Duncan (Total Drama)

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Character
Name: Duncan
Occupation:
Relationships: Courtney (Total Drama) (ex)
Gwen (Total Drama) (ex)
Zoey (Total Drama) (acquaintance)
Sadie (Total Drama) (acquaintance)
Fandom: Total Drama
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Duncan is a contestant on Total Drama. He is a prominent character within the series and popular with fans. As of September 2023, he is the second most fanwork'd character from Total Drama as a whole on Archive of Our Own, behind Noah. Other places where fandom lives place him on the same level of prominence.

Canon Overview

[characterization, story role, further important appearances]

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Popular Tropes & Fanon

All of the above are wrangled tags on Archive of Our Own. Other places where fandom lives may portray Duncan with one or all of these attributes. Bottom!Duncan and GangLeader!Duncan are also common, though unwrangled.

Duncan's Fanon Personal Name is often Tarun. This comes from Total Drama Comeback, though Fannish Drift means much of Total Drama fandom do not know this is where the name came from. In Total Roblox Drama, he is called Dustin. Fans may call him this outside of the Roblox fangame.

His appreciation days are November 1st (in Chefhatchet's Appreciation Calendar) and July 17th (in Ace-TD's Mega Character Appreciation List).

td fandom when duncan acts like a jerk: i wish he could just show his soft side again!!

td fandom when duncan shows soft side: he's so ooc!![1]

Subjects of Fannish Interest & Meta

Canonical Transphobia

Duncan is the only character from Total Drama to have made a transphobic joke at any point in the series. Duncan fans almost always ignore this aspect of his character, and Total Drama fans who dislike Duncan may bring this up as a negative to his character and his fans. Duncan fans may be called Duncan apologists[2][3], though this is rare.

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Relationships

Very Rough Estimation of Relationships with Duncan in Fanworks on FanFiction.Net as of April 9th, 2024.[Notes 1]

  Courtney/Duncan (46.7%)
  Duncan/Gwen (18.1%)
  Duncan & Courtney (14.8%)
  Duncan & Gwen (6.9%)
  Duncan/Trent (2.2%)
  Other (11.3%)

Relationships with Duncan in Fanworks on Archive of Our Own as of April 9th, 2024.[Notes 2]

  Courtney/Duncan (46.7%)
  Duncan/Gwen (10.0%)
  Alejandro/Duncan (3.9%)
  Duncan & Gwen (3.5%)
  Duncan/Noah (3.1%)
  Other (32.8%)

This is purposefully an incomplete list, as Duncan is shipped with much of Total Drama's cast.

