Heather

Heather is a camper, and the main antagonist of Total Drama Island. She is labeled "The Queen Bee" in the Screaming Gophers team.

Biography
Heather enjoys talking about her (alleged) popularity, or her appearance, but truly dislikes her evil little brother Damien (reference to "The Omen"). Heather joined Total Drama Island because she strives to become a world-famous celebrity. She intended to win the competition with dirty tricks, cheating, and sabotaging the other campers. These methods got Heather very far into the competition, but her proficiency with the competition quickly gave Heather a bigger ego than she had upon arriving, which lead to her eventual downfall.

At first, when Heather learned where she was really spending her summer (which was a different location than what was advertised on the application form), she did everything in her power to get out of the competition immediately, but quickly found that under the fine print of the contract, she had no choice but to compete. She was extremely uncooperative in the first challenge, and almost instantly made enemies of LeShawna and Gwen, but just as quickly had Lindsay's unconditional support. She vowed to get revenge on LeShawna after she forced her to take part in the challenge, but insincerely apologized to her later on so she could get back at her later. Heather assured Lindsay that the two of them were friends ("for now").

Her first bold move was to make an alliance with Beth and Lindsay in The Big Sleep, promising the two that with her help, she would get them all into the final three. Heather chose these two in particular due to Lindsay's lack of intelligence and sheep-like mentality and Beth's desperation to become popular and accepted by the masses. With Heather giving off an air of a popular kind of girl, the girls quickly agreed to be part of the alliance. However, complications arise when Lindsay falls for Tyler - a member of the opposing team. Seeing that as a threat, Heather disallowed inter-team dating from the alliance. She continued to add on a list of rules that Beth and Lindsay strictly had to adhere to, or otherwise face getting kicked out of the alliance. Many of these rules, however, were unfair and basically allowed Heather to mold Beth and Lindsay in any way she wanted without having to give anything in return. In the same episode, Heather stole Eva's MP3 player, knowing full well how temperamental she was, and as she predicted, eventually caused Eva's entire team to turn against her and vote her off. Heather considered this a major victory for herself, as she single-handedly removed one of the biggest threats to her team early on in the competition. Afterwards, in addition to becoming captain of her own alliance, Heather took every opportunity to lead the Screaming Gophers team in general during challenges in spite of other campers questioning her integrity.

She quickly notices Gwen developing feelings for Trent. Since Heather hated Gwen and felt threatened by this budding "alliance", she found Gwen's secret diary in Not Quite Famous and read it aloud to the entire camp and national television. Despite several campers finding that act uncalled for, Heather used her alliance's votes and bribed a few of her other teammates to vote off Justin instead, simply because of his lack of a personality at that time. Heather would use these tactics to keep her safe from elimination from every challenge; even if she did something especially heinous. However, Heather's dictatorship in the alliance eventually made Beth snap and turn against her after essentially making her alliance members her personal slaves in daily activities, such as warming up the shower for her and washing her back. After a massive paintball fight and a second consecutive loss for her team in Paintball Deer Hunter, it was Cody being severely mauled by a bear that narrowly saved Heather from elimination that night. Beth was more-or-less considered out of the alliance. Heather called to be head chef for the next challenge in If You Can't Take The Heat..., allowing her to boss the entire team around to cook a three-course meal for Chris Mclean. Her bossy attitude made LeShawna snap, and after an incident where Heather lost her eyebrows after trying to light an upside-down cake flambé, the majority of the team (including Lindsay and Beth) took away her make-up bag and threw it in the freezer, causing Heather to run in and be locked inside. She ended up missing out on seeing the results, but was eventually let out by Lindsay after the team lost a third time in a row. Heather and the others realized Beth accidentally took back a tiki doll from their trip to Boney Island in Up The Creek, which allegedly cursed the team, and served as an explanation for why the Screaming Gophers were on a losing streak. Heather nearly kicked Lindsay out of the alliance, but gave her one last chance if she voted with her that night. She agreed to the terms, and once again Heather was almost eliminated. Luckily for Heather, the other campers, despite their hatred of Heather, found it more important to vote off Beth because of the curse she brought upon the team. Heather was safe again, but by this point, the remaining campers kept a vigilant eye on her, waiting for the next opportunity to eliminate her. Heather's only true ally was Lindsay for a while.

