Anders

* S4: Wilderness
* S10: WotW

Anders is a contestant labeled **The Foreign Exchange Student** on Total Drama Wilderness and Total Drama: Worst of the Worst. He also makes a brief cameo appearance in Total Drama: The Next Generation.

## Biography

Anders is originally from Stockholm, Sweden. Anders has always excelled at academics, being a very bright young man. Once he reached puberty, he kept growing and growing. He was six foot five when he was just thirteen. He hit yet another growth spurt when he reached fifteen. His parents were amazed by it, and had to buy him another wardrobe. Anders new height has been an advantage in the sports realm, as well. He didn't take his height for granted. He enjoys several athletic endeavors, and excels at them, also. Anders also is very popular with the female population. He always acts like a gentleman, and has had a few girlfriends. Girls are usually impressed by his height, but he woos them with his charming personality, as well. When he was seventeen, Anders got an opportunity to move in with his cousins in Canada. He was very excited, as he viewed it as an opportunity to travel the world, and gain more experience. He accepted the offer and attended his senior year in Canada. He was met with several challenges, especially in school. He didn't make friends right away, as he knew about five English words. He did well at sports, still, but barely scraped by in academics. When one of his cousins came home from college, she would do her best to help him, but she couldn't be there all the time. Anders picked up a few words in the year he has spent in Canada, but still struggled with forming complete sentences. Anders eventually befriended a new student that also spoke Swedish. He has taught Anders several phrases. Anders popularity went up, thanks to his friend. Anders graduated high school, and is undecided as to whether he would like to move back to his native country.

Anders decided to join the Total Drama series, as it is his favorite show in Canada. He doesn't always understand what's going on, but he always watches it with a smile on his face. He hopes to be able to interact with new people, and hopefully pick up more English.

## Total Drama Wilderness

Anders arrived, in Another Day, Another Season, and announced to the gathered contestants that he liked to rub his thighs with pancake batter. Most of them found his statement humorous enough to laugh. Anders smiled, feeling accepted. He noted to himself in Swedish that his friend told him that line would be a good introduction. Anders then called Chris a sexy man beast. The others laughed, except for Francesca who didn't find his statements to be all that funny. Nolan stated that he liked Anders. Anders then said that the others would love his tongue, which made them all laugh, again, except for Francesca. Anders smiled, again. Anders was the only one not to be surprised when Shaila stated that she was related to Levi, a contestant from a past season, as he didn't understand what was being said.

Anders told the others that he had a juicy schoolteacher, in Trick or Tree, not knowing what he was saying. While Chris announced who the contestants were related to, Anders mistakenly thought that his cousins, Katrina and Sabrina, were there. During the challenge, Anders accidentally planted trees that belonged to the other team, because he was confused about what was going on. Nobody seemed to notice, however. At the elimination ceremony, during a particularly tense scene, Anders told the others that the voices in his head told him to slap himself with bananas.

Anders told the others that he kept a jar of pickles in his boxers to keep him company, in Any Given Monday. Anders smiled when the others laughed. When trying to decide who would cover who in the football game, Anders was skipped because he talked about the popularity of his uvula, interrupting the decision process. Anders just stood around in the challenge, not taking any cues or observing waht was happening around him. Anders was safe at the campfire ceremony, and made everyone but Francesca laugh when he said that he used the spoon as a lever. When Toby was eliminated, he got very upset. Anders was able to discern that he was upset, and he looked at Toby in a concerned way.

Wayne sat with Anders in their cabin, in Hidden Ballet, and Wayne discerned that Anders didn't understand any English, after professing that popsicles were his favorite animals. Wayne confided in Anders that he really wanted a drink of alcohol, but didn't want his team to view him as weak. He felt guilty over the accident that befell his friend. Though Anders could not understand Wayne, he said in confessional that he was making lots of friends. At the ballet paintball challenge, Anders commented that he thought about Chef's body often, and that it made him insecure about his own body. Brad looked at Anders, whose tights barely covered his torso, and frowned. During the challenge, Anders was pushed onstage by Reeve. Anders didn't understand what was going on, but when he saw Chef aim a paintball gun at him, he dove behind a prop. The prop was too small to cover Anders, and he was shot in the behind with a paintball. Wade went on stage and helped Anders to a seat.

