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“ | Thanks for all the help, ya knobs! | „ |
~ Ezekiel sarcastically saying thanks to the contestants for not helping him. |
“ | I'm not going anywhere! This game is mine, eh! MINE!!! | „ |
~ Ezekiel's last words of sanity, before descending into madness in Total Drama World Tour. |
Ezekiel, also known as Zeke for short, is a supporting antagonist in the Total Drama franchise.
He is a homeschooled and socially inept redneck boy who joins Total Drama in an attempt to gain social skills and friends, only for him to become the first eliminated contestant in the show due to his sexist nature. Ezekiel later returns with the intentions of winning the competition in the third season, but is kicked off early on yet again. Despite this, he hides onboard the wing of the plane, and his desire to win causes him to gradually go insane, as his animal instincts take hold. Eventually he is reduced to a feral monster motivated solely by winning the prize and getting revenge on Chris McLean, his archenemy.
He was voiced by Peter Oldring, who also voiced Alfred Ashford in Resident Evil: Code Veronica.
Appearance[]
Ezekiel has brown hair and gray eyes. He wears a green hoodie, white undershirt, a bluish-green pair of jeans and hat, and green hiking boots. Also he speaks with a stereotypical Canadian English accent (using “eh” to end nearly every sentence) After turning feral, Ezekiel's skin turns green, he loses his hair, his eyes turn bloodshot, and his hat and hiking boots disappear.
History[]
Early Life[]
According to official biographies of Fresh TV and information from the show itself, Ezekiel grew up as the son of a couple of Canadian farmers, likely from Alberta. He was sheltered by his parents, who were also Home Ecenomic teachers and decided to homeschool him. This led Ezekiel to grow up lacking social skills or manners, because his parents felt that he had to be "exposed to only the finest sorts of people and receive the highest standard of education". He was allowed to see television but not movies, leading him to believe that subways weren't real, though Ezekiel nevertheless enjoyed his education. His father raised him under sexist ideals, however, telling his son that he should look after any girls he could meet due to women not being better at sports, which Ezekiel took for granted.
Growing up, Ezekiel was once caught skipping home school and hiding at the local school, but his mother caught him and presumably scolded him for doing so, leading Ezekiel to feel this to be the most embarrassing moment in his life. During his recesses, Ezekiel liked to play with his harmonica, and presumably, thanks to his parents, he went to learn eight different languages, even winning the National Spelling Bee Challenge contest because of that (though his runner-ups insulted him in different languages due to how he taunted them). By the time he was sixteen years old, the family's doctor determined that Ezekiel had a Vitamin-D Deficiency, so he suggested his parents let him out of the house for fresh air, leading Ezekiel to make an audition for Total Drama Island. In his audition video, Ezekiel tries to demonstrate his archer skills, but his attempt ends in failure when he tries to shoot a deer but instead hits his mother.
Total Drama[]
Ezekiel's debut was in the first season Total Drama Island (2007). In "Not So Happy Campers — Part 1", Ezekiel arrives at Camp Wawanakwa and the first thing he does is mistake Chris McLean's greetings at the Dock of Shame for him asking what's up in the sky, leading Chris to suggest to not talk too much and stay under the radar to avoid problems, which Ezekiel accepts. Assigned to the Killer Bass, Ezekiel performs well during the challenge in "Not So Happy Campers — Part 2", unlike Courtney and DJ. However, as the Bass discuss who they should boot after losing to the Screaming Gophers, Ezekiel blurts out some sexist comments that anger all of the Bass girls, not even apologizing when Geoff tries to help him out. Thus, Ezekiel ultimately becomes the first contestant to be eliminated owing to his sexist comments and his nose-picking habits. Due to his early elimination, Ezekiel spends all of the season at Playa Des Losers, where his social skills gradually become a bit better with the other eliminated contestants. However, in the post-season special "Total Drama Drama Drama Drama Island", despite teaming up with Lindsay and Beth, Ezekiel fails to qualify for the next season due to failing to get into Lake Wawanakwa in time.
