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“ | I don't like surprises. | „ |
~ Duncan to Chris McLean and his first words of the Total Drama franchise. |
Duncan is one of the main characters in the Total Drama franchise.
He used to be an enemy and bully of Harold when he bullied, tricked and pranked the nerd alongside DJ and Geoff for his all knowing naggings.
However, despite all of this, Duncan sometimes showed respect for him, as when he tried to have a genuine friendship with Harold before Owen ruins it.
He is a delinquent punk currently on parole from Juvie and, despite being a generally good person at his core, has displayed multiple villainous tendencies in his harsh treatment of those around him during the competition and his decision to cheat on Courtney.
When he quits the Total Drama World Tour series due to him getting tired of Chris as well as his refusal to sing, Duncan became one of the two Total Drama Fugitives (alongside Ezekiel). He went missing and never came back home. Even Chris McLean sent all of his robots to search for Duncan but didn't find him as he was hiding. In the Aftermaths, Geoff and Bridgette show evidence of Duncan's whereabouts. In I See London..., he was found and returned by Courtney and Gwen. He was placed into Team Chris is Really, Really, Really, Really Hot where he teamed up with Owen.
He frequently lectures, mocks, tricks and cheats with many of the other contestants, especially Harold, and is supposedly a certified pyromaniac. In Total Drama Island, he was on the Killer Bass team, in Total Drama Action he was a member of the Screaming Gaffers, and in Total Drama World Tour he quit before the teams were made but was on "Team Chris is Really Really Really Really Hot" after returning in "I See London...". He was one of two possible winners of the Total Drama Action season and is the overall highest-ranking contestant across the three seasons, his absence for the first half of Season 3 notwithstanding.
Duncan had a prominent, longtime love-hate romantic relationship with Courtney, which completely fell apart because of their abusive relationship, and became a hostile rivalry in World Tour. Halfway into Season 3, Duncan began a relationship with Gwen, only for the relationship to fall apart in Season 5 due to Gwen supposedly losing interest in him, combined with him becoming obsessed with Courtney and being insensitive to Gwen's feelings. After being dumped by Gwen, he earned the ire and mockery of his ex-girlfriends.
In "You Regatta Be Kidding Me", Duncan attempts to form an alliance with his ex girlfriends to protect them from Mal. But unfortunately for him, neither Courtney nor Gwen take him seriously and laugh it off. He ditches the middle of the challenge to blow up Chris's mansion shortly after the challenge has concluded, where an explosion was heard. During the elimination ceremony, Gwen sarcastically congratulates him and tells him that she hopes that getting his bad boy reputation restored was worth him getting locked up. He enthusiastically responds that it is until Chris disqualifies him from the show and has the police arrest him and sent to jail, rather than juvie; to his chagrin.
In an exclusive clip, Duncan is next seen in prison writing a letter to his mother, wishing her a happy birthday, begging her to send him a lawyer as soon as possible to get him out of jail for what he's done.
In "The Bold and the Booty-ful", Duncan is mentioned by Gwen in the confessional sarcastically when she blamed him for the severity of Chris's mansion being destroyed.
In "The Final Wreck-ening", Duncan was paroled from prison and brought back into one of the balloons from Owen's farts along with the other losing competitors.
He was voiced by Drew Nelson.
Appearance[]
Duncan has a unibrow, along with teal ear and nose piercings, black and lime green hair styled into a mohawk and teal eyes. He wears a black t-shirt with a skull on it over a long sleeved cream shirt, dark teal shorts and red high-top sneakers with no laces.
History[]
In Total Drama Island, Duncan joins Total Drama to avoid going back to juvie, upon arriving to the Island, he doesn't like surprises although Chris explains he could return to juvie to which Duncan is okay with staying, he is shown to be hitting on Heather and becomes fast enemies with Harold. He is placed on the Killer Bass team where he meets Courtney where their opposite personalities clash but slowly develop to have feelings for each other, first shown in the dodgeball challenge where Courtney got him to help out their team which causes them to win thanks to Duncan's leadership.