In the beginning of Male Model Citizens, Anders stated that he was known as 'jelly bean'. Everyone laughed, while Francesca sighed. When deciding who would wear the tight fitting briefs for the male modeling challenge, Anders was forced to model them for his team, because he didn't understand what was happening. Brad, a member of the other team, saw Anders, and decided to trick him into running down the runway, pretending that that was the proper way to do it. Anders stated in confessional that he was familiar with fashion shows, but surprised over the way things were done in another country. Anders ran down the runway for his part of the challenge, and lost his part of it. When he got back, Reeve called him an idiot. Anders then left the backstage area. Francesca later went after him, when he was sitting by himself, fully dressed. She gathered that he understood what 'idiot' meant. He said in his native language that no one ever called him that, but that he heard it quite a few times after moving to Canada. Francesca put her hand on Anders back and encouraged him to help her vote out Reeve. He looked into her eyes and said that he wanted to look at her 'boobies'. She promptly slapped him, and angrily left. He then stated that he didn't think that 'I would like to get to know you better' was offensive. He then looked contemplative, and then said. Anders was voted out of the competition. He stated on the boat of losers, in his native language, that the competition was very hard for him. He also stated that he figured out that his seemingly helpful friend was not a true friend.

## After Total Drama Wilderness

Anders and Francesca have been quite happy together. Anders speaks English better, and has become accustomed to his new surroundings. Anders went to school to become a massage therapist and went back to college with hopes of become a physician. After Nolan let it slip that Anders would be appearing a year later for Total Drama: Worst of the Worst, the Swede has been studying up on past seasons, as well as getting himself in top physical condition.

Anders has accepted his invitation to Total Drama: Worst of the Worst with the goal of giving it his all, and doing his best.

## Total Drama: Worst of the Worst

When Anders was introduced, the others noted how muscular Anders had become. Anders explained that he had advanced notice of his appearance on the show, and he began working out in order to ‘stomp’ the competition. He stomped on the dock to make his point, causing a board to propel up and hit Brent in the crotch.

After teams were announced as men versus women, Anders covered Dirk’s mouth after he suggested their team name be ‘Sausage Fest’. Anders apologized and stated that he knew what it was like to say dumb things on his original season.

For the first challenge, Anders was chosen to dress as a Minotaur and shackled. His team had to find him and return him to the starting point. Jerome and Dirk found Anders, and Dirk froze in place and dropped the key. Jerome explained that Dirk was choking. They led him back, and the men won the challenge.

Anders and Angelo spoke, and Anders retold a story of how he rescued the prime minister’s daughter, and he offered his daughters hand in marriage. Anders explained that he thought that seemed cruel. Angelo seemed tense, explaining that he was upset about events that happened earlier. Anders responded by giving Angelo a shoulder massage. Skylar approached Anders and Angelo and offered an alliance. They mistook this for his favorite root beer brand ‘Alliance’. Skylar left, and Dirk arrived also offering an alliance to Anders and Angelo, which they accepted. Dirk named the alliance ‘The Beady Eye Brigade’. Anders did well in the challenge, his segment being helping assemble a dunk tank. He credited his excelling at the challenge to his Swedish heritage, home of furniture assembly. In the following challenge, Anders was leading in filling a cup with slime. He accidentally spilled the cup, causing the other team to catch up with his team.

During the runway challenge, Anders was dressed in a white singlet made with curtains, given his team had less fabric than the other team. After being alerted that there was a suspect that tried to hurt Chris McLean with some stage lights, Anders easily lifted the perpetrator into the air by his hoodie.

As he had a conversation with Cary, Anders took matters in his own hands in order to resolve Cary and Brent’s conflict. Anders carried Cary over his shoulder, as he burst into the men’s cabin order to lift Brent over his other shoulder, so the two men would have no choice but to resolve their issues. His tactic worked. Afterward, Cary sensed that Anders seemed concerned about something. Anders quickly deflected the idea before abruptly walking away.

Anders was selected to compete in the challenge as his team’s strongest player. This meant he had to lift and carry his team members across a bridge structure. Anders lost his glasses early in the challenge, and repeatedly slammed against the rails of the structure. Realizing his team was trailing behind the opposing team, Anders decided to carry three of his team members at once, Cary, Brent, and Herman. While he leapt ahead of the other team in order to win, he also dropped his three teammates. The force of his efforts ended up causing the structure for the challenge to partially fall apart. In addition to losing the challenge for his team, Anders also blamed himself for the structure falling apart, which seriously injured Evan.

