Dakota

Dakota Milton, labeled The Fame-Monger, was a camper on Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, as a member of the Toxic Rats. She was previously eliminated, but thanks to her father, returned in Ice Ice Baby as an intern and returned as a contestant in A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste after Anne Maria quit, and was placed on the Mutant Maggots in her place. In The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean, Dakota slowly mutated throughout the episode into a gigantic monster, her current state.

Total Drama: Revenge of the Island
Dakota is first introduced 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. Then, Anne Maria angrily sprays her face with spray tan in retaliation. After Chris blows up the boat, Dakota is seen in a lifeboat being photographed by paparazzi. She playfully asks how they managed to find 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. Thus, 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 performing different duties around the camp during the challenge, such as waking the remaining contestants with an air horn. 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 have 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, she 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, asking Cameron for hair gel. In the confessional, Dakota expresses her desire for an ally, naming Zoey as the most likely candidate. As Chris explains the challenge, Dakota begins to undergo a startling transformation, due to the radiation she experienced in the mine, growing more monster-like as the episode progresses. She does not help with getting her team's raft to shore, but beats back Fang when he attacks them. When the Maggots get to shore, Dakota is happy to see that Sam returned to be apart of the challenge. However, after Chris explains how he kidnapped and hid Sam underground, Dakota becomes infuriated, completing her mutation into a gigantic monster. Once they arrive at the swamp, Dakota immediately rushes in, determined to find Sam. Later, when the Tentacled Alligator attacks Zoey, Dakota viciously fights it, to defend her friend. She eventually throws it into the vine patch, clearing a path for the others. When Jo finds the coffin Sam and Gwen are in, Dakota knocks her out of the way, and tosses Gwen aside. She then lifts Sam out of the coffin, and happily hugs him. Despite this, her team ends up losing. At the elimination ceremony, Scott is eliminated, but surprisingly he plays the McLean-Brand Chris Head, neglecting all the votes against him, and eliminating Dakota who got votes from Scott, and Zoey. She does not seem to care however, and kisses Sam as they take the Hurl of Shame together. Dakota is seen once again in Brain vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown, still in her monster form. She is seen in the peanut gallery where she roots for the finalists. When the mutated animals began to attack the cast, Dakota fights the Giant Turtle, who was crushing Sam between his legs. She is last seen celebrating when Cameron wins, and then leaves the island along with the other contestants and Chef.

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 hot pink 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 is the third person after elimination to hold a staff-like position; in her case, a job as an intern. The first two were Owen and Ezekiel.
 * She is the only female to hold a staff-like position after her elimination.
 * Dakota is one of the five contestants to return to the game, after being eliminated. The others are Izzy, Eva, Owen and Duncan.
 * In her Total Drama Online profile, Dakota's top is black instead of pink.
 * Dakota is the third contestant to be eliminated in the episode after she debuted/returned, the others being Ezekiel and Blaineley.
 * She is also the first, and so far, only, contestant in the series to be eliminated in the episode after her debut/return twice.
 * She debuted with the rest of the cast in Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er! and was eliminated in Truth or Laser Shark.
 * She returned as a contestant in A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste and was eliminated in The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean.
 * 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's ultimate mutagenic fate was foreshadowed twice in the show. First in her audition tape, when she says she'll be "the biggest thing ever" on television (her mutation would later turn her freakishly tall) and second when Dawn predicts in Truth or Laser Shark that if Dakota remains on the island "disaster will befall her".
 * 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 a sleep mask.
 * She is the only contestant to have a sleep mask, yet not be an antagonist.
 * 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 two of the only three contestants to be eliminated one episode after their return or debut, the other being Blaineley.
 * Both were eliminated second in a season.
 * Both were eliminated once, but Chris eventually let them back in after someone else quit.
 * Both placed on 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 being Staci.
 * 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.
 * 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. Also, her eyes went from green to dark red.
 * This makes her the second person to have green hair, the other being Duncan although only partially and unnaturally.
 * Dakota is the second person to return to the competition but fails to make it to the merge. The first is Izzy in Total Drama Action.
 * Dakota is the only person in Total Drama history to take the elimination ceremony three times in a single season.
 * However, the second time she took the Hurl of Shame wasn't because she was eliminated, but for Chris's own amusement.
 * With her mutation, Dakota has become the tallest contestant, character, and female in Total Drama history.

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