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Ripper was a camper on Total Drama Island (2023) as a member of the Ferocious Trout. He returned for Total Drama Island (2024) as a member of Team Skunk Butt.
Personality[]
Ripper is a rude, gross, and mean-spirited boy who will do whatever it takes to be on top. He believes men shouldn't do certain things without looking weak, such as caring about others. He enjoys shamelessly bullying other people and happily indulging in extremely gross habits. He takes great pride in having long and disgusting farts, even trying to break the world record for longest flatulence. Ripper has a tendency to call other people "nerds" at the sound of anyone saying anything even slightly intelligent, seemingly out of obligation. He has a strong desire for dominance and will go out of his way to fight with people to show that he is superior. However, these attempts often cause him to make a fool out of himself, such as when he tries to face off with the much physically-superior Axel.
Although Ripper is shown to be strong in some challenges, his methods are often very immoral. He will resort to underhanded tactics to win, such as using Priya as a human shield and having Zee distract a cassowary only to leave him behind. His tactics become so infamous among the campers that anyone who commits a heinous act for the sake of a challenge is referred to as a "Ripper". It is implied that Ripper's bullying nature may be due to having a rough childhood. At one point, he mentions that his father dropped him and his siblings all the time as babies. On another occasion, he states that his mother believes that babies ruin everything.
In Total Drama Island (2024), Ripper reveals a more vulnerable side when he forms a crush on Axel. He goes to great lengths to impress her which usually end in embarrassment. He eventually succeeds and cares about her immensely, going against his mentality that caring about other people makes you look weak, to the point he chooses to leave with Axel when she's eliminated.
Total Drama Island (2023)[]
In Meet the Victims, Ripper is the 5th contestant to be introduced, he is giving the intern driving his boat a noogie. His audition plays which reveals that he believes that caring about other people and eating mild chicken wings makes a man look weak, the two things he doesn't do. Ripper also says that he has a criminal record for pooping in a stranger's purse on a bus. Most buses won't allow him on now since they are worried he'll do it again. Ripper doesn't like this law and questions who's making them, mainly because if he pooped in his own pants, he wouldn't face legal consequences. Arriving, Ripper rips his shirt off, only to remember he didn't bring a backup. Millie and Priya both appear to be disgusted by Ripper.
During the first challenge, Ripper was paired up with Chase and had to listen out for Damien and Millie's directions due to him and Chase being blindfolded. When Ripper stepped on a rake, he accidentally rips the back of his pants, disgusting everyone. But Chase found it wicked and proceeded to high five him, only to hit each other's faces due to them being blindfolded. At the end of the game, Ripper and his team won the first game of the season.
In Pirates of the Cabbage'an, Ripper was with Damien, explaining that he was given new pants after what happened previously. Ripper then saw Millie writing in her notebook. He hid Damien under a bush to get him into his schemes. Ripper jumps out of the bush and snatches Millie's notebook out of her hands. Millie tries to get the notebook back, but Ripper tells Damien to "go long" and throws it to him. Damien catches it and gives it back to Millie. Ripper tells Damien and Millie to be quiet, then, his stomach starts rumbling. Ripper then lets out a fart, getting Millie and Damien worried as Ripper starts counting. However, Ripper is disappointed when it stops. Ripper shares that the under 18 world record for longest fart is 48 seconds before sharing his personal record of 47 seconds, adding that beating that record is his life ambition. Millie starts writing this all down in her notebook. Ripper tells them that he thinks saying the steamboats out loud might hurt his chances of beating the record. Damien tries to tell him that trapped intestinal gas can be re-absorbed and released as an exhale, but Ripper doesn't listen and calls him a nerd.
Ripper and Axel get into a few fights during the beginning of the second challenge. They fight over who gets to wear the team captain hat, but accidentally rip it in half. When Ripper was rejected for his team choosing Axel as their captain, she kicks Ripper overboard and into the water.
During the elimination ceremony, Chef calls Ripper out for being in the water before the challenge stated (Although it was Axel fault for that). When Ripper received the last marshmallow, he shows it off to Axel, only for her to eat it while biting his hand.