Throughout all of the second season Total Drama Action, Ezekiel sits out alongside Eva, Noah, Katie, Sadie, Tyler and Cody at the Aftermath studio, sometimes participating during the episodes hosted by Geoff and Bridgette. After the season, Ezekiel adopts a rapper persona, finding some success, but is still incompetent. In "Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special", along with everyone else, Ezekiel is dismayed when he learns that Chris apparently plans to make another Total Drama season without any of them, so he and the others try to sabotage such season's cast, leading them to get lost in the desert. However, Ezekiel stays with most of the group and Chris rescues them, revealing that his plans for another season without them was a ploy to test how interested they were in a third season, with Ezekiel qualifying for it, much to his happiness.
In the third season Total Drama World Tour, Ezekiel finally returns to the competition in "Walk Like an Egyptian — Part 1". However, not only was Ezekiel eliminated first again, but was now more stupid and arrogant than ever before to the point where Chris briefly eliminated him after getting sick of his boasting just to show how the Drop of Shame works to the others before deciding to give him a second chance in "Walk Like an Egyptian — Part 2" due to Duncan quitting, having sneaked back into the plane on their way to Egypt, ironically placing him on Team Victory. However, Ezekiel blows his chance repeteadly by first provoking the scarabs to go after him and everyone else, which forces the contestants to sing again as they navigate through the Nile River, and losing the stick Chris gave to them as a reward to a crocodile when Harold sings about popping crocodiles in the nose with it, leading Team Victory to lose and vote him off. After being eliminated over DJ, Ezekiel protests for his elimination, but Chef Hatchet kicks him out of the plane, yet Ezekiel grabs from the plane and sneaks back, desperately trying to stay on the show by stowing away in the plane's cargo hold. From this point onwards, Ezekiel can be seen hidden in the background of several episodes afterward, where his physical condition starts visibly deteriorating.
In the episode "I See London", the "Jack the Ripper" used in the challenge is revealed to be Ezekiel, who was found homeschooling with the rats by Chef, leading Chris to offer to rejoin the show should he capture all the other contestants. By this point, he begins talking in animalistic growls, and is referred to as half-animal by Chris. He is thrown out after failing, however, he manages to stay on the plane yet again.
Ezekiel is later used for another challenge in "African Lying Safari", where all his hair has fallen out, and he is now more monstrous then before. He beats up Duncan after Chris has the remaining contestants recapture him for the second part of the challenge. In the penultimate episode "Planes, Trains and Hot Air Mobiles", Alejandro Burromuerto frees and uses Ezekiel to attack Heather.
In the finale "Hawaian Punch", after Heather finally defeats Alejandro, Ezekiel suddenly jumps out and wrestles the case from Heather (or Chris, depending on the ending). After he successfully manages to steal it, he falls into the crater of the volcano and sinks in the lava with it. When the volcano erupts, Ezekiel appears yet again as a flaming meteor, somehow still alive, then crashes into Chris' boat, destroying it, which makes everyone laugh at Chris and Chef. Ezekiel is never shown resurfacing after that, however.
He is seen again in Total Drama Revenge of the Island. In "Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!", Ezekiel appears on the yacht with the other veterans, still in his deranged, feral form. He is crouched up on the prow of the yacht, the wind blowing what little hair he has left and his tongue hanging out wildly like if he were a dog.
In "A Mine is a Terrible thing to Waste", Ezekiel appears in the second half of the episode. He kidnaps Anne Maria and since he finds her attractive, as the king of mutant blind gophers, presents her with various gifts, including the prize money he stole from last season (now reduced to ash). He eventually gives her a massive zarconia diamond, which she believes is real and thus worth much more than the million dollars. Later, Ezekiel attacks Lightning when he tries to retrieve the golden statues on his throne. However, Lightning eventually fought back and strapped his backpack containing a bomb onto Ezekiel before kicking him down a tunnel. Shortly afterward, the mine was destroyed in the ensuing explosions, trapping Ezekiel whose still inside.
He appears again in "The Enchanted Franken-Forest" after escaping the cave but is stamped on by Lightning back to the bottom. He appears again in the season finale "Brain vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown" as one of the beasts Chris summons to attack Lightning and Cameron. He tries to kiss Anne Maria but she is saved by Cameron before he can do so.