During the season, Duncan antagonizes many people and is responsible for Bridgette’s elimination. In most times, he (along with two of his best friends Geoff and DJ) would often bully and prank Harold to the point of him getting revenge by getting Courtney (his love interest) eliminated after seeing the two kiss. He himself lasts long in the season before being eliminated by Chef right before the finals. Since the season one special, his relationship with Courtney slowly becomes an abusive one, due to her ditching him for the million dollars. He is among the 14 contestants who end up in the dock when a shark eats the briefcase containing the million forcing Chris to break a tie by forcing the contestants to participate in another season much to Duncan's protest.
In Total Drama Action, as the show's main protagonist, he becomes close friends with Gwen after being the first member picked by her to be on her team, the Screaming Gaffers and was a part of Trent's mental breakdown after combining his and Gwen's names together, forming "nine". This made Trent obsess over Gwen until his elimination, to the point where the couple broke up due to Trent's health problem with the competition, as well as Gwen not wanting to cheat. He is also one of the two people directly responsible for Gwen being hated by most of the contestants, the other being Justin. Gwen would later be eliminated afterward to repay the Killer Grips for Trent's actions. All of these events made many people believe he is the main antagonist of season 2.
He intensifies his bullying on Harold due to finding out that he got Courtney eliminated in the previous season but much later they put aside their differences and even become friends for a short period of times Throughout the season, Duncan started causing eliminations of some contestants (Bridgette, Geoff, Trent, Leshawna, Justin, Lindsay, Harold, and Courtney). During this season, he is mostly the victim of beatings, orders, and being used by none other than Courtney, who was supposed to be his love interest, but she lost respect for him she had in Season 1. In turn, he along with other contestants lose their patience with Courtney after she used her lawyers to gain unfair advantages during the season. With Beth's help, he is able to eliminate Courtney from the game causing her to break up with him (albeit accidentally as he was falling asleep when he voted for her.) leaving him and Beth the final two of the season. He either came in second to Beth or won Total Drama Action, depending on the results of a fan-vote done online for each country when the finale aired there. Despite being a winner, he returned to Total Drama World Tour.
In the first episode of Total Drama World Tour, Duncan quits the show then is brutally thrown out of the plane by Chris because he refuses to sing, and afterwards is reported as missing on the Aftermath show. According to Blaineley, Chris sends all of his robots to find Duncan and bring him back into the show, but didn't found him. Later, he is found by Courtney and Gwen in London during a challenge to capture Jack the Ripper (actually Ezekiel), and forced to return to the show by Chris McLean. Immediately after returning, Duncan apparently lost his attraction to Courtney, and became attracted to Gwen. Duncan and Gwen shared their first kiss on the end of the episode of I See London.., cheating on Courtney with Gwen in the bathroom confessional with the intention of starting a relationship, but they are caught in the act by Tyler, who reveals what happened to the rest of the contestants in the next episode due to being pressured by Alejandro, who discovers Gwen and Duncan's secret by overhearing a musical number between them.
Courtney is so shocked by the news that she goes insane, vowing to destroy Gwen to the point of sabotaging her own team. Cody, Gwen's one-sided love interest, punches out Duncan in response. Although Duncan does attempt to apologize to Courtney immediately after this, only to be kicked in the crotch mid-sentence, he has shown no remorse after this point and he and Gwen make no further attempts to apologize to Courtney, because of everything she has put them through, through humiliation, hatred, and threats. This, along with the ever-manipulative Alejandro encouraging her to take revenge, makes Courtney even more infuriated, leading to her to be brutalizing towards Gwen during the Area 51 challenge and "flirting" with Tyler in order to make Duncan jealous as revenge, although Tyler was uncomfortable with the entire situation as he was loyal to his girlfriend, Lindsay. Duncan didn't care about Courtney and Tyler flirting, and Duncan and Gwen became an official couple sharing their second kiss in The Ex-Files.
