Total Drama Comeback

Total Drama Comeback by The Kobold Necromancer is an English Total Drama Canon Divergence Redemption AU fic for Ezekiel. In the story, a second season of Total Drama called Total Drama Comeback takes place after the events of Total Drama: Island (2007) instead of Total Drama: Action. Ezekiel, spurred by being eliminated first in Island, overcomes adversity and endures new challenges, alliances, betrayals and romances before placing third in Total Drama Comeback with his new-found friends Bridgette and Izzy, both of whom co-win the season. Kobold was a BNF in early Total Drama fandom.
Total Drama Comeback is the most reviewed and favorited fanfiction in FanFiction.Net's Total Drama category as of October 2023. It established widespread fanon, inspired fanac, and spearheaded rarepairs such as Bridgette/Ezekiel and Ezekiel/Izzy into popularity for several years. It was the first completed Competition Fic, the general term for TD fan-seasons starring canonical characters. Comeback was also the first longfic to give Ezekiel the spotlight, as before he was considered a Blank Slate. Characterizations of Ezekiel, Tyler, Eva and Cody, to name a few, are often seen in fanworks made later, though the release of Total Drama: World Tour retconned some of these characterizations. Rarepairs which are canonical in Comeback include Katie/Noah, Beth/Justin, and Ezekiel/Heather.
Total Drama Comeback is frequently recommended to fans new to Total Drama fandom as a must read, though often with a disclaimer that it hasn't aged the best. Much of the humor in the story dates it squarely to the late 2000s. Critics of Total Drama Comeback also compare Ezekiel to that of a Gary Stu, as he's involved in plotlines that readers may believe were better off handled by other contestants and functions like the author's thinly-veiled self-insert. Competitionist Shipping also is in nearly full effect for its characters; few are single by the fic's end. Despite these setbacks, the story's engaging characterizations, fun dialogue and nostalgia factor still is praised by its readers, as seen on its .
Total Drama Comeback has a sequel called Total Drama Battlegrounds. Featuring 22 new original contestants of Kobold's creation and the original 22 canon contestants, the fanfiction was popular, but was never finished and didn't influence fanon like Comeback had.
==Influence on Total Drama Fanon==
*Fanon Personal Names: Comeback gave last names to all of the contestants. Some of these names are controversial in modern Total Drama fandom, especially Noah's, expanded upon in his page. These names are used for many fanworks, often without the knowledge they even came from Total Drama Comeback due to Fannish Drift. The headcanons that Geoff is short for Geoffrey and Gwen is short for Gwendolyn may also be cited as factual information, though this is not entirely because of Comeback. Cody and Harold are not on this list, as they both have canonical last names.
The full names are:
The names were made from suggestions by readers, jokes, and referencesRevision as of 20:50, 2 May 2011 by Kobold Necromancer (Message Wall | contribs) (Created page with "All of the characters of TD have a last name, just some have been announced sooner rather than later. Via suggestions, jokes, and real names from the show, they are as follows. =...")
From , not by character ethnicity necessarily.
Fanon found in other fanworks are also in Comeback:
*Izzy ships Cody/Noah: Although it is canon that Izzy made fun of Noah for kissing Cody's ear, her shipping Cody/Noah is fanon.
==Reviews==
, dates to January 2nd, 2022. It is a long-form, in-depth review of Total Drama Comeback. Has 8 comments.
, dates to August 26th, 2011. It is another long-form, in-depth review of Total Drama Comeback. Has 9 comments and was favorited by Kobold himself, who also commented.
==Example/Notable Recursive Fanac==
 has some fanworks and further information.
*, a DeviantArt community for Total Drama Comeback and its sequel.
*, a drawing of Katie featuring her different outfit from chapter 5. Other characters this artist has drawn featuring their outfits in Comeback include and .
*, overall Ezekiel meta which references Comeback. A discussion on Reddit.
*, a wallpaper featuring all 44 contestants in Total Drama Battlegrounds.
==References/Further Reading==
* on TVTropes
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