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Duncan is a character on Total Drama Island. He is played by Drew Nelson.

Contents 1 Basic Information 2 Character History 3 Memorable Moments 4 Trivia 5 Quotes

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Duncan is the current captain of the Screaming Gaffers team on Total Drama Action, the second season of TDI. He first appears as a member of the Killer Bass team on the show's first season. He is a self-professed juvenile delinquent who has had a history of run-ins with the law and has spent time in juvenile detention, which is ironic due to the fact that he comes from a family which is involved in law enforcement. He correspondingly has a tough guy personality and attitude, enhanced by his manner of dress (a green Mohawk hairdo, piercings in his nose, left eyebrow and ears, a spiked dog collar around his neck, and a black T-shirt with a skull on the front), and he greatly enjoys breaking the rules and getting under the skin of those he targets for his jibes and pranks.

In spite of his anti-social demeanor, Duncan does form friendships with Bass teammates DJ and Geoff, as well as with former Screaming Gophers opponents Trent and Owen after both teams are dissolved later in the competition, and he finds some common interests with Gwen (such as horror movies). He, DJ and Geoff enjoy playing pranks on the geeky Harold, which stemmed from their efforts to teach Harold a lesson for leaving his dirty underwear lying around on the floor of the Bass cabin. He has also assumed leadership roles within the Bass on several occasions, including leading his team to victory in a dodgeball challenge early in the game.

Early on, Duncan develops a love-hate relationship with the prim and proper Courtney, who is Duncan's diametric opposite in many ways. While Courtney often disapproves of Duncan constantly bending the rules and flouting the authority of Chef Hatchet, Duncan responds by teasing Courtney about always following the rules and seeking other people's approval. He frequently hints to Courtney that she secretly likes him, which annoys Courtney and puts her off, but when she goes to see Duncan while he spends the night in the camp boathouse after Chef sends him there for defying him once too often, he manages to convince Courtney to break a rule for a change, then they sneak over to the show's catering tent and steal some food right from under the noses of Chef and Chris Maclean to bring back to the other campers to munch on. Eventually, Duncan breaks down Courtney's defences as she realizes that she likes him and they share a kiss. The kiss is seen by a disgruntled Harold, who then gets back at Duncan for his pranks against him by tampering with the camper elimination ballots to get Courtney unfairly eliminated from the game. Soon after Courtney is eliminated from the game, Duncan and Leshawna were paired up for three parts of a challenge, one including building a totem pole of carved wooden heads of each of the eliminated campers in the order of their elimination. It is shown during that challenge that he engraved C+D inside a heart on the wooden Courtney head for his and Leshawna's totem pole.

Like all the other contestants on the show, Duncan is not a fan of Heather. Although he initially hopes that Heather gets a bunk above his own when the players are first assigned to their teams, Duncan soon comes to hate her as the result of her evil scheme to break up Gwen and Trent and, demonstrating that he does have some level of morality, he gladly joins Leshawna's crusade to vote Heather out of the game to punish her, but those plans are foiled when Heather wins immunity in a challenge. He also mistakenly believes that Heather was behind Courtney's earlier elimination (not realizing then that Harold is the actual culprit) and, during a Confessional Can session which is later shown to the campers during a vote-off, he vows to make Heather pay the price for it. Oddly, he forms an alliance with Heather at one point during an animal trapping challenge, but he reveals his ulterior motive for doing so during a Confessional Can session when he figures that Heather could get eaten by her assigned target, a bear.

Duncan makes it to the final four in the game, but he becomes the 21st camper eliminated when, in another guys vs. girls-type showdown, Owen costs the guys' team the challenge when, in a rush to get to a plate of iced cinnamon buns made by Chef, Owen forgets to tag a totem pole at home base, leading to Gwen and Heather getting the win. Duncan returns with the other eliminated contestants for the championship final between Gwen and Owen, where he ends up passionately kissing Courtney again. At the post-show party, he takes part in the chase for the $1,000,000 briefcase which results in him and 13 other players ending up in a tie to move them on to the show's second season.

On TDA, Duncan shows some adeptness at acting, which wins a challenge for his team the Screaming Gaffers, and he reveals during a Confessional Makeup Trailer session that the reason he continues to hassle Harold is because he found out about Harold being behind Courtney's wrongful elimination last season. He also shows his crafty and scheming sides when he convinces Gaffers teammate Gwen that she is the reason Trent has an obsession with the number 9 (by telling her that the total number of letters in her and Trent's names add up to nine, which is later disproven by Trent in the TDA Aftermath talkshow segment), causing Duncan to be one of the catalysts behind Gwen and Trent's later breakup. He assumes the captaincy of the Gaffers when Gwen is later eliminated, both due to a scandal involving presumed cheating by Gwen and Trent (even though she is, in fact, innocent of any wrongdoing in that case) and when Heather finds out that Gwen threw a challenge for the Gaffers (under threat of blackmail by Killer Grips captain Justin). In "Ocean's Eight - Or Nine", Duncan leads his team to the bank during the bank heist challenge, where in a surprise, Courtney returns to the competition. Duncan faints after seeing her as the teller. Throughout the next few episodes of TDA, Duncan and Courtney's relationship has been hitting some speed bumps when the two begin to compete against each other on different teams, with Courtney both accusing Duncan of cheating on her with Gwen (which he has not done, as he has made it clear that he still has eyes for Courtney) and aggressively beating him in challenges.

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• Duncan's name in the show's French-language version, L'île des Défis Extrêmes, is Hugo

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• Courtney (indignant): You're such an ogre!
  Duncan (non-chalantly): I've been called worse.

• Courtney: Why do you smell worse than usual?
  Duncan: It's Owen's stink. It's following me around like my juvenile record.
  Courtney: Well, I'm heading back. This stupid game must be almost over by now.
  Duncan: You're going the wrong way.
  Courtney (insulted): Excuse me—I was a CIT, remember? I have a natural sense of direction. Camp is this way.
  Duncan (pointing in the other direction): No, it's that way. (Courtney rolls her eyes and continues to move forward; Duncan does the same, and both bump into each other and get their deer antlers tangled up)

• Harold: Hey, where are Duncan and Courtney? (Sadie nudges Harold and points forward as they see Courtney and Duncan struggling with their antlers)
  Gwen (grinning): Oh, this is too much!
  Owen: Ooooh Duncan, you sly dog you!
  Duncan: The girl can't keep her antlers off me! (an unimpressed Courtney then kicks Duncan in the groin)
  Duncan (groaning in pain, with voice pitched high due to the kick): Can't even bend over.