Owen

as a camper and one of the finalists in Total Drama Island as a member of the Screaming Gophers. He later returned as a castmate in Total Drama Action on the Killer Grips, and qualified for Total Drama World Tour as a member of Team Chris Is Really Really Really Really Hot. He had two cameo appearances in the first episode of Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, and while he did not qualify for Total Drama All-Stars, he made a cameo in The Final Wreck-ening. He was also a Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race contestant as a member of The Reality TV Pros with Noah. He returned as a guest star in Total Drama Island (2024) as a judge for the challenge in Fun Fight at the O'Cake Corral.
== Personality ==
Owen is a huggable, upbeat, fun-loving, friendly, passionate, and optimistic competitor, who is basically in Total Drama to have fun, not for the grand prize. Owen's three biggest loves are eating, having a good time and passing a large amount of gas. Among his peers, he is arguably the most popular contestant of all time for his cheerful ways, optimistic viewpoints no matter what the situation is, and ability to see the best in other people. He even accomplishes the impossible in making a friend of Chris. This niceness however, also made him oblivious that some people don't like him back, even when they are offending him to his face. He always tries to help his team win challenges despite his physical and mental disadvantages. Usually enthusiastic at first, he often ends up failing, the majority in a variety of humorous ways. As a running gag in the series, Owen is frequently naked, farting, or sometimes both. He has mentioned on numerous occasions that his response to stress (among many other emotions), is eating (also known as stress-eating.)
Owen is also a sensitive person, describing himself as feeling things on a deep level. He tells Heather in Trial By Tri-Armed Triathlon that he feels like no one listens to him. Additionally, when he is strapped to an electric chair in The Aftermath: III, during the "Truth or Electrocution" segment, Owen is so frightened of being shocked that he launches into a tirade of all his wrongdoings - before Geoff even asks him a question. Despite being one of the nicest contestants on the show, Owen has a dark side like most others. In Dodgebrawl, he fiercely competes in the dodgeball game, and even though it was likely due to the competition, Katie and Sadie still said that he acted mean during Haute Camp-ture. In addition, during Total Drama Action, broke from his mother's spending, Owen is offered money to come back from elimination and create drama between the remaining castmates. Although he feels bad about his job and initially doesn't do a very good job, he continues to "stir up the doo-doo" even when not instructed, claiming "it's hard going cold turkey". However, these things aside, Owen remains a good friend and teammate within his heart, as demonstrated by his regrets over trying to screw Harold up or how he befirends Noah despite their opposite personalities.
By the time of the show's reboot, Owen has changed very little (both physically and psychologically) despite now being on his early thirties. While he still has troubles over keeping himself controlled with delicious food around and is implied to not have made any significant since the last time he competed in Total Drama or Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race, Owen is still the big-loving guy he has been since his teens, greeting Chris and Chef as his friends and acting fairly nice to the newest competitors.
== Trivia ==
=== Comparisons ===
* Owen is one of the characters who serve as a "pain magnet" of a particular season, who is injured excessively as part of a running gag. He serves this role in Total Drama Island.
** The other characters to do so are Harold in Total Drama Action, Tyler in Total Drama World Tour, Brick in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island, Scott in Total Drama All-Stars, Max and Dave in Total Drama: Pahkitew Island, Jacques in Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race, Cody in Total DramaRama, and Chase in Total Drama Island (2023).
* Owen, along with Geoff, Noah, and Chris, are the only characters to be present in Total Drama, as well as its two spin off shows.
* Owen is one out of a few characters to have their name referenced in an episode title, with the others being Chef Hatchet, Harold, Courtney, Bridgette, Chris, Ezekiel, Scarlett, and Sky. He is currently the only character whose name is used in more than one episode title. In this case, Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen and 2008: A Space Owen.
* Owen is one of the few characters to have had his weight revealed, as he states his weight was two-hundred and ninety-six pounds (also being ten pounds heavier as of The Aftermath: III, and gained enough weight to break the net holding him up in Top Dog). The only other characters to do so are Harold and Cameron.
* Owen, Cody, Tyler, Trent, Scott, Cameron, and Sierra are the only contestants that have been injured to the point of having to be in a wheelchair.
* Owen is one of several characters to possess theme music, along with Brick, Duncan, Izzy, Justin, Lindsay, Alejandro, several of Mike's alternate personalities, Max, Sugar, Crimson, Ennui, Jay, Mickey, Jacques, Josee, Rock, Spud, and Dwayne. In his case, an orchestra is played whenever Owen is doing something weird such as when he is climbing the waterfall while he's asleep in The Big Sleep, and when he uses himself as a human cannonball in Sweden Sour.
