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| “ | I don't care about the money. Like I need it. I just want, um, close up please! Thank you. I just want camera time. People need to see more of my sparkly adorableness if I'm going to get my spin-off reality series. | „ |
| ~ Dakota returning to Total Drama |
Dakota Milton is a supporting character in the Total Drama franchise, where she was a contestant and later an intern. She was voiced by Carleigh Beverly.
Appearance[]
As a human, Dakota is a beautiful young woman with tanned skin, green eyes, thin black eyebrows, butt-length blonde hair and pink lipstick. Her outfit consists of a pink necklace that matches her lipstick, a pale pink corset-style without sleeves or strapless, hot pink pants with dark pink pockets, and pink flat shoes. She also appears with orange sunglasses from time to time.
As a mutant, Dakota is much taller, with orange skin, red eyes with yellow sclera, thick black eyebrows, short spiky green hair, spikes on her shoulders and elbows, a long tail and her pink lipstick. She keeps her human clothes which have been torn due to her growth, turning her blouse and pants into a top that exposes her abdomen and navel and a short whose button has exploded and the zipper has opened, she is left without her necklace and her shoes, leaving her barefoot.
Personality[]
At first, Dakota is shown to be picky, fame hungry and sometimes selfish. She is obsessed with her looks and being on camera constantly. So badly, in fact, that she hired a paparazzi to take pictures of her 24/7, but usually gets put to a stop by Chris.
However, Dakota is actually kind and polite to the other contestants. She is also far from heartless and has demonstrated acts of selflessness to show she isn't a villain nor a bully.
Total Drama: Revenge of the Island[]
Dakota is first introduced in "Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!" on a yacht with the other twelve contestants. When Chris introduces her, she begins to talk, but is cut off when Chris introduces Anne Maria. This annoys her, and she shoves Anne Maria out of the camera's view. Then, Anne Maria angrily sprays her in the face with spray tan in retaliation. After Chris blows up the yacht, Dakota is seen in a lifeboat being photographed by paparazzi. She playfully asks how they managed to find her, only for them to reply that she texted them the location. This annoys Chris who assigns Chef to blow up the paparazzi's boat. Dakota is later placed on the Toxic Rats team after finishing the race in tenth place. When Anne Maria arrives after her, Dakota waves to her, which causes Anne Maria to glare back at her. When a mutated squirrel appears in front of the teams, she kneels down to it, saying she wants one. However, when the squirrel roars and shoots electricity out of its eyes, she screams and runs away, jumping into Sam's arms. In the first challenge of the season, Dakota saws down the Rats' totem using a saw despite not knowing how to use it until Dawn tells her to pretend it is "daddy's steak knife." Although the Toxic Rats arrived first, her team loses the challenge after their selected cabin explodes and she, along with the others, end up annoyed with Staci's chatter. Dakota is in the bottom two in the first Campfire Ceremony of the new season, but is safe and receives the final marshmallow after Staci receives the Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom.
In "Truth or Laser Shark", Dakota is woken up by Dawn's conversation with a bird. When Dawn reveals she knows why Dakota wants fame, she freaks out and tries to go back to sleep. Later, she wakes up with bags under her eyes, saying she needs more beauty sleep. She talks to Sam, who develops an attraction towards her and tries to complement her, but fails. She is confused by his compliment and tries to return the favor, but has nothing good to say to him. Before the first challenge, Chris takes away Dakota's phone. However, Dakota uses a back-up phone in the challenge, which is ruined by water. In the challenge, the two teams tie which leads to part two. Before part two, Sam says he and Dakota have a lot in common. She dislikes this at first, but then understands that Sam was only talking about the electronic withdrawal. In the second part of the challenge, Dakota is at the end of the challenge, with Cameron. She becomes too distracted by the paparazzi to compete and ends up losing the challenge for the Toxic Rats. All of the Toxic Rats besides Sam vote for Dakota. Thus, at the campfire ceremony, Dakota is eliminated, but she does not take the Marshmallow of Toxic Loserdom. She is in shock, saying she never got her spin-off series yet. She is asked by Chris if she has any last words, but before she can say them she is shot in the sky by the Hurl of Shame shortly after.
In "Ice Ice Baby", Dakota crashes her hang glider into the campfire during the Toxic Rats' elimination ceremony, colliding into and landing on top of Sam. She asks Chris to let her return to the competition, saying she needed more time on the camera. Reluctantly, he brought her back as an intern after getting a call from her father, who offered him a large amount of money to bring her back.
Dakota made a more prominent return in "Finders Creepers", as Chris' new intern. She was tasked with performing different duties around the camp during the challenge, such as waking the remaining contestants with an air horn. As the challenge progressed, she found Sam, who had fallen into a grave, and unknowingly poured kitchen grease all over him, attracting the presence of several large mutant maggots. She considered apologizing to him, but found this disturbing and instead left Sam. When the Mutant Maggots lost, Brick was spared as Chris decided to have him switch teams, and decided to make Dakota take the Hurl of Shame instead, for the second time. Despite this, he did inform her that she still has a job as an intern as long as she swims back.
