Total Drama Island/Heather

Heather
Total Drama Island
Actor	Rachel Wilson
First Appearance	1x01 - Not So Happy Campers (1)
Series Billing	Main cast
Episode Count	27 (Total Drama Island) 17 (Total Drama Action) 22 (Total Drama World Tour) 1 (Total Drama: Revenge of the Island) 7 (Total Drama All-Stars) Total: 71
Notable Episodes	Not So Happy Campers, Part 1 Not So Happy Campers, Part 2 Phobia Factor Search and Do Not Destroy Hide and Be Sneaky That's Off the Chain! Are We There Yeti?

Heather is a character on Total Drama Island, voiced by Rachel Wilson.

Basic Information

Heather is a member of Team Amazon on Total Drama World Tour, the third season of TDI. She started out as a member of the Screaming Gophers team in the first season, and she claimed leadership of the team during that season. She was also a member of the Screaming Gaffers team on Total Drama Action, the second season. She auditioned for the show in hopes of using it as a training ground for her long-term goal, in her words, "of ruling Europe", and she becomes determined to win the competition by any means necessary.

Heather's ethnicity is Asian (as confirmed by former series director and character designer Todd Kaufmann [1], although she is not given a specific Asian ethnicity), making her one of the few TDI characters whose ethnic background is known. She comes from a well-to-do background; as seen in her audition tape for the show, she emerges from pampering herself in the shower in a fancy bathroom while discussing why she wants to be a contestant on TDI. Although she is quite pretty and she fancies herself as popular, Heather also posesses a very unpleasant personality. She is stuck-up and snobby and is often mean-spirited, bossy and bitchy to teammates and opponents alike, and she does not hesitate to use and take advantage of other campers for personal gain (including pretending to befriend those she chooses, such as Lindsay and Beth, then dumping them when they serve no further purpose to her). She also frequently walks around with her fists clenched, as if she is ready for a fight, and she has been known to get physically aggressive with some of the other players, even going so far as to assault Owen and Tyler more than once on several occasions. Heather also harbors a jealous streak toward Gwen, whom she personally regards as a threat to her in the game and therefore targets for retribution in various ways, including stealing and publicly reading Gwen's diary during a talent competiton (exposing Gwen's crush on Trent in the process) and later plotting to break up Gwen and Trent through nefarious means.

Heather makes her way through the show, winning challenges and thus often gaining immunity from elimination from the game, through cheating, sabotage, manipulation and deceit. She achieves this, for example, by bribing some of her fellow Gophers into voting Justin off the show, and she later gets Trent eliminated by turning him and Gwen against each other by kissing Trent in front of Gwen, then getting him voted off the show by the other campers while avoiding elimination herself due to winning immunity. Often during the first season, Heather also frequently skates through the competition by doing little to nothing to help her teammates or contribute to their wins, but instead bossing them around and forcing them to do her dirty work for her. Late in the competition, Heather becomes hated by all the other contestants on the show because of her unscrupulous ways and manipulative behavior, so much so that all of them want to vote her out of the game—but Heather manages to dodge yet another bullet when, through an act of chicanery to keep the conflict going, show host Chris Maclean tricks the eliminated contestants into voting off Leshawna instead.

Heather does not always get away with her dirty deeds, however. She sometimes ends up paying for her actions through acts of karma, such as when she accidentally loses her top while trying to sabotage Harold during a jet ski race. As Heather also quickly discovers, Leshawna is one of the few contestants who not only refuses to be intimidated by the snobby girl and will stand up to her, she is also the only camper who will get physical against Heather and make her pay for her evil ways when the situation calls for it, like chasing Heather into the woods for her accidental flashing of Harold and getting him voted off because of it.

Heather becomes the 22nd contestant to be eliminated from the TDI competiton when her vanity proves to be her undoing in another act of karma, as she accidentally gets her head partly shaved while attempting to refuse a dare she draws from the vengeful Lindsay, resulting in her automatic ejection from the game due to a pre-challenge stipulation laid out by Chris. She returns, sporting a wig to cover up her now-fully-shaved head, with all the other eliminated campers for the final showdown between Gwen and Owen and vindictively tries, but fails, to cause Gwen to lose by cheating for Owen against her; this, along with her berating Lindsay and Izzy for bungling another attempt to help Owen win, earns Heather some payback from Leshawna when she grabs her and throws her into the Confessional Can (which had earlier been visited by Owen, who came down with an attack of diarrhea caused by a prank of Heather's against Gwen gone awry).

