| “ | Last time on Total Drama... | „ |
| ~ Chris McLean's famous catchphrase. |
| “ | After my involuntary year long "vacation", I really need to be in a familiar environment, surrounded by the people I love... to hurt! Ha ha ha! | „ |
| ~ Chris McLean sadistically taunting his pleasure to hurt the contestants at the beginning of All-Stars. |
Chris McLean is the main antagonist of the Canadian animated franchise Total Drama.
As the host of the show, Chris is in charge of designing challenges for the contestants to compete in—all of which he intentionally makes excruciating and gruesome for the contestants to satisfy his sadistic tendencies.
He was voiced by Christian Potenza in the first five seasons and by the show's executive producer Terry McGurrin in the sixth and seventh seasons.
His Evil Ranking[]
What Makes Him Heinous?[]
In General[]
- His competitions tend to be very unfair and dangerous, and he shows a blatant disregard for the well-being of the contestants. He always endangers their lives in the most inhumane challenges, just for his own pleasure. He is even responsible for the deaths of several interns who died testing the challenges.
- Furthermore, he also tries to be even worse, but is often limited by other factors, for example the local authorities that intervened to stop him from endangering contestants with toxic waste, meaning his honor is out of pragmatic reasons and not genuine.
- Although he started out with redeeming qualities like fairness and sportsmanship, as the show went on, he discarded those traits as he became more and more cruel and even supported the actions of the worst Total Drama villains like Courtney, Mal and Scarlett.
- However, it's debatable if he even had those qualities in the first place since he already took pleasure in the contestants' suffering from the beginning.
- By causing the deaths of several interns and endangering the contestants several times, ruining the lives of many people (such as Ezekiel and Dakota), killing and mutating animals, Chris stands out for having the highest kill count and attempted kill count in the entire series, and is even more heinous than Mal and Scarlett, the show's two Near Pure Evils. Due to this, he has gone too far to be considered mischievous anymore.
Total Drama Island[]
- He forced Courtney and DJ to wear chicken hats for refusing to do the high dive challenge.
- He forced the contestants to stay up all night for the Awake-A-Thon after exhausting them with a morning routine and huge amounts of food.
- He forced the contestants to face their greatest fears, and when Tyler is eliminated, Chris traps him with dozens of chickens (which Tyler is afraid of) on the Boat of Losers just to terrify him further.
- He doesn't show any concern for Cody being mauled by a bear, only eliminating him for eating the chips that were left behind against the challenge's rules.
- He doesn't tell Beth about Boney Island, causing her to steal a Tiki doll and get her team cursed for three consecutive episodes. When it's eventually revealed that Beth stole the doll, Chris called her out for not heeding his warning even though he never told her.
- He allowed Harold to sabotage the votes to unfairly eliminate Courtney as revenge against Duncan for bullying him.
- He and Chef Hatchet forced the contestants to eat the most disgusting meals, even killing dolphins and making them into "dolphin hot dogs" for the contestants to eat (which is a federal offense).
- He didn't care when Gwen was nearly attacked by the Psycho Killer, in fact, would've been happy to record it for higher ratings, and only tried to save her so that he doesn't receive a lawsuit for her death.
- He unfairly eliminated Leshawna when the eliminated contestants kept accidentally saying her name while trying to decide who to vote off, not meaning to vote for her, and even accepted a couple "votes" from a random parrot in the room.
- He stranded the final four contestants in the woods for a survival challenge, not caring for their well-being.
- He forced the final three constestants to do the most disgusting challenges chosen by former contestants.
- He cheated the winner out of the prize money, causing the events of Total Drama Action.
Total Drama Action[]
- He tried to knock Duncan off the surfboard challenge by throwing many things at him that could have hurt, including Lindsay.
- He tricked the contestants into thinking they were terminally ill after making them read medical books all night.
- He didn't care when Chef broke Owen's jaw and only had Chef take care care of him so that he doesn't file a lawsuit.
- He nearly drowned the contestants in the submarine challenge and only cared about them surviving so that he doesn't get fired.
- He scared the contestants by making them think they were in an exploding tower. While there was no damage, he still enjoyed their mental trauma.
