Jacques

Jacques was a contestant and one of the main antagonists on Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race as a member of with Josee.

Personality
Jacques is a Canadian figure skater whose dream was to win gold at the Olympics. When he finally got the chance, he dropped his partner Josee on the ice and the two became national embarrassments. They are conniving performers who signed up for the show to prove that they are still winners, and will do whatever it takes to guarantee a victory all while flashing a show-ready smile. While just as determined to come in first as Josee, he is not as obsessed as she is and tries to be the voice of reason. However, he is not above sabotaging over teams and usually goes along with Josee's demands, taking the brunt of most of the abuse.

Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race
The Ice Dancers debut in None Down, Eighteen to Go - Part 1, being confident about their chances of winning wanting to redeem themselves for their loss in the Olympics. They take the stairs and are one of the first teams to arrive at the top and end up on the first flight to Morocco. Continuing in Part 2, they are the first team to depart from the airport and do well in the challenge. They have a footrace against the cadets to the Chill Zone but lose due to Jacques running into a tree, leading to a temper tantrum from Josee after they get third place. They try to up their game in French is an Eiffel Language, gaining an early lead after they navigate through the catacombs with ease. Despite forgetting the oars, the ice dancers paddle to the Chill Zone on their cheese raft instead, bagging second place. In Mediterranean Homesick Blues, they are one of the teams on the first train to the beach where Josee manages to stylishly grab the tip with ease. After a boat ride, they manage to come in first place due to father and son's penalty which they celebrate. After their first victory, the Ice Dancers try to maintain their lead in Bjorken Telephone, taking the first bus to the geyser field, blazing through it and repeating the Icelandic phrase successfully. They choose to search for fossils, managing to travel through the icy interior of the cave with ease because of their ability to ice skate and end up getting third place. In Brazilian Pain Forest, Jacques and Josee are still bitter over not coming first last time and vow to not let it happen again. They end up performing exceptionally well in the challenge, completing their costume in record speed and coming in first place. In A Tisket, a Casket, I'm Gonna Blow a Gasket, Josee consistently keeps reminding Jacques of how he dropped her at the Olympics and cost them the gold. She takes great pleasure in being very rough when transporting Jacques in the coffin, as a way to get back at him for the incident. Their efforts allow them to place first yet again. In Hawaiian Honeyruin, Josee accidentally loses her rabbit's foot on the way to the Hawaii. This leads her to seek another lucky charm in the form of a lava rock, which gives the Ice Dancers extreme misfortune. Jacques continuously experiences bad luck and does poorly in the challenge, such as repeatedly getting his feet burned on the coals. To their dismay, they end up placing fourth. Following their loss of the lead, he and Josee continue through Hello and Dubai vowing to do better than the previous round. Despite Devin's prediction, Jacques manages to ace the first challenge but Josee is unable to, after a seagull makes her lose her focus. They end up switching to window washing and despite making good progress, end up getting fourth place which leads to Josee throwing a tantrum. Their bad luck continues in New Beijinging, where the winds blow their parachute away from the stadium, resulting in them having to redo the first challenge. Although they manage to land in the stadium, Jacques ends up spraining his ankle which leads to Josee questioning his clumsiness. Josee uses this to her advantage by beating up Jacques and force feeding him in the next part of the challenge. Josee slips on a banana peel while pulling the rickshaw, sending Jacques flying onto the wall. They end up going the wrong way on the wall, having to go all the way back and getting fourth place.

Finally in I Love Ridonc & Roll, they have trouble facing the heat due to wearing insulated costumes and take some time to cool off after completing the challenge before moving forward. Despite failing earlier on, Jacques takes Spud's example and manages to please the audience, getting the ice dancers fourth place. The goths reveal that Josee's good luck charm is actually a bad luck charm which angers Jacques.

My Way or Zimbabwe begins with Jacques and Josee deciding to rid their bad luck by going to Hawaii first. This leads to them falling behind the other teams, but they manage to make up time by hurriedly completing the challenges and race against Dwayne to the finish line. After they accidentally insult a rhino, it ends up chases them, giving Dwayne enough time to check in at the Chill Zone and getting them last place. To their relief, it is a non-elimination challenge and they vow to improve their performance in the game.

