User blog comment:TheDipDap1234/Justin - a Good or a Bad Character?/@comment-24141224-20150820233255

I think he's a great character. In TDI, yeah, he was flat as a pancake, but in the special and Total Drama Action, he was given a good amount of depth and development. As a character who had a 100 percent clean state, they could have done whatever they wanted to in TDA with him. But in that season, Justin was presented to us astoundingly in my opinion. He tried to be an antagonist, but eventually, he learned that he wasn't cut out for it in Full Metal Drama. He was also shown to be incredibly vain, selfish, and vengeful. Are these traits desirable in a human being? No. Are they desirable in a well-written, rounded character? Absolutely. In The Princess Pride, he eventually fell for Courtney. This was a character that we've only seen to be infatuated with himself and his own good looks. and he eventually finds someone he believes to be as beautiful as he.

So was he a good antagonist, in the effectiveness sense? Sort of. He caused the eliminations of Izzy, Trent, and Gwen, but he eventually fell flat when his charms no longer worked on Lindsay and Beth (It was somewhat inexplicable, but that's a seperate issue). Was he a well-written character, given an amazing amount of depth in a season? Without a doubt. Now, I also personally found him to be hilarious, but humor is subjective and cannot be used to describe whether or not a character is "good". But in the objective sense, Justin is a character who went through signifigant development. I love Justin's character and maintain that he is an objectively well-written character.

tl;dr: Yes, Justin is a character with good development.