DJ

Devon "DJ" Joseph, labeled The Brickhouse with Heart, was a camper on Total Drama Island on the Killer Bass team. He also was a cast member on Total Drama Action on the Screaming Gaffers.

Biography
DJ moved from Jamaica when he was 4 years old, but still has a lot of the island left in him. The most prominent is his chill island-itude. He may be huge, but he's not out to hurt anybody. Just as long as you don't say anything about his Momma - in which case he'll loose his gentleness real quick. The only thing this Jamaican-born Canadian loves as much as his Momma is a spicy roti and getting his dance on. DJ loooves to groove. He may be a big boy, but this homey rolls like Captain Sensitivo. His football coach wishes he had more of The Eye of The Tiger since his inner softie can really get in the way of pounding the competition into the dust, but that's not DJ's style. He prefers to chill and be chilled. DJ never had plans to be on TV either, but when the producers of Total Drama Island spotted him pushing a row of 80 shopping carts across the parking lot at his part time grocery job they HAD to have this young giant on their show. Now that he's onboard, DJ wants to win the prize money so that he can fulfill his Momma's wish and move back home to Jamaica. DJ is a good son. He's also a good friend and the kind of guy you want on your team.

Total Drama Island
He was one of three people to wear the Chicken Hat in the first challenge and he was the only male camper, he also was the only male Killer Bass, to wear it. DJ refused to jump since he is afraid of heights. When the teams had to bring their crates to the camp ground he was able to do it fairly easily. When it came down to who to vote off Duncan recommend either DJ or Courtney, luckily DJ's brickhouse body saved him.

In Dodgebrawl, he competed in almost all of the challenges and was pretty good at them. He was able to get most of the Gophers out, with the exception of Cody. But when the score was two to zero most of the team wanted Duncan to play, which DJ pointed out that he might kill them. He cheered for Harold in the final round and carried him after the victory.

He also performs his ribbon dance in Not Quite Famous. During the audition he does well and is signed up. Before the talent show DJ and the other guys bet Bridgette that she couldn't stand on her hands for 20 minutes. During the Talent show, he messed up and only won his team two points.

The Sucky Outdoors DJ shows a liking for animals as he befriends bunny. DJ has a fear of water. After an incident where he had an extreme wedgie which led him having to go to the hospital to get removed. Geoff, however, helped him conquer his fear of water after DJ gave him advice on how to get Bridgette's attention. This proved helpful as the incident is what allowed DJ to push his team to victory in the canoe challenge.

In Paintball Deer Hunter, DJ is cast as a deer. In which he actually acted like a deer, even when being chased by Owen. But when he realized that Owen had no paintballs DJ tossed him over the cliff.

Despite being kindhearted, DJ does join Geoff and Duncan in playing pranks against Harold in If You Can't Take The Heat... (although they are just trying to teach him a lesson about leaving his underwear out in the cabin). He even helps bring Harold's bunk out to the dock so the girls would see him naked.

Who Can You Trust? due to Geoff's carelessness bunny gets eaten by a snake. However Geoff tells DJ that Bunny left. Duncan found him a new bunny, expressing how Duncan had lost his dog after it ran away when he was a child. He did not want DJ to go through the same ordeal, expressing his warm and caring spirit, although he kept that sentiment well-hidden from DJ; so far, only Courtney, LeShawna, and Bridgette seem to know of Duncan's true intentions.

DJ is terrified of horror movies, to the point where he is very unstable during the Psycho Killer challenge and freaks out upon seeing Heather's make-up mask, which he thinks is terrifying, even after he came to his senses, (an event that leads to his elimination). DJ does not have a romantic relationship with anyone on the island. Regardless, he seems to know a lot about hooking people up and romance in general. DJ was the one who set Geoff with Bridgette (pushing him in and pulling him out of her way whenever he started to screw up).

On the last episode, Gwen considers him to be sane. When he arrives at the island with the other losers, he sits on Gwen's side. But after Owen mentions his party, DJ switches sides. At the beginning of the special, he was the only person who noticed Tyler drowning in the pool. So he ran into the pool and saved Tyler's life. Tyler was then pushing on his leg to get his energy back. DJ teams up with Tyler (after saving his life), Owen, and Cody in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island!. When his alliance and him were searching for the case, DJ pointed it out in a tree and he encourages Tyler to get the case down. Much later, the alliance had the case again, but they are caught in a hot air balloon controlled by Courtney. She threatens to kill the four of them for the case. When they jumped out of the balloon, she grabbed the case. DJ is one of the many campers that will move on to Total Drama Action.

