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I don't like surprises.
~ Duncan to Chris McLean and his first words in the Total Drama franchise.

Duncan is one of the main characters in the Total Drama franchise. He is a delinquent punk currently on parole from Juvie.

While Duncan has displayed multiple villainous tendencies in his harsh treatment of those around him during the competition, he is actually a good person in his core, but he would never admit it to anyone.

He used to be an enemy and bully of Harold McGrady when he bullied, tricked and pranked him alongside DJ and Geoff for his hapless and all-knowing naggings.

However, despite all of this, Duncan sometimes showed respect for him, as when he tried to have a genuine friendship with Harold before Owen ruins it.

His most hated enemy is Chris McLean.

He was voiced by Drew Nelson.

Appearance[]

Duncan has black & lime green mohawk hair and teal eyes. He wears a black shirt with a skull on it, dark green shorts, and red sneakers.

History[]

In Total Drama Island, Duncan antagonises many people and is responsible for Bridgette’s elimination. In most times, he, along with two of his best friends Geoff and DJ, would often bully and prank Harold to the point of him getting revenge by getting Courtney, his love interest, eliminated. Since the season one special, his relationship with Courtney slowly becomes an abusive one, due to her ditching him for the million dollars.

In Total Drama Action, he becomes close friends with Gwen, and was a part of Trent's mental breakdown after combining his and Gwen's names together, forming "nine". This made Trent obsess over Gwen until his elimination, to the point where the couple broke up due to Trent's health problem with the competition, as well as Gwen not wanting to cheat. He is also one of the two people directly responsible for Gwen being hated by most of the contestants, the other being Justin. Throughout the season, Duncan started causing eliminations of some contestants (Bridgette, Geoff, Trent, Leshawna, Justin, Lindsay, Harold, and Courtney). Also during this season, he is mostly the victim of beatings, orders, and being used by none other than Courtney, who was suppose to be his love interest, but she lost respect for him she had in Season 1. He either came in second to Beth or won Total Drama Action, depending on the results of a fan-vote done online for each country when the finale aired there. Despite being a winner, he returned to Total Drama World Tour.

EatItMcLean

Duncan loses his patience with Chris, fed up of having to sing in every episode.

In the first episode of Total Drama World Tour, Duncan quits the show because he refuses to sing, and is then then brutally thrown off the plane by Chris and afterwards is reported as missing on the Aftermath show. He and Ezekiel has became Total Drama Fugitives. Later, he is found by Courtney and Gwen in London during a challenge to capture Jack the Ripper (Ezekiel), and forced to return to the show by Chris McLean. Immediately after returning, Duncan apparently lost his attraction to Courtney, and became attracted to Gwen. Duncan and Gwen shared their first kiss on the end of the episode of I See London.., cheating on Courtney with Gwen in the bathroom confessional with the intention of starting a relationship, but they are caught in the act by Tyler, who reveals what happened to the rest of the contestants in the next episode due to pressure from Alejandro, who discovers Gwen and Duncan's secret by overhearing a musical number between them. Courtney is so shocked by the news that she goes insane, vowing to destroy Gwen to the point of sabotaging her own team. Cody, Gwen's one-sided love interest, punches out Duncan in response. Although Duncan does attempt to apologize to Courtney immediately after this, only to be kicked in the croch mid-sentence, he has shown no remorse after this point and he and Gwen make no further attempts to apologize to Courtney, because of everything she has put them through, through humiliation, hatred, and threats. This, along with the ever-manipulative Alejandro encouraging her to take revenge, makes Courtney even more infuriated, leading to her brutalizing Gwen during the Area 51 challenge and "flirting" with Tyler in order to make Duncan jealous as revenge. Duncan didn't care about Courtney and Tyler flirting, and Duncan and Gwen became an official couple sharing their second kiss in The Ex Files.