In Drown Town Abbey, Chris tells Ripper to not rip his pants again during the next challenge since they got a lot of letters last time. Ripper says they are probably love letters, in which Chris tells him that he is incorrect, and that most of the letters were just envelopes filled with vomit. Before the challenge, Ripper agrees with Chase's plan about starting strong and says they should go strongest to weakest. He then ends up putting the boys first and girls last, calling Millie "Nerd 1" and Priya "Nerd 2". He puts Scary Girl last, believing that she will cost the team challenge, only for her to try to bite his finger. Ripper ends up doing very poorly in the challenge, getting stuck in the barbed wire and slipping off the greased platform. Ripper exposes his butt to the camera again after slipping, much to Chris' and the other camper's dismay. Ripper manages to grab one of the numbers but crashes headfirst into the mountain. Ripper is impressed by Priya ("Nerd 2") going through the course with ease to which Millie tells him she is doing way better than he did.
In Numbskull Island, Ripper is seen drinking hot sauce with Chase, to which Millie comments that they have a "bromance" going on. During the challenge, Ripper stays on defense with Zee and shoots plungers at the opposing team. Ripper gets annoyed with Zee warning the other team about him spraying them with his firehose. Once Ripper runs out of ammo, he releases two boulders, both of which hit Wayne. Ripper becomes frustrated at Scary Girl chasing Damien and takes matters into own hands. Deciding that the stink bombs won't cut it, Ripper takes out a fan and farts into it, knowing from experience he can cast a fart over a hundred feet. The fart smell causes Bowie and Raj to retreat. Ripper leaves Zee to guard the fort and runs to get the skull himself. He finds Priya and Millie laying on the ground after they got sprayed, much to their annoyance. After Priya states that shields keep disappearing, Ripper decides to use Priya as a human shield. Priya takes the brunt of the damage, even shielding Ripper from an entire boulder. Ripper gets through the other team's defenses with ease and retrieves their skull. However, MK puts up one of the shields in front of him which he crashes into. The skull lands in front of Scary Girl, who decides to give it a makeover before taking it to Chris, which costs them the challenge.
Ripper yells at Scary Girl for not taking the skull to Chris right away, the latter explaining that she gave the skull a makeover before handing it over. Ripper declares his intent to get Scary Girl eliminated when Priya comes in with the plunger still on her face pointing at Scary Girl's direction. Ripper believes Priya is agreeing with him but Millie scolds Ripper for using her as a shield as she tries to pull the plunger off of Priya's face. Ripper argues that his move almost won the challenge for the team. When Millie gets the plunger off, Priya's face was swollen. Priya tells Ripper that he's a bad person and anyone who does that to a teammate should be off the team. Zee tries to tell Ripper that he went too far but Chase disagrees, saying it's either Ripper, who almost won it for them, or Scary Girl, who cost them the challenge, who should be eliminated. At the elimination ceremony, Chef points out that although he almost won his team the challenge, he used Priya as a human shield. Ripper is annoyed by him makes it sound like a bad thing. Ripper receives the last marshmallow and celebrates by farting on it and then eating it, causing Damien to throw up.
In Jurassic Fart, Ripper calls Damien a nerd, and Ripper asks if that's what's causing the farting. When Millie, Damien and Priya start discussing about solutions for stopping their farts, Ripper comes up to them with a "brilliant idea", and has a pillow inside his own pants, which he says will mute his "butt trumping". Millie asks angrily if that's her own pillow, but Ripper responds saying that if he used his own pillow, he would have pink eye, and doesn't want it. Priya demands Ripper to get off his pants Millie's pillow, and Ripper gets it off, but suddenly farts very loudly, and the four run away as a raptor hears them.
