Noah

Noah, called the Lazy and Cynical Know-It-All, is a self-absorbed, lazy, manipulative teen who blends in with the background. He enjoys sitting, lying down, occasionally leaning, and reading. He is known for "being a freakish child genius."

Character History
He joined because he wants to apply skills from fantasy-land survival video games to the real world. He was the third person to be voted off in the competition because he wouldn't participate in the challenge.

He highly contrasts with Owen, but despite this, at the beginning of the show Noah seems to be friends with Owen, since Noah shares his cynical remarks with Owen and elbows him when he's about to crackwise. Owen gained Noah's dislike when he voted him off (as well as Heather, Gwen, Izzy, Leshawna, Lindsay, Beth, Cody, and Justin).

Like Heather, he seems to disdain others, especially Leshawna, Justin, Gwen, and Duncan. He harbours a dislike towards Leshawna for calling him a disrespectful turkey when he was voted off (something he did not enjoy hearing from her). Although, neither Leshawna nor Noah have shown any sign of a grudge since he was voted off in Dodgebrawl. He only cheered for Owen in the final episode because although he dislikes both Gwen and Owen, he dislikes Gwen more, not because he really likes Owen.

In the episode "Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island!" he is seen in a team and getting along with Izzy and Eva. It may seem his friendships with Izzy and Eva are only for the contest and not for real, however, he is seen concerned when Courtney attacks Izzy, hinting that Noah is really Izzy's and Eva's friend since he normally enjoys seeing people fight. At the end of the episode, he and Eva dump water and a fish on Justin, who had just gained the case of 1 million dollars. Izzy then runs in and steals the case while Justin is distracted, but Noah and Eva don't have enough time themselves to run to the dock and land in the lake to tie with the other campers, so he will not participate in Total Drama Action.

Noah has a large feud with Justin. This feud seems to have originated when Justin voted off Noah and later escalated during their stay in Playa Des Losers, probably because of the character's enormous personality differences. The feud is shown in episode "Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island!", when Noah calls Justin the "anti-me" and later, by the end of the episode, Noah attacks Justin with a fish.

In "The Big Sleep," he accidentally kissed Cody on the ear in his sleep (an event that the other campers have constantly teased him about, especially Izzy, Katie, Sadie, and Trent). In the same episode Noah is seen running in first place at the 20k run, however, he later passes out due to lack of air and has to be rescued by Owen.

Audition tape
In his audition, Noah is congratulated by a friend, Joey, for making class president. Then he says that he is smart and that's how he'll come out on top.



Personality Origins
Though small and dorky, Noah apparently never was beaten up in the school yard due to his cleverness and used his mean remarks as his weapon. According to the biography on Cartoon Network's official site, Noah is the 'runt' (possibly youngest) of 10 kids (biography refers to it as a 'nine sibling litter'). Being shrimpy, Noah is said to have gained his sarcastic, manipulative, and pessimistic attitude to make up for his lack of size, he possibly had to do this to survive being the runt of his large family. Though he is often compared to Heather, such as their selfishness and hatred of other campers, unlike her, he at least has a background and a reason for his personality and is not considered an antagonist.

Fan Reception
Despite not appearing in many episodes, and having dull personality, Noah is incredibly popular with fans. Many fans have threatened to boycott watching future seasons if Noah is not a contesTtant. (Thought to be because of his relate-ability).