Total Drama Action
While initially having a bunk bed to himself, he shared one with Owen as of Riot On Set. Of all the cast mates, DJ had much trouble adjusting to a number of the new challenges (namely the monster challenge in which he started sucking his thumb in fear). Through most of his time on the show, DJ is forced into an alliance with Chef Hatchet, who was greatly sickened by his pure heart and cowardly attitude. Chef tries to teach DJ how to be a man and gives him some tips and help in the challenges. In return, DJ was to split the winning money with Chef (as Chris hadn't been paying him). In Riot On Set, after noticing how DJ wouldn't pull the trailer up the hill out of fear of hurting someone and how he is kindly putting on Duncan's makeup, Chef Hatchet calls an alliance with DJ so he can "teach DJ how to be tough" and split the prize money between the two of them, if DJ were to win (something he tried to do with Izzy earlier whom refused). Chef spent a good amount of the episode teasing DJ lack of toughness, such as when he told the Screaming Gaffers that they shouldn't pick DJ to play the tough character in their skit. DJ however turns the teasing on Chef when he sees how he's crying at Duncan's skit, though Chef tells him "tough guys cry."

During Beach Blanket Bogus, Chef began giving DJ advice as of how to win challenges and how to act tougher, such as not to be ashamed when rendered nude and not to become a victim in challenges like the sandcastle-building contest. Chef also takes DJ in as a apprentice chef, presumably beginning in The Chefshank Redemption. Noticing that Chef's cooking usually has terrible taste, DJ adds in some of his mother's special spice, in order to add good flavor to them. Chef also began taking DJ away from his team in order to train him to become tougher, such as in the beginning of the episode, when the males were attempting to break out of their trailer and Justin and Duncan began to question where DJ, who at that time was in the kitchen with Chef, was.

DJ is also seen assisting Chef cook in One Flu Over the Cuckoos, while the two of them were making pizza. This was another occasion where DJ's absence was questioned, this time by Heather, but DJ was quick enough to slip out of the kitchen and claim that he had been there the entire time. He and Heather work together to help the Gaffers "win", so they think. Soon after Owen gets a "sore", DJ gets one as well and is quarantined in a bubble. At the end of the episode, DJ finds out that Chef had tainted the pizza with itching powder and laxatives, which causes DJ to feel betrayed and questioning how Chef could have done such an underhanded thing. In the end DJ agrees with the other Gaffers that LeShawna deserves the reward.

In The Sand Witch Project, The guilt due to being in an illegal alliance eventually becomes too much for DJ to handle. DJ began to have dreams and hallucinations about his mother becoming very angry with him and telling him that "nobody likes a cheater". Chef also became much more involved in helping DJ and his team win the challenges, which ended up getting him in trouble with the producers. During the Gilded Chris Ceremony at the end of the episode, DJ confessed to everyone on the show about his alliance with Chef, and asked to leave the competition, making him the second character in the Total Drama series to either vote or eliminate themselves (after Gwen merely two episodes ago).

DJ later appears in The Aftermath: II, and his mother even appears in the audience. It is revealed that even though Chef had pampered him with many goods that the other castmates did not get to enjoy (such as fresh laundry, packages from home, and healthier food) as a result of their illegal alliance, Chef also forced DJ to compromise his own moral character by reading a script to make a fake confessional about how he didn't feel bad about doing whatever it took to win. During the "Truth or Anvil" segment of the show, DJ was nearly crushed by an anvil when he lied about not having a secret recipe for why his sandwiches tasted so wonderful. Frightened that another one would be coming after him, DJ finally came out and said that he added two pinches of Hungarian paprika to the mayonnaise as his secret touch. Later on, when Gwen came on as a guest speaker, DJ was notably one of the only ones supporting her, as she had become incredibly unpopular with the audience and her fellow former competitors due to the events that transpired as a result from her breaking up with Trent and getting him eliminated from the contest. He applauded Gwen when she arrived on stage, complimented her when she advocated honestly in regards to relationship problems, and even saved her from a falling anvil (though it was Bridgette's lie that triggered it falling in the first place).

In The Aftermath: III he is now a commentator, but he didn't say anything in the episode. He is sitting in Courtney's old seat (next to Katie) and he is near to Bridgette and Geoff's couch.

DJ was confused in The Aftermath: IV when Izzy said, "Hit it DJ!" and asked what exactly he was hitting. She actually meant DJ Jazzy Chef when she said this. Chris later did the same thing when he says "Lets move on to DJ" and DJ Jazzy Chef thought it was him. DJ asked Beth and Duncan a question about riding their bikes down three paths, and Beth chose the better answer, in his opinion, by Beth saying she would jump off the bike. DJ chose Beth to win Total Drama Action because he thinks that she would make a gentle millionaire, and the world needs more of those. In the alternate ending, DJ carries Beth when she wins.

