Courtney

Courtney, labeled The Type 'A' of the group, was a camper from Total Drama Island on the Killer Bass team. She is currently not qualified to compete in Total Drama Action (though there are hints and rumors indicating that she will return to compete eventually).

Total Drama Island
Courtney considers herself a born leader, quickly taking the reins of the Killer Bass leader very early on in the show. She is undeniably the one who calls the shots on the team until she is eliminated, and unlike the Screaming Gophers, her leadership is not as controversial or questionable as Heather's leadership of the Screaming Gophers. Although she is extremely bossy, competitive, and critical, she can also be genuinely civil and polite to her fellow campers, and unlike Heather, does not resort to forming alliances and underhanded scheming to make a scapegoat out of a camper. Being an overachiever, she does have a tendency to overreact when things go wrong and often reminds everyone of her C.I.T. (Counselor In Training) experience when the others begin to question her judgment. Her greatest fear is green Jelly because it looks like edible mucus, though before this was revealed, she insisted that she was not afraid of anything. She encourage Duncan to overcome his fear of Celine Dion music store standees. As her turn comes, she did not overcome it which made her team lose the challenge. During the first challenge, she is one of the three people who refused to jump off the cliff into shark-infested water, saying her refusal to do the challenge is a calculated risk as she underestimates the Screaming Gopher team, assuming most of them will be too afraid to jump, thus giving her team the win. However, because she refused to jump, she was forced to wear a chicken hat for the entire day (along with fellow camper DJ, who has a fear of heights). Courtney is stricken with bad luck with the first challenge; she gets a swollen eye due to an allergic reaction to a bee sting and despite her leadership skills, her team fails to properly build a hot tub. Afterwards, the other Killer Bass members considered voting her off due to her attitude and refusal to jump off the cliff, finding DJ (the other one who did not jump) as more of an asset to the team in future challenges. However, Courtney is saved due to Ezekiel making some sexist comments about his fellow female team members and picking his nose in public, which results in him getting eliminated instead. Courtney manages to play the game well afterwards (even befriending Bridgette and some others). Courtney has a talent for playing the violin (though her level of expertise with the instrument is never seen due to Bridgette's accidental clumsiness crushing the violin). Then Bridgette says "Oh crap!" Overall, Courtney is typically overconfident who overestimates her abilities and underestimates the others', even her own teammates (especially Harold, whom she rarely gives a chance to participate in challenges despite the fact that he was the one who earned the Killer Bass' first two wins).

Courtney has a relationship with Duncan. At first Courtney seems to view Duncan as a troublemaker who is hard to work with, getting annoyed, uptight, and paranoid whenever he starts causing trouble and getting out of line. The two of them argue often, but through their arguing, romantic sparks start up between the two when Duncan admits that he digs girls who "crease" him the way she does. Courtney starts to develop a massive crush on Duncan. In "Basic Straining", after having a heart-to-heart about their differences (Courtney's straight-laced attitude in contrast to Duncan's rebelliousness), Duncan manages to get her to help him steal real food from Chef's kitchen for themselves and their fellow campers and Courtney shocks everyone. Through this experience, Courtney begins to get a thrill out of breaking the rules. While the other campers are eating the stolen goods, Duncan flirts with Courtney. Though Courtney says Duncan is still not her type, she quickly grabs and kisses him after wishing each other the best in their contrasting lifestyles. Courtney's personality changes drastically after this, developing a greater sense of humor and focusing less on following the rules and winning challenges. However, her team loses in this episode, and at the following Campfire ceremony, Courtney is voted off due to Harold (who spotted the two kissing) rigging the votes to get revenge on Duncan for all the pranks he pulled.

Courtney objects to the elimination as Chef and Chris drag her to the Boat of Losers. Duncan, DJ and Geoff are left dumbfounded as they know for a fact that they did not vote Courtney off, making it mathematically impossible for her to be eliminated (as they had not considered nor figured out that the votes were tampered with). Before the boat is out of sight, Duncan rushes to the dock and throws Courtney a miniature skull he made for her and waves goodbye. Courtney finds it freaky, but she loves it and promises she will never forget Duncan. When she returns in the final episode, she seems more like her old self. However, she shows signs of change (when she says danger is "kinda hot") as she and Duncan kiss a couple of times (though she still claims that he is not her type; Duncan claims that Courtney makes him sick).

In the episode "Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island!", Courtney teams up with Duncan to win the last challenge and get a million dollars. She gets over excited and kisses Duncan after pulling him out from the pile of people. She is shown to be obsessed with winning the money, even willing to leave Duncan behind when he sprains his ankle; unable to walk on his own (after he wrestled an alligator for her). She promised she would still split the money with him, but admitted that she did not want Duncan slowing her down (ironically, she said the same thing to Harold at the beginning of this episode, who is an adversary of both her and Duncan). In the end, Courtney is not one of the fourteen campers who ends up in the dock of shame with the money when it is devoured by a shark, so she is ineligible to compete in the second season despite her wishes. In the Confessional stall, she insinuates that she has not given up yet in trying to get into the competition and is determined to succeed. She never properly apologized to Duncan for abandoning him, and they were not shown to properly reconcile, so it is unknown what the nature of their relationship would be if she were to make it to the second season as a competitor.

