Leshawna

LeShawna, labeled The Sister With 'Tude, was a camper from Total Drama Island on the Screaming Gophers team. She was a cast member on Total Drama Action and was on the Screaming Gaffers before the team merged.

Total Drama Island
LeShawna joined to show to be a role model for kids on the street. She has said that has lived her entire life in "the Projects", and shows a strong sense of street smarts. Her best friends are Gwen and Bridgette, but she generally gets along with everyone on the island with a few notable exceptions. LeShawna dislikes anyone who gives her attitude or insults her weight. She is known for being outspoken (Harold has described her as "real big and loud" upon meeting her during the first episode). She has a great fear of spiders, which she has not yet conquered. LeShawna may be loud, overconfident, and sometimes obnoxious; however, she puts herself in the "Big Sister" position and is always ready to help out a fellow camper in need. LeShawna can also become very bad-tempered. However, LeShawna is nowhere near as bad-tempered as Eva, despite having to be restrained at times just like her.

In spite of her somewhat intimidating personality, LeShawna is a good-hearted person and a very good friend. She is always there to defend the other campers (namely Beth, Gwen, and Bridgette) when they are being picked on and is willing to listen to their problems. She was even willing to stand up to the raging Eva, while the others remained terrified of her. LeShawna also is willing to pull "revenge" pranks on people who bully others, such as Heather. LeShawna extremely hates Heather because of the way she picks on and deceives the other campers, her superiority complex, and above all for her snobbery that often threatens the safety of the team. She also dislikes Noah for his unwillingness to help anyone, even calling him a disrespectful turkey when he was voted off, although she and Noah showed no signs of hating each other after Noah was voted off (and Noah has admired her cunning when she locked Heather in a freezer in If You Can't Take The Heat... despite Noah's hatred towards LeShawna).

She has tried to get Heather voted off the island numerous times, particularly when she sabotaged Gwen's relationship with Trent (leaving Gwen in tears). LeShawna proves throughout the competition that she is more then just a big talker; she is a winner and one of the fiercest competitors on the show. LeShawna was able to win the first solo-Invincibility in the Wheel of Misfortune challenge by defeating a log rolling bear, (successfully defeating a returning Eva and getting her eliminated again). LeShawna won her own trailer, which Chris destroyed with his pirate cannon in the next episode, Search and Do Not Destroy.

LeShawna was eventually eliminated (by accident due to Chris tricking the losers into voting for her to join them, and he also counted a parrot that say her name twice) in Haut Camp-ture. LeShawna was then sent to join the losers with a shocked look on her face. She returned to the island with the rest of the losers in the final episode, where she finally got enough of Heather's bossy attitude. In response to Heather's actions, she locked her in the Confessional stall (where Owen had just had a violent reaction to Heather's chocolaxative muffin).

LeShawna formed a passionate relationship with Harold. Harold had expressed some hints of a crush on her in the first episode, but LeShawna simply brushed him off as a fellow camper. Harold later sent her many secret letters of Haikus. It wasn't until Harold was eliminated that LeShawna learned the truth, and the two of them kissed under the moon (until Harold was dragged away by Chef). However, when the two reunited in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island!, LeShawna felt awkward about the relationship, feeling that the two moved too quickly and that she only reacted the way she did because of the heat of the moment. To Harold's relief, LeShawna still considered the two of them as close friends, though he is still determined to win her over again.

Total Drama Action
LeShawna is shown to still be on good terms with Harold while simultaneously being on bad terms with Heather. Although she initially shared a bunk with Izzy, as of Riot On Set, she has begun sharing a bunk with Heather, despite being revolted by the idea in Monster Cash. LeShawna is currently unaware of Harold's distorted views on their relationship, as she thinks it simply was not meant to be. Judging from her reactions as of Alien Resurr-eggtion, she is still highly attracted to Justin. In Riot On Set, she is chosen by Gwen to be on the Screaming Gaffers. LeShawna encouraged Gwen to select Heather telling her to keep her enemies closer, and Gwen reluctantly chose Heather over Izzy.