After being thrown into the lake to be mauled by piranhas by Chris, Dakota returns to the island again with original contestant Bridgette on a canoe in "Backstabbers Ahoy!". The two of them are required to demonstrate the challenge to the other contestants. When Fang attacks the canoe, Dakota quickly clings on to Bridgette. Later, the two of them have to demonstrate to the others on how to set off the mine. When the mine explodes, Dakota was sent flying onto a buoy. Dakota remains there for the rest of the episode while trying to fend off Fang.
In "Runaway Model", Dakota develops a closer relationship with Sam. He asks for her fashion advice in order to help the Toxic Rats with the challenge, which she does, telling him that stripes are in. She then calls her paparazzi to take pictures of her being helpful, and they arrive. However, instead of taking pictures of Dakota, they take pictures of Sasquatchanakwa, which angers her. She is angered even further when Sam uses horizontal stripes instead of vertical stripes. When Sam competes in the challenge, Dakota cares for his well-being. Before Sam takes the Hurl of Shame, Dakota tries to give him her number. Although Sam is hurled before he can hold on to the paper with her number, their relationship finally becomes mutual.
In "A Mine Is a Terrible Thing to Waste", Dakota is seen reluctantly filing Chris' toenails before the opening sequence. Later, Dakota is used to test the radioactive mine and she stays down for 40 minutes and the radiation causes her to go bald. Following Anne Maria's elimination, Chris decides to fire Dakota from her job as an intern, but makes her rejoin the competition as a member of the Mutant Maggots, which she is not happy about.
In "The Treasure Island of Dr. Mclean", Dakota is first seen on her team's raft when they are awakened by an alarm clock and asks Cameron if he has sunscreen for her bald head. In the confessional, Dakota reveals that she wants an ally and thinks that Zoey is her best option so she tries to become her friend.
Chris comes to explain the challenge and Dakota begins to make fun of him by revealing things that she discovered as an intern and and without Dakota knowing it, she had become so attached to the toxic waste that it had mutated her and while Dakota laughs at Chris, her mutation begins to transform her, she begins to grow taller, her clothes are too small for her and her hair starts to grow again being green and spiky, everyone is surprised by Dakota's mutation and she asks them why they see her, Mike tells her that her hair grows again and Dakota is happy about this, then Dakota looks at her teammates and thinks they are getting shorter without knowing that she became taller and that she is a mutant.
Chris reveals that the challenge is a treasure hunt and Dakota thinks it is pathetic, Chris reveals that there was a treasure in Wawanakwa which he found and used to buy the island, Dakota says that the treasure must have been very small and she nudges Zoey which hurts, Chris throws Dakota a compact mirror so she can see herself, Dakota sees herself in the mirror and thinks it is a photo of a scary monster and that it is a joke but Scott tells her that it is a mirror and Dakota screams in terror when she sees that she is the monster, Dakota gets angry, breaks the mirror and tells Chris that she will break him into pieces, Chris gets scared and escapes while announcing that the game has started.
The Maggots try to use the pole of their raft as an oar to reach the island but Dakota is desperate to get to the shore quickly to crush Chris and tears off the pole, throws it and breathes like an angry beast which scares Zoey, Dakota manages to control herself, she apologizes and explains that her mutation is stressing her, she becomes taller, her hair grows longer, spikes grow on her elbows and her clothes start to tear causing the button on her pants to burst and the zipper to open, then Dakota asks Zoey to hug her which she accepts, Zoey calms Dakota down and Dakota tell Zoey that she is a good friend, but that her hair is all wrong, Mike, Cameron and Scott go into the water to push the raft while Zoey continues to comfort Dakota, Zoey gives Dakota a tissue, Dakota blows her nose and she covers Zoey with her snot.
The Rats are attacked by a giant squid and Dakota warns her teammates but Mike tells her to be quiet to try to escape but Fang appears and Scott starts screaming in fear, Fang jumps onto the raft and scares them but Dakota tells him to go away and she punches him in the nose which reveals that she is super strong, Fang flies off and hits the squid in the right eye, the squid goes for the Maggots and leaves the Rats, Zoey tells Dakota that what she did was incredible and that she saved them, Dakota assumes it is true and tells Zoey that it was nothing and that Zoey owes her a favor and says it in a way that Dakota scares Zoey, the squid appears and Cameron begins to insult him to throw them to the shore while the others are scared, the squid hits the raft and throws the Maggots to the shore and they arrive first.