In the next episode, Duncan starts secretly working with Alejandro to throw Courtney off, the same thing that she did to him last season, and pretends to feel sad about her. During the challenge in Australia, Duncan and Cody fight while riding on kangaroos and as revenge, Duncan throws a Dingo at Cody towards the end of the episode, injuring him and causing his team to lose. However, while doing all this Duncan didn't realize Gwen's emotions, who was upset when she saw him crying over Courtney and had put together her own plan to get rid of Courtney and save herself, which would have worked if Duncan hadn't thrown the dingo at Cody, who was going to vote for Courtney but ended up accidentally voting for Sierra instead due to being in a daze from his injuries. Gwen and Courtney end up competing in a tiebreaker challenge, which Gwen loses due to the challenge being rigged that leads to an allergic reaction, which leaves her eyes swollen shut and her face mauled as she takes the Drop of Shame. Gwen gives Courtney one final, insult as she plummets, presumably referring to the fact that she still has her former boyfriend despite being defeated, although Duncan does not seem to be there for Gwen as she leaves the show broken and humiliated.
In the following episode, even though Duncan does not show signs of concern for Gwen, Duncan seems depressed because he's pretty quiet, but still does not want to take Courtney back and they are now both openly hostile to one another. In the episode after that, they are "married" as part of a challenge, so Duncan gets back at Courtney by pranking her in the first challenge and still show nothing but hatred for each other. In Sweden Sour, Duncan is shown carving Gwen's face on a wooden part of the seat, which shows that he does miss Gwen. During this time, he attempts to warn his friend Owen about Alejandro's true nature taking note from Noah's warning about Alejandro earlier and are working together to eliminate him unfortunately Owen is eliminated in Niagara Brawls due to his popularity being a threat. In Chinese Fake Out at the beginning of the episode Duncan pleasantly greets and sweet talks Courtney only for her to give him the "silent treatment" but only does so needing her as an extra ally due the heat of the competition in the game, Courtney is finally eliminated at the end of Chinese Fake-Out, much to Duncan's pleasure, but finally meets his end not long after when Alejandro finally betrays him, and along with Heather allows Duncan to be brutally beaten by the feral Ezekiel during the African Safari challenge, after which he is eliminated.
Duncan is last seen in the peanut gallery with all the other losers during the finals, including Gwen, whom he is frequently seen next to, inferring that they are still together despite after what happened in Australia. Thus, the two presumably remain a couple, and after when Heather or Alejandro wins Total Drama World Tour, they survived the volcano incident in the finale along with everyone else, even Ezekiel. It's also been hinted that nobody cared about them cheating on Courtney due to everyone's hatred for her for what Courtney has put them through. In March 2011, a never-before-seen clip surfaced in the Polish version of the show, in which Duncan and Gwen are seen relaxing together in Hawaii after their eliminations. Courtney starts singing rudely about them after insulting Cody and Heather, and Duncan threw a sandal at her before making out with an incredibly amused Gwen again, confirming that they are indeed still a couple, despite what happened during their times together on the show.
All these events during the third season have make Duncan's character controversial in the fandom. Many have noted his apparent lack of concern for Courtney during Season 3 even prior to her going insane, as well as his continued hostility to her afterwards (despite Courtney doing the same to him), and claim that he intended to hurt her from the start, and would have left her for Gwen even if she had reacted differently. This is apparently due to the fact that due to everything that Courtney has pulled him through in Total Drama Action, and finally opens his eyes to who his girlfriend really is and all she's done to him, he, in fact, no longer cares for her any longer. These events, however, were eventually made up during the events of the fifth season.