The third part of the challenge in Beach Blanket Bogus required the teams to select a castmate to compete in a dance off. LeShawna insisted that she be the one to compete for her team as her nickname back home is "Le-Shakin' It". Trent is selected to compete for the Killer Grips. The two began dancing, and Trent was quickly distracted by LeShawna's bizarre dance moves. Most of the castmates giggle at her, with DJ remarking in the confessional that her nickname should be "LeBomba", while Heather said that her nickname should be "Prima Ballerino". Harold said he liked LeShawna's dancing, and danced along with her from the sidelines. Despite LeShawna's over-the-top dancing style, she won the challenge after Trent faked an injury in order to allow Gwen to win the challenge.

In 3:10 to Crazytown, because of the humidity, LeShawna's hair had been changed into an afro. With her hair looking the way it did, Heather was eager to make fun of her for it. This lead to another bout of the two feuding during the horse-mounting challenge and somewhat reenacting a scenario that occurred in the second episode of Total Drama Island, where LeShawna again finds herself forcefully pushing Heather off from a high altitude to complete the challenge. This time, however, she is dragged down by Heather simultaneously, leaving them both stuck on a weather vane. LeShawna's weight allowed her to get down on her own (using her hair as a cushion) while Heather is left hanging there. LeShawna started to feel defensive toward Harold as Duncan continued to harass him and and claims she has her eye on Duncan.

It is shown in The Chefshank Redemption that LeShawna's protectiveness of Harold is not only limited to having her eye on Duncan, as she even voted her own close friend Gwen off the competition after seeing her smash Harold over the head with a shovel suddenly. There were other factors involved, such as Gwen subtly trying to throw the challenge in order to let the Killer Grips (to repay the debt of letting Trent do the same for her for two episodes), which Heather caught onto very quickly and tried to convince the rest of the Gaffers that Gwen was up to something, but up until the end, LeShawna dismissed her like many others did. After seeing the incident with Harold, it is assumed that LeShawna began to have her own doubts about Gwen as she joined with Harold and Heather to vote off Gwen.

In One Flu Over the Cuckoos, LeShawna tries to create an alliance with Duncan and Harold in order to keep Heather off her back (apparently unaware that Harold is informally allied with Heather already). However, as Duncan and Harold continue to be bitter enemies towards each other, neither have shown any interest at all in forming a full alliance, though neither seem to mind forming an alliance with only LeShawna herself. This frustrates LeShawna, who seems determined to get this alliance to work in some capacity by mediating between Harold and Duncan's feuds, especially since her main support in Gwen is now gone from the competition.

LeShawna and Duncan end up working together to find a cure for the other castmates who have allegedly contracted a deadly disease during the medical challenge. In spite of all the frenzy, the two are able to calmly and maturely put aside their differences and work together to find out that it was a hoax and that no one was dying. In spite of LeShawna's efforts, Duncan and Harold still refuse to build an alliance with her if it means putting up with each other, and LeShawna simply dismisses them as fools for being immature. The Gaffers win this episode's competition mainly due to her help, and as such, she is the one castmate chosen to receive the reward: a small vacation away from the film block to spend with a relative of hers. She makes this especially decisive by putting on a convincing act where she cries out of frustration when she thought she was going to lose her teammates. Through this, her best cousin LeShaniqua (who takes on LeShawna's Camp TV original prototype design, only with a different color scheme) makes an appearance at the end of the episode as LeShawna rides off in the Lame-o-sine with her, ending the false crying act and now relieved that she's earned a break from the troubles of the Total Drama series. During the dangerous submarine challenge In Masters of Disasters, LeShawna accidentally tells the Screaming Gaffers that she never cries. After Duncan says that she was crying pretty hard for the award, the Gaffers discover that she had her crying two episodes prior. Angered for the trick, Heather lashes out at LeShawna until Duncan breaks them up and Harold tells them to calm down.