** This music would later be used for Svetlana, one of Mike's alternate personalities.
* Owen is one of seven contestants in the franchise to have returned after being previously eliminated, with the others being Izzy, Eva, Duncan, Dakota, Geoff, and Brody.
* Owen is one of only four contestants to make an alliance with an authority figure. The others are DJ, Ezekiel, and Blaineley.
* Owen, along with Beth, is the only finalists from the first two generations to not participate in Total Drama All-Stars.
* Owen, along with Blaineley, Ezekiel, and Izzy, is the only non-competing contestants to have a guest appearance in Total Drama All-Stars.
* Owen is one of five contestants to make an individual cameo in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island but not compete in Total Drama All-Stars. The others are Bridgette, DJ, Ezekiel, and Izzy.
* Owen is one of four contestants who was shown to have armpit hair; the others are Chet, Eva, and Jacques.
* Owen is one of four characters to have tan lines, with the others being Harold, Ezekiel, and Ripper.
=== Miscellaneous ===
* Owen is the only contestant from the final four of Total Drama Island not to make an appearance in every episode for two seasons.
* When left to his own devices on a solo mission, Owen has a tendency to narrate his exploits in a colorful third-person persona ("The Hunter" in Paintball Deer Hunter, and "The Naturalist" in Wawanakwa Gone Wild!)
* Owen is the second male character to cross-dress, with the first being Chef Hatchet.
* Owen is one of the seven contestants to not have their full audition tape released.
* Owen has a habit of rapidly acquiring facial hair, as shown in Camp Castaways(a beard) and Monster Cash (a mustache). He also grows a beard in Top Dog.
* Unlike most campers, Owen seems to enjoy Chef's cooking, though his opinion has a tendency to change throughout the series.
* Owen has been shown to have a fragile mentality, and easily loses his sanity.
** In Camp Castaways, he creates Mr. Coconut out of loneliness after nine minutes of being away from others, and Chris had to eliminate his fruity friend for his own personal safety.
** In Ocean's Eight—or Nine, he turns crazy after becoming excessively hungry due to just having his jaw unwired, and thinks his friends were types of foods.
** Several times on the Total Drama Jumbo Jet, he becomes terrified whenever hitting some turbulence and will scream out that they will all die.
* Owen, along with Chris, Courtney, DJ, Gwen, and Harold, appears in a Cartoon Network parody called "Total Drama Reality".
* Owen has shown the most nudity out of all the characters in the show, but most seen in Total Drama Island.
** Each time Owen's dream sequence is featured, he is seen without his clothes.
* Owen has a unique style of animation when he tells a story. This is used when he talks in The Sucky Outdoors, the third aftermath, and when he sang about Izzy.
* Owen is the first Total Drama contestant to compete on Skatoony.
* Owen is the first contestant overall to cameo in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island.
* According to an interview with show creator, Tom McGillis, Owen is his favorite character. Terry McGurrin has also confirmed that Owen is the staff's overall favourite character.
* Owen is the first contestant from the original cast to meet a contestant from the third and the fourth cast.
* Owen can be seen in Cartoon Network's mural that's celebrating their 20th anniversary with other Cartoon Network past and current shows.
* It is revealed on Total Drama Online that Owen's left pocket of his shorts contains fossilized chicken wings and his right pocket contains dried blue cheese dipping sauce.
* Owen only has a driver's learner's permit, as revealed in Little Bull on the Prairie.
* Owen is implied to have been to a Catholic school, as his flashback in the third aftermath shows a trio of nuns at his school.
* Fresh TV's now-defunct website stated that back in Total Drama Island (2007), Owen's change of clothes consisted in the shirt and shorts he always wears and never changed them.
* It was suggested by Fresh TV's defunct Tumblr account that Owen used the money he won on other reality shows to help his family financially, helping them to get out of the debt they had in Total Drama Action.
* Owen was set to return to the competition in Total Drama All-Stars during the season's early development. While his inclusion was dropped for unknown reasons, he still made a cameo in the finished product's season finale.
* According to Christine Thompson, Owen and Noah are both 19 years old as of Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race.
* According to Tom McGillis, Owen is the canon winner of Total Drama Island (2007), as he and Jennifer Pertsch wished for him to win as winning didn't matter for him. This would later be confirmed in Fun Fight at the O'Cake Corral.
* Owen gets a slightly updated design in Total Drama Island (2024), with the outlines on his clothes having matching colors instead of all being black, and now having dark green eyes instead of black as a nod to his design change in Total DramaRama.
** This makes Owen the second character whose eye color has changed over the course of the series, with the first being Mal.
* Counting his Total DramaRama counterpart's interaction with Lightning, Owen is the only contestant in the series to meet a contestant from every cast, including contestants from Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race and the reboot series.