Nearly avoiding elimination, the Ice Dancers slowly shifts their luck (and looks) in Shawshank Ridonc-tion. They are one of the first teams to reach the Don Box and manage to get a boomerang. Josee's claustrophobia results in panic but she helps her find a way out of the cell. They then trick MacArthur into praising them, losing the trust of Sanders by betraying the alliance. This along with MacArthur ridiculing Josee when she trips, leads to both teams boomeranging one another and being sent back to the previous challenge where they form a temporary truce. On the raft race to the finish line, Josee knocks the cadets off with her oar sending them into last place and securing the ice dancer's safety. Taking a new approach with his partner in Down and Outback to the competition, Jacques is at first unsure about Josee's plan to sabotage the cadets by using Ennui's makeup to disguise one of the bunnies as an albino but ends up going along with it. The ice dancers then trick Brody into believing that MacArthur needs his help, leading to Geoff having to chase after him. After taking the surfer's bunnies while they are away, the ice dancers glide their way to the Chill Zone, securing first place. Finally back on top, Jacques and Josee are the first to begin in Maori or Less. They board the first train to the mountains while developing a conflict with the daters along the way. The ice dancers are able to perform the traditional Maori dance easily, leading to them checking in at the Chill Zone far ahead of the other teams much to the annoyance of the police cadets. The Ice Dancers continue through the next leg of the race in Little Bull on the Prairie. They try to sabotage the police cadets which leads to MacArthur pushing their vehicle along with the cadets off a cliff in retaliation. After finally arriving at the designated area, they have trouble consuming the beans which leads to them falling behind the other teams. but make up for lost time after Jacques manages to ride the bull on a single try. Moving on in Lord of the Ring Toss, they try to manipulate Geoff into believing that he is the weaklink on the surfer's team. Despite Geoff's inability to do the ringtoss earlier on due to guilt, this backfires on the ice dancers as the surfers reconcile and complete the challenge with ease, getting them first place. Despite the ice dancers managing to bag a golf cart in Got Venom, they fall behind after the plane chases them off the runway. Josee forces Jacques to collect the venom from the komodo dragon's saliva, but he ends up slipping and only just manages to get away. After getting trampled by the dragons and failing to get the venom once again, Josee decides to try to sabotage one of the other teams instead. While they do not succeed in convincing the goths to stop doing the challenge for the safety of Loki, they are able to collect venom from the goth's bucket and after quickly searching for a branded mat, end up getting second place to the goths which angers Josee. This conflict continues in Dude Buggies where Josee tries to sabotage their chances of winning by attempting to destroy their cab. Jacques accidentally insults Josee's ice dancing skills, which leads to her purposely removing the divider between him and the lion in the magic show. After failing to do the magic trick instead, the ice dancers switch to driving dune buggies. After Josee manages to grab the flags on time on her second try, the ice dancers race to the Chill Zone and manage to arrive in second to last place. The ice dancers vow to take down the goths in El Bunny Supremo finding their weakness in the form of Loki, whom Jacques manages to kidnap. They cruise through the challenge until Loki scares their burros away which results in a ten minute penalty when they reach the Chill Zone as the police cadets manage to arrive before them, giving them second place. They manage to succeed in eliminating the goths who put off the challenge to search for Loki. The ice dancers end up having to team up with their worst enemies, the police cadets during the super team challenge in Ca-Noodling. Jacques performs badly in the challenge due to his fear of fish while Josee and MacArthur end up bickering, before Sanders convinces them into making an alliance which leads to them sabotaging the other team by tricking Devin into catching a crocodile, although this backfires. Jacques ends up catching the branded catfish, which sends all three teams to the Chill Zone, tying them for first place. The teams continue their so called-alliance in How Deep is Your Love, but secretly plan on sabotaging one another. Josee tries to sabotage the police cadets by tampering with their boat and pushing MacArthur into a trash can. While Jacques is unable to convince Josee to perform the challenge, she ends up entering the Borehole after he leaves to check on his swimsuit. Josee sabotages the sisters and steals Kitty's ball, resulting in the ice dancers being able to complete the challenge. Despite getting a thirty minute penalty, this does not have an effect and they still arrive in first place. After the police cadets end up angering the ice dancers in Darjeel With It due to Sanders refusing to sabotage the sisters, the ice dancers promise to sabotage them as well. Josee manages to trick the sisters into believing she wants to form an alliance and open the hatches of their leaf baskets. After getting a free pass to the Chill Zone does not satisfy them, they remove their train car from the others which results in a sixty minute penalty. Tension begins to rise when the daters are the only team left to arrive but they mess up their chances after stopping to make out, saving the ice dancers from elimination. The sisters manage to sweet talk the ticket attendant into giving the ice dancers the seats at the very back of the plane in Last Tango in Buenos Aires. They impress the tango dancer by performing the dance with exceptional skill due to their profession. Due to having an early lead, they take them to spill grease on the sister's emu in an attempt to sabotage them. The grease makes it harder for Jacques to complete the challenge due to his costume's polyster being unable to absorb the grease making him sacrifice his hair instead. In a race to the finish line, they beat the cadets and secure first place. Continuing on in Bahamarama, they are the first to take off from the Chill Zone but lose their lead after taking too long to find the treasure map. After they are unsuccessful in trying to steal one from the cadets, they try to find one instead. Josee tries to put off searching in the tunnels due to her claustrophobia and suggests sabotaging one of the other teams instead. Jacques reveals that he is fed up with her behaviour and refuses to work with her after the race much to her anger. The opportunity to beat the cadets gives Josee enough motivation to compete in the challenge albeit at a very slow pace. She manages to find the treasure only to run out of oxygen. MacArthur decides to help her by sharing her oxygen tank. On the race to the finish, Josee uses a coconut to knock MacArthur down which helps the ice dancers secure second place. After taking a waterboat ride, the ice dancers arrive in New York in A Million Ways to Lose a Million Dollars. They get stuck in a New York traffic jam while driving their taxi and use the police cadet's diversion as a pathway. They manage to get ahead of the police cadets, only to lose their lead because the surfers take their taxi so they take the cadet's one instead. They end up getting a flat tire and the police cadet's turn their taxi over, resulting in a loss of time. They run on foot to the Chill Zone but take too much time and end up getting third place which leads to a tantrum from Josee. They admit that they aren't proud of the way that they competed in the race with Josee promising to become a better person, something she doesn't follow up on. They believe that neither of the teams in the final two deserve to win, giving them both a zero.

