Total Drama Karma: Double Standards... By A-chan-The-Great Watch

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Okay before I get started... I MIGHT be exaggerating with this whole thing... but I can't help but feel that regarding the punishments that the designated antagonists or at the very least the contestants whom are up to no good, it's the males who receive harsher punishments even when the girls have acted just as cruel or ruthless as they have.



Warning: Most of these are from my opinion so they MIGHT come into contrast with some of you guys' opinions and I'm sorry about that but please respect my opinions as I will respect yours thank you.



Females:



1. Heather's karma was actually pretty plain and simple, but I was satisfied back then because yes she was a bitch and a ruthless competitor whom caused a good chunk of the eliminations through sheer manipulation, threats, toying around with some of the contestants' emotions or weaknesses especially the whole Gwen and Trent thing, but she never did anything SERIOUSLY wrong and getting ostracized later on in the special was also good and realistic karma so that's why I give Heather the most slack with her karma even if it was a little easy, it was still satisfying.



2. Courtney's karma... you can't really call that karma, and Courtney did a LOT of bad things, the special showed that she was willing to sacrifice Owen, DJ, Cody and Tyler's lives all for the prize money and come TDA she sues her way into the competition which is somewhat bad itself but the way she treats the others like garbage, getting special privileges, her abuse of Duncan the whole season and at one point again considers risking the contestants' lives for the money all she gets in the end is getting eliminated and Duncan calls it off with her, but then the idiot gets with her again in his ending... Later on you can call all the other crap she goes through in World Tour and All Stars true karma, however in TDA she deserved that karma since that's when she was at her worst, in World Tour and All Stars she was much better behaved so the crap she got in those two seasons were actually uncalled for. However my point is that she got off easy in the season when she was the antagonist.



3. Amy's karma, she might not have been a true antagonist but she was definitely one of the contestants who was up to no good... I honestly can't really stand this girl, she's abusive, selfish, a liar and all around a grade A bitch who puts Heather to shame in terms of cruelty, she does absolutely NOTHING but abuse her twin sister Sammy during her run on the show and she's really only there to make her sister's life a living hell all so SHE can feel like the superior twin since she's older, and as many have said it's implied that Amy's ALWAYS been that cruel to Samey and yet all she gets is... yes Samey does get her eliminated but she just ends up coming back unscathed only to get eliminated AGAIN... if anything Amy deserved a better punishment than that because it wasn't just Samey she was rude too she was also rude to Jasmine and Rodney.



4. Scarlett's karma, okay... so Scarlett at first seems harmless but she shows a more trouble-making side and then she stated with a smirk that she psychologically traumatized her brother to the point where he had to go to therapy and then we find out that she's a diabolical genius who seems hellbent on World Domination and then intended on leaving the island on self-destruct which would have killed the other contestants all just so she could be the one to win the money, her karma? Getting merely eliminated along with Max, the person she hates the most, she got off WAY too easy if you ask me...



5. Sugar's karma... Sugar's got her legions of many haters but with a decent amount of fans to balance it out however... throughout her run on the show, she's acted like a total, outright CRUEL bully towards the sweet, innocent Ella and even ends up getting her eliminated out of spite, on a lesser note she tries to keep Dave and Sky from getting too close and has shown to have a cruel side towards animals, and when Scarlett gets out of the picture she does more actions like pushing Sky off a cliff (I think) and being satisfied about dropping a tree on Jasmine which caused her elimination and then gloating to Sky and Shawn the whole time afterwards she's then eliminated by performing horribly at her own challenge, which in a way IS embarrassing but she STILL got off way too easy for her misdeeds, I'd say she doesn't deserve as bad as Amy and Scarlett but if anything she STILL deserves a punishment.



Males:



1. Alejandro's Karma, at the very beginning Alejandro seemed a little shady and when he performs in World Tour he gives off the vibe that he's up to no good and boy howdy was he... he manipulated nearly ALL the female contestants at some point, toyed with a few of their hearts and caused their eliminations and it wasn't just the girls he toyed with he even manipulated some of the guys into thinking he was an honest guy trying to look out for them only to stab them in the back and get them eliminated all the way to the end, and at one point he pushed Cody into shark-infested waters and when he THINKS he's got the girl, said girl knees him in the groin and makes him lose the game, and when the volcano starts erupting he gets trampled by the contestants, which wouldn't have been TOO awful but then he gets burnt by the lava and his injuries from getting trampled were actually so bad that he had to be put in a freaking robot suit for a YEAR... Alejandro deserved karma yes he did, but honestly him being kept in that suit for a freaking year was a little much...



