User blog comment:ChunkyChipackers/The Total Drama Contestants - Worst to Best/@comment-1764858-20140731180022/@comment-2114961-20140731223054

Guys, I don't think any of you are getting the right concept of godplaying. Godplaying can be one or two things

1. When a character in a series is able to do something highly skilled/impossible for them without it being pre-established that they have the power to do that nor the ability to do so is within their character. Zoey fits this as she has shown to have apparent great athletic ability even though she has been described as a meek, insecure, small town girl who has no interest in athletic things. And after she shows this athletic prowess, there is no explanation as to why she's able to do this all of a sudden (and no being pissed off in Eat Puke and Be Wary doesn't count). Which is why Sky doesn't count as her literal character is that she's an athlete training to be an Olympic Gymnast. So she would know how to do the great moves she does.

2. Another form of god playing would be having a skill/ability/sometimes just pure coincidental luck that while not necessarily out of the realm of possibility, is convenient enough to where the character succeeds at their goal. And that one thing either never comes back, or the character continues to have the same stoke of luck every time to where it is impossible for them to fail. Alejandro is arguably a culprit of this as he states many times that he has family members with abilities that eventually become handy. Other examples included how did Zoey win the Sundae eating contest when they had Scott the farmboy that will literally eat dirt and fungus in two seconds participating.

3. Then there's Cameron in the TDRI finale. That is a mix of the two. While yes it's established that he is highly intelligent and has great thinking skills. He should not have been able to make that suit. He literally only used a laptop. Now yes, this is a cartoon and our suspension of disbelief is meant to be stretched, but having him be able to materialize an Iron Man suit out of nothing which (in his ending at least) helped him win, is not only godplaying, but just bad writing as they obviously knew they needed to give him something in order to "make it exciting" and "give him a semi fair advantage".

Long story short, godplaying is NOT a character simply being good at one small thing that works in their favor or having a very improbable skill. When that skill is constantly used and/or never explained and constantly makes the character indestructible, THEN it's godplaying. So minor stuff like Lindsay being competent enough to build a bike, Harold's mad skillz, Cody in TDWT, and Duncan winning the Riot on Set challenge don't count. It's self explanatory Godplaying - PLAYING. GOD.