Total Drama Action

Total Drama Action is the second season of Total Drama.

Overview

This season's challenges are based on movie genres, and the site where each challenge takes place is an abandoned film lot. The grand prize for this season is $1,000,000. F i f t e e n c a s t m a t es compete for forty-two days for one grand prize. When eliminated, contestants have to take the Walk of Shame and enter the Lame-o-sine, which takes them to the Total Drama Aftermath studio. Here, they are interviewed by two hosts about their experiences on the show and how they feel about their current position.

Summary

After the events of Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island, in which all of season one's contestants attempted and failed to win the million dollars in a final challenge at Camp Wawanakwa, Chris recruits the closest l u c k y f o u r t e e n (later fifteen) players that tied in the challenge to continue on to the second season, which takes place on an abandoned film lot in Toronto. For forty-two days, the cast is forced to compete in movie genre themed challenges for the one million dollar grand prize, faced with new challenges, surprises, and drama. Once split into two new teams, the Killer Grips and the Screaming Gaffers, the contestants take part in various movie-genre-based challenges, where the winning teams gain immunity or rewards for their successes. The losing teams are forced to attend an award ceremony, where they vote on who will receive the Gilded Chris Award or immunity, and who will be forced to take the Walk of Shame to the Lame-o-sine, and be eliminated from the competition. The lucky cast member who outlasts t h eir o t h e r c a st ma tes wins the highly anticipated $1,000,000.

Elimination

For more information about this section, visit: Total Drama Action elimination table

Elimination is a common practice carried out throughout the entire Total Drama series. In Total Drama Action, the elimination ceremony generally happens after every other challenge. The team or players that haven't received immunity will vote off another contestant via electronic devices. The participant who receives the most votes leaves the competition.

Participant	Team	Status	Placing
Geoff	None	1^st/2^nd Voted out in Alien Resurr-eggtion	15^th/14^th Place	Pre-Teams
Bridgette	None	1^st/2^nd Voted out in Alien Resurr-eggtion	15^th/14^th Place	Pre-Teams
E-Scope	Killer Grips	Returns in The Chefshank Redemption 3^rd Voted out in Riot On Set		Non-Merged
Trent	Killer Grips	4^th Voted out in 3:10 to Crazytown	13^th Place
Gwen	Screaming Gaffers	5^th Voted out in The Chefshank Redemption	12^th Place
DJ	Screaming Gaffers	6^th Quit in The Sand Witch Project	11^th Place
Izzy	Killer Grips	7^th Voted out in Full Metal Drama	10^th Place
Owen	Killer Grips	Returns in Rock n' Rule 8^th Voted out in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine
Heather	Screaming Gaffers	9^th Voted out in Million Dollar Babies	9^th Place
Leshawna	Screaming Gaffers	10^th Voted out in Super Hero-ld	8^th Place	Merged
Justin	Killer Grips	11^th Voted out in The Princess Pride	7^th Place
Lindsay	Killer Grips	12^th Voted out in Rock n' Rule	6^th Place
Harold	Screaming Gaffers	13^th Voted out in 2008: A Space Owen	5^th Place
Courtney	Killer Grips	Debuted in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine 14^th Voted out in Top Dog	4^th Place
Owen	Killer Grips	15^th Fired in Top Dog	3^rd Place
Beth	Killer Grips	Winner in The Aftermath: IV Runner-up in Duncan's ending
Duncan	Screaming Gaffers	Winner in The Aftermath: IV Runner-up in Beth's ending

Finalframe — The final frame of the theme song, featuring all twenty-two of the original campers.

Characters

Voice Actor	Role	Episode count
Christian Potenza	Chris	27/27 episodes
Clé Bennett	Chef Hatchet	27/27 episodes
Sarah Gadon	Beth	27/27 episodes
Drew Nelson	Duncan	27/27 episodes
Brian Froud	Harold	25/27 episodes
Stephanie Anne Mills	Lindsay	24/27 episodes
Scott McCord	Owen	21/27 episodes
Emilie-Claire Barlow	Courtney	20/27 episodes
Adam Reid	Justin	20/27 episodes
Novie Edwards	Leshawna	20/27 episodes
Rachel Wilson	Heather	18/27 episodes
Katie Crown	Izzy	16/27 episodes
Clé Bennett	DJ	14/27 episodes
Megan Fahlenbock	Gwen	13/27 episodes
Scott McCord	Trent	12/27 episodes
Dan Petronijevic	Geoff	9/27 episodes
Kristin Fairlie	Bridgette	9/27 episodes

Cody, Eva, Ezekiel, Katie, Noah, Sadie, and Tyler all appeared in six episodes.
Alejandro, Blaineley, and Sierra all appeared in one episode.

Episodes

For more information about this section, visit: List of Total Drama Action episodes

There is a total of twenty-six episodes of Total Drama Action, and a special that led up to next season.

Movie genres

In each episode's challenge (except for the aft ermath epis odes), there are movie genre for each challenge. Including:

Monster in Monster Cash.
Alien in Alien Resurr-eggtion.
Drama in Riot On Set.
Beach in Beach Blanket Bogus.
Western in 3:10 to Crazytown.
Prison in The Chefshank Redemption.
Hospital in One Flu Over the Cuckoos.
Horror in The Sand Witch Project.
Disaster in Masters of Disasters.
War in Full Metal Drama.
Bank heist in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine.
Prehistoric in One Million Bucks, B.C..
Sports in Million Dollar Babies.
Spy in Dial M for Merger.
Superhero in Super Hero-ld.
Fairytale in The Princess Pride.
Mystery in Get a Clue.
Rock 'n' roll in Rock n' Rule.
Kung fu in Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen.
Space in 2008: A Space Owen.
Animal buddy in Top Dog.
Pirate and miscellaneous (a combination of almost all of the past movie genres) in Mutiny on the Soundstage.