In Full Metal Drama, LeShawna tries to win her team's trust by letting them use the only working bathroom stall, but only Harold accepts the bribe. When Chef makes a fruit and bran smoothie for Owen's backed up colon, LeShawna takes it instead claiming she's been starving since DJ's elimination. Later when Owen refuses Chef's second smoothie, LeShawna takes it again, but this time she starts to experience stomach cramps. Then when she, Heather, and Harold are hiding from the Killer Grips (minus Lindsay), LeShawna starts bloating with gas, on the verge of farting. When Heather and Harold try soothing her so she doesn't fart and give away their location, LeShawna apologizes to Harold for lying, and then releases a massive fart, giving away their location.

In Ocean's Eight - Or Nine, LeShawna's team refuses to let her forget about her lies, to the point where even Harold starts picking at her, even if it is just to stay in Heather and Duncan's favor. LeShawna swears revenge on her team but is instead locked in a vault for the bank heist challenge. When they fail to break her out and the bank robbery gear stuck in there with her, the team abandons her to catch up with the Grips. LeShawna spends the entire day trapped in the vault, but takes the time to rethink her actions against the team. After the awards ceremony, Chris and Chef wonder if they forgot something, but brush it off, leaving LeShawna trapped for the night. This act of betrayal will surely worsen things between LeShawna and the Gaffers.

At the beginning of One Million Bucks, B.C., LeShawna was released from the bank vault and gets into a bit of an argument with Heather on why she and their team had left her in there. Moments later, LeShawna tells Lindsay and Beth to be careful with each other now that Courtney had joined their team. LeShawna also saves Harold from the Woolly Beavers as he was getting some firewood from the challenge. LeShawna is put up against Lindsay in the pedestal challenge, and wins. She was also worried that Harold would get attacked by the beavers again just as he and Justin were getting ready to fight on top of the pedestals.

In Million Dollar Babies, LeShawna gets into deeper trouble. While she was on her spa night, she was bad-mouthing everyone to her cousin LeShaniqua. Beth revealed this on Courtney's PDA after LeShawna continuously taunted her about not having a boyfriend. She is chosen to participate in the fourth challenge, a slam dunk competition, and she beats Justin in it. In the fifth and final challenge, LeShawna improvises a cheer about each and every castmate to clear up the bad air. But the Grips win the challenge, and the Gaffers are sent to the elimination ceremony. LeShawna gets the final award after Harold, Duncan and herself voted for Heather. Before Heather's departure, LeShawna tells Heather that she considers her as a friend. In return, Heather gives LeShawna her wig.

Despite the apology in the previous episode, LeShawna still gets the cold shoulder in Dial M for Merger. She seems upset learning that the teams are dissolving, as many of the Grips are still mad at her. But things turn around when Harold and Duncan finally agree to join in an alliance together, while working to get through the lasers, which Leshawna had many problems with. She, again, gets upset with Courtney, as she was using their lives as bargaining chips for a zip-line ride down from the almost-exploding building. She also fails to defuse her bomb.

In Super Hero-ld, LeShawna insulted Courtney and Lindsay's smell after being in the cheese factory. LeShawna was upset that the challenge was so early in the morning. As a superhero, she was 'Super Aqua Chick' and had the power to throw water. In this episode, it is shown that she still has feelings for Harold. After a strange swirl of conversation of who is to be voted off, Harold ends up torn between voting off Duncan, for obvious reasons, or LeShawna for her treachery. In the end, LeShawna leaves. Before she leaves, she tells Harold to keep sticking up for himself and to take Duncan down.

During the third aftermath, LeShawna reveals that she still loves Harold, but won't let it get past the friendship level. She notices Geoff is a Chris replica. So then she, Bridgette, Owen, and Heather then work together to take Geoff down.

Although she is not seen, in The Princess Pride it is clear that LeShawna is still watching Harold as he continues to compete. When he bought one of Courtney's music CDs because it reminded him of LeShawna, she forwarded him a note, saying that if he continued listening to that "skinny rich girl's" music, she would have to hurt him, badly. Harold mentions Leshawna after finding a snail in Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen. He says that the snail and Leshawna were like twins. During Harold's training in the same episode, Duncan uses motivation to get Harold to hit a punching bag by exclaiming that he kissed LeShawna, which made Harold angry enough to break through the punching bag and strangle Duncan.