In the next episode, Duncan starts secretly working with Alejandro to throw Courtney off, the same thing that she did to him last season, and pretends to feel sad about her. During the challenge in Australia, Duncan and Cody fight while riding on kangaroos and as revenge, Duncan throws a Dingo at Cody towards the end of the episode, injuring him and causing his team to lose. However, while doing all this Duncan didn't realize Gwen's emotions, who was upset when she saw him crying over Courtney and had put together her own plan to get rid of Courtney and save herself, which would have worked if Duncan hadn't thrown the dingo at Cody, who was going to vote for Courtney but ended up accidentally voting for Sierra instead due to being in a daze from his injuries. Gwen and Courtney end up competing in a tiebreaker challenge, which Gwen loses due to the challenge being rigged that leads to an allergic reaction, which leaves her eyes swollen shut and her face mauled as she takes the Drop of Shame. Gwen gives Courtney one final, insult as she plummets, presumably referring to the fact that she still has her former boyfriend despite being defeated... although Duncan does not seem to be there for Gwen as she leaves the show broken and humiliated.

In the following episode, even though Duncan doesnt show signs of concern for Gwen, Duncan seems depressed because hes pretty quiet, but still does not want to take Courtney back and they are now both openly hostile to one another. In the episode after that, they are "married" as part of a challenge, so Duncan gets back at Courtney by pranking her in the first challenge and still show nothing but hatred for each other. In Sweden Sour, Duncan is shown carving Gwens face on a wooden part of the seat, which shows that he does miss Gwen. During this time he attempts to warn his friend Owen about Alejandro's true nature taking note from Noah's warning about Alejandro earlier and are working together to eliminate him unfortunately Owen is eliminated in Niagara Brawls due to his popularity being a threat. Courtney is finally eliminated in Chinese Fake-Out, much to Duncan's pleasure, but finally meets his end not long after when Alejandro finally betrays him, and along with Heather allows Duncan to be brutally beaten by the feral Ezekiel during the African Safari challenge, after which he is eliminated.

Duncan is last seen in the peanut gallery with all the other losers during the finals, including Gwen, whom he is frequently seen next to, inferring that they are still together despite after what happened in Australia. Thus, the two presumably remain a couple, and survived the volcano incident in the finale along with everyone else, even Ezekiel. It's also been hinted that nobody cared about them cheating on Courtney due to everyone's hatred for her for what Courtney has put them through. In March 2011, a never-before-seen clip surfaced in the Polish version of the show, in which Duncan and Gwen are seen relaxing together in Hawaii after their eliminations. Courtney starts singing rudely about them after insulting Cody and Heather, and Duncan threw a sandal at her before making out with an incredibly amused Gwen again, confirming that they are indeed still a couple, despite what happened during their times together on the show.

The New Trent

Thanks to Alejandro and Heather, Duncan is eliminated from the season.

All these events during the third season have make Duncan's character controversial in the fandom. Many have noted his apparent lack of concern for Courtney during Season 3 even prior to her going insane, as well as his continued hostility to her afterwards (despite Courtney doing the same to him), and claim that he intended to hurt her from the start, and would have left her for Gwen even if she had reacted differently. This is apparently due to the fact that due to everything that Courtney has pulled him through in Total Drama Action, and finally opens his eyes to who his girlfriend really is and all she's done to him, he, infact, no longer cares for her any longer. These events, however, were eventually made up during the events of the fifth season.

He made a couple of cameo appearances during Total Drama: Revenge of the Island. Bigger! Badder! Brutal-er!, Duncan appears on the yacht with his fellow veterans. He and Gwen are making out passionately while DJ, Harold, and Leshawna dance nearby. Duncan still owes Chris some camera time for quitting last season, and was caught in order to demonstrate the challenge in Grand Chef Auto. However, Duncan runs away when Chef unties him. As revenge for Chris using his kitchen as the site for the challenge, Chef later points the newcomers to paint Mt. Chrismore, and he blames it on Duncan. At the end of the episode, Duncan says he in fact didn't add Mt. Chrismore as a spray paint spot, but right after that,. he blows up Mt. Chrismore while laughing maniacally with Chef.

