Courtney

Courtney, labeled The Type 'A' of the group, was a camper from Total Drama Island on the Killer Bass team. Though she was originally unqualified to compete in Total Drama Action, she eventually returned to the show as a competitor in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine on the Killer Grips.

Total Drama Island
Courtney considers herself a born leader, quickly taking the role of the Killer Bass leader until she was 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 Counselor In Training experience when the others begin to question her judgment.

During the first challenge in Not So Happy Campers - Part 2, she is one of the three people who refused to jump off the cliff into shark-infested water, saying her refusal for 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. Afterward, 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 (Duncan says he rather have DJ rather than her). 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. Despite her rough start, Courtney eventually manages to play the game well (even befriending Bridgette and some others).

Courtney really takes the leadership role of her team, as of Dodgebrawl. She instructs them as they are playing the game. She does, perhaps unintentionally, insult some of her fellow campers (commenting on how useless Tyler and Harold are, and referring to the other team's Cody as an "easy out"). She also uses her role as leader to inform Duncan that he will be eliminated if he does not contribute in the challenge. Despite her underestimation of Harold, he wins the game for the team in the end.

As revealed in Not Quite Famous, Courtney has a talent for playing the violin. Courtney is typically overconfident and overestimates her abilities and underestimates the others', especially her own teammates. Despite Harold's win for the Bass in the previous episode, Courtney refuses to let him participate in the talent show. When left with no other options, she agrees to allow him to participate. Harold again wins the challenge for his team. In Phobia Factor, she insisted that she was not afraid of anything but after it is discovered that her greatest fear is green jelly, because it looks like edible mucus. She tried to help her teammates face their fears by telling them that fear is only in the mind. She did successfully encourage DJ to overcome his fear of snakes, and she helped Duncan to overcome his fear of Celine Dion music store standees. As her turn came to dive into a vat of green jelly, Chris revealed that she would earn her team triple points if she performed her task. She did not overcome her fear, causing her team to lose the challenge. She was not eliminated in this episode, however.

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. She always criticizes him on his actions (which he greatly enjoys). However, romantic sparks start to up when Duncan starts to develop a crush on her and begins to flirt with her. In Basic Straining, Courtney goes against her usual mentality of following the rules. She tells her team she is going to check on Duncan and Geoff teases her by saying she likes Duncan but she doesn't admit it. She goes to the fish cabin, she and Duncan talk for awhile and Duncan finally convinces Courtney to break some more rules and the two of them steal real food from Chef's kitchen for themselves and their fellow campers. Through this experience, Courtney begins to get a thrill out of breaking the rules and starts to have fun. While the other campers are eating the stolen goods, Courtney reaches for another s'more and Bridgette tells her that she had enough but Courtney refuses to listen and soon runs out of the cabin to puke. Duncan follows her saying that she has a dark side. 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 highly unlikely that she would 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 kind of weird and creepy, 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 and he says she 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, and she seemed ruthless (this is most likely because she started to remember how much fun it was to be bad and thus it started to completely change her personality). 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 them). 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). While she is trying to escape with the money, she slammed into a large mirror and discovered that they are not really on an island. Chris then sent an intern to retrieve her, but she stole his hot air balloon to help her find the case. She soon caught Owen, Tyler, DJ, and Cody (who had the case at the time) on a microphone, demanding the case in exchange for their safety. She threatened that she would let them fall to their deaths if they did not do otherwise. She eventually stole the case, but once again lost it due to the bear interfering. Courtney then wound up on the diving board with Owen, Cody, Tyler, LeShawna, DJ, Bridgette, Katie, Sadie, and Geoff. After an airplane crashed into the diving board's ladder and support beam, breaking it, the board fell off its stand, causing some of the campers to fall on the broken plane wing and slide over towards the dock. However, Courtney was amongst the campers who fell in the pool below and was unable to make to the dock in time, therefore was not allowed to compete for the money next season. However, near the end of the episode, Courtney foreshadowed in a confessional that she would not give up so easily.