LeShawna admits that she will miss everyone in The Aftermath: IV but wants someone to pick a winner so they can go home. She was shocked when Beth ate all the cookies in the gift basket without sharing. Her question to Beth and Duncan was about what they would do with the money. She was after Owen in voting and was grossed out because he used the voting booth as a restroom.

Video log
LeShawna's friend, Jasmine, sends her a video log like the other campers in the final five. LeShawna was the only camper who had a Video log where their family weren't in.

Jasmine begins with her rendition of Romeo and Juliet and then talks about why she should be in season two of Total Drama Island, as though she is auditioning. When someone whispers that she's there to do something nice for LeShawna, Jasmine then offers a signed photograph of her. She somewhat resembles Courtney.

The first member of her family that was seen was LeShaniqua who was seen in One Flu Over the Cuckoos.

View LeShawna's Message from Home

Audition tape
In her audition, LeShawna lists some of her good qualities and tells the viewers to call her if they want her on the show. Then she holds her cell phone and waits for the call, losing her patience when she gets no immediate response.

View LeShawna's audition tape

Camp TV
LeShawna appeared In Camp TV, Total Drama Island's prototype phase with the majority of the cast. She also was one of the main characters. Her character was virtually the same as it is today, with her famous quote: "LeShawna's in the house." In the first phase, LeShawna had an entirely different color scheme, outfit, hairstyle, and a hat.

There was a another design with the same head as the first design, but has a shirt that looks very similar to the one in the final design, a mini skirt, and heels. By the time the original promo aired, she looks nearly the same as her current design; her clothes only look a little loose-fitting and she has one armband that matches the color of her shirt. LeShawna appeared alongside Lindsay often during the promo; it is uncertain if they were to be best friends or enemies, as LeShawna appears to offend Lindsay in one scene by saying no white girl will win the competition. In another scene, Lindsay is seen painting LeShawna's toenails.

Since Heather did not exist in Camp TV, it's hard to say who LeShawna's rival was supposed to be. The original LeShawna with the hat and the high heels is seen on the "cheesy tabloid fame" magazine that Chris is holding up in the pilot episode. The design appears again in the form of Leshaniqua, LeShawna's cousin, who appears at the end of One Flu Over the Cuckoos.