They run into the dining hall and hide. Damien finds a plan to make them stop farting, and Ripper is about to agree, but his stomach growls, and he looks happy. He takes off the pillow from his pants, and starts farting for 48 seconds, tying the world record for the longest fart ever. Although, it attracted a raptor, which opens the door, but Damien gives it a bowl of beans, and the raptor farts, causing the dining hall to explode as Ripper and the others run away. Unfortunately, their team loses and at the elimination ceremony, Ripper and Damien are in the bottom 2. Ripper thinks he's going, but he actually gets the final marshmallow. He is surprised by that, and Damien is eliminated.
In The Launchback of Notre Game, Zee is amazed how the team blew up a raptor, to which Ripper comments about how being blown up by one's own farts is a hero's exit. Ripper is angry after seeing Julia hit Bowie with a burrito, saying that you can't smack a man with his own burrito, only for her to throw one at him. The horn announcing the next challenge blares, scaring Ripper who shares that it scared half a burrito out of him, disgusting Millie and Priya. During the challenge, Ripper call being flung first. When Priya calls out that she knows how to work catapults and wants to be in charge, Ripper calls her a nerd. A curious Zee pulls the lever on the catapult, which flings Ripper into a pit full of crabs, which attack him. Later as Zee gets on the catapult, Zee tells Ripper that a catapult launch is how he lost his leg. Ripper is fascinated as he believes that story that Zee claims is true, when in reality it isn't.
In Severe Eggs and Pains, the teams merge, and for the cassowary challenge, Chris recommends teaming up with someone to win easier, and Ripper teams up with Zee. During the challenge, a cassowary notices them, but the two hide, and as Zee's hiccups start communicating with the bird, Ripper finds a new plan. Ripper decides to make Zee dress up as a cassowary, and Ripper teaches him how to dance and "get foxy with it", and to "put that bird under a love spell". As Zee's wooden beak falls off, Ripper secretly takes the cassowary's egg, and runs to Chris with it. Ripper thinks he will win immunity, but throws the egg on the floor, and it destroys. A baby bird comes out of it and starts attacking Ripper. Ripper then exclaims that his mother was right that babies ruin everything. At the elimination ceremony, Chef calls out Ripper for throwing the baby bird to the ground. As everyone hears that, everybody gets mad at Ripper, and all turn at him. He tries explaining what happened but doesn't manage to do so. In the end, everybody except Wayne and Raj gets a marshmallow, and Ripper and the others celebrate.
In The Wheel of Vomit, Ripper and Zee entering the dining hall where Chase is cheering, explaining about his kiss with Emma from the previous episode. Ripper is unimpressed since Chase has kissed Emma a hundred times while Zee is shocked that Chase and Emma used to date. Ripper is surprised and asks Zee where he has been, in which he starts listing locations he's physically been up until his current location. Later Julia enters the mess hall and gives Ripper and Zee wedgies. Before the challenge begins, Ripper states that he's super full, but knows that Priya has been gunning for him to be eliminated so he must win immunity. After Millie translates what Chris said, Ripper calls her a nerd. Ripper and Julia are the last two remaining in the challenge and keep getting tied for immunity so Chris has Chef bring out the one thing the latter would never serve, a 50-foot-long sentient tapeworm. Ripper and Julia begin eating the tapeworm, only focused on each other and determined to win immunity. Ripper is excited to not only win immunity, but to also kiss a girl. However, Julia eats the finish line first, thus winning immunity. Ripper is eliminated at the campfire ceremony, much to his annoyance. As he walks to the Dock of Shame, Ripper comments on how he thinks he proved to the world he is more than just an "awesome, super good-looking guy that everybody loved" and that he became a world record fart holder. He then states how he won't cry on-screen and will wait until he gets home. The Drone of Despair grabs Ripper by his underwear and carries him away, giving him a wedgie in the process while he pleads for Chris for help.
