List of Total Drama challenges

Chris McLean likes to torment the competitors with various challenges, most of which are painful, dangerous and hated by the contestants. The challenges usually come with a twist, which Chris does not tell the campers about until they need to know about it) Usually if something happens in a challenge, it turns out to be Chris' special idea, though this has not been the case in certain challenges. When a contestant wins a challenge they (or their team) receive invincibility from elimination.

Sometimes a contestant will be eliminated depending on how they perform in the challenge. A few of the challenges seem to be based off of some contestants' hobbies, talents or personalities.

List of challenges in Total Drama Island

 * 1) Jump off a 1000-foot cliff into the shark infested water, pull crates back to camp, and build a hot tub from scratch.
 * 2) Stay awake the longest in an "Awake-a-Thon" after running 20km and eating a huge meal
 * 3) A best out of a five match Dodgeball challenge.
 * 4) A talent show.
 * 5) Go into the woods, build a camp, and stay out there overnight.
 * 6) Face your very own worst fears.
 * 7) A canoe trip, a portage, and canoeing back to camp.
 * 8) Hunt the other team dressed as deer with paintballs, or if you're the deer, avoid being hit by them.
 * 9) Create a three course meal for Chris to judge.
 * 10) Participate in a set of trust exercises.
 * 11) Survive Chef Hatchet's boot camp.
 * 12) Participate in three extreme sport challenges. In this case, "sofa skydiving," waterskiing on mud and riding a moose while avoiding being tossed off it.
 * 13) Eat as much disgusting food made by Chef as you can handle.
 * 14) Get through a number of tortures without complaining.
 * 15) Collect keys to open treasure chests in one of the many dangerous places.
 * 16) Avoid getting sprayed by Chef with a gigantic water gun in a game of hide and seek.
 * 17) Build and race motor bikes.
 * 18) Watch a Slasher Movie and then survive being "killed" by Chef, dressed as an escaped killer.
 * 19) Go on a safari to catch an animal without hurting it.
 * 20) A Triathlon; eating disgusting food with your hands behind your back, while the other one feeds you, return Beth's cursed idol to Boney Island, and assemble a totem poll of the wooden heads of the voted out campers.
 * 21) Find Chris and Chef after being washed away by a storm.
 * 22) Find your way back to camp after being left in the wild.
 * 23) Survive a series of dares from the voted off campers.
 * 24) Climb a flag pole and retrieve flag, walk across board on top of shark infested waters while carrying an eagle's egg, cross the finish line first.
 * 25) Find a case with $1,000,000 inside and bring it to the Dock of Shame before anyone else.

