Lightning

**Lightning**, labeled **The Athletic Overachiever**, was a contestant on Total Drama Island as a member of the Killer Bass.

## Personality

Lightning is an ultra-competitive jock who values winning above everything else. He is vain and egotistical to a ridiculous extent, constantly referring to himself in the third person and often shown kissing his biceps. He is also quite selfish and always puts his own interests above everyone else's. Lightning is exceptionally good at sports, showing he can somewhat back up his boasting. However, despite his athletic prowess and physical strength, he isn't very smart and is quite stubborn.

## Total Drama Island

After arriving in Not So Happy Campers, Lightning wastes no time in disregarding the other campers, seeing them all as "lame" and "usable". He is later placed on the Killer Bass, much to his dismay, and immediately attempts to assert his dominance over the the other Bass boys. During the challenge, Lightning makes absolutely sure that Alejandro and Noah sit out, and despite Alejandro's pleas, he refuses, asserting that they will ruin their chances of winning. Lightning successfully completes his portion of the challenge and passes the baton to Leshawna. Lightning's team places second in the challenge, and he boasts about his decision to oust the other men, much to their chagrin.

In Spite Club, Lightning boasts about being the only "real" man on his team and that he'll lead them to victory. Alejandro and Noah are visibly annoyed by this, but Alejandro lowers the tension by pretending to agree with him, making Lightning uncomfortable. Lightning is eager to participate in the wrestling challenge, and flirts with Anne Maria in the process. He competes in the fifth round, against Leonard, and aggressively attacks him in the match, causing cringe inducing reactions out of the cast from his brutality. In the following episode Lightning's team starts to get tired of his attitude and get more confrontational with him. When deciding who should perform, Lightning makes many attempts to force the other Bass boys to do the show. However, his persistence wears thin on his team and he is eventually silenced by both Leshawna and Alejandro.

Lightning begins to tone down after this point, hiding away from the others perfectly well in the deer hunting challenge, and only involving Noah in his shenanigans for a short time. In Only You Can Prevent Forest Feuds, Lightning does little to help the team while camping in the woods. He attempts to find food by capturing little woodland creatures, but after new teammate Geoff stops him, he spends the rest of the night asleep, snoring loudly and annoying his team. He ends up sleeping so heavily, that the rest of the team struggle to wake him up the next morning. Lightning spends most of Cabin Fever quiet, but once the Bass reach shore, his dimwitted nature surfaces once again as he searches for food in the strangest of places. In the end, the Killer Bass lose for the first time ever, and at the bonfire ceremony, Lightning's incompetence and arrogance finally gets him eliminated.

Lightning reappears in the finale, where he is seen making out with Anne Maria at Playa Des Losers. During his interview, he is still angry at his elimination and does not seem to support either finalist for making the finale.

## Appearances

Total Drama Island
* 1x01 - Not So Happy Campers
* 1x02 - Spite Club
* 1x03 - Talentless
* 1x04 - Paintball Deer Hunter
* 1x05 - Only You Can Prevent Forest Feuds
* 1x06 - Cabin Fever
* 1x18 - Total Wipeout!

## Trivia

* Lightning is one of only two members of the Killer Bass to be eliminated in Total Drama Island before the merge. The other one being Leshawna.