Duncan returns in Total Drama: All Stars where he is placed on the Villainous Vultures for the first few episodes. In the first episode "Heroes vs. Villains", Duncan reveals that he only came back to be with Gwen. However, his views between good and evil have been taking a toll since he switched teams with Courtney to the Heroic Hamsters, due to his selfless actions of saving Gwen, which Chris deems to be heroic. Since then, Duncan has been seen hanging around with his team, and that due to their influences, as well as their niceness towards him, Duncan was beginning to soften up from his bad boy personality, much to his displeasure.

Duncan's relationship with Gwen is on the rocks from the start, as Gwen ignores him whenever he tries supporting her or flirting with her. Duncan is unaware that Gwen is trying to make amends with Courtney over what happened in season 3.

During the episode "Moon Madness", Duncan has been using Gwen in order to make Courtney jealous by asking Gwen if Courtney is talking about him or seeing him whenever he kisses Gwen. Gwen, who felt like she was used, and wanting to patch things up with Courtney, finally had enough of Duncan's arrogance, selfishness, dishonesty, disloyalty, and negligence and furiously broke up with him. In that same episode, Duncan believes Courtney is using Scott to make him jealous and claims he isn't jealous, only for his eye to twitch afterwards.

Interestingly, during Duncan's time with the Heroic Hamsters, he was starting to get suspicious of Mike, indicating that he heard and knows him somewhere before, but could not remember. However, once Mal fully took control of Mike, and whistling the Hall of the Mountain King, Duncan finally remembered that he knows Mal back from Juvie when he "used to be a lowly juvie and Mal was running the place." He warned Zoey about this, and had tried to prove this to everyone else, including his ex-girlfriends, but they didn't believe him, even Zoey was stupid enough to not believe him anymore.

During the next challenge, Chef, ordered by Chris, throws a stick of dynamite at Duncan, but the latter grabbed it, walked towards Chris’ house and blew it up to show everyone that he was not soft and also to get revenge at Chris for the pain he causes. During the campfire ceremony, Chris disqualifies him and calls the police, Chris tells him that the house he destroyed was invaluable and that 'he will be incarcerated in a real prison because the house he destroyed was private property. Duncan is sent to prison but the police did not somehow arrest Chef for trying to kill Duncan with a dynamite. As a result of Duncan's arrest, Cameron is spared from getting voted off due Mal's machinations.

The exclusive clip shows Duncan in prison, writing a letter to his mother, wishing her a happy birthday and begging her to send him a lawyer.

In "The Final Wreck-ening", Duncan appears in one of the balloons, but he floats away with the others before an intern can get him down. They are revealed to be unharmed. It is unknown if Duncan has returned to prison to continue his sentence or escaped and went on the run as a fugitive again.

Quotes[]

I don't like surprises.
~ Duncan's first line in the whole series
I think Harold needs to be taught a lesson, boys. Who's with me?
~ Duncan to DJ and Geoff of pranking and bullying Harold after leaving a dirt underwear on the ground.
You better be a good shot, Tubby.
~ Duncan to Owen in Paintball Deer Hunter.
(sniffing) Beans... (Duncan looks up) Owen! (Owen farts) Nice try, Farticus! You almost had me!
~ Duncan when he discovered Owen at the tree after the latter farts in Paintball Deer Hunter.
(Courtney: Why do you smell worse than usual?) It's Owen's stink. It's following me around like my juvenile record.
~ Duncan to Courtney after gotten stink by Owen's fart.
I'll beat you if you try!
~ Duncan threatens Harold of his beatbox in World Tour.
Eat dirt, McLean!
~ Duncan to Chris in Total Drama Revenge of the Island.