Ezekiel is seen again in the Total Drama: All-Stars premiere "Heroes vs. Villains". It appeared that he was going to be a contestant again but it was soon revealed that Chris set it up as a prank saying that there is no way Ezekiel is coming back. Because of that joke, the Villainous Vultures lack another contestant, as pointed out by Jo, leading Chris to offer them the Drama Machine, which contains a recovered Alejandro.
Ezekiel appears again in "Zeek And Ye Shall Find", where he crashes Chris's one hundredth episode party and kidnaps Chris. Intending to take revenge on the host for all the humiliation and abuse he has put him through in the past, he takes him to the abandoned mine and ties him up above a vat of toxic waste to kill him. As a side effect of being exposed to radioactive waste for so long, Ezekiel can now spit acid. Throughout the episode, he locks several of the contestants who have been sent by Chef to look for Chris (honorably, Ezekiel didn't harm any of the contestants, as he only wanted to take his revenge on Chris). After he has captured most of the contestants, Cameron, Gwen and Chef arrive, with the latter trying to free Chris before being knocked out by Ezekiel. He uses his acid spit to cause a rock slide and crush Cameron, but Gwen traps Ezekiel to his own throne with Chef's meatball bazooka. However, as soon as Gwen frees Cameron, who is later eliminated for his injuries, Ezekiel disappears without a trace.
In an exclusive clip, it was revealed that Ezekiel dug his way to the Fun Zone on Boney Island, which contained all the mutant genetic creatures from Total Drama: Revenge of the Island. Fearful, Zeke offers the monsters cake and surprisingly, they accept him as their king. Joyful at finally finding friends, Zeke smiles at his newfound happiness. He is currently living there, and as far as is known, Zeke was consequently spared from Camp Wawanakwa's destruction in "The Final Wreck-ening". It's unknown what has become of Ezekiel since then, but it's likely he is going to live out the rest of his days at Boney Island, given how the show's writers have confirmed that he can't be cured, though whether his family will ever learn about this or not remains ambiguous, as wanted posters with his face seen in the Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race finale seem to indicate that he is still being looked for, with his current status by the time of Total Drama Island (2023), which happens fifteen years after the show's premiere, being absolutely a mystery.
Relationships[]
Friends[]
- Anne Maria (one-sided, on his side)
- Bridgette (one-sided, on his side)
- Trent
- Beth
- Lindsay
- Mutant animals
Enemies[]
- Pretty much everyone else (except for Beth and Lindsay), but mostly:
- Chris McLean (archenemy)
- Chef Hatchet (second archenemy)
- Eva
- Courtney
- Gwen
- Harold
- Leshawna
- DJ
- Duncan
- Alejandro Burromuerto
- Tyler
- Noah
- Owen
- Sierra
- Cody
- Heather
- Mal
- Zoey
- Cameron
- Brick
- Lightning
- Jo
- Scott
Quotes[]
“ | Well, I just don't get why we lost, eh. They're the ones that have six girls. | „ |
~ Ezekiel referring to the Screaming Gophers team while exposing the wrong beliefs about women he has been raised with. |
“ | Well, guys are much stronger and better at sports than girls are. | „ |
~ Ezekiel inadvertently provoking Bridgette and Eva. |
“ | Geoff: OK guys, let's give him a break. I mean, at least he doesn't think that guys are smarter than girls. Ezekiel: But they are. |
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~ Ezekiel's other sexist comment, sealing his fate in the first season. |
“ | Ho-ho-homies, get in focus, and take notice, I'm what is, oh yeah, the show biz, uh-uh-uh-uh-uh-huh! | „ |
~ Ezekiel rapping in his first and only confessional. |
“ | Yo, yo, yo. This year's winner is in the house! Oh, bus. I mean, runway. Where's the plane, eh? | „ |
~ Ezekiel in Total Drama World Tour. |
Trivia[]
- Despite the fact that Ezekiel was an extremely minor character and didn't compete for long in both seasons he participated, he gained a large fanbase. This was the main reason why the creators brought him back in the third season and had him play a bigger role, though they might have wanted to make a mockery out of his unaccountably large fanbase as they deliberately turned the character obnoxious and had him undergo extreme punishments. Tom McGillis has stated that the reason was that Ezekiel being eliminated first was always meant to be a running gag.