List of challenges in Total Drama Action

 * 1) Search through the movie lot to find the cast trailers while avoiding the giant monster robot, then find a key on a buffet table. Based off the Monster Movie genre.
 * 2) Search for and retrieve alien eggs while avoiding being hunt down by an alien. Based off the Alien Movie genre.
 * 3) Set up a film set and perform a skit to make Chef show emotion. Based off the Soap Opera Drama genre.
 * 4) Balance on a surf board, build a sand castle and a dance off. Based off Teen Beach Movie genre.
 * 5) Land on a horse from a high diving board and cattle roping the other team. Based off Western Movie genre.
 * 6) Select a teammate to be locked in a cage while eating gross food made from the opposite team, select a team member to push a laundry cart with the rest of the team in it through an obstacle course, and dig a hole to the trailers. Based off of the Prison Movie genre.
 * 7) Assemble and revive a 'FrankenChris' (not completed); Cure a 'fatal' outbreak of disease. Based off of medical trauma movies and medical school practices.
 * 8) Choose a "Serial Killer" for each team; Participate in three challenges in which the Killer's job is to frighten their opponents, whoever's team screams the loudest overall wins; Attempt to scare the losing team from the past challenge out of the Craft Services Tent. Based on the Horror Movie genre.
 * 9) Complete an obstacle course including earthquake-like vibrations, pits, hail-sized golfballs, lava (tomato soup) and objects thrown at you by Chef; Escape from a submarine while it is filling up with water. Based on the Disaster Movie genre.
 * 10) Jump from an airplane "three kilometers" off the ground; Arrange a collection of paint bombs so, when ignited, they splatter in a creative and controlled way and form a pattern; Play a version of "capture the flag" using the "big trunk of mind-blowing secrets." Based on the War Movie genre.
 * 11) Rescue a teammate who is locked in a vault; Rob a bank; Build and Race Go-Karts. Based off of the Bank Heist Movie genre.
 * 12) Create fire by using rocks; Battle a member of the opposite team using bones. Although it was not performed, Chris had planned a mammoth hunting, however due to Owen's elimination, it was canceled. Based off of the Prehistoric Movie genre.
 * 13) Conditioning; Boxing; Badminton; Ball pit wrestling; Slam Dunk competition; Cheerleading contest. Based off of the Sports Movie genre.
 * 14) Retrieve a heavily-guarded package; Escaping an "exploding" building; defusing stinkbombs. Based off of the Spy Movie genre.
 * 15) Make a super hero costume, with a name and superpower; race through a superhero obstacle course and rescue a sack of potatoes in a dress. Based off of the Superhero Movie genre.
 * 16) Put on a glass "slipper" (actually, a combat boot) to be dubbed a princess (girls only); cross a bridge that is guarded by an "ogre" (played by Chef) while blindfolded; slay a "dragon" (the animatronic monster from "Monster Cash" reused as a dragon) and rescue the princess from the "ivory tower" (actually, a radio antenna disguised as a castle tower). Based off of the Fairy Tale Movie genre.
 * 17) Collect a part of DNA of one contestant and discover who killed the host (Chris). Based off murder mystery movie genre.
 * 18) Play an electric guitar, walk the red carpet while avoiding the photographer props and trash a hotel room. Based off of the Rock n' Roll movie genre.
 * 19) Train a fighter in a unique fighting style, use a remote control to make the fighters fight the way the trainer wants them to, climb up a hill carrying a glass of water to a "kung-fu master" to collect a bonsai tree from the top to bring back down to the bottom of the hill. Based off of the Kung-Fu movie genre.
 * 20) Spend the rest of the night in a zero-gravity space ship themed roller coaster, survive a ride on the "Vomit Comet" the longest. Although it was not performed, there was going to be a challenge that involved recycling waste on a spaceship. Based off of the Outer Space movie genre.
 * 21) Pick an animal, train it to be like you and find your way back to lot through the forest. Based off of the Animal Buddy movie genre.
 * 22) Clean up a bathroom stall, climb your flag to the top of a greasy pole, launch yourself out of a cannon to the movie lot, go through a treasure hunt through all of the season's challenges, and finish before your opponent. Based off of the Pirate movie genre, though it can also be considered a movie marathon, seeing how challenges from most of the episodes were used (see above).
 * 23) Contort your body to fit through shapes cut into wood. Answer a question (or do a challenge) of an eliminated contestant's choice, which includes a dance-off and a healthy eating challenge to break the tie. Based off of no movie genre. The contort challenge was based off "Human Tetris" or "Hole in the Wall", rather than a specific movie genre.
 * 24) Stop the Total Drama Dirtbags bus from making it to New York City, and then make it back to the studio to compete in Total Drama World Tour.

List of challenges in Total Drama World Tour

 * 1) Go either under or over a pyramid to reach the finish line to form the teams. Location: Egypt.
 * 2) Travel through the desert with your item and then weave a boat out of river reeds to cross the Nile river and reach the finish line while keeping your item. Location: Egypt.
 * 3) Team up with a panda or a teammate in a game of giant human pinball and win the most points. Then make the best commercial advertising Chef Hatchet's candy that will be judged by Chef. Location: Japan.
 * 4) Jump onto ice floes and reach the dogsleds first (therefore having to pull it), drive to all the check points to pick up team mates, and then cross the finish line with them all. Location: Yukon.
 * 5) Climb up Lady Liberty, retrieve your team's carriage, get your team down a thirty story fireman's pole ride down, boat race across water and sewers to a Turtle Lake, retrieve an apple from the lake using no hands, and race the apple in the carriage to Central Park. Location: New York City.
 * 6) Put meat into a grinder to make a huge sausage to slide down a mountain and slap dance with another person and then try to knock them off of the platform. Location: The German Alps.
 * 7) Race through the Amazon, then follow an ancient trail to Machu Picchu to find a hidden treasure. Location: The Amazon.
 * 8) Race through the Louvre and gather pieces of famous statues, then be the first to reassemble them. For the elimination, both players selected a model from another team, design an outfit and had a walk off. Location: Paris.
 * 9) Swim to your boat, then row to the shore of Newfoundland; "Screeching in" relay. Location: Newfoundland.
 * 10) Cliff diving for "pirate treasure" and bobsled racing around a rickety rack. Location: Jamaica.
 * 11) Find clues in various places in order to capture Jack the Ripper (Ezekiel) before he catches you. Location: London, England.