Heather

Heather was a camper and the main antagonist of Total Drama Island as a member of the Screaming Gophers. She later returned as a cast member in Total Drama Action on the Screaming Gaffers, and was one of the finalists in Total Drama World Tour as a member of Team Amazon.
She was seen with the original contestants on a yacht in the first episode of Total Drama: Revenge of the Island and had a cameo appearance in Up, Up and Away in My Pitiful Balloon. She returned as a camper for Total Drama All-Stars, being placed on the Villainous Vultures.
== Personality ==
Heather was Total Drama's first antagonist. Famously manipulative and vicious, Heather knows what she wants and exactly how to get it. Her strategic smarts have proven effective, eliminating a record amount of contestants. She competes with her sights only on the prize money and not on making friends or finding love, using others at her advantage and only being kind when she may ultimately be benefited. This makes it difficult to differentiate her original, mean girl ways from her true heartfelt moments. Such an example is in Total Drama, Drama, Drama, Drama Island, when a tearful Heather tells Harold that she doesn't like "being mean all the time" and it's not fun "being the one everyone hates". Hawaiian Punch, in which she becomes ecstatic at the thought of being the "good guy", confirms that there is at least some truth to her lament. However, even romance is not enough to tame Heather's desire for victory, as shown by her relationship with Alejandro. Over the course of the series, though, she has progressively gotten nicer, from trying to warn others about a greater threat, to sympathizing with others, and even feeling awful for accidentally causing someone's life-threatening injuries.
One of Heather's fatal flaws, at least in the beginning of the series, is her vanity. Portraying as a stereotypical rich and spoiled girl, Heather refuses to partake in any activities that may result in ruining her good looks, especially her hair, which earned the ire of one of her biggest rivals, Leshawna. Instead, she had other people do her work for her. One could say that until Lindsay's elimination in That's Off the Chain!, Heather shows little involvement in most of the challenges. This trait has since vanished after season one and she becomes more determined to win challenges by herself.
=== Comparisons ===
* Heather is one of the few characters who possesses more than one main design, having her with her hair down, her being bald, with a short ponytail, and with a long ponytail. Other characters include: Mike, Ezekiel, Dakota, Sierra, Lightning, Scarlett, Julia, Chef Hatchet, and Zee.
* Heather, along with Beth, Lindsay, and Blaineley, is one of the only female contestants from the first generation cast who never appeared on Skatoony.
* Heather is one of only five contestants to have competed in four seasons of Total Drama; the others are Courtney, Duncan, Gwen, and Lindsay.
* Heather, Courtney, Izzy, and Noah were the last characters created for the show, as evidenced by them not appearing in the Camp TV trailer or the pre-production material. However, aspects of Heather's character were recycled from various Camp TV contestants:
** Gwen was originally named "Heather".
** Lindsay was originally the main antagonist.
** Heather strongly resembles Eva's original design.
* She is one of eight females to have more than one boy attracted to her, with the others being Anne Maria, Bridgette, Carrie, Courtney, Emma, Gwen and Jasmine.
** Geoff also considered her to be the hottest girl on the show in The Aftermath: I.
* Heather and Sugar are both labeled as "Queens", and each have a mostly one-sided conflict with a "Princess" whom they eventually eliminate. They also both place third in the first season they compete in.
* She is one of nine characters who has appeared bald, with the others being Chef, Chris, Ezekiel, Sierra, Alejandro, Staci, Dakota, and Dave.
* Heather along with Jen, Gwen, Sierra, and Tom, are the only characters known to have created a blog.
* Heather, Izzy, Beth, Leshawna, Jo, and Priya are the only female contestants to show nudity on the show. Excluding Priya as a baby, she's also the only female contestant whose breasts were shown.
* Heather and Duncan appear in more episodes than any other contestant, with 75 each.
** Competition-wise and excluding Haute Camp-ture as well as the Aftermaths, Heather participates in 66 episodes and Duncan only in 65. Hence she becomes the person to have competed in the most episodes out of all the contestants.
=== Miscellaneous ===
* Heather has had her ethnicity confirmed. According to Todd Kauffman, she is Asian. However, Fresh TV's defunct Tumblr account specified that Heather is half-Asian through her mother, half-white through her father.
** Additionally she is one of five characters to have their ethnicity confirmed as Asian, the others being Devin, Emma, Kitty, Chase, and MK.
* Lindsay was originally intended to be the antagonist in Camp TV until Heather was created and replaced her.
* Courtney's voice actor, Emilie-Claire Barlow, revealed in an interview that she originally auditioned to voice Heather.
* Heather has suffered several mishaps and near-death experiences, making her one of the most unfortunate contestants.
* She has had ten hairstyles, more than any other character.
* It was revealed by Tom McGillis in a Q&A session that Heather is one of his favorite Total Drama character.
* Until Sierra's debut, Heather was the tallest female character of the original cast.
* Interestingly, although Heather has no counterpart in Total DramaRama, most of her traits are given to two of her arch-enemies, who are portrayed rather differently than their main counterpart.
** According to Terry McGurrin, Heather was cut from the series because she was too mean for young viewers. Therefore, they gave her traits to the aforementioned characters.
** Beth takes on most of Heather's bad traits such as her selfishness and rudeness towards others. Interestingly, Beth's bee costume is a pun to Heather's label, the Queen Bee.
** Leshawna actually acts more like Heather than her original self, acting both as a bully and a spoiled, mean-spirited rich girl who likes it when she is referred to as queen, a reference to Heather's label, The Queen Bee. Leshawna also mentions in several episodes that she has a plan of taking over the world, a reference to Heather's plan to take over Europe in her biography.