In X-Treme Torture, she became embarrassed after driving a wave runner and while attempting to cut the rope Harold was holding onto for a challenge, a tree branch snagged her top and rendered Heather topless, which Harold saw the entirety of and was entranced by it. Though it managed to cause him (and his team) to lose, Harold continued to harp on about getting to see boobs, regardless of whose it was. LeShawna chased after Heather after she found out whose boobs Harold saw, as Harold had just proclaimed his love for LeShawna before being eliminated in that episode. After this point, the teams are dissolved, resulting in Bridgette having to move into the Screaming Gophers' girls cabin, being the only female Killer Bass left on the island. Heather immediately tried to lure her into the alliance, but Bridgette ultimately sided with Gwen and LeShawna. Eva and Izzy return to the island afterwards in No Pain, No Game, with Izzy apparently taking Heather and Lindsay's side (temporarily), but Eva's intimidating presence straightened all of the girls - even Heather - out. She and LeShawna went into a territorial battle in the previous episode, with Heather laying down tape to establish boundaries due to how poorly the girls were getting along. With Eva inquiring about the tape, Heather instantly wadded up the tape and threw it out. Although it was Heather who caused Eva to get eliminated in the first place, Eva focused mainly on Bridgette for revenge (though she did vote for Heather to be eliminated in this episode) due to her being a former Killer Bass teammate. Duncan also tried to vote Heather off, thinking she was behind Courtney, his girlfriend's, elimination (although in reality Heather had nothing to do with that; it was Harold's doing). Eva had shaken everyone up enough for everyone else to forget about Heather for once, and the overwhelming majority of the votes took Eva out of the competition again.

In Search And Do Not Destroy, Heather pulls off one of her most devious schemes when she spots Gwen and Trent kissing. Considering this a rival alliance and not wanting that sort of competition, she enlisted Lindsay's help to organize a situation where Gwen would find Heather kissing Trent on the Dock of Shame after telling numerous lies to Trent about how much Gwen actually hated him and was using him to get herself further in the competition. It broke both of their hearts, and when LeShawna found out about Gwen's side of the story, she made a temporary alliance of her own, telling almost everyone about the incident and trying to get either Heather or Trent eliminated - preferably Heather. Unfortunately for Trent, Heather won Invincibility in the challenge, making her untouchable. All went according to plan, and Trent was sent away next. The truth was revealed before Trent left, so LeShawna got revenge on Heather by rearranging the pipelines while she took a shower, resulting in Heather getting covered in sewage. All of her clothes were shredded by LeShawna as well.

Heather became aware of the boys forming their gender-only alliance in Hide and Be Sneaky, trying to pick off the girls one by one due to the fact that the girls currently outnumbered them and figured they would do the same to them. Heather won invincibility again during the challenge, being especially greedy about it in not allowing Lindsay to share in it despite Heather finding two people with Lindsay with her at the same time. The boys ultimately decided to vote Bridgette off because of this. Heather attempted to get a unanimous vote from the other girls to combat this, but Gwen, LeShawna, Bridgette, and Izzy could not see eye-to-eye on Heather and Lindsay's choice. The guys' alliance prevailed, and Bridgette was voted off. Before the episode ended, Heather was being particularly mean to Lindsay, that led to some foreshadowing in the next episode.

Heather tricked Lindsay into protecting her bike and invincibility while disregarding Lindsay's own safety in That's Off The Chain!. She forced Lindsay to build a bike for her, and in the final course of the race (where the winner wins invincibility and the loser is automatically eliminated from the island), instructed Lindsay to clear a path through the obstacle courses and basically throw the race so that Heather herself could get by easily and take first place, as well as invincibility. At the time, they also had Owen and Duncan as competitors, so Lindsay followed along with this plan to keep Heather safe, assuming one of the guys would be eliminated. What neither of them did not count on was Owen and Duncan failing to complete the race, meaning Heather and Lindsay were the only two who did. Since Heather passed by Lindsay, that led to her winning invincibility once more, and Lindsay being the loser. When Lindsay realized Heather was just using her all along, not even liking her as a friend or a person, Lindsay snapped and yelled out a string of obscenities towards her former alliance-mate, as she finally came to understand about the other campers being right about Heather not being a nice person in the least. While Heather was stunned, she reminded everyone of her invincibility and walked away. Before Lindsay left the island, she hoped Heather would get everything her karma owed her, which would come to be true in the future.