Total Drama Action
Courtney is a late comer to the competition. Due to the fact that she didn't make it to the Dock of Shame with the other winners, she was unable to join the cast on the set. For the first part of the season, she is only seen with the other non returning campers. However she makes numerous attempts off screen to get back on the show (as she feels cheated after how Harold eliminated her in the first season). Eventually, she manages to win a lawsuit and successfully get back on the show in the episode Ocean's Eight - Or Nine.

Courtney appears in the The Aftermath: I with the non-returning (and eliminated) characters. She is trying to sue the show again, though it is currently unknown on what charges since she lost her lawsuit for wrongful termination of the competition last season. At the beginning of the episode, when the characters are taking sides on the Gwen/Trent breakup situation, Courtney is on 'team' Gwen. She says it is not because she likes Gwen, but because she considers Trent a "loser by choice". However, after Trent comes on the show and explains the real reason behind his obsession of the number nine, she sides with Trent (along with Katie and Sadie). When Trent explains how his relationship with Gwen went downhill on account of her budding friendship with Duncan, Courtney becomes extremely angry and/or jealous, determined to take her anger out on Duncan when she eventually makes her way into the competition.

Courtney appears in The Aftermath: ll, where she is still suing the show but has been advised not to comment on the issue. She is extremely angry with Gwen from the beginning of the episode, as she had suspected that Gwen and Duncan had feelings for one another. As Gwen enters the stage you can hear Courtney booing. Gwen insists that she and Duncan do not like each other, and that Duncan is still "all about Courtney". They then show a clip of Duncan and Gwen looking at the stars on a bridge. While Gwen begins to use the constellations to poke fun at Harold, Duncan stares into the sky, wondering if Courtney is looking at the stars also. The clip stops there at first, and Courtney's face softens and she smiles. The clip then continues at Geoff's suggestion, and ends with Duncan on top of Gwen a mere inch or two from her lips. This clip only angers Courtney further, even when Gwen insisted they were only friends. Courtney then leaves the stage, announcing that she is going to consult her lawyer (which may in fact be a foreshadow of her return).

Courtney finally returns to the competition in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine, first appearing as the bank teller in the first challenge. As the bank teller, Courtney is allowed to choose who gets the two prizes. The first prize of the first challenge was the "loot," which she gave to the Screaming Gaffers (even if only for Duncan whom she is still sweet for). However this resulted in the second prize called the "consolation prize" (which was herself) going to the Killer Grips. She quickly assumes leadership of the team, but quickly earns the scorn of her entire team for her desire to win, and her bossy attitude. However, she does not seem to care what they think of her. At the Gilded Chris Awards Ceremony, she did not recieve an award, as her lawyer made her immune to elimination in this episode. Despite this the other Killer Grips still voted for her to leave, so only her vote counted eliminating Owen from the team.

In One Million Bucks, B.C. she becomes easily hated, especially amongst the other girls. Before the challenge, Chris says due to Courtney's lawyers, she is allowed to have a PDA and eat with the crew. Everyone soon complains about that. Courtney tries to quiet them down by saying she will still sleep in the trailers like everyone else. Chris, wanting to cause drama, says that she gets specials linens and her very own bathroom. Duncan teases Courtney by saying she can not win unless she cheats. Courtney says she can win with even with her hands tied up. In the first part of the challenge Courtney says she will make the fire because she was a CIT which got on Leshawna's nerves. Courtney and Duncan have a stare down when making the fire both determine to beat each other. When Duncan made fire Courtney complained that the flint she has was fake and impossible to build fire with. Lindsay proved her wrong. Before the second part of the challenge, Courtney hits Duncan in the head with a bone before Chris got the chance to fully explain the rules. Chris does approve on her enthusiasm. Courtney and Duncan are forced to fight on a single platform because prehistoric beavers destroyed the other platform. Courtney struggled to find balance on the platform and accidentally kissed Duncan. In the confessional, Courtney says that Duncan has a strong animal magnetism but she will still hit him where it hurts. Courtney knocks Duncan off the platform and wins for her team. During this episode Heather tries to cut off Courtney's hair in order to have it for herself, and she does manage to get just a snip of it.