At the TDI post-show party, Heather tries in vain to find someone to team up with when a $1,000,000 prize is announced by Chris for the first contestant who finds the suitcase containing the prize money, then she ends up in a tie with 13 other players which qualifies them for the second season of the show. She continues to be distrusted and disrespected by the other contestants on TDA because of her actions last season, and she recently suffered the additional indignity of losing her wig during an alien-themed movie challenge, forcing her to remain bald for the balance of the current season. When she later finds out that Gwen is throwing a challenge for the Screaming Gaffers to allow rival team the Killer Grips to win (although she does not know that Justin blackmailed Gwen into taking the dive because he thinks that she and Trent conspired to get to the final two by cheating, which Gwen did not do), Heather gleefully takes the opportunity to get her archenemy, whom she has hated since early in the series, off of TDA by convincing the rest of the Gaffers to vote Gwen off, thereby also getting payback for being eliminated in the previous season's semifinal (which she also blames Gwen for).

Heather becomes the 9th contestant eliminated from TDA in "Million Dollar Babies" because, although Leshawna is overheard making some rude comments about the contestants thanks to Courtney revealing the recorded comments on her PDA, Duncan and Harold forgive Leshawna and commend her for her honesty, then choose to send Heather home instead. She later appears in "The Aftermath: 3" as one of the guests along with Leshawna and Owen. She shows up wearing another wig, this time styled in an afro. Heather lies three times while sitting in the electric chair during the "Truth or Electrocution" segment (where she claims that Courtney is not a worthy competitor, Lindsay is as dumb as she appears, and that Beth is not a threat) and ends up getting shocked in the chair each time. Heather also helps Bridgette, Owen and Leshawna by putting Geoff in the electric chair to give him a taste of his own medicine after his new egomaniacal and manipulative personality gets out of hand (even though Heather initially showed that she approved of Geoff's attitude change).

Heather qualifies to become a contestant in TDWT during the Celebrity Manhunt special, where she continues her feud with Gwen by mocking the Goth girl's online video blog with one of her own, which leads to an incident during an interview on Celebrity Manhunt where she gets beaten up by Gwen after the two archrivals get into a brawl. During the season premiere, Heather ends up on Gwen's team, Team Amazon.

Trivia

• Heather's name in the show's French-language version, L'île des Défis Extrêmes, is Marilou
• She is one of just three characters (along with Gwen and Owen) to appear in all 26 episodes of TDI's first season
• The shape of the top of Heather's head changes noticeably in between the end of Season One of TDI and the S1 special "Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island". In "The Very Last Episode, Really!", Heather (who is now completely bald following the events of "I Triple Dog Dare You!") has a flat-topped head like most of the other characters, but in "Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island" and thereafter, her head is redesigned to be rounder on top
• Heather's own hair reappears in the S2 special "Celebrity Manhunt's Total Drama Action Reunion Special", but it is shorter than it was in the first season and is tied back in a short ponytail. She maintains this style through the run of Total Drama World Tour, the third season of TDI
  • Her hair returns to its original long length in the S4 episode "Up, Up and Away in My Pitiful Balloon"
• In the United States, Heather is the first female to win a season of Total Drama
  • Depending on where the TDWT finale is shown, she (or Alejandro) is also the first villainous character to win a season in the series
  • She is also the first, and currently only, winner to not return after her elimination at some point
    • Owen returned in "Rock n' Rule"
    • Duncan returned in "I See London..."
• She, along with Alejandro, Cameron, and Lightning, are the only season winners that have yet to return after their eliminations.
  • Coincidentally, they all won in the seasons that were not the same in both Canada and the United States.
    • Heather (in the US) and Alejandro (in Canada) are the official winners of Total Drama World Tour.
    • Cameron (in Canada) and Lightning (in the US) are the official winners of Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.