Anders finally opened up to Cary about what was bothering him. He admitted that he began his extreme obsession with fitness after not understanding what his girlfriend, Francesca, saw in him. He described himself as an idiot. Anders was subsequently eliminated, a decision that Anders seemed to support.

## Trivia

* Anders was the fourth character eliminated. He received two marshmallows.
* Anders is Katrina and Sabrina's cousin. He is possibly a distant cousin, as Katrina and Sabrina do not quite look Swedish in their own right.
* The clues to Anders being Katrina and Sabrina's cousin is his particularly long neck, something Sabrina is infamous for. Also, his bio mentions a female cousin in college. Sabrina mentioned that she planned to go to college, and is about the right age, while characters from other stories wouldn't quite be the right age.
* Anders was meant to have a balance of Sabrina's intelligence and sense of the importance of study, and Katrina's popularity.
* I wasn't sure at first who to make Anders related to, but his image began to remind me of Sabrina as I drew it. I temporarily thought to make him Ivan's cousin.
* Anders was made to be the perfectly balanced contestant. The one flaw is that he lacked communication with his team.
* Anders image is so tall for no real reason. I just found it funny in my mind for him to be that tall. He was modeled after a stranger I walked passed, but that person who was tall, but not quite that tall. When I saw that guy, he looked like an Anders from Sweden, and that's where the idea for the character came from.
* Anders dress shirt was originally going to be pink, but it clashed with the rest of his outfit.
* In his bio, the friend that taught him phrases caused Anders to become more popular in Canada. This was because people would make him say embarrassing things, or get a laugh out of the absurd things he says in English. Anders mistook their teasing as him being viewed as popular.
* Anders messed up several challenges due to his lack of understanding of English, but this was overlooked, as almost everyone found him to be amusing.
* The line Anders used of "I use the spoon as a lever", is a joke from *The Tom Green Show*. Tom Green asked an immigrant that spoke little English some odd and embarrassing questions, to which he usually answered yes. One of those questions was, "Do you use a spoon as a lever?"
* Francesca attempted to comfort Anders, to explain why she never laughed at him. She found it sad that he was saying things that he didn't understand.
* Anders was chosen to appear on Total Drama: Worst of the Worst by TotalDramaAddict for winning a guessing contest from a prior story.
* Anders wore a gold speedo and shackles in the Minotaur costume, this was a reference to Rocky Horror from The Rocky Horror Picture Show. LeVar originally was going to be in that role, but I changed that for thematic reasons.
* Anders makes a reference to Ned Flanders from The Simpsons when he wears tight yoga pants and says ‘It’s like I’m wearing nothing at all’. This is further referenced when Dirk refers to him as stupid sexy Anders.
* Anders referring to Sweden as the land of furniture assembly is a reference to IKEA.
* Anders’ costume for the runway challenge is based on the Pokémon Togepei, and wrestling legend Andre the Giant. This was decided because of his height and Anders having similarities to the name ‘Andre’. Togepei was selected as his Pokémon reference because of its easily recognizable pattern.
* As he helped Cary and Brent reconcile, Anders states that friendship really is magic. This was a reference to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.
* In his appearance in Total Drama: Worst of the Worst, Anders suffers from severely low self esteem. He masks this with acting silly and aloof. Anders admits that his low opinion of himself contributes to his not feeling worthy of his girlfriend, Francesca, someone he holds in very high regard.
* In his elimination, Anders describes himself as a bumbling idiot. This was a callback to his elimination chapter in Total Drama Wilderness, where he understood the word idiot, as referred to by Reeve.
* I had wanted to have Anders make it further into the story, as I was enjoying writing for him as a comic relief character. Unfortunately, I struggled with thinking of storylines for him, and ultimately decided to have him eliminated sooner in the story.
* Had the original Worst of the Worst continued, Anders would have been eliminated in the next chapter. He was originally going to elbow and punch his teammates during a challenge, and be eliminated similar to why Sadie was eliminated on Total Drama Island. He was also going to be severely bullied by LeVar and Frederick.