Killer Grips

The Killer Grips are one of the two teams in Total Drama Action. They are the counterparts to the Screaming Gaffers. Their team symbol is a cross between a paintbrush and a fist. They seem to be the Total Drama Action equivalent of The Killer Bass of Total Drama Island, but have proven to be an even weaker team than the Bass.

The team was picked by Trent, and consists of himself, Lindsay, Justin, Beth, Owen, Izzy, and later in the game, Courtney.

They lost in Riot On Set, becoming the first team to lose in Total Drama Action. In that episode, Izzy was voted off because she lost the acting challenge for the Grips, due to her horrible acting. They lost 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 due to Trent's cheating in the past. During this episode, Justin takes charge of the team, using underhanded tactics to win. Izzy also returns to the team in this episode. The Gaffers resume their winning streak by One Flu Over the Cuckoos.

In The Sand Witch Project, Lindsay begins to take charge of the team, even though she almost helps them win this 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. 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 he isn't cute.

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, 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. 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 with no strings attached in One Million Bucks, B.C., thanks to Courtney's bitter rivalry with Duncan. The Grips are still getting used to her presence, though. They win again in Million Dollar Babies, after they suck up to Chris during the tiebreaker cheering challenge, when he was the judge of the challenge. Courtney seems to be nicer to her teammates in this episode than she has in the past.

The Grips are broken up 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 and got him to throw the final challenge. 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 because she accidentally voted 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. Owen was later fired by Chris seconds later due to Beth and Courtney finding out about his work as a traitor, leaving Beth the sole Killer Grip remaining in the competition. In the season finale of Total Drama Action, Beth lost to Duncan for the million dollar prize.

Trivia

 * A Grip is a stagehand in film or television production that mainly helps in shifting scenery, adjusting sets, lighting, and props.
 * 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). (However, Izzy was on the Killer Bass in the first episode and shortly in the second episode.)
 * Ironically, 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 ironic because the Killer Bass were considered to be the inferior team in Total Drama Island.
 * 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 have the most non-merged competitors from Season 1.
 * 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 on his team, being Lindsay, Owen, Izzy and Beth, with the exception of Trent.
 * Ironically, the original Killer Grips team was made up entirely of Screaming Gophers.
 * Despite the fact that the Gophers were the superior team in Total Drama Island, the Grips, consisting entirely of Gophers, are clearly the inferior team in Total Drama Action.
 * While Lindsay and Beth were on Heather's alliance, in Total Drama Action, Justin wants to form an alliance with them, making Justin somewhat like the counterpart of Heather in Total Drama Island.
 * Strangely, everyone on the Killer Grips (besides Courtney and Owen) were eliminated in season one due to Heather's scheming. (Izzy was eliminated the second time due to Heather.)
 * 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 soon eliminated in The Princess Pride, and Owen later returned in Rock n' Rule, making Owen the last male castmate on the team, until his firing by Chris.
 * The pattern ended with Justin's elimination in The Princess Pride.
 * Due to the merge, the Grips only won three times and only two times on their own, and once without Courtney.
 * 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).
 * Izzy was the only female Killer Grip who did not make it to the merge, she is also the only one not to be in the final six of Total Drama Action.
 * Owen and Trent were the only boys on the Killer Grips who didn't originally make it to the merge on Total Drama Action.
 * Ironically, Owen and Trent were the only boys from the Screaming Gophers who made it to the merge on Total Drama Island.
 * However, Owen came back later in Rock n' Rule.
 * Owen was the last Killer Grip male to be eliminated before the merge from Total Drama Action. He is also the last male to be eliminated (although he was fired) overall since Duncan was not eliminated in the finale.
 * The two final female Killer Grips (Beth and Courtney) were the final females on the show. Ironically 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. Actually, 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.