Ripper returns with the other 13 contestants in Magma Cum Laude. He is chosen to be Millie's partner in the final challenge. While Ripper is excited get more screentime, Millie is unhappy due to their negative relationship with each other. After the challenge begins, Ripper drags a depressed Millie as she holds onto the saw. As they saw the tree, Millie barely puts in any effort due to being sad about Priya being mad at her. Seeing how upset Millie is, Ripper suggests sabotaging Priya's raft, so she'd jump onto her raft, and she'll gratefully forgive her. Ripper gives Millie his toenail clipper and cuts some of the ropes on Priya's raft. However, Millie is horrified to find out the lake is filled with lava and yells at Ripper for making her cut so many ropes on Priya's raft. Ripper unsympathetically tells her that most lakes he's seen are made of water before leaving. Later, Ripper is annoyed to find they have been sitting on "failure benches." He is excited as Priya and Bowie approach the finish line. Despite their negative relationship, Ripper cheers for Priya after she wins. At the final Campfire Ceremony, Ripper is excited after Chris announces they will return for a second season and dances with the others.
Total Drama Island (2024)[]
Ripper returns with the other fifteen contestants in The Pink Painter Strikes Again. Despite their brief rivalry last season, Ripper asks Axel how she's been, to which Axel immediately shoves Ripper into a bush despite stating she's trying to be more friendly. Ripper becomes annoyed as Priya and Bowie are seemingly ignoring him to be on their team. He calls Chase a "weak" choice and Axel the "worst pick yet". Axel retaliates by stomping on him. The final choice comes down to Ripper and Nichelle. Ripper begs not to be the last pick, but Priya decides to go with "The person who didn't use her as a human shield" and picks Nichelle, much to Ripper's chagrin.
During the challenge, Ripper says there is something familiar about Chef's grandma. As Bowie tries to strategize, Ripper becomes annoyed since the challenge isn't very complicated. After Millie and Priya are out, Chef's grandma says they got "axed". Recognizing her catchphrase, Ripper realizes that she's Axe Hatchet, the greatest pitcher in the Woman's Baseball League. Axel becomes annoyed and frustrated by Ripper following her, even though they are supposed to go to the same place. Axel then trips Ripper which makes him out of the challenge.
In Taking It to the Rim Reaper, Ripper reveals that he has developed a crush on Axel and asks Bowie for advice. Bowie tells him to be up-front with her since it worked for Raj. His attempt to make a move fall flat as he stumbles over his words. Before he can finish speaking, Axel slams his food tray into his face. Wayne and Raj ask him how it went to which Ripper is too sad to answer. Before the next challenge begins, Julia tells Bowie he should have picked Nichelle over Ripper, much to his annoyance. As Team Rat Face strategize, Ripper calls them nerds. Axel takes offense to his insult, causing Ripper to attempt to take it back, but he once again stumbles over his words.
In a confessional, Ripper wants to show Axel he's the "coolest dude ever" and comes up with an idea to impress her. At some point, during the challenge Ripper sneaks away to put his plan into action. Bowie notices Ripper is missing and calls him a "big, hairy chicken." Right at that moment, Ripper returns, with nothing but a swimsuit on and has covered himself with butter. Ripper's plan is to go down the slide so fast that Axel will fall for him. However, Ripper realizes Axel isn't around and Julia tells him that she’s just coming back from sliding and tells him to go already. Ripper tells Julia to get Axel to notice him and try not to be obvious, which Julia pretends to comply with. Julia proceeds to loudly call out to Axel and tells her about Ripper having a crush on her and wants her to watch him slide. Ripper then proceeds to slide his way down the second slide, but his swimming trunks get stuck on a nail, which gives him a big wedgie. This causes him to be pulled back into the slide and slingshotted away into the woods. He lands in a tree where a bear is licking him.
Right before MK is about to jump down the three-point slide to get her teammates unstuck, Ripper jumps down the slide while being chased by the bear. This causes everyone to fly out of the toilet and gets the team enough points to be in the lead. The team eventually ends up losing the challenge anyway. Right after the challenge ends Chris tells Ripper to put some clothes on. At the elimination ceremony, Chef berates Ripper for his antics, but Ripper points out that he unclogged the toilet. Ripper receives the final marshmallow and celebrates by buttering it with his body, much to Julia's disgust.