Appearances
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Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race

 * 1x01 - None Down, Eighteen to Go - Part 1
 * 1x02 - None Down, Eighteen to Go - Part 2
 * 1x03 - French is an Eiffel Language
 * 1x04 - Mediterranean Homesick Blues
 * 1x05 - Bjorken Telephone
 * 1x06 - Brazilian Pain Forest
 * 1x07 - A Tisket, a Casket, I'm Gonna Blow a Gasket
 * 1x08 - Hawaiian Honeyruin
 * 1x09 - Hello and Dubai
 * 1x10 - New Beijinging
 * 1x11 - I Love Ridonc & Roll
 * 1x12 - My Way or Zimbabwe
 * 1x13 - Shawshank Ridonc-tion
 * 1x14 - Down and Outback
 * 1x15 - Maori or Less
 * 1x16 - Little Bull on the Prairie
 * 1x17 - Lord of the Ring Toss
 * 1x18 - Got Venom
 * 1x19 - Dude Buggies
 * 1x20 - El Bunny Supremo
 * 1x21 - Ca-Noodling
 * 1x22 - How Deep is Your Love
 * 1x23 - Darjeel With It
 * 1x24 - Last Tango in Buenos Aires
 * 1x25 - Bahamarama
 * 1x26 - A Million Ways to Lose a Million Dollars}}

Comparisons

 * Jacques, along with Josee, are two of several characters to possess theme music, along with Alejandro, Brick, Crimson, Duncan, Dwayne, Ennui, Izzy, Jay, Justin, Lindsay, Max, Mickey, most of Mike's personalities, Owen, Rock, Spud and Sugar. In their case it is a triumphant trumpeting theme which plays when they're beaming at the camera.
 * Jacques is one of the characters who serve as a "pain magnet" of a particular season, who is injured excessively as part of a running gag. He does so in Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race.
 * The other characters to do so are Harold in Total Drama Island and Total Drama Action, Tyler in Total Drama World Tour, Brick in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, Scott in Total Drama All-Stars, and Max in Total Drama: Pahkitew Island.

Competition

 * Jacques and Josee have come in first place more times than any other team, having done so eight times.
 * Jacques and Josee are the first team to get a penalty in more than one episode.

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