Dakota's mutation advances quickly, she becomes taller, her hair grows, her skin turns sandy, her eyes turn red with yellow sclera, her teeth become pointy, more spikes grow on her elbows and shoulders and her clothes become more torn, she is left without her necklace and her shoes showing that her feet also became bigger, Dakota starts looking for Chris and he arrives in a helicopter, Dakota launches to catch Chris but Chef raises the helicopter, Zoey tries to calm Dakota down by telling her that they won and Chris gives the Maggots a map and a compass, Chris reveals that he played a practical joke on Gwen by burying her alive but it turned into a rescue mission and reveals that he buried Sam with her, Dakota is happy to see that Sam is back and wonders if he is still in love with her, Chris reveals that Sam ate Chef's food so he fell asleep and didn't put up much of a fight and he laughs, this angers Dakota and she decides to completely transform into a mutant, she allows her mutation to continue transforming her and more spikes grow on her shoulders, she grows a tail, her hair grows longer, she becomes taller, her skin turns orange and her clothes tear more, turning her blouse and pants into a top and shorts and completely turning her into a mutant, Dakota screams Sam's name and she doesn't care about being a monster anymore and just wants to save Sam, Chris whispers to Chef that they would have to use elephant tranquilizers to calm Dakota down, the Maggots have the advantage and go to find Gwen and Sam, while the Rats have to use metal belts as a penalty and Chris gives them a metal detector which would not be useful to find the wooden chest that Gwen and Sam were in.
The Maggots arrive at a swamp and decide to cross it since it is faster than going around it, but they do not realize that Scott draws an arrow on the ground to indicate to Jo and Lightning that it is the fastest way, Dakota picks up Zoey but Scott distracts her by saying that Sam must be suffocating, Dakota picks up Zoey, but Scott picks her up distracts by saying that Sam must be suffocating, Dakota gets scared, lets go of Zoey and goes to save Sam, Zoey thanks Scott and he reveals that he has the Maclean-Brand Chris Head, the Maggots are attacked by a mutant alligator and are he throws at them but Dakota appears and saves them, Zoey is happy to see her and Dakota tells her that they are friends, the alligartor bites Dakota's tail and she proceeds to hit it and confront it, Mike said that they should find Gwen and Sam quickly, Zoey worries about Dakota but Scott assures her that she is fine and she starts making the alligator hit itself, even she is seen by Jo and Lightning and Lightning thinks he can fight like Dakota and is attacked by some alligators, the map was ruined and Scott hid the compass, but Cameron remembers that they were supposed to go North and with the moss growing on the North side of the trees find out where North is, the problem was that there was a forest of thorn bushes but then Dakota hit the alligator and flies into the forest and clears the way.
Scott had them dig in the wrong place while Jo and Lightning arrived, Lightning is injured from the fight and faints and accidentally finds the keys to the belts and the chest with the metal detector, Jo hears Gwen screaming below her and uses the metal detector as a shovel and finds the chest giving the victory to the Rats, Dakota arrives and yells at Sam to save him, pushes Jo, throws Gwen out of the chest and picks up Sam, Dakota is happy to see Sam and hugs him, then Sam wakes up and recognizes Dakota being a mutant, in the confessional Sam reveals that he thinks Dakota's mutation made her more amazing, the Maggots spend time at camp and go to the elimination ceremony, at the campfire, Dakota asks Sam if he still likes her being a monster, Sam reveals that he always liked her and nicknames her "The Dakotazoid", Dakota laughs and finally accepts that she is a monster and she and Sam kiss to everyone's disgust, Chris continues with the elimination and reveals that Dakota is ate the marshmallows while she was in the infirmary and she said she was hungry, Chris reveals that the one expelled is Scott but he uses the Maclean-Brand Chris Head to save himself, then Dakota is expelled with the votes of Scott and Zoey who believed that their friendship it was dangerous for her health but Dakota doesn't care since she is happy with Sam, Dakota and Sam kiss without paying attention to anything and then they receive the Hurl of Shame.
Dakota is seen once again in "Brain vs. Brawn: The Ultimate Showdown", still mutated, with rest of the eliminated contestants where she roots for Cameron. When the mutated animals began to attack the cast, Dakota fights the Giant Turtle, who was crushing Sam between his legs. She is last seen celebrating in Cameron's ending, and disappointed in Lightning's ending and then leaves the island along with the other contestants and Chef.
In an Exclusive clip, it is revealed that Dakota's mutation is what she needed to get the fame she wanted and became a wrestling star. Dakota is with Sam in a locker room preparing for a fight. Sam praises Dakota's mutation. Dakota compliments her, so they call Dakota, she kisses Sam on the cheek and runs to her fight.
Total Drama All-Stars[]
Although Dakota did not compete, she was mentioned in the first episode by her boyfriend Sam, who pulls out a picture of the two of them together, with her still a mutant. He mentions that his motivation for returning was to expose himself to toxic waste and become a mutant like her. He also mentions that her speech has returned to normal, thanks to her father getting her a very good speech therapist during Sam's year away from the island.
Dakota is mentioned once again by Sam in "Saving Private Leechball", telling his teammates that Dakota would bring him through the forest without difficulty.
Trivia[]
- Her name is a play on Paris Hilton's name, what with having a given name matching a location and a surname rhyming with "Hilton."
External Links[]
- Dakota on the Total Drama Wiki
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