Toxic Rats

The Toxic Rats is one of two opposing teams in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island. The Toxic Rats originally consists of B, Dakota, Dawn, Lightning, Sam, Scott, and Staci. Later on, Brick moves to the Rats. Two episodes later, Scott switches teams with Jo. The Toxic Rats' logo is a green, four-armed angry rat standing upright with its fists drawn out. It is mounted on a pale yellow circle with a green ring around it.

Total Drama: Revenge of the Island
In Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!, the Toxic Rats form after a race through the forest, according to the order the contestants cross the finish line. Lightning and Jo arrive first, and Lightning is placed on the Toxic Rats. Scott arrives third, and becomes the second member. B arrives fifth after Brick and becomes the third member. Dawn arrives eighth after Zoey and Mike, but still becomes the fourth member. Dakota and Sam arrive tenth and eleventh and become the fifth and sixth members, followed closely by Staci, who becomes the last member. Before learning their team name, Lightning suggests it as "Team Lightning" or "Lightning Squad", but Chris reveals that the teams names were chosen by himself. The Toxic Rats perform well in the first challenge, being able to beat the Mutant Maggots even after a late start in the log race. However, their cabin is destroyed in the process. Chris ultimately declares the Maggots as the winners. Because of Staci's constant annoying chatter, she is voted off first in the Toxic Rats' first marshmallow ceremony. However, since they had a total of seven players, this elimination makes both teams even.

In Truth or Laser Shark, the Toxic Rats are seen in their cabins. Dawn and Dakota are on the girls' side and Lightning, Scott, B, and Sam are on the boys side. Scott goes looking for the Chris Head, but is unable to find it. At the challenge, it is revealed that Sam farted on his first (and only) date and that B's real name is Beverly. The two teams tie in the first part of the challenge. In the second part, the Toxic Rats evidently lose, sending them to the campfire ceremony. Before the elimination, Scott and Dawn tell their team that keeping Dakota would be a bad idea. Sam wants to keep her, due to his attraction towards her. However, Dakota, who lost the challenge for the Toxic Rats, is voted out.

In Ice Ice Baby, the team wins the first part of the challenge because of B's brilliant idea. Scott does not like this and wants B out as soon as possible. In the second part, the teams must throw snowballs while trying to steal the other team's flag. Scott makes himself captain and chooses Sam and Lightning to steal the flag. In reality, Scott plans to throw the challenge as part of his plan to pick off his team until he is the only one left. B makes a magnifying glass to aid the melting of the Maggots' fort; however, Scott messes with it and makes the team lose. Scott blames the loss on B. Before the Campfire Ceremony, Scott convinces his team that B needs to go. The marshmallows go to Dawn, Lightning, and Scott. Before the eliminated contestant is announced, Dakota flies into the ceremony on a glider. She asks for more screen-time, and Chris, in turn, makes her an intern. The Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom goes to B. Right before he gets hurled, he attempts to say something. However, Chris launches him into the sky before he can speak.

In Finders Creepers, the team works through the scavenger hunt challenge successfully. In the midst of it, however, its members are picked off by the "mutant spider" on the loose around the island. Eventually only Sam and Scott remain. In the cave, they are tied together by the spider's webbing and are forced to travel down the zip-line. The Toxic Rats win for the first time, and gain Brick as a member so as to even the numbers between the two teams.

In Backstabbers Ahoy!, the Rats win the first challenge and earn a speedboat as an advantage in the second. Scott continues trying to sabotage his team, shooting Sam with a gull, refusing to steer the boat when need be, and stealing the contestants' personal belongings. He initially plans to pin Brick as the thief, but targets Dawn when he learns she knows of his game strategy. Dawn is eliminated and fooled again by Scott when she attempts to play the Chris invincibility statue, only to realize it's a decoy he made. Before she is launched, she tries to warn her teammates of the "traitor" amongst them, but Chef Hatchet prevents her from doing so.

In Runaway Model, the Toxic Rats attempt to use Sasquatchanakwa as their model for the fashion challenge, but he rages and kidnaps Lindsay. Throughout the episode, Sam also suffers from video game withdrawal, since Chris confiscated all of his game devices. This results in his team having to carry the weakened Sam everywhere. He views the scaffolding on Boney Island as a setting in a video game, venturing up it to rescue Lindsay. Unfortunately, this strategy does not work, and the Maggots win yet another challenge. Sam gets the boot after the others declare him useless. That same episode, Chris switches Scott from the Rats to the Maggots and Jo from the Maggots to the Rats.

In A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste, the Toxic Rats lose the challenge after Brick destroys his team's Chris statue while saving Mike, Cameron, and Zoey from a mutant gopher. Brick is eliminated because of this. Anne Maria also quit this episode, so Chris decides to bring Dakota back into the competition in order to fill the gap left by Anne Maria.

For the second time in the entire season and after a very long losing streak, the Toxic Rats win the challenge and avoid elimination in The Treasure Island of Dr. McLean.

In Grand Chef Auto, the teams merge, officially breaking up the Toxic Rats. Jo and Lightning are the only members of this team to make it to the merge (Scott, a former Rat, also makes it to the merge, but does so as a member of the Mutant Maggots).

Members

 * B
 * Dakota
 * Dawn
 * Lightning
 * Sam
 * Scott
 * Staci

Additional members
In Finders Creepers, Chris switched Brick to the Toxic Rats due to an elimination twist when he volunteered to eliminate himself.
 * Brick
 * Jo

In Runaway Model, Chris makes volunteers Jo and Scott switch teams.

Trivia

 * The original team name for the Toxic Rats was the "Radioactive Rats." Christian Potenza confirmed that the name for the Radioactive Rats was scrapped on September 27, 2011 because of the nuclear disaster in Japan.
 * This is also the first team in the series to have a name change for the finished product of a season.
 * This is the first team in Total Drama history with a green-themed logo to be the weaker of the two teams in its season.
 * Out of the eight pre-merge episodes in which the two teams competed, the Rats lost six times.
 * Thus, this team is tied with Team Victory and Pimâpotew Kinosewak for the lowest amount of challenge wins of any team in the series, with only two.
 * This is the second of three teams to, at one point, consist entirely of one gender before the merge, the first being Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot and Pimâpotew Kinosewak. After Dawn's elimination, the four remaining members were all males. However, Jo switched teams with Scott soon afterward, which caused the team to no longer be all males.
 * This team has the larger amount of members of the two teams in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, as it started out with seven against the Maggots' six, and then gained two additional members.
 * This team is also tied for the second-largest amount of members of any team in the Total Drama series, along with the Villainous Vultures, behind the Screaming Gophers and the Killer Bass (who both had twelve each).
 * This team features the highest amount of members eliminated consecutively out of any other team in the series, as they lost six memB|bers in a row.
 * However, it is worth noting that with this team, the sixth and final member eliminated in the streak, Brick, was not an original member of this team. He was switched to this team following his original team's loss in Finders Creepers, which resulted in them not having to eliminate anyone.