Web Animation / Disventure Camp

Disventure Camp is a web animated TV show based off Total Drama. It is created by Odd Nation Cartoons, and so far there have been two seasons (the second season has fully aired, the first season is currently airing). In each season, 14 contestants battle it out for a chance to win the grand prize. Secrets, alliances, romances, and shock shall be spread throughout the characters in the episodes.

The first season is hosted by Derek and Trevor, a duo act who don't seem to get along incredibly well. They're joined by the Bus of Losers driver Jensen, a burly and grumpy Scottish man. But all may not be as it appears down in Camp Tipiskaw...

In the second season, hosting duties are taken over by Kristal, the daughter of a certain television personality who has something she wants to prove to him and herself. Driving the Bus of Losers this time is Marcus, who has a wooden puppet called Nina that he always carries with him.

General tropes:

• Breaking the Fourth Wall: At the end of each episode of Season 2 and the remastered version of Season 1, characters (usually whoever was eliminated in that episode) thank Patreons for their support.
• Darker and Edgier: Despite being mostly comedic, the series has more adult moments than other shows and can slip into PG-13 material at times.
• Dwindling Party: Much like its inspiration show due to Player Elimination. Other episode-specific examples include a challenge to stay awake the longest and a Slasher Movie episode.
• Impossible Hourglass Figure: Per the art style of its inspiration show, most of the girls have such figures. The only ones who aren't shaped in a conventionally flawless hourglass way are Fiore (owing to being a six-year-old child), Grett, Karol, Maggy, Miriam and Rosa Maria.
• Mr. Fanservice:
  • Tom. Between the original and current version of the first season, his design got a huge overhaul in terms of physique, becoming a lot brawnier. This is even referenced in-universe with some very brief moments between him and Jake.
  • Alec. Fans have welcomed him as a male example of the Hot Librarian very quickly.
  • James. He, along with Jake from the beta version of the previous season, are the only guys to show full-body nudity on the show. It's even used as a thumbnail for Episode 5. He also wears quite tight swimming trunks as his swimsuit, which is even featured on a thumbnail for Episode 7.
  • To a slightly lesser extent than James, Hunter. He's also quite attractive and he appears shirtless more than any other guy on the show, doing so in Episode 3 when entering the bathroom (which is also used as a thumbnail for the sneak peek of this episode), during one of his dares in Episode 5, as well as while wearing a swimsuit in two episodes, with Episode 7 featuring him wearing his swimsuit on a thumbnail.
• Ms. Fanservice:
  • Ashley, the strong and kind-hearted cowgirl retains this role from the beta version.
  • Ally, more so than any other girl of the season or even the prior one. Examples include:
    • She's shown in her Playboy Bunny costume in two episodes, once via a picture from the time she streamed wearing this outfit, and the other time as a part of her dare during the challenge. There's also official art of a full-body version of Ally in this costume.
    • Much like other members of the initial final eight + Kristal, Ally is wearing a swimsuit in two episodes. She's also one of the girls to wear a bikini.
    • In Episode 8, her Shower Scene starts with a Sexy Silhouette. She then becomes one of three girls in the show to be seen topless on-screen, and the only one to do so while fully naked in a shower. She spends the rest of the challenge wearing an improvised Modesty Towel with a bathroom stall curtain.
    • Further bonus points for her wearing a bunny costume being featured on a thumbnail for Episode 4, her Sexy Silhouette being on one for the trailer for Episode 8, and a shot of her being topless on-screen being used for one of Episode 8 proper.
    • Word of God even says one of the writers tried to get a scene of her and Hunter going into the showers together, but the others vetoed it for being way too much.
• Shout-Out: Has its own page.
• Trailers Always Spoil:
  • Season 1:
    • Trailer for Episode 8 spoiled the merge starting in this episode, showing scenes of contestants clearly moving to a new cabin and everyone having their own individual color scheme during the challenge as opposed to their team's purple or teal one used throughout the season.
  • Season 2:
    • Sneak Peek for Episode 3 spoils that Tess suffers from depression.
    • Trailer for Episode 5 spoiled the challenge involving dares along with James and Yul scheming together. The shot with vomit on the ground at the campfire also spoils that the plan to poison someone will succeed, except it doesn't reveal who'd fall victim to it.
    • While the trailer for Episode 6 doesn't make it too obvious, some fans figured out that this episode will be a non-elimination one because of the shot with everyone cheering and a few scenes of them being relaxed in a hot tub.
    • Trailer for Episode 7 spoiled Ally and Tess being in danger of elimination via the shot where they exchange glances with each other during the elimination ceremony.
    • Trailer for Episode 8 spoiled horror-themed challenge akin to "Hook, Line, and Screamer", Ally being captured in a classic horror Shower Scene, Aiden being captured as well, and the trio of Lake, Riya, and Rosa Maria clearly being the final three survivors. On a subverted note, a shot where Rosa Maria is angry by the bus stop might mislead some fans to believe she'd be eliminated.
    • Trailer for Episode 9 spoiled Oliver finally coming back.
    • Trailer for Episode 11 spoiled that the boys will find out Riya's new true nature and team up against her, only for her to use the immunity totem she had stolen from Rosa Maria.
    • While not a trailer, the thumbnail for Episode 13 shows Riya in a bikini, clearly competing in the underweater part of the challenge. With Kristal explaining in Episode 12 that there are only 2 motorboats before this part of the challenge because one person is going to be eliminated halfway through, it spoils her surviving this point.
• Voted Off the Island: How Player Elimination works, based on its inspiration shows.