- One of the main criticisms Total Drama World Tour received was the destruction of Ezekiel's character by the writers. Indeed, in spite of how Ezekiel has become a deranged feral (bearing a strong resemblance to Gollum) who has arguably crossed the Moral Event Horizon, some fans still sympathize with him and rightly blame Chris McLean in part for Zeke's descent into madness, aside that he was raised with wrong ideals. But the reason that happened was that the ridicule, the humiliation and the torment from other competitors spearheaded by Chris caused him to become feral, which made him feel there was no other way out. Ezekiel wasn't really kicked off of Total Drama for good, he was left out. Chris and Chef Hatchet also tried to leave him to die many times. However, in some way, Ezekiel himself was partially responsible as well for his own descent into madness, as he didn't want to accept his elimination and stayed in the plane despite being thrown two times after that.
- Though it is strictly debatable if it is right to blame Ezekiel, even partially, as Chris McLean was always trying to make him rage since the beginning of the season. In the first episode, Chris unfairly throws Ezekiel away from the plane for no reason other from disliking him, not only that, he and Chef tried to murder him by throwing him (along with Duncan) in the desert which caused Ezekiel to finally snap and become obsessed with getting his revenge.
- One of the actors originally considered for the role of Ezekiel before Peter Oldring's casting was Christian Potenza. This is ironic, as Potenza ended up voicing Chris McLean, Ezekiel's archenemy.
- Ezekiel is allergic, or at least "sensitive" to peanuts, as seen in "Walk Like an Egyptian - Part 1"
- Ezekiel is one of the three characters that are thought to be banned from Total Drama, with the two others being Topher and Scarlett. However, Zeke is still on Boney Island. Despite this, it is unlikely that Chris will bring him back ever again, as in the 100th episode of the franchise, "Zeke and Ye Shall Find", after being kidnapped and terrorized by Ezekiel, Chris appeared to now be genuinely afraid of the feral kid.
- Likewise, several fans have campaigned for Ezekiel to be cured from his mutation and return to the competition in the future, but former Fresh TV employee Julie Giles has stated that Tom McGillis and Jennifer Perstch, the creators of the show, believe that Ezekiel's DNA is too altered now for him to be healed in any ways, which most likely means that Ezekiel will stay the way he is now for the rest of his life. That said, Terry McGurrin has hinted that maybe there's a chance to still fix Zeke.
- While he was still a normal human, Ezekiel was able to speak 8 languages despite him being homeschooled.
- Ezekiel, alongside Dave, is one of the only two villains by proxy in the show. In other words, they didn’t become villains by choice. Cyclically, they were both nice people at the start of their runs, but fell due to being betrayed, tricked and/or abused and consequently developed a vengeful outlook on the other characters.
- Throughout all of his spoken lines (in English), Ezekiel never uses the letter Q.
- Ezekiel has 48 spoken lines throughout the whole franchise, and he no longer speaks due to becoming feral and losing that ability. Quaintly, the Book of Ezekiel in the Holy Bible contains 48 chapters.
- In "Walk Like an Egyptian — Part 2," Ezekiel spontaneously votes for DJ to be eliminated. This goaded some fans to jocularly speculate, mainly through Internet memes, that Ezekiel is racist, though lack of other evidence and his later crush on Anne Maria serve to adequately discourage this theory. However, it's possible that Ezekiel might make an exception with Anne Maria, as she is implied to be an Italian-American young woman (her stereotype being that of a New Jersey girl, after all), whereas DJ is a Jamaican black young man.
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Villains | ||
Main | ||
Chris McLean | The Producers | Chef Hatchet | ||
Island (2007) | ||
Heather | Eva | Duncan | Psycho Killer | ||
Action | ||
Courtney | Justin | ||
World Tour | ||
Alejandro Burromuerto | Blaineley | Ezekiel | ||
Revenge of the Island | ||
Scott | Jo | Lightning | ||
All-Stars | ||
Villainous Vultures | Mal | Jose Burromuerto | ||
Pahkitew Island | ||
Max | Amy | Scarlett | Sugar | Dave | ||
Island (2023/2024) | ||
Both Seasons Julia | ||
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 |