Trivia

 * Total Drama Action/Not Returning (Not returning as a contestant, but may still be in the show, pending on what Chris meant by 'watching from the sidelines').
 * Noah's only "real" friends are Izzy and Eva.
 * Despite being the "typical nerd", Noah is quite humorous at times.
 * He makes smart remarks to Izzy.
 * He pretends to kill himself in a joke-like matter.
 * He makes jokes with Eva.
 * Noah is the most sadistic camper.
 * Something exhibited in "Not So Happy Campers 2," when Heather and Leshawna are fighting about jumping over the cliff, Noah is the only camper smiling while the others appear concerned. He also demonstrates his enjoyment to see other people fight at "Haut Camp-ture," when Harold and Courtney get into a slap fight and fall into the pool, Noah exclaims "Excellent!". Later on in "Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island", Noah attacks Justin with fish when he has the million dollar case. He is only shown not to enjoy a fight when Izzy is fighting with Courtney, probably because Izzy is one of his two friends in the island (the other being Eva). In the same episode, Noah uses his hands to simulate shooting himself, puking and hanging himself when Harold won't stop talking to him about why Beavers are technically not Rodents.
 * It's interesting to note that in the beginning of Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island, Harold is apparently trying to be friendly to Noah, much to Noah's annoyance, and offers to loan Noah some of his beaver journals if he promises to 'not get food on them and stuff', to which Noah politely declines. Harold is possibly one of the campers that likes Noah.
 * Noah has a golden lab dog. He makes a reference to it in Haut Camp-ture when stating his dog doesn't drool as much over a steak as Courtney does over Duncan.
 * Noah is surprisingly one of the most popular characters among fans.
 * Noah is the only camper to hate Justin throughout the entire show. Izzy hated Justin as well, but only during "Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island!".
 * Noah tends to get annoyed when people drool over Justin.
 * He's the only male camper to have only female friends (specifically Izzy and Eva) and not have a relationship.
 * Besides Cody, whom is said to be the same height as him or shorter, Noah is the shortest male camper.
 * Besides Owen and Duncan, Noah is the only camper to give a kiss to someone of the same gender.
 * Noah is one of the four male campers that never shared any kind of kiss with a female camper on screen, the others are Ezekiel, DJ, and Justin. However, he is seen kissing Cody (unintentionally) in his sleep during episode The Big Sleep. This has lead to fans making up the Noah/Cody relationship.
 * During Dodgebrawl, he is constantly seen reading a hardback copy of "The Day Of The Jackal".
 * During Haut Camp-ture Noah says how he dislikes Owen (Such as disliking his gas problem), however, in the last episode he wants Owen to win and sits on Owens bench, though this is because his dislike of Gwen overpowers his dislike of Owen.
 * Noah's eyes tend to cross and widen often, occasionally one eye will cross or one will twitch- these things seem to happen when he is excited, angry, drinking, embarrassed etc.
 * A running gag in the show is for Noah to get hit in the face or head by an angered camper after Noah throws a cynical remark:
 * Dodgebrawl: Noah is hit in the face with a dodgeball and in the same episode is pelted with marshmallows, some of which hit his face.
 * Haut Camp-ture: Courtney throws her drinking glass at his head after he tells her to stop whining about being kicked off the show.
 * Noah is considered one of the dark skinned character along with Justin and Katie, though his heritage is unknown.
 * Noah did the infamous "Excellent" like Mr.Burns of Simpsons fame.
 * It is stated that most of the campers hate Noah, especially Justin, Leshawna, Duncan, and Gwen, yet Katie and Sadie don't. And for characters such as Tyler or Geoff, it is unknown if they hate him because they don't talk to him the entire series. They would have no right to hate him, as he did nothing to them.
 * Goof: Noah's book appearing and disappearing-
 * In Dodgebrawl Noah is never seen with a book nor does he have any kind of carriage for a book, yet once he sits on the bleachers he has one. After the game is finished, his book is gone.
 * In Haut Camp-ture Noah's book is in his hands, then no where in sight often in back to back scenes.
 * Most people believe his has 9 siblings, though a few argue his had 8. He is arguably the youngest of these siblings.
 * It's revealed in Total Drama, Drama, Drama Drama Island that Noah wears boxers. He is the only camper besides Gwen to have scenes in his underpants.
 * Noah has a girlish shriek when scared, as revealed in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island.
 * Though in no relationship with her, Eva basically the only person Noah could ever have possibly had a relationship with, as she respects him and Izzy. Eva hated Justin for using his powers on her even though she was attracted to him, so Noah is basically the only guy she ever got along with.
 * In Dodgebrawl Chris says, "The first rule of dodgeball is-" To which Noah says, "Don't talk about dodgeball?" A play on the famous Fight Club line. Noah is possibly a Fight Club fan.
 * Noah is most likely 16, due to Chris implying all the campers were in the first episode.
 * Noah is the only camper we don't see on camera jump the cliff, though he did.
 * Noah is the only camper that possibly didn't run the whole 20 k run in The Big Sleep as Owen was seen carrying him to the finish.
 * In The Big Sleep we see Noah running normally, though in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island he runs awkwardly with his arms out and eyes crossed, panting and falling far behind Izzy and Eva, to which Eva states he 'runs like a girl'. Perhaps he was running strangely here due to just being traumatized by Duncan and not having any pants on.