Total Drama Action EXTRA

For more information about this section, visit: Total Drama Action EXTRA

The official Cartoon Network Total Drama Action site. It features videos, information about the contestants, games (see above), headlines, and exclusives, all on Total Drama Action recent stuff. Also, the Best. Game. Ever. challenge announcement changes weekly according to the previous episode of the season.

Best. Game. Ever.

For more information about this section, visit: Best. Game. Ever.

An online game seen on Cartoon Network's official Total Drama Action site. It consists of RPG gameplay, where the player creates their own avatar and receives missions from Chris, which will change weekly, so it will relate to the last challenge done on the show. The player will be forming alliances, fighting beasts and obtaining money to buy more accessories for their avatar throughout the game.

The Big Picture

For more information about this section, visit: The Big Picture

Another Cartoon Network game made on Total Drama Action. The main goal is to take high-quality pictures of the contestants, with as many castmates in them as possible while they run across film studios.

Rewards

For more information about this section, visit: List of rewards#Total Drama Action

There are many more challenge prizes in Total Drama Action than in the previous season. Since this season has less contestants and the same number of episodes, a large number of challenges are reward and non-elimination ones.

DVD

Since there aren't any Region 1 and Region 2 DVD release of this season, Australia released Total Drama Action: Collection 1, in a Region 4 DVD on November 2, 2011. Total Drama Action: Collection 2 is released on July 4, 2012.

Netflix

Total Drama Action has been released onto Netflix. This season has unedited dialog and full screen, 16:9 aspect ratio. It also includes all the episodes of the season.

Trivia

Cody, Courtney, Eva, Ezekiel, Katie, Noah, Sadie, and Tyler are the contestants who did not originally qualify for this season, though Courtney later debuted in Ocean's Eight - Or Nine.
- Counting Courtney's debut, this season featured f o u r males not competing and th re e females not competing. This is the reverse of Total Drama World Tour, which featured f o u r females and th re e males not competing.
Beth, Duncan, Harold, Courtney, Lindsay, and Justin all made it farther than they did in Total Drama Island. However, Owen, Leshawna, Heather, Izzy, DJ, Gwen, Trent, Geoff, and Bridgette did not.
- Owen and Gwen were the finalists of Total Drama Island so it was impossible for them to do better.
This is one of only two seasons to feature an odd number of competing contestants, with fifteen overall, the second being Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, with thirteen.
The contestants who were eliminated before the merge in Total Drama Island (Justin, Beth, Harold, and Courtney), all made it past the merge this season.

This is the first season where a contestant(s) is eliminated before the teams are formed. The only other time would be in Total Drama World Tour, with Duncan.
Every contestant (except Eva) who made it to the merge in Total Drama Island made it into this season.
The two characters who returned after being previously eliminated in this season were Owen and Izzy.
- This also marks the first time that the two returning contestants are of the opposite gender; one male and one female.
This season is currently the only season where team captains were chosen by a challenge, and the captains got to choose the teams, rather than the producers making the decisions or by rankings in a challenge.
- This is also the only season in which the teams weren't formed in the first episode.
While a major part of the previous season was getting a romantic relationship started for most campers, this season focuses on keeping a relationship going, surviving hardships, and several major relationships breaking up.
The first five contestants shown in the opening are the final five of Total Drama Action. In this case, they are Duncan, Harold, Courtney, Owen, and Beth.
This is the first season to ever feature a double elimination, and features two in total: Alien Resurr-eggtion and Top Dog.
- Due to the two double eliminations, this season never has an actual final thirteen.
This is the first season to feature Total Drama Aftermath, where the eliminated contestants talk about their time on the show, and what they have been up to since.
This is the first season in which the final two contestants were from two different teams.
This is the first season in which no contestants became bald, with the second being Total Drama All-Stars.
This is the first, and currently the only, season in which a former Killer Bass member was in the final two.
This is the only season where there is no team swap between two contestants.
This season, along with Total Drama World Tour are the only seasons to not feature the outhouse Confessional.

Gallery

Trent and Gwen receive the first Gilded Chris Awards of the season.

Chef Hatchet forces DJ into his alliance.

Gwen votes herself off and leaves with a smile.

Leshawna reveals that her crying was fake.

Justin's charm over Beth and Lindsay begins to fail.

The second Aftermath shows a never-before-seen clip of Gwen and Duncan.

Total Drama Action makes a reference to 6teen.

Owen, Heather, and Leshawna are the new Aftermath guests.

Lindsay declares Courtney as the primary suspect.

Courtney and Beth end their short-lived alliance.

Beth and Duncan prepare to make the final race for the million dollars.

Duncan wins Total Drama Action in his ending, and makes up with Courtney.

Beth wins Total Drama Action in her ending.

All of the contestants scream after they drive off a cliff in DJ and his mother's bus.

Total Drama
Main Series	Total Drama Island (2007) · Total Drama Action · Total Drama World Tour · Total Drama: Revenge of the Island · Total Drama All-Stars · Total Drama: Pahkitew Island · Total Drama Island (2023) · Total Drama Island (2024)
Spin-Offs	Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race · Total DramaRama