In You Poor Saps, while the rest of the team follows MK through her "shortcut", Ripper splits up so he can have alone time with Axel. Axel begins to smell something funny as she goes through the woods, commenting it smells like old gym socks and desperation. Ripper catches up to her, saying they took the same route because their great minds think alike, but she doesn’t care. They then see something in the bush, Ripper gets scared, and Axel goes to grab a weapon, but it is just a bunny. The bunny scares Ripper into bumping into Axel, causing their butts to get stuck together with the sap. Axel attempts to walk the two of them to the finish line. Ripper tells her there has to be a better way to get their butts across the island. This gives Axel an idea to use farting to get free. Ripper and Axel then farted, causing a bubble of sap to form between their butts. Emma asks what it is in a scared tone, she, Priya, and Caleb scream as the bubble pops, and Ripper gets stuck to a tree as Axel lands on Caleb's log. Later at the elimination ceremony, Chris asks if anyone found out what happened to Ripper, revealing that is still stuck to the tree.
In Choosin' for a Bruisin', Ripper approaches Axel as she is punching a mattress, which causes her to punch him in the face out of reflex. She then tells him to not sneak up on her, as she was voted "Most likely to make you regret stuff" in Survival Camp. He agrees, saying it was his fault as he appears to have a severely injured nose. Axel helps him up and somehow fixes it as he thanks her. Ripper tells her that he is into to which Axel immediately rejects him, leaving Ripper in tears. During the challenge, Ripper gets Emma's question correct after seeing Emma biting her fingernails, so he chooses the option closest to that: eating a bowl of toenails, which is correct. Ripper then gets his next question correct because he believes that he and Millie are smart, despite him constantly teasing her for being smart the previous season. However, he gets his next question wrong because he believes that him and Caleb have had a lot of angry ex-girlfriends, so they can't trust a parachute packed by one. During Axel's question, Ripper comments on how he would rob a bank if he would be debriefed by Axel as a lawyer, resulting in her glaring at him. He then finds out that Axel is into poetry, causing him to run off somewhere. After Emma's elimination, Ripper's voice is heard over the intercom, revealing that he has written a poem for Axel. He recites a poem that he wrote for Axel and arrives at the campfire upon finishing his reading. Axel grabs Ripper by the shirt and to the surprise of everyone, including Ripper himself, she kisses him.
Ripper and Axel continue to make out until the start of Ice to Beat You, where they are found by Priya and Caleb on the dock. Priya asks if they have been doing that all night. Axel is surprised and Ripper says time flies when they are "lip-wrestling for the championship belt," and they continue kissing. Priya tells Caleb they should head back, and he agrees. Ripper joins his team in the dorm, where Bowie takes Wayne and Raj for a walk to get them away from MK and Julia's scheming. This time, Ripper gets involved with their cheating after he volunteers to have a maze map drawn on his stomach. At the challenge, when Raj asks why they are doing the maze, Ripper says they have a plan. Bowie tries to play it off as Ripper never making any sense. When Bowie asks how they are cheating, Ripper rips off his shirt revealing the map, much to the disgust of everyone. When the team finds the key, Ripper suggests he could fart the key out as MK yells at him to hold his fire before pulling out a hair dryer. After the team blow dries through the maze and get to the safes, Raj notices the map on Ripper's stomach and realizes the group is cheating again. Bowie, trying to compensate for his cheating, teams up with Wayne and Raj and get into a snowball fight with Julia, MK, and Ripper. As both sides throw snowballs, the still active dryer begins cracking the ice, causing Team Skunk Butt and the frozen Yeti to fall at the bottom. Julia thinks she landed on Ripper, but Ripper appears farther away and shivering right before Julia is flung by the yeti, which is actually who she was lying on. In the end, the team manages to win the challenge.
Throughout Canoe Believe It?, Ripper and Axel are frequently seen making out. While trying to find a partner for the challenge, Wayne plans on asking Ripper as his third option, but is too disgusted by him and Axel's making out to even go up to them. After they arrive at the lake, Chris wears a crown as Chef blows a horn, leading Ripper to believe they traveled back in time. Axel says that he isn't smart, but she finds that hot as they start making out again. During the challenge, Ripper refuses to fight Axel and asks Chris for different partners, but Axel immediately hits him into the water. Ripper is saddened that she did that to him, but Axel tells her that when couples fight, they make up, which makes Ripper happy. Ripper believes Axel has no chance of losing since she has no weaknesses. However, Axel is distracted by Bowie after he tells her Ripper is making out with a raccoon. Ripper is flattered that Axel's one weakness is her love for him.