2. Scott's Karma, similar to Alejandro Scott tried to play himself off as a somewhat decent kind of guy but was less shy about showing his rough edge and his strategy included sabotaging his own team and making them lose all so HE can control and decide who gets eliminated from the team and he was ruthless yes, especially the way he got Dawn and B eliminated by making people think they were the bad guys even though HE was the bad guy. When he gets put on the opposite team it's deja vu when he tries sabotaging their team too and the worst thing he really did was use Mike's disorder as blackmail and make him his slave for the whole episode only to get him eliminated, at that point he deserved karma... but then he gets in a full-body cast thanks to Zoey's traps which actually couldn't have been THAT bad however apparently she was trying to outright KILL him which is where I drew the line, and to make matters worse Fang gets put into the Hurl of Shame with him when he's eliminated and when we see him again, much like Alejandro Scott was put into a robot suit only Scott's in a VEGETATIVE state and everyone (including so-called nice contestants: Dawn, Mike and Zoey) laughs at his condition... now THIS... was downright mean-spirited, Scott deserved karma but that was entirely uncalled for, if anything he got more than he truly deserved...



3. Justin's Karma, unlike Scott and Alejandro Justin was much less effective with his manipulation tactics since they only worked on Beth and Lindsay for a short time however he still managed to make them all do his bidding and he DID manage to succeed in getting Gwen to lose the challenge for her team which resulted in her elimination, however when Courtney comes back she immediately outranks him in misdeeds yet HE'S the one who leaves in a full-body cast while trying to IMPRESS her...



4. Mal's Karma... oh boy where do I begin? A controversial character this guy is, however he's a legitimate threat due to being psychotic and evil like Scarlett only Mal was much more active in trying to kill the contestants and DID succeed in getting some of the contestants eliminated, played Zoey and Cameron for TOTAL fools, he broke up Scott and Courtney, and tried to kill Zoey, Cameron, Gwen and Heather... all horrible things yes, however his karma was extreme and not to mention permanent... the dude FADES away from freaking existence!! O.O That... was harsh... yes he did a lot of really bad things but I wouldn't wish that kind of fate on my worst enemy...



5. Dave's Karma... Dave, Dave, Dave... he was NOT even a bad guy at the beginning.. but this poor guy was also UNLUCKY at the very beginning... all because he fell in love, that's it... through it all he goes through continuous crap thanks to his crush and his weird teammates, sure he got REAL clingy, whiny and needy towards Sky throughout his run and I could understand her discomfort however she was a little harsh on him in the infamous 'Hurl and Go Seek' and humiliates him in front of everyone and the poor kid even starts crying in front of everyone, it takes such a toll on him that he eliminates himself from the competition... then Chris brings him back just to torture him further by bringing up the way Sky had rejected him and to make matters worse the latter manipulates his feelings so she could get him to focus on the game to help HER win, during the challenge he gets his hair burnt off (which was highly unnecessary) and the worst part? Chris shows him the video of Sky admitting to her having a boyfriend which drives Dave off the deep end and to ensure that Sky doesn't win the money however at one point he was in glee over the thought of her getting killed or seriously injured (he was going crazy at the time but that doesn't excuse it) and in the end even when Shawn wins they LEFT him behind and Scuba Bear 3.0 who had appeared in the episode reappears and it's implied that Dave gets mauled by him... WHAT... THE HELL? Seriously? Why give SUCH a harsh fate to someone who did little to deserve it? Aside from trying to get Sky killed and wanting to burn the money in front of her, I thought that karma in the end was TOO much...



So there you have it... the guys get MUCH worse than the girls do... the antagonists, and even then the male contestants who AREN'T antagonists still get a lot more flack than the girls do... which is only SOMETHING of a double standard, but again that might just be me exaggerating...



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