Heather continued to dodge elimination throughout the series in various ways, not necessarily by her own doing. She did, however, get on the bad side on nearly every camper left over; even Owen, perhaps one of the nicest campers on the island, snapped after Heather insulted his girlfriend, Izzy, to his face and refused to stop. Like Lindsay, he shouted obscenities to Heather to her face. However, as the competition narrowed down, Heather and a few choice others found it more important to vote off the easy-going, popular people like Geoff while they still had the chance. The losers in Haut Camp-ture even had the opportunity to vote Heather off themselves, as none of them had anything nice to say about her, but were tricked into voting LeShawna off instead. Heather reluctantly teamed up with Gwen in Are We There Yeti? to win invincibility for both of them against Owen and Duncan. Using deceptive tactics, such as pretending to be weak, helpless girls (which the boys fell for), Heather and Gwen won invincibility, Duncan was voted off, and Heather made it to the final three as she had planned so early on in the series, even if it was without Beth and Lindsay.

Gwen and Owen cooked up a plan to get rid of Heather once and for all in I Triple Dog Dare You!; a sudden-death elimination round based on dares from other campers. After Owen earns twenty Get-Out-Of-Dare Freebies, Gwen makes a deal with him which leaves her with half of Owen's freebies. Despite Heather's protests, Chris allows Gwen and Owen to pummel Heather with sick and disgusting dares. Heather endures them all, until she is faced with a challenge given by Lindsay. Underestimating her, Heather was horrified to learn that the dare was based off a threat Heather herself dared to do to her in a past episode: get her head shaved off by Chef Hatchet. She is torn between what to decide on as Chef inches closer with the razor blade, and kicks it out of Chef's hands before making a decision. The razor blade ends up landing on top of Heather and shaves most of her hair off anyway, leaving Heather's head a disfigured mess. Since she did not actually accept the dare, Heather was then eliminated. Karma had finally caught up with her. She left the island, kicking and screaming the entire way.

Heather is not gone for long, as she returns in the season finale with the other losers to cheer for either Owen or Gwen to win. Heather considers Owen the lesser of two evils, and the majority of the losers pick Owen as well after he promises to throw a party on a yacht for everyone with his prize money. She makes a final attempt to bring down Gwen by fixing some obstacles in Owen's favor. Though Owen wins, Heather's pride is lost when LeShawna takes matters into her own hands and locks Heather in the Confessional stall (where Owen just had explosive diarrhea after he ate her cupcake which was meant for Gwen). Not only does Heather not get to see the winner, but she is trapped in a small area that reeks of Owen's stink (which stays on her for the rest of the episode). Heather pouts over it until Chris is dumped into the lake by the other campers as a means of getting revenge for the torture he put them all through. Gwen tells Heather that she must be happy to see him tossed in. Heather slowly smiles (happily) and says "Yeah...a bit." This might be a sign that perhaps Heather has finally made peace with Gwen (and some of the other campers) and will perhaps return to Total Drama Action as either an anti-hero or friend, though it is possible that she was just happy for the moment and will return as the antagonist of Total Drama Action. In the one hour special (which links TDI with TDA), she actually admits to Harold that she does not want to be mean and even seems to come to understand him after he helps her open up. However, she makes an awkward facial gesture afterwards and shakes her head, meaning she may have lied and just said this to gain an advantage (as she has been known to do in the past). She may have also really meant it and just thought the speech was lame, although this is probably not the case.

Audition tape
In her audition tape, Heather walks out of the shower with a towel and starts talking about how she will not be nervous if she was on the show. She also talks about how pretty she looks, and she adds that if they pick her, she promises high ratings. She then throws off her towel, off-screen.

Video log
On Cartoon Network, Heather's parents send her a video log. It starts with her parents dancing with party hats before telling their daughter how much they miss her. All the while a group of movers carry her stuff past them.