Total Drama Action
Since Courtney did not qualify to compete in the one-hour special, she is not technically considered a main character yet, though there have been numerous hints from the creators and official site that indicate that she will end up competing on the show eventually. There is a match up game on Teletoon.com where a player matches parts up to reveal one of the Total Drama Action contestants, and Courtney is included in the game. Courtney is also featured in TDA's opening like the other competitors, whereas others in her position do not appear until the very end. In the TDA episode Monster Cash, the girl's trailer also has an extra bunk, suggesting that somebody is going to occupy that bunk (although the guys cabin also should have an extra bunk). She is listed as a competitor on Teletoon's website, as well. There are many hints that point to the possibility of Courtney returning to TDA as a contestant, but until the show actually airs an episode confirming it, her future as a main character is still in doubt.

Audition tape
In her audition tape, Courtney tells the camera that she is running for student council president. She promises to conduct herself with honor and integrity if she wins, and then accidentally mixes up her two speeches by promising to donate two new pop machines for the cafeteria. Then she says "Oh (censored)!", and argues with the cameraman when he refuses to tape a re-do.

Trivia

 * She will not return for Total Drama Action as a competitor; however, foreshadowing from the show and official blog and show itself indicate that Courtney is determined to change that. Whether or not she succeeds has yet to be seen.


 * She, Justin, and LeShawna were all wrongly eliminated.
 * Courtney was voted off due to Harold's grudge on Duncan.


 * She, Trent and Harold are the only three campers that can play an instrument; violin, guitar and keyboard, respectively. (It is also debatable that Cody can play keyboard as seen in his audition tape.)


 * According to the Total Drama Website, Courtney is also the author of a bestselling book series called "Total Triumph for Teens."


 * Courtney is one of the four campers who does not appear to bring luggage with her when introduced in the first episode. The others are Izzy, Ezekiel and Justin.


 * She is one of the few campers to actually curse in the Canadian version of the show (this was during her audition tape). Courtney seems to have more edited dialog than most of the other campers (see Cartoon Network for a list of the censors in the US version).


 * Courtney seems to have an interest in politics and law, mentioning she plans to "run for office" one day in Basic Straining and planned to study for her LSATs after returning home in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island!. In addition to this, she was running for student council president before joining Total Drama Island.


 * She is one of the campers to have a crying fit. The others are Sadie, Owen, Geoff, and Gwen.
 * She cried after Bridgette broke her violin (Not Quite Famous).
 * She also cried after not facing her fear of green jelly (Phobia Factor).


 * Courtney claims that she excels in saying bad things about people.


 * Despite backing out from facing her fear of green jelly by diving into a pool of it, Courtney ends up having to fall in it anyway in the special, twenty episodes after Phobia Factor.


 * From Who Can You Trust? to X-Treme Torture, a chain of bad karma seems to be apparent in the three eliminations within these episodes. Courtney's grudge with Sadie over a minor incident resulted in Sadie's elimination in Who Can You Trust?, with Courtney not feeling bad at all for making Sadie cry over her loss. After that, Courtney herself was eliminated in Basic Straining due to Harold tampering with the votes in order to get back at Duncan for pranking him, even though Courtney had nothing to do with that conflict. Some feel this was karma repaying Courtney for her senseless indignation towards Sadie. Harold did not regret banishing Courtney (even though she had never done anything to him at that point) until much later on in the series. And in X-Treme Torture, Harold was the one who was eliminated due to failing his challenge after accidentally seeing Heather's exposed breasts. No one had realized what Harold did to eliminate Courtney at that time or why he failed the challenge, and Chris Mclean even mentioned in the TDI Rundown that karma had a play in Harold's elimination as well, for involving Courtney in his feud with Duncan.


 * Courtney is shown that she can be ruthless while in a competition. In the special, she not only abandons Duncan simply because he sprained his ankle (her reasoning being that his injury will slow her down), but she also admits that she would be willing to let DJ, Cody, Tyler, and Owen fall to their deaths in order to win the 1 million dollar prize. Courtney claims that she does not even like the four of them, although none of them have personally scorned her at any time throughout  Total Drama Island.


 * Courtney hits her eye twice, first in Not So Happy Campers - Part 2 (in the beginning of the show) and next in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island (in the later half of the show). Ironically, the same eye was bruised twice.


 * Courtney is the only one who knows that the deserted island of Camp Wawanakwa is actually really close to civilization.


 * She, Geoff, Heather and Noah have been class presidents at their schools.


 * She, Noah, Izzy, and Heather are the only characters without a original design.