Trivia

 * LeShawna returned to Total Drama Action as a competitor.
 * LeShawna is one few campers to have their race confirmed, producers claim she is African.
 * After the final ten in Total Drama Island, she spends most of her time with Gwen; both of them were very willing to let Bridgette into their group when the teams merged.
 * LeShawna is occasionally referred to by Lindsay as 'LaFonda'. This is most definitely a reference to the character with the similar name (and similar in personality to LeShawna) from the movie, Napoleon Dynamite. LeShawna's original prototype design (the one with the green jumpsuit) looks rather similar to LaFawnduh. Harold is also a very similar to the main character of the movie.
 * LeShawna is one of the characters to show nudity at some point during the series:
 * In 3:10 to Crazytown, she falls off the diving board and her pants get caught on a weather vane, which eventually rips the back part off and exposes LeShawna's bare bottom to the audience.
 * LeShawna seemed to be the character most liked by the others.
 * Noah, Eva, Courtney, and Duncan are the only characters who dislike her.
 * LeShawna was wrongly eliminated in Total Drama Island.
 * LeShawna was voted off because the losers accidentally voted her off, implying that she is popular (something Heather insinuated she lacked in the first episode. LeShawna also says in Trial by Tri-Armed Triathalon that when it came down to a popularity contest, she "was gonna lose big time.").
 * LeShawna walks in a peculiar fashion: her arms are bent at 90 degree angles in front of her and not parallel to her sides.
 * LeShawna talks in every episode she is in except for Not Quite Famous.
 * LeShawna, along with Justin, and Mr. Coconut were eliminated in an episode where they have no dialog in Total Drama Island.
 * Along with Gwen, Courtney, Heather and Harold, LeShawna is the only character responsible for winning two or more challenges for herself or her team (in No Pain, No Game, Hide and Be Sneaky, Beach Blanket Bogus, and One Flu Over the Cuckoos).
 * LeShawna is allergic to pineapples, as they give her rashes all over her skin. In spite of this, she claims she is able to make pineapple-based foods such as chutney.
 * LeShawna is the only character (besides Gwen) who broke up with someone and has yet to find someone else or get back together with her original significant other.
 * LeShawna placed 5th in Total Drama Island, while Harold placed 5th in Total Drama Action. Ironically, they are/were a couple.
 * LeShawna is one of the five people on the island Gwen considers to have sanity.
 * LeShawna sometimes refers to herself in the third-person, seen in Trial by Tri-Armed Triathalon, Alien Resurr-eggtion, Masters Of Disasters, and Ocean's Eight - Or Nine
 * LeShawna's hair seems to be sensitive to humidity, as it puffs up into a giant afro when the weather conditions outside are as such.
 * In One Flu Over the Cuckoos, it is revealed that LeShawna is lactose intolerant.
 * LeShawna is seen or mentioned in all the episodes of Total Drama Island.
 * LeShawna talked about her "booty" most of the time, and other contestants to be made fun of it.
 * In Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon, Duncan mentions that LeShawna is over three hundred pounds. However, given Duncan's issues with LeShawna, and Owen's weight (296), he was likely just exaggerating for the purpose of insulting her.
 * In a few times throughout the series though, she is implied to be quite heavy; in The Sucky Outdoors, she breaks her branch, as it has too much weight on it, and in 3:10 to Crazytown, she falls off the weather vane when Heather did not, showing she is much heavier then Heather, as Heather never fell and LeShawna fell fairly quickly.
 * LeShawna is one of five contestants to have farted on the show. The others being Owen, Sadie, Duncan, and Harold.
 * LeShawna is one of seven contestants who have burped on the show. The others are Owen, Gwen, Geoff, Izzy, Bridgette, and Courtney.
 * Although LeShawna was the one who broke up with him, some evidence supports that she is slowly coming back to Harold.
 * According to Harold, LeShawna's eyes are brown.
 * LeShawna's eyes (irises) are not colored, they're black.
 * LeShawna is the only female contestant to be friends with almost, if not all, of the others..
 * As of Masters of Disasters, some of these friendships maybe strained.
 * In Million Dollar Babies some people seemed like they finally forgave Leshawna but their friendships maybe strained again thanks to her trash talking everyone.
 * LeShawna is the only character to share a voice actress with her counterpart (a.k.a. LeShaniqua)
 * LeShawna's name is sometimes alternately spelled as "Leshawna".
 * LeShawna is seen to be very athletic, as she does backflips and cartwheels during her cheer in Million Dollar Babies.
 * LeShawna, along with Duncan and Lindsay, are the only 3 people who made it to the merge in both Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action.
 * LeShawna was the last female on the Screaming Gaffers.
 * Also, LeShawna was the last Screaming Gopher on that team.
 * LeShawna is the only camper of Total Drama Island's final five that never received a final marshmallow.
 * LeShawna has received two final awards in Total Drama Action, however.
 * LeShawna's alliance has, so far, lasted the least amount of time.
 * Both episodes that LeShawna was eliminated in had a hyphen in their names.
 * LeShawna seems to be one of the most allergic contestants in the series.
 * She is allergic to pineapples, as revealed in If You Can't Take The Heat....
 * She has been revealed to be lactose intolerant in One Flu Over the Cuckoos.
 * LeShawna is the first leader of an alliance to be voted off before any of the other members.
 * LeShawna is one of the people referred to the most after their elimination in Total Drama Action.
 * LeShawna (along with DJ) has never been in the bottom two in Total Drama Island.
 * On Cartoon Network's "Memory of Those Who Have Gone To Soon" her name is misspelled as Lashawna.
 * LeShawna is the last person to be interviewed in a TDA Aftermath show, along with two other people.