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. He will be returning for Total Drama World Tour.

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 lose 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
In Not So Happy Campers - Part 1, DJ arrives to the island, thinking it's a five star resort. DJ gets let down after Chris states that this is it. He gets put on the Killer Bass. In Not So Happy Campers - Part 2, he refused to dive off the cliff due to his fear of heights, and was one of the three people to wear the Chicken Hat. When the teams had to bring their crates to the campground, he was able to do it fairly well due to his strength. However, the Bass still lose the challenge and have to vote someone off that night. When it comes down to that, Duncan recommends voting off DJ or Courtney since they were the "chickens" in the cliff-dive. However, Ezekiel is eliminated that night, not DJ or Courtney because of his sexist comments he made earlier that day.

In The Big Sleep, DJ remains quiet for the whole episode, but does fairly well in the 20K run. In the "Awake-a-Thon" challenge, DJ ties himself to a tree to prevent falling a sleep, but ultimately falls asleep somewhere in between the 20 and 40 hour mark.

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.

In The Sucky Outdoors, DJ shows a liking for animals as he finds a bunny in the woods, and befriends it. DJ has a fear of water as revealed in Up the Creek, after an incident where he had an extreme wedgie which led him having to go to the hospital to get his shorts removed from his butt. Geoff, however, helped him conquer his fear of water after DJ gave him advice on how to get Bridgette's attention, even if he doesn't have a girlfriend himself. 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 ran off, leaving DJ in tears. However during the "Blind Tobbogan Race", 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 horror movie challenge and freaks out upon seeing Heather's make-up facial mask, which he finds terrifying, even after he came to his senses, an event that leads to his elimination. Before leaving, DJ shares a group houg with everyone.

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, 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.

In Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special shows that DJ and his mom started up a kitchen show after TDA. They were successful for a while but got sued because their food was unhealthy. The ex contestants used DJ's tour bus to stop Chris from airing Total Drama Dirtbags. He qualifies for Total Drama World Tour and says he will buy his mom a house and a new bus if he 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. A design similar to this design is used in Total Drama Reloaded.

Trivia

 * In Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special, LeShawna tells DJ's Momma "You are something else, Mrs. M", which implies that DJ's last name starts with the letter M.


 * DJ has the most phobias on the show for one character.


 * DJ is one of the few characters to have their ethnicity verified. His Teletoon bio refers to him as Jamaican.


 * DJ's mother calls him "Poopydoo," as shown in The Sand Witch Project.


 * DJ is the only character to never get a final marshmallow or Gilded Chris Award.


 * He is one of the characters to have a crying fit:
 * In his Audition Tape, after showing the picture of his momma to the audience, he starts to cry.
 * He cried in Who Can You Trust? after Geoff told him about Bunny getting eaten.


 * 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, Izzy, 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.
 * He, along with Heather and Noah, are the only campers to kiss someone and not be in a relationship.


 * 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?.


 * He is the tallest contestant, and is the second tallest overall (Behind only Chef Hatchet)
 * Geoff and Owen (who is the second tallest contestants) seem to only go 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 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.


 * 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.