He made a couple of cameo appearances during Total Drama: Revenge of the Island. In "Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!", Duncan appears on the yacht with his fellow veterans. He and Gwen are making out passionately while DJ, Harold, and Leshawna dance nearby and Eva stands motionless. Duncan still owes Chris some camera time for quitting last season, and was caught in order to demonstrate the challenge in "Grand Chef Auto". However, Duncan runs away when Chef unties him. As revenge for Chris using his kitchen as the site for the challenge, Chef later points the newcomers to paint Mt. Chrismore, and he blames it on Duncan. At the end of the episode, Duncan says he in fact didn't add Mt. Chrismore as a spray paint spot, but right after that, he blows up Mt. Chrismore while laughing maniacally with Chef.
Duncan returns in Total Drama: All Stars where he is placed on the Villainous Vultures for the first few episodes. In the first episode "Heroes vs. Villains", Duncan reveals that he only came back to be with Gwen. However, his views between good and evil have been taking a toll since he switched teams with Courtney to the Heroic Hamsters in "Saving Private Leechball", due to his selfless actions of saving Gwen, which Chris deems to be heroic. Since then, Duncan has been seen hanging around with his team, and that due to their influences, as well as their niceness towards him, Duncan was beginning to soften up from his bad boy personality, much to his displeasure.
Duncan's relationship with Gwen in the meanwhile is strained, as she ignores Duncan despite the latter being supportive of her and attempting to flirt with her on occasions. He, however, is unaware that Gwen is trying to make amends with Courtney over what happened in season 3. He even appears to be confused and upset over Courtney ignoring him.
During the episode "Moon Madness", Duncan has been using Gwen in order to make Courtney jealous by asking Gwen if Courtney is talking about him or seeing him whenever he kisses Gwen. Gwen, who felt like she was used, and wanting to patch things up with Courtney, finally had enough of Duncan's arrogance, selfishness, dishonesty, and negligence and furiously broke up with him. She even goes as far as to no longer be friends with him. In that same episode, Duncan believes Courtney is using Scott to make him jealous and claims he is not jealous, only for his eye to twitch afterwards.
Interestingly, during Duncan's time with the Heroic Hamsters, he was starting to get suspicious of Mike, indicating that he heard and knows him somewhere before, but could not remember. He comes across Mal during the blue harvest moon challenged prompting him to confront him, Mal pretends to be Mike and Duncan asks where he knows him from, Mal lies about his past Total Drama experience, but Duncan does not buy it saying he remembered him from somewhere but "couldn't put his finger on it", Mal uses a corrupted bird to shoo Duncan away from him. However, once Mal fully took control of Mike, and whistling the Hall of the Mountain King, Duncan finally remembered that he knows Mal back from juvie when he "used to be a lowly juvie and Mal was running the place". He warned Zoey about this, and had tried to prove this to everyone else even both of his ex-girlfriends, but they didn't believe him, even Zoey was stupid enough to not believe him anymore.
During the next challenge, Chef, ordered by Chris, throws a stick of dynamite at Duncan, but the latter grabbed it, walked towards Chris’ “cottage” and blew it up to show everyone that he was not soft and also to get revenge at Chris for the pain he causes. During the campfire ceremony, Chris disqualifies him and calls the police, Chris tells him that the house he destroyed was invaluable and that ''he will be incarcerated in a real prison because the house he destroyed was private property''. Duncan is sent right to prison, but the police did not arrest Chef for trying to kill Duncan with dynamite. As a result of Duncan's arrest, Cameron is spared from getting voted off due Mal's machinations.
The exclusive clip shows Duncan in prison, writing a letter to his mother, wishing her a happy birthday and begging her to send him a lawyer as fast as she can, given how his brutish cellmate looks evilly at him, with heavy implications that Duncan's cellmate has been sexually harassing or assaulting him.
In "The Final Wreck-ening", Duncan appears in one of the balloons, implying that he may have been paroled temporarily to help in the challenge, but he doesn't get shot down either by Mal or Zoey. However, before an intern can get him down, Duncan floats away with the others into the sky to an unknown fate. According to Fresh TV, all the contestants, including Duncan, landed safely in the water after their balloons popped up. That said, it's unknown if Duncan and the others were ever retrieved and brought back to civilization or not, and likewise, it's ambiguous if Duncan sent back to prison to complete his sentence for destroying Chris' "cottage" afterwards or if he escaped and is currently on the run as a fugitive again.