Audition tape
Courtney is the only camper to mess up in their 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 curses and argues with the cameraman (Tom) when he refuses to tape a re-do.


 * Even though Cartoon Network edited out Courtney's cursing completely on the TV airing, they showed the unedited version of her audition on Cartoon Network's website.

View Courtney's audition tape

Camp TV
Courtney was one of the four characters who did not appear in the series (along with Izzy, Noah and Heather). While she was not present in the series, Bridgette's old design loosely resembles Courtney due to the fact that the prototype Bridgette has freckles on her face and her eyes look more similar to Courtney's than the relaxed look that the final design of Bridgette has.

Trivia

 * Courtney originally did not qualify to return to Total Drama Action as a competitor, but she returned to compete in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine. She has also appeared as a commentator on The Aftermath: I and The Aftermath: II.


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


 * She, Trent, Cody and Harold are the only four 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.)


 * She (and Lindsay) have lines in every episode in which she is seen in, excluding I Triple Dog Dare You! where she is briefly seen at Playa Des Losers.


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


 * She is one of the many campers to actually curse in the show (though this was during her audition tape rather than the show itself). The others are DJ, Lindsay, Bridgette and Owen.


 * 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. In addition, she sues the company responsible for the show, in both seasons (failing in the first, and apparently succeeding in the second with her return)


 * She is one of the campers to have a crying fit. The others are Sadie, Owen, Geoff, Gwen, Tyler, Heather, Trent, LeShawna, Lindsay, and DJ.
 * She cried after Bridgette broke her violin (Not Quite Famous).
 * She also cried in the confessional after not being able to face her fear of green jelly (Phobia Factor).


 * 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 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). She hit her right eye the 1st time and her left eye the 2nd.


 * Courtney is the only one to have seen what is believed to be civilization bordering the island. It is possible that this was merely a trick played by Chris, given that the man she saw over the wall was later shown to be working for the show in Riot On Set. Then again, he could have merely been on a lunch break.


 * Courtney's lawyer is named Michael, as revealed in The Aftermath: I.


 * Courtney, Ezekiel, Eva and Lindsay are the only campers who have lines in every episode before they were eliminated in Total Drama Island.


 * Courtney and Eva are the only competitors to not have any information, either on their Total Drama Island: Totally Interactive profiles or mentioned in the show, about their families.
 * Courtney wants to run for office when she gets older.


 * She is currently the only person on the show to sue someone, Heather at one time threatened to sue but she shows no signs of doing so, so far.


 * Courtney single-handedly took Owen out of the competition, meaning that she killed two birds with one stone. She made her way back into the competition, and took out last competition's winner.


 * Courtney, Katie and Sadie are the only losers who didn't originally compete in Total Drama Action who talked in both aftermaths so far.


 * Courtney has an upgraded expression in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine.


 * She is one the few characters to have worn a wig. The others are Sadie, Lindsay, Owen, and Heather.


 * Both Courtney and Izzy have returned to Total Drama Action after an Aftermath show.


 * According to an interview with Jennifer Pertsch, one of the producers of Total Drama Action, Courtney is based on Reese Witherspoon’s character, Tracey Flick, in the 1999 movie Election.


 * Courtney is the only Killer Bass to also be a Killer Grip.


 * Courtney is the only known camper, besides Heather, to try and get Owen voted off the show. Unlike Heather, she succeeded.


 * Courtney and Harold are the only campers seen to have freckles.


 * Courtney and Duncan are one the last remaining couples to not be eliminated in Total Drama Action, the other being LeShawna and Harold.