- He wired each stink bomb the contestants had to defuse differently without telling them beforehand, causing them to lose the challenge and need a tomato bath.
- He faked his death and framed Courtney for it.
- It's implied he killed a parrot for biting him.
- He hired Owen to sabotage the other contestants.
Total Drama World Tour[]
- Throughout the season, he eliminates the contestants by making them jump out of the plane. However, he sometimes neglects to make sure if the eliminated contestants have parachutes, which could result in their deaths.
- He caused Ezekiel's transformation into a feral beast by eliminating him early, which led to Ezekiel stowing away on the plane the entire season. He even used the feral Ezekiel for two challenges while further humiliating him.
- He had Chef release scarab beetles on the contestants in Egypt, which killed one of the interns and reduced him to a skeleton. He even stands on and props his feet on the skeleton like he was a footrest.
- He told Chef to slice open the door to the Jumbo Jet just because Harold criticized his knowledge on Japanese culture, sucking the contestants out of the plane which would have killed them all if they didn't safely land on a giant bowl of rice.
- He refused to help Bridgette after she got her tongue stuck to a flagpole courtesy of Alejandro, even drinking the hot water Bridgette needed to free herself. When Bridgette is eliminated, he threw her out of the plane with her tongue still stuck.
- He pushed Noah off a cliff for cracking a joke.
- Despite Team Chris Is Really Really Really Hot capturing Jack the Ripper (Ezekiel) per the challenge, Chris still disqualified them resulting in Noah's unfair elimination.
- He broke the lock on the bathroom door so that Tyler sees Gwen and Duncan's adulterous kiss, effectively destroying Courtney and Gwen's friendship.
- He weaponized Gwen's allergy to eucalyptus in a tie-breaker challenge between her and Courtney, resulting in Gwen's elimination.
- He threw the contestants out of the plane when they were asleep, causing them to nearly get killed in a waterfall until Sierra saved them.
- He threw Courtney and Blaineley out of the plane when they were both eliminated, in the process breaking every bone in Blaineley's body since she couldn't use her parachute.
- He made Alejandro and Heather throw effigy dolls in the volcano for the final two, causing a volcano eruption that burned Alejandro and left him trapped in the Drama Machine.
Total Drama Revenge of the Island[]
- He dumped toxic waste in Camp Wawanakwa, polluting the whole island and mutating the animals.
- He blew up the boat the new cast was riding on their way to the island.
- He crushed all of Dakota's fans with a tree after cutting it down.
- He had Chef stick a bomb on Owen's face and detonated it when Owen asked why he and his friends weren’t competing that season, even telling him that they outlived their usefulness. The two laughed as Owen was blasted away.
- He electrocuted the contestants by making them press badly wired buzzers.
- He didn't care when Lindsay was kidnapped by Sasquachwanakwa, only having the contestants rescue her so that he doesn't get a lawsuit.
- He sent Dakota into a mine filled with toxic waste, causing her mutation into a giant monster.
- He had Gwen and Sam buried alive for the contestants to rescue them, despite Gwen's claustrophobia.
- He forced a brutally injured Scott to ride the Hurl of Shame with Fang, whom Scott is terrified of, which gets him mauled offscreen.
- He tried to blow up the boat in both endings, but Chef planted bombs under Chris's feet.
Total Drama All-Stars[]
- He used a giant toilet as the method of elimination.
- He pretended to let Ezekiel back in the game only to launch him out of the island, revealing it was a prank.
- He put Gwen (and later Cameron) on the Villainous Vultures, and Courtney on the Heroic Hamsters; even though the "villains" are good people and Courtney is not.
- He made the contestants fire leeches at each other.
- He further sabotaged Gwen and Courtney's friendship by making them fight and angering Courtney with videos of Duncan kissing Gwen.
- He tried to make Duncan hurt a defenseless bird, which he refused to do.
- He made Chef throw a dynamite at the contestants, which Duncan blew out and used to destroy Chris's cottage. He also likely corrupted the police since he had Duncan arrested, but he and Chef got off despite throwing the dynamite.
- Even though Duncan blew up his cottage, it's still little to nothing compared to what Chris and Chef have done to others throughout the series and he still deserved it to some extent.
