying onto a buoy. Dakota remains there for the rest of the episode while trying to fend off Fang.

In Runaway Model, Dakota becomes closer with Sam. He asks for her fashion advice in order to help the Rats with the challenge, which she does, telling him that stripes are in. She then calls her paparazzi to take pictures of her being helpful, and they arrive. However, instead of taking pictures of Dakota, they take pictures of Sasquatchanakwa, which angers her. She is angered even further when Sam uses horizontal stripes instead of vertical stripes. When Sam competes in the challenge, Dakota cares for his well-being. Before Sam takes the Hurl of Shame, Dakota tries to give him her number. Although Sam is hurled before he can hold on to the paper with her number, their relationship finally becomes mutual.

In A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, Dakota is seen reluctantly filing Chris's toenails before the opening sequence. Later, she is used to test the mine for the challenge that day, but due to her staying later in the mine than the designated time, loses her hair from the radiation. Following Anne Maria's elimination, Chris decides to fire Dakota from her job as an intern, but makes her rejoin the competition as a member of the Mutant Maggots, which she is not happy about.

In The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean, Dakota is first seen stranded on rafts out in the water along with the other competitors. Starting very quickly, she starts to gradually mutate throughout the episode due to her over-exposure to radioactive substances, noticeable getting stronger whilst doing so. During the campfire ceremony, she, Mike, and Cameron all vote for Scott, causing him to be eliminated. But Scott had the McLean-Brand Chris Head, saving him from elimination, and causing Dakota to be eliminated instead. She did not seem to care due to her and Sam busy making out.

Total Drama Reloaded
In her original design, Dakota's initial body shape and facial design were the same, but her overall look was drastically changed. She originally had red hair with a flower in it, and her hair was only about shoulder length. She had long, tan-colored jeans and a purple shirt. Her skin was also paler. She lacked the sunglasses that she currently wears. Her original design was instead recycled into the current design for Zoey, with some minor changes. Since then, her shoulder length red hair is changed to long blonde hair, her purple top was changed to a pink top, her long tanned pants were changed to a hotpink color, her shoes are currently pink and her skin is now tan.

Audition tape

 * View this video for Dakota's audition tape.

Dakota greets viewers by telling them hello and her name. She then states that she will one day be a reality show mega-star, fashion model, and award-winning movie actress. She then adds that she may also be a pop music star, if she has the time. Then, she tells the viewer that they may want to preserve her audition for prosperity. The last thing she says is that when she is done on Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, she will be the "biggest thing ever," ending the audition.

Trivia

 * Fame-Monger, Dakota's stereotype, is a term on the Total Drama Online website, a contest that rewards a different person monthly for being big Total Drama fans.
 * Dakota's desire to have a mutated squirrel in the first episode parallels the character Veruca Salt in a chapter of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, a novel by Roald Dahl.
 * Dakota is the third contestant to be brought back onto the show after an elimination to hold a staff-like position; in her case, a job as an intern. The first two were Owen and Ezekiel.
 * This also makes her the first and only contestant in Total Drama history to become an intern.
 * In her Total Drama Online profile, Dakota's top is black instead of pink one.
 * Dakota is the third contestant to contact someone from the outside world with a technological device while on the show; in her case, she texted the paparazzi in Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!.
 * The first was Courtney contacting her lawyers in Total Drama Action.
 * The second was Beth using Courtney's PDA to contact Brady in Total Drama Action
 * Dakota is the second member of the new cast to have her last name confirmed, the first being Brick. Her last name was revealed in Ice Ice Baby, and was revealed to be Milton.
 * This is a parody of hotel chain heiress Paris Hilton.
 * Overall, she is the ninth character to have their last name revealed. The others are Alejandro, Blaineley, Brick, Chris, Cody, DJ, Harold, and Chef Hatchet.
 * Dakota is one of seven characters to have a cleft chin. The others are Chris McLean, Geoff, Chef Hatchet, Trent, Heather and Brick.
 * Dakota is one of four characters to have their own sleep masks. The others are Heather, Justin and Courtney.
 * She is the only newcomer to have sleep masks.
 * Dakota's original design highly resembles Zoey's current design.
 * Dakota's favorite movie, "Shoeless", is a reference to the real-life teen comedy, Clueless.
 * Dakota is one of the three contestants to suffer from tech withdrawal. The others are Courtney and Sam.
 * Therefore, Sam and Dakota are the only newcomers to suffer from tech withdrawal.
 * Dakota noticeably shares many similarities with Ezekiel.
 * Both were the only two contestants to be brought back to the show as something entirely different from a contestant.
 * Both were eliminated second in a season.
 * Both were eliminated once and kept insisting upon their return into the competition, with Chris eventually letting them back in after someone else quit.
 * Dakota and Ezekiel were the only contestants that became bald that the reason of them becoming bald was not related with the elimination.
 * Dakota and Ezekiel were both placed in the team with more contestants eliminated before the merge in a season.
 * Both eventually transformed into hideous monsters at the end of their participation in the show.
 * Dakota is one of the six characters to become bald at one point of the series. The others are Heather, Sierra, Ezekiel, Alejandro and Staci.
 * She is one of two characters to become bald due to radiation. The other is Staci.
 * She is the fourth female to be bald.
 * She is also the only person to become completely bald without any hair left on her head or any patches.
 * Dakota is the first new contestant of Total Drama: Revenge of the Island to return after her elimination.
 * Dakota is the second contestant on the show to be adversely affected by radiation, the first being Staci.
 * In Truth or Laser Shark, Dawn mentions that Dakota has a "great darkness" surrounding her; this is likely a foreshadow to how she turns into a monster in The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean.
 * Dakota holds the record for taking the Hurl of Shame the most amount of times, having taken it a total of three times.
 * Post mutation, Dakota's hair grew back, but instead of becoming blonde, it becomes green.
 * This makes her the second person to have green hair, the other being Duncan although only partially and unnaturally.
 * She is also the first contestant to change her hair colour on-screen.
 * By the end of her audition Dakota said that she will be the "biggest thing ever", possibly hinting how large she became during The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean.
 * Because of her mutation, Dakota is now the tallest female contestant, surpassing Sierra, the tallest contestant, surpassing DJ and the tallest character in the show, surpassing Chef.

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