With... Full Label Type Portmanteau Information % on FFN[Notes 3] % on AO3[Notes 4]
Courtney Courtney/Duncan Het Duncney (Seen on its page.) 47.4 46.7
Courtney Courtney & Duncan Gen n/a n/a 14.8 2.2
Gwen Duncan/Gwen Het Gwuncan; DunGwen (Seen on its page.) 18.1 10.0
Gwen Duncan & Gwen Gen n/a n/a 6.9 3.5
DJ; Geoff Killer Bass Trio Gen n/a (Seen on its page.) 0 2.5
Zoey Duncan/Zoey Het Doey Popular on Tumblr during Total Drama: All-Stars. Rarepair as of 2015. 0.9 1.1
Heather Duncan & Heather Gen n/a n/a 1.5 1.1
Trent Duncan & Trent Gen n/a n/a 1.4 0
Courtney; Gwen Courtney/Duncan/Gwen Poly Gwuncney "Solves" the canonical love triangle. 0 1.4
Alejandro Alejandro/Duncan Slash Aleduncan (Seen on its page.) 1.6 3.9
Harold Duncan & Harold Gen n/a They are enemies on the show. 0 0.8
Harold Duncan/Harold Slash Dunhar (Seen on its page.) 0 1.0
Heather Duncan/Heather Het Deather; Dunther February 15th is Dunther Day on Chefhatchet's Appreciation Calendar. 2.2 0
Mal Duncan/Mal Slash Malcan Enemies to Lovers. Fanworks for this pairing tend to be Explicit, rare for Total Drama fandom. 0 2.1
Noah Duncan/Noah Slash Dunno; Dunnoah (Seen on its page.) 1.0 3.1
Noah Duncan & Noah Gen n/a They were both on Team Chris during World Tour, though not at the same time. 0.9 1.1
Alejandro Alejandro & Duncan Gen n/a They were both on Team Chris during World Tour. 1.0 1.4
Scott Duncan/Scott Slash Scuncan July 10th is Scuncan Day on Chefhatchet's Appreciation Calendar. 0.9 0.9
Bridgette Bridgette & Duncan Gen n/a n/a 0.9 0
Trent Duncan/Trent Slash Duntrent March 28th is Duntrent Day on Chefhatchet's Appreciation Calendar. 2.2 2.0
Lindsay Duncan/Lindsay Het Dunsay Duncan finds Lindsay attractive on the show, though this was only for one line. 0 0
Leshawna Duncan/Leshawna Het Ledunca Former Total Drama BNF Winter-Rae liked this pairing and popularized it for a time. 0 0
Leshawna Duncan & Leshawna Gen n/a They were both on the Screaming Gaffers team in Total Drama: Action. 0 0
Cody Cody/Duncan Slash Duncody Pairing Gwen's suitors, though this arrangement leaves out Trent. 0 0
Cody Cody & Duncan Gen n/a n/a 0.8 1.3
Bridgette Bridgette/Duncan Het DunBridge n/a 2.0 0
Geoff Duncan/Geoff Slash Geoffcan Both are in the Killer Bass Trio, though this arrangement leaves out DJ. 1.3 0
Geoff Duncan & Geoff Gen n/a Both are in the Killer Bass Trio, though this arrangement leaves out DJ. 1.0 0
DJ DJ/Duncan Slash Djuncan Both are in the Killer Bass Trio, though this arrangement leaves out Geoff. 0 0.8
Izzy Duncan/Izzy Het Dizzy n/a 0 0
Duncan; Noah Alejandro/Duncan/Noah Poly Aledunno May 14th is Aledunno Day on Chefhatchet's Appreciation Calendar. 0 0
Bridgette; DJ; Duncan; Geoff Killer Bass 5, aka KB5 Gen n/a Adds Bridgette and Courtney into the Killer Bass Trio. 0 0
Ezekiel Duncan/Ezekiel Slash n/a n/a 0 0
Ezekiel Duncan & Ezekiel Gen n/a n/a 0 0
Sadie Duncan/Sadie Het Dundie (Seen on its page.) 0 0

Example/Notable Fanac

Fanart for Duncan by hielorei. Canonically, he wears a different shirt than drawn here.

Fan Communities/Fan Events

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Fan Art

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Fan Fiction

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Meta

Notes

  1. ^ Pie chart considers each relationship as if it was an individual fanwork. "Other" also appears smaller in percentage than in reality and may even list negative values. Results obtained by searching for both characters tagged either under the "romance" category or excluding the "romance" category for Gen stats. See here for more up-to-date information.
  2. ^ Pie chart considers each tagged relationship as if it was an individual fanwork. "Other" also appears smaller in percentage than in reality and may even list negative values. See here for more up-to-date information.
  3. ^ "0" does not necessarily mean the relationship is non-existent on the platform, just that it's not one of the character's top 20 tagged relationships/was otherwise not calculated.
  4. ^ "0" does not necessarily mean the relationship is non-existent on the platform, just that it's not one of the character's top 20 tagged relationships/was otherwise not calculated.

References/Further Reading

  1. ^ td fandom when duncan acts like a jerk: i wish he could just show his soft side again!!, Archived version before October 19th, 2013
  2. ^ duncan apologists be like “is anyone gonna be the worst person alive?” and then not wait for an answer, Archived version Nov 4th, 2021 on total-ass
  3. ^ finally! a good take on here!, Archived version March 21st, 2021 on total-ass
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