Main Heroic Deeds[]

  • In Who Can You Trust?: Duncan finds a new bunny for DJ because he didn't want DJ to have to go through the same thing he did when his pet went missing.
  • In Basic Straining: He taught Courtney how to lay back and have fun, although this would later get her eliminated in a revenge plot by Harold.
  • In That's Off The Chain: He stood up for Lindsay when Heather betrayed her. After Heather told him that he shouldn't be talking because he's the one who likes scaring people, Duncan pointed out that while he may not always play by the rules himself, he's at least straight with others, and doesn't go back on his words.
  • In The Sand Witch Project : Duncan comforts a depressed DJ that wanted to leave the show, telling him that he don’t have to leave.
  • In Crouching Courtney, Hidden Owen: He tries to teach Harold how to fight and actually makes a genuine attempt to get along with him, just before Chris makes Owen ruin their friendship.
  • In Mutiny On The Soundstage: Duncan and Beth work together to complete the challenge and even saves her (despite being his adversary in the finale) from being crushed by a toilet. He then later tells Beth to go on without him after he gets crushed by a safe. Beth however saves him and they end up arriving at the studio at the same time.
  • In Sweden Sour: Duncan warns Owen about Alejandro's true nature and finally makes him realize that he's evil.
  • In Saving Private Leechball: Duncan saves Gwen from losing the challenge by taking a leech for her. He even gets switched to the Heroic Hamsters for this, much to his dismay.
  • In Suckers Punched: Duncan warns Zoey about Mal so she can be aware of him.
  • In Suckers Punched: Duncan refuses to hurt a bird in exchange of a point for his team.
  • In You Regatta Be Kidding Me: Duncan tries to warn Gwen and Courtney about Mal, but they don't take him seriously and insult him, but they later pay the price which costs them the competition.
  • In You Regatta Be Kidding Me: Duncan saves Zoey, Cameron, and Scott by turning off a dynamite bomb that was thrown by Chef.

Friends []

Enemies[]

  • Chris McLean (most hated enemy/archenemy)
  • Chef Hatchet
  • Bridgette
  • Cody
  • Courtney
  • Harold
  • Heather
  • Justin
  • Mal

Trivia[]

  • Duncan was assumed to be the main antagonist of Total Drama Action, although this later proved to be false when the true main villain was revealed.
  • Duncan's phobia is Celine Dion's music store standees.
  • Duncan was once called "Dunkie" by Courtney after he got knocked out with a tranquillizer dart in "Dial M for Merger" from Action.
  • It's implied Chris pulled some strings to get him out of juvey when he started doing the show, Chris threatens to send him back to keep him in line when he first see's the camp.
  • The audio of the "TDA Caught on Tape" clip reveals that Duncan has a blankie named Mr. Bumblebottom. Duncan considers it the best thing he ever has stolen.
  • Despite his negative attitude, Duncan ended up winning Action in his ending. Real world example was that when Cartoon Network conducted a public vote, Duncan ended up winning the vote with 77%, beating Beth's 23%. In World Tour, while Duncan cheated on Courtney for Gwen, he doesn't get much flack (compared to Courtney and Gwen, who end up being hated by the majority of the contestants, and even getting their statuses swapped in All-Stars, where Gwen is a villain and Courtney is a hero).

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Island (2007)
Bridgette | DJ | Gwen | Leshawna | Duncan | Owen | Geoff | Trent | Izzy | Katie | Sadie

Action
Beth | Harold McGrady | Lindsay

World Tour
Sierra | Noah | Cody | Tyler

Revenge of the Island
Mike | Zoey | Cameron Corduroy Wilkins | Dawn | Dakota Milton | Sam | Brick McArthur | Silent B

All-Stars
Heroic Hamsters | Mike's Alternate Personalities

Pahkitew Island
Shawn | Jasmine | Sky | Samey | Ella | Rodney

Island (2023)
Damien | Emma | Millie | Priya | Zee

Island (2024)
Axel | Caleb | Nichelle | Raj | Wayne

Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race
Don | Brody | Cadets (Sanders and MacArthur) | Best Friends (Devin and Carrie) | Sisters (Emma and Kitty) | Rockers (Spud and Rock) | Fashion Bloggers (Tom and Jen) | The Goths (Ennui and Crimson)

Total DramaRama
Courtney | Ella | Chef Hatchet | Izzy | Beth | Duncan | Jude Lizowski | Harold | Gwen | Owen | Leshawna | Noah | MacArthur | Sugar | Lightning

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