In Fun Fight at the O'Cake Corral, Ripper and Axel are placed in the same team as MK. During the challenge, Ripper and Axel didn't help to MK, as they just make out. Ripper is the model to Axel's painting. Axel later molds chocolate with Ripper while kissing him. When Priya needs yeast, she gets it from Ripper's armpit. When her group finishes the cake, it completely disgusts Owen, Chef, and Chris, as they state it tastes like actual garbage. When Priya's team wins, he says he deserves the credit to him, revealing where she got the yeast, causing Chris to feel disgusted and giving the win to Julia and the Hockey Bros. At the elimination ceremony, Axel ends up in the bottom two with Ripper, due to their disgusting kissing. Much to Ripper's sadness, she is eliminated as she was seen as the bigger threat between the latter. At the dock, she tells Ripper she will see him around "maybe." The Drone of Despair comes to take Axel away, but Ripper hangs onto her leg, causing the drone to sink with both of them. Chris counts as this as Ripper's elimination.
In Soar Losers, and he chooses to support Wayne. He cheers when Wayne wins the game.
Appearances[]
Total Drama Island (2023)
Total Drama Island (2024)
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Audition tape[]
View this video for Ripper ‘s audition tape.
Ripper is in school; he explains that he doesn't care about other people and eats spicy chicken wings in order make himself strong. He has a criminal record, complete with mugshots. He then rants about the laws as he mentions how he once pooped in a woman's purse on a bus, but he doesn't get in trouble for pooping his pants.
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Comparisons[]
- He is one of the contestants to have more than one main design. He had a different shirt that he ripped off, thus switching to his blue one.
- He is one of the few contestants to have a criminal record.
- He is one of six characters to not have black eyebrows, with the others being Lindsay, MacArthur, Noah, Scary Girl, and Scott.
- Ripper is one of four characters to have tan lines, the others being Ezekiel, Harold, and Owen.
- Ripper is one of the 16 male characters to wear a necklace. The others being Alejandro, Brick, Lightning, Geoff, Bowie, Caleb, Chris, Justin, Mike (as Vito), Ennui, Damien, Devin, Rock, Junior, Ryan, and Duncan.
Competition[]
- Ripper is one of fourteen contestants who competed in more than one season and always made it to the merge, with the others being Alejandro, Bowie, Cameron, Duncan, Julia, Mike, Owen, Priya, Raj, Scott, Wayne, Zee, and Zoey.
- In both seasons he has competed, Ripper has been eliminated in the second episode of the merge.
- Ripper is the sixth contestant overall to quit the competition, the others being DJ, Duncan, Harold, Anne Maria, and Nichelle. However, his case is unique, as he didn't officially announce that he's quitting and merely tried to take down the Drone of Despair to prevent Axel from leaving him, which Chris just happened to count as quitting.
- Axel and Ripper are the second couple to be eliminated in a double elimination, the first one being Bridgette and Geoff.
- Ripper is, alongside Izzy, one of the two contestants to not be chosen for a team, instead being placed on them by default of being the last available option.
- Ripper has been eliminated back-to-back with Zee in both seasons of the reboot, with his elimination preceding Zee's both times.
Miscellaneous[]
- According to Terry McGurrin, Ripper, along with Chase and Julia, was intentionally written as an unlikeable character. In Ripper's case, McGurrin described him as having been written as someone no Total Drama fan wants to see succeed, feeling that characters like that are necessary in every reality show while praising Fred Kennedy for his performance.
- According to his mugshot in his audition, it is revealed that Ripper's height is about five and a half feet. This makes him the second contestant whose height was confirmed, the first being Alejandro.
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