Total Drama: Island (2023)
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| Name: | Total Drama Island |
| Abbreviation(s): | TDI2023, TDI |
| Creator: | Fresh TV; Cartoon Network |
| Date(s): | 10 April - 09 June 2023 (ITA) 21 October 2023 - 13 January 2024 (CAN) |
| Medium: | Cartoon |
| Country of Origin: | Canada |
| External Links: | Total Drama Island (2023) on Total Drama Wiki |
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Total Drama: Island (2023) is the seventh season of Total Drama. It stars 16 contestants and two hosts.
Listed alphabetically, the contestants are Axel, Bowie, Caleb, Chase, Damien, Emma, Julia, Millie, MK, Nichelle, Priya, Raj, Ripper, Scary Girl, Wayne and Zee. Chris McLean and Chef Hatchet host. This cast is sometimes called Gen 4.
Total Drama Island is a reboot of the series, restarting the franchise after 9 years (12 years in-universe) of absence. It later got a sequel season, Total Drama: Island (2024).
Shipping
See List of Total Drama Relationship Names for more ship information.
The most popular ship for characters who compete this season is Bowie/Raj. Other popular ships are Raj&Wayne and Chase/Emma.
Remaining common pairings for Total Drama Island include Chase/Ripper, Damien/Priya, Julia/MK, Julia/Wayne, Damien/Scary Girl, Millie&Priya, Axel/Nichelle and Raj/Wayne. Chef/Chris is worth mentioning as well.
Friend-groups commonly found in fanworks for Island include The Trout Trio, featuring Chase, Ripper and Zee.
Fan Opinions
Fan opinion towards Total Drama Island has been generally positive. Many fans of previous seasons were disappointed the original casts weren't going to be a part of the reboot, though many liked the idea of a new cast.
Another point of contention is the theme song[2], which was changed for the first time for this season.
Yet another was the skin color of MK, which many felt was yellow to the point it looked like she had jaundice[3]. Given her status as the only confirmed Asian character in Island, and Total Drama’s history with depicting Asian characters with yellow skin, (see Emma, Kitty, and Devin,) this upset many long-time fans who expected better from Fresh TV[4]. MK's skin color was changed when the series was released outside of Italy following fan-feedback.
There has also been some ship war between Bowie/Raj and Raj/Wayne. Bowie/Raj was Total Drama's first canonical same-sex relationship, and canonically, Wayne is outwardly a supportive ally to Raj realizing his sexuality and his long-time friend. Many feel Raj and Wayne works better platonically. This is sometimes called Rajcourse[5].
Anonymous asked:
...The fact of the matter is, Bowie is our first openly gay character, and not only that, but he is black and femme. This is obvious from the literal moment he is introduced. We've already seen people react negatively towards him for all of these aspects (no, he is not stereotypical, he's just femme PLEASE learn the difference). By contrast, Raj is masc, Desi, and gay, the latter of which he discovers for himself during the season. It is incredibly important, in a world where the vast majority of gay rep consists of two white people (to the point where people make jokes about how so many wlw couples in media are just 'blonde woman' and 'brunette') that the first gay couple on this show is a black man and a Desi man.
Inserting Wayne into the equation then, or even removing Bowie from it entirely and shipping Wayne with Raj instead, is... well, it has it's implications. Again, I'm by no means accusing anyone of doing this with any ill will, but people are capable of harbouring biases that they may be unaware of that are still capable of impacting how they interact with media--and yes, this includes how people ship. The conversation around people shoving aside canonical interracial couples to ship two white people instead is as old as time, and while this isn't quite the same, it is still altering an interracial relationship between two non-white people to include a white man....[6]
Anonymous asked:pushing bowie aside so u can focus on an "unrequited" love a white boy has is not that hot of a take. i might just say its cold, even. absolute zero. if science found out how to translate the concept of "wayne has a crush on raj and is angsting over it in secret" into temperature theyd literally discover how to get to absolute zero.
deepdivingfordrama said:
#i literally love straight wayne so much#insane starter sentence but seeing cishet people who r just genuinely hyped and supportive is so nice#not really common but really nice (: love my clueless cishet man friends
transtdi said:
#i do not like queer wayne hcs im not going to lie. let him be an ally#not to sound like a conservative old white man but not everyone has to be gay#rejoice in bowie & raj (whatever their ship name is) amen[7]
Anonymous asked:...-rajcourse is pretty dumb but i do love raynebow because last time i checked raj has two hands (but i do still respect rajbow/bowraj since yeah it's the first canon gay couple in total drama history, and that's a milestone) i think rayne, raynebow, and rajbow shippers should stop arguing and make out already...[8]
Example/Notable Fanac
Cartoon Network Brasil used austinpirrup's Bowie/Raj edit on Twitter to promote the series without their permission, Archived version
Fan Communities/Fan Events
- Rajbow Week 2023, Archived version, a fanweek hosted on Tumblr. Ran from October 2nd to the 8th. Bowie/Raj.
Fan Art
- Chase first meets Priya by codylake, Archived version, featuring characterization predictions contrasted with their characterizations in the show itself. Some works in this series are Chase/Priya.
- Do you ever wonder why MK never takes her hat off? by MachemRodez, Archived version, theorizes MK's unknown hairline.
- chase and ripper are cringe4cringe by trodynational, Archived version, comparing Bowie/Raj with Chase/Ripper, a common thing in Total Drama Island fanworks.
- td reboot girls 🏝️ by ceniberi, Archived version, art of all the Female contestants in Island.
Fan Fic
- Bad Angles by goldngazes, Archived version, an English Julia/Wayne realization of feelings one-shot.
Fan Vid
- Be Mean by Sideshow Pearl, Archived version, Damien/Scary Girl AMV set to Be Mean by DNCE.
Meta
- Thoughts on Julia x Wayne- A comparison to Raj x Bowie by ArielChefSlay, Archived version, a discussion on Reddit. Julia/Wayne is more popular on Reddit than other sites for Total Drama fandom.
- the best trio in the reboot, Archived version, discussion around the Trout Trio.
- Welcoming the new guys by delightfully-deranged-dagur, Archived version, fanart where the new cast is welcomed into the "Chris McLean hate club."
Other Total Drama Seasons on Fanlore
- 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
- The Ridonculous Race
- Total Dramarama
- Total Drama: Island (2023)
- Total Drama: Island (2024)
References/Further Reading
- ^ super annoying seeing people constantly whining that the old cast isnt here anymore . by sandypelo, Archived version May 7th, 2023
- ^ The new Total Drama Island theme song just doesn't hold up as well as the old one 😔 by MachemRodez, Archived version circa June 2023
- ^ Totally normal screenshots of MK that I did nothing to whatsoever at all. by buttknucklez, Archived version April 18th, 2023
- ^ Why is MK straight up yellow?, Archived version October 17th, 2022
- ^ "rajcourse" tag on Tumblr, Archived on 2023-11-14
- ^ The reason people are bringing up race when talking about Raynebow and/or Rayne is because..., Archived version April 19th, 2023; Anon on real-total-drama-takes
- ^ pushing bowie aside so u can focus on an "unrequited" love a white boy has is not that hot of a take., Archived version April 18th, 2023; Anon on real-total-drama-takes
- ^ here are some of my lukewarm takes:, Archived version April 22nd, 2023; Anon on real-total-drama-takes