- He continued to let Mal terrorize the other contestants despite being fully aware of the threat he posed and not doing anything about it.
- He made Cameron take the Flush of Shame despite his injuries instead of taking him to the hospital.
- He starved his interns and set up a challenge to feed them sundaes, but changed the rules at the last second so the contestants would have to eat their own sundaes, which led the interns to most likely die of starvation.
- Although he got scared when he witnessed Mal about to hit Gwen with a pipe, it was only because he came out of nowhere and not out of concern for Gwen.
- In the final challenge, he had the eliminated contestants trapped inside bubbles, and whoever didn't get their bubble popped would float away.
- He and Chef accidentally caused the island to sink after Mal's defeat.
Total Drama Pahkitew Island[]
- He shot the eliminated contestants out of a cannon, making them human cannonballs.
- He made the third generation of contestants jump out of the plane while only giving half of them parachutes, and didn't even give one to Chef.
- He was sadistic with Samey’s pain in the grease pig challenge.
- He hoped for Ella to get hurt during the balloon challenge.
- He shocked the contestants with shock collars.
- He unfairly eliminated Ella for singing even though her team won the challenge.
- He made the contestants sick by feeding them dairy products that expired in 1976.
- He impersonated a producer and prank-called Topher about hiring him as the new host of Total Drama, causing Topher's elimination.
- When Pahkitew Island's self-destruct sequence was accidentally triggered, Chris refused to evacuate the island and instead sent the contestants to risk their lives stopping the countdown. He also didn't care that Scarlett was going to let the island explode anyway since he's already safe on his helicopter with Chef.
- He turned Dave against Sky by showing him her audition tape mentioning her boyfriend Keith, driving Dave insane so much that he tried to kill Sky and Shawn in revenge.
- He also revealed to Jasmine that Shawn never wanted to share the prize money with her, although Jasmine forgave Shawn eventually.
- He left Dave to be mauled, perhaps to death, by Scuba Bear.
Total Drama Island (2023)[]
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Total Drama Island (2024)[]
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What Makes Him Inconsistent?[]
- In general, he's too comedic and is played for laughs, with some of his worst actions (like starving his interns) being played as black comedy.
- He cares for a few characters:
- He is genuinely fond of his old plant Larry, as he compliments him and treats him relatively well.
- He cares about his family (like his cousin and his mother) and his home country of Newfoundland.
- While he sometimes mistreats him, he has a genuine friendship with Chef Hatchet and is occasionally nice to him.
- He is On & Off as he has several Pet The Dog moments:
- When Owen eats a piece of used gum, he offers Owen a tetanus shot if he wanted it.
- He throws a parachute to Harold after he jumps out of the plane without one and wishes him good luck without a hint of sarcasm.
- After Gwen and Courtney's boxing match, he gives them both an extra point for "adding a little warmth to my cold heart".
- Gives Ripper a new t-shirt after he stupidly ripped off his original one, even though he didn't have the obligation to do so.
- Uses the Drone of Despair to take Wayne and Raj to a hospital after they get badly hurt to the point that they need to leave the competition, in contrast to how he got rid of Cody and Cameron previously when they got critically injured.
- Gives Chase a pizza after he gets eliminated, which was something really kind from him in spite that Chase didn't deserve such a courtesy.
- Disapproves on how quick Emma is willing to forgive Chase despite him having been and still being an awful boyfriend, suggesting that even he dislikes toxic relationships, especially due to how Chase endangered Emma's well-being for the sake of thrills.
Trivia[]
- To highlight his heinous nature, Chris McLean's descent into a sadistic and unscrupulous host caused his own original voice actor Christian Potenza to start disliking him and lose interest in Total Drama to the point of ultimately departing the show after Fresh TV cut ties with him over false assault allegations, leading him to drop out from the recent Total Drama seasons despite recording his lines for them and being recast with Terry McGurrin.
- He is one of two versions of Chris Mclean to qualify as Inconsistently Heinous, and the only official version, alongside the version from the Total Drama Island 2023 Again fanfiction.
External Links[]
- Chris McLean on the Villains Wiki
- Chris McLean on the Total Drama Wiki
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