Relationships[]
Friends[]
- Beth
- DJ
- Geoff
- Gwen
- Owen
- Zoey
Enemies[]
- Alejandro
- Bridgette
- Chris McLean (most hated enemy/archenemy)
- Chef Hatchet
- Cody
- Courtney
- Ezekiel
- Harold (other archenemy)
- Heather
- Justin
- Jo
- Leshawna
- Lindsay
- Mal
- Noah
- Trent
- Tyler
Quotes[]
“ | I think Harold needs to be taught a lesson, boys. Who's with me? | „ |
~ Duncan to DJ and Geoff of pranking and bullying Harold after leaving a dirt underwear on the ground. |
“ | You better be a good shot, Tubby. | „ |
~ Duncan to Owen in Paintball Deer Hunter. |
“ | (sniffing) Beans... (Duncan looks up) Owen! (Owen farts) Nice try, Farticus! You almost had me! | „ |
~ Duncan when he discovered Owen at the tree after the latter farts in Paintball Deer Hunter. |
“ | (Courtney: Why do you smell worse than usual?) It's Owen's stink. It's following me around like my juvenile record. | „ |
~ Duncan to Courtney after gotten stink by Owen's fart. |
“ | I'll beat you if you try! | „ |
~ Duncan threatens Harold of his beatbox in World Tour. |
“ | Eat dirt, McLean! | „ |
~ Duncan to Chris in Total Drama Revenge of the Island. |
Trivia[]
- Duncan was considered, at first, to be the main antagonist of Total Drama Action, although this is proven false when Justin became the show's main antagonist until the true main villain emerged later on and Duncan becomes the main protagonist/anti-hero once Lindsay and Harold get voted off.
- In the Total Drama Island 2023 episode "Haulin' n' Baulin'", one of the bumpers for the pinball challenge has Duncan's face on it, lying opposite to a bumper with Courtney's face. However, Duncan's status by the time the reboot takes place remains unknown.
- Priya called Duncney the "OG power couple of Season 1" and was surprised they couldn't work out their relationship. Ironically, she herself would face a similar dilemma when Zee, pressured by Julia and MK, revealed to everyone that Caleb was only using her to get ahead in the competition just like how Alejandro pressured Tyler into revealing that Duncan and Gwen kissed around fourteen years ago.
External Links[]
- Duncan on the Heroes Wiki
- Duncan on the Total Drama Wiki
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Villains | ||
Main | ||
Chris McLean | Chef Hatchet | The Producers | ||
Island (2007) | ||
Heather | Eva | Duncan | ||
Action | ||
Courtney | Justin | ||
World Tour | ||
Alejandro Burromuerto | Blaineley | Ezekiel | ||
Revenge of the Island | ||
Scott | Jo | Lightning | ||
All-Stars | ||
Villainous Vultures | Mal | José Burromuerto | ||
Pahkitew Island | ||
Max | Amy | Scarlett | Sugar | Dave | ||
Island (2023/2024) | ||
Julia | Bowie | MK | Chase | Emma | Ripper | Axel | Lauren | Team Skunk Butt | ||
Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race | ||
Jacques | Josee | Stephanie | ||
Total DramaRama | ||
The Skunk | Mummy | Lenny | Boogersnatchers | Robo Teacher | Winky, Blinky and Steve | Wendel | Sammy | Brightly | Painapple | Gobble Head | Cookronomnomicon | Duncan 2 | Duncan 3 | Duncan 4 | Duncan 4 + 1 | Duncan 4 + 3 | Terry Spice | ||
Others | ||
Sasquatchanakwa | Fang | Larry | Priya's Parents | Psycho Killer |