Trivia

 * Heather will be returning to Total Drama Action as a competitor.
 * She is the only voted off camper never to be seen at Playa Des Losers (excluding the special, when all twenty-two contestants appear there).
 * She appears in a towel more than any other camper on the island.
 * She has lines in nearly every episode of season one. In Phobia Factor she has no lines, but only gasps.
 * She is one of (if not "the") the most hated campers on the show.
 * She (along with Cody, Geoff, and Trent) have suffered a near death experience.
 * Falling into a pond of jellyfish courtesy of Lindsay
 * Owen falling on her
 * She is one of the main antagonists of the show, the others being Chris Mclean and possibly Justin (for TDA).
 * Heather is not only the last female camper to be voted off, but also the last camper to be eliminated period.
 * She is most likely named after the 1989 movie, Heathers.
 * Heather actually has seen reality shows before (as she said in the second episode) and thus she has picked up on some strategies for Total Drama Island.
 * She is seen in a large number of scenes of Total Drama Action without her wig (and her bald head exposed), she is also seen sometimes clutching her wig on her head. This may mean there will be an ongoing gag about her losing her wig.
 * Heather is one of the four characters (the other two being Owen, Gwen, and Duncan many people think Duncan isn't in all but when Heather screams, after getting her head shaved, it goes shows playa des losers, showing Duncan) to be featured in all episodes of the show
 * Heather's fingers seem to be long and seemingly sharp, resembling claws (probably not a coincidence).
 * Interestingly, when she has her head shaved (both when having a few locks and completely bald), she somewhat resembles Britney Spears when she shaved her head (this is probably the joke the producers were going for).
 * Heather has a strange scream, it starts off as a high pitched scream and then repeats itself in lower pitched sound (it also sounds like she's saying "NO" within the scream).
 * In the final episode, she is completely bald, but when she gets her head shaved, there were several patches of hair left, meaning she shaved the rest (or it was loose and fell out). In the Total Drama Action trailer, she is shown to still be bald. There are however some scenes (such as the film reel and the part when she is getting off the trolley) when she is seen with her regular hair, though they may be goofs(or she may have gotten a better wig). Strangely, her head is shown to be flat. However, in the reunion her head is shown to be round. The cause for this is unknown.
 * It is unknown if she will return as the antagonist or a friend (or anti-hero) in Total Drama Action. Looking at her position, she might return as a friend since at this point everyone knows about her and her backstabbing ways and therefore it would be very difficult for her to set up an alliance with everyone. In the trailer she is shown growling at someone, although seeing as how everyone in the preview seems to be out for themselves, this might not be unusual.
 * She could return in Total Drama Action as a secondary antagonist and it might be Justin who returns as the main antagonist.
 * Despite Heather's dislike of Gwen, she does not wish her dead, as she reacted with extreme fear (like everyone else) when Gwen was cornered by the psycho killer. She also seems perfectly capable of working with Gwen when forced to do so (as seen in Are We There Yeti?).  It goes the same way with Gwen, who was concerned when she thought the psycho killer had cornered Heather when she heard a scream (which was actually DJ's).
 * She may have some sort of sympathy for Cody, as she seems to gain a mournful expression when he is voted off. However, this may have been a look of pity.
 * Heather does seem to show some signs of improved compassion throughout the show as she started to apologize to Lindsay and Beth when she was stuck alone in Camp Castaways. This may, though, be her way to win votes and supporters in the final two.
 * She is one of the few people to show some form of nudity, others include Owen,Izzy, Harold, and Geoff.
 * Having small, slanted eyes not only aids her in looking more sinister and intimidating (suitable for her role as an antagonist), but also likely means that she has Asian roots in her family (this is also backed up at the fact that she has black hair). Her fear of sumo wrestlers may be a link to her heritage.
 * Heather has had much suffering since the conclusion of Total Drama Island, which may prompt her to become somewhat of an anti-hero in the next season.
 * She had all her hair shaved off.
 * She was the only camper to be rejected by everyone (except Harold) during team ups for the case.
 * She has constantly faced the harshness of nature animals (such as getting hit by beavers).
 * In the special, Heather opens up to Harold after he offers her consolation even after she betrayed him. Despite telling Harold that they would become friends after the experience, her facial expressions seem to indicate otherwise. However, there is a chance that this friendship/alliance can carry on throughout Total Drama Action in order to create more drama for LeShawna and her relationship with Harold.  Adding on to this, she actually seemed to be giggling happily at some strange parts of his story.
 * It is implied that Heather was overweight and ridden with acne in her youth. As she was likely unpopular because of this (or at least feared being so), it is believed this is what made Heather the nasty person she is today.
 * Heather is the only camper (besides Owen) in the show who was featured in every "Last time on Total Drama Island" flashback during the opening scene of each episode, excluding the one after the Playa Des Losers where they only show the people who have been voted off.
 * She might actually walk around bald for Total Drama Action without her wig, as one episode guide on Teletoon.com says that she loses her wig forever.
 * Heather inplied in the special that she took calculus. Since Heather is 16 (assuming her birthday is not in the summer) it is pretty much impossible to take calculus since she is in the tenth grade. There are some exceptions however.