Audition tape
DJ is in his room talking about how he was raised right and shows everyone a photo of his mom. He then bursts into tears as he says "I love you" to the photo and thanks everyone for listening.


 * View DJ's audition tape

Camp TV
In Camp TV, DJ was one of the main characters, and was also one of the most far-removed characters in appearance from the original series. While he appears as a gentle Jamaican boy in the current show, he was portrayed as a large African-American rapper-type character (probably as a play on the word "D.J.") and he had a deep voice unlike the squeaky yet calm voice he has now. Despite the more intimidating appearance, DJ's personality was virtually the same. He was a strong brute who was kind towards animals and afraid of snakes (shown in a promotional art where Duncan is waving snakes at him and he is backing away in fear). DJ's old design was recycled into one of the members of the intern duo shown in the special and Total Drama Action (the other being an old design of Duncan). The intern that uses DJ's old design has yet to be named and is often mistaken for being the Owen prototype. In Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Island, he is seen in the car at the drive-through when Courtney finds out the truth about the island.

Trivia

 * DJ has the most phobias on the show for one character.
 * DJ's cameo in Trial by Tri-Armed Triathlon was when Chris hit him in the crotch during Who Can You Trust?.
 * DJ is one of the few characters to have their ethnicity verified. His Teletoon bio refers to him as Jamaican.
 * DJ is one of the few characters whom Gwen considers to have sanity.
 * DJ's mother calls him "Poopydoo".
 * DJ is the only character to never get a final marshmallow/Gilded Chris Award.
 * DJ is the only camper to be eliminated twice with no votes against him.
 * As explained in Alien Resurr-eggtion, DJ is an apparent fan of the Raptor the NBA team located in Toronto. Before turning the corner to confront what the group thought was Chef, DJ turns to the camera, and says "Mama if you're listening, you can have my limited edition Raptors draft cards. They're worth some serious coin!"
 * DJ is the first competitor to be voted off in an episode where his team wins.
 * DJ is one of the few campers to curse, and he was also the first. The others are Courtney, Lindsay, and Owen.
 * In the first episode before the competitors had to jump from a 1000-foot-high cliff.
 * DJ is one of the few characters to kiss someone and not be in a relationship.
 * In Total Drama Island, DJ is the only person in the final 10 without a relationship, with the exception of Heather.
 * DJ is one of several characters to show a form of nudity.
 * In Beach Blanket Bogus, a shark snagged his swimsuit leaving him completely naked.
 * DJ along with every single character (excluding Owen, Geoff, Harold, and possibly Duncan) has a fear of having nudity shown, as seen in Beach Blanket Bogus.
 * DJ is the one of few characters who selflessly argued that he should be kicked off instead of someone else (in this case, either Lindsay or Justin). DJ is the only male character to do so, and the only one to actually win his argument.
 * DJ has been mentioned or seen in every episode of Total Drama Island, except Are We There Yeti?.
 * DJ is the only returning Killer Bass in season two to not to be part of a couple at any point during the series.
 * DJ is the only male castmate from the Screaming Gaffers not to make it to the team merge.
 * He appears to be the tallest contestant.
 * Geoff (who is the third tallest contestant) is only up to his neck and Owen (who is the second tallest contestant) is up to his ear.
 * He is one of the few characters (the others being Harold, Heather, Gwen, Trent, Cody, Chris McLean, Chef Hatchet and the bear) who is features as a nood on Cartoon Network's bumpers.
 * DJ and Harold are the only two noods from the Killer Bass.
 * DJ is the only Screaming Gaffer not to be in a major conflict.
 * DJ was eliminated, in both seasons, in a horror movie challenge.
 * In Hook, Line, and Screamer, he was voted off due to being scared of Heather's "ugliness" and running off before Chef could get him.
 * In The Sand Witch Project, he votes himself due to his guilt.
 * Chef is somewhat responsible for both of his eliminations, as is DJ himself.
 * In Hook, Line, and Screamer, DJ was eliminated because Chef did not get him, and DJ ran off due to Heather.
 * In The Sand Witch Project, DJ votes himself off due to his guilt from having an illegal alliance.
 * DJ votes for Beth in both endings of Total Drama Action.
 * He is one of the only five people of which it is clear whom he voted for: Owen voted for Duncan, Courtney voted for Duncan, and Izzy voted for Explosivo. It is seen in the ending where Beth wins that Justin voted for her.
 * Each time DJ is eliminated, no one seems to want him gone.
 * Everyone hugged him the first time and went to say bye to him, even Heather.
 * Justin, Duncan, and Owen complained that he shouldn't be eliminated.
 * DJ is one of the five characters to have visible abs. The others being Chris, Justin, Chef, and Geoff.