Tropes for Season 1:

• Big "NO!": Upon learning that she has been voted out, Gabby exclaims an extended "No!" in horror.
• Big "WHAT?!": Gabby exclaims "What!?" when she finally starts to catch on that Grett was using her to win immunity herself.
• Big "YES!": Out of happiness, Fiore exclaims "Yes!" when her team wins in Episode 7. Considering this was after her team lost for several episodes straight and this means she isn't at risk of being eliminated that episode, you can see why.
• Cliffhanger: Excluding post-credits scenes of characters thanking Patreons, episodes of the remastered version of Season 1 typically end on a cliffhanger rather than the hosts signing off the episode.
• Color Motif: The teams' colors are more often used for their corresponding teammates in this season. On their promotional images, the teammates have their names written with either teal or purple outlines. In Episode 1, the teams are given teal and purple paintball guns respectively. In Episode 2, they have to catch a flag of the corresponding color. In Episode 4, contestants are given swimsuits in their team's color.
• Crush Blush:
  • Several instances have Jake blush due to his crush on Tom, though it happens contrariwise when he compliments Tom's eyes.
  • Ellie blushes when Gabby (who she's in love with) kisses her on the cheek in Episode 6.
• Decided by One Vote: With Purple Team being down to its final three teammates in Episode 6, and thus Ellie and Fiore voting for each other, the result of their side of the mock elimination ceremony is decided by Alec's vote.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Due to season 2 airing before season 1, Oliver's frequent cameos as the intern demonstrating the challenges is this to those who watch the seasons in chronological order as opposed to airing order.
• Eat That: Episode 5 features a gross food eating portion of the contest, similar to Total Drama's tradition of having one gross food eating episode per season.
• Evil Laugh: After she gets Dan's glasses broken via causing him to fall, Fiore loudly laughs out of cruelty. She later laughs out of satisfaction and arrogance when talking to Alec about how the other contestants fell for their trap in Episode 8.
• Engineered Public Confession: Derek's twist in Episode 8 is an interesting example of this. He reveals to the contestants everyone's votes and their confessionals. Techincally, this applies to everyone, but especially Fiore, whose true colors are revealed to everyone who didn't already know since she gloated during her confessional. She's noticeably horrified when Derek reveals the twist, and furious afterwards.
• Facepalm: Due to being frustrated with her teammates during a challenge, Gabby facepalms.
• Fist Pump: With both of her palms facing inwards, Fiore gleefully raises both of her fists above her when her team completes a challenge and when it's declared that her team won. Given this means she isn't at risk of being eliminated that episode and this was the first time her team won in several episodes, it makes sense.
• Flaw Exploitation: It's implied Fiore has no issue with taking advantages of others' flaws as she suggests her team should exploit the opposing team's weaknesses.
• Gasp!: After seeing something horrifying that horrified her in Episode 8, Gabby gasps in shock.
• History Repeats: The twist of both teams voting out one of their members only for both of them to switch teams and the episode thus being rendered as a non-elimination round was used twice, in Episode 1 and 6 (revealed by the start of Episode 7).
• Humiliation Conga: When her scheme to win immunity is close to succeeding, Grett's ally Gabby snaps at her for mistreating her and gives her "The Reason You Suck" Speech. She also betrays her and thoroughly thwarts her scheme via pushing her into the lake while she wins immunity for herself. Despite Grett being confident she wouldn't be eliminated, her alliance member Miriam betrays her as she votes her off with Dan and Gabby (who she tried to threaten to vote for Dan). When she learns she's been voted off, she also gets mocked by Miriam. Granted, she later learns she wasn't actually eliminated and is just switching teams, but these clearly aren't her proudest moments.
• It's Personal: When voting off Gabby with her alliance, Grett states her vote is "personal" because Gabby "double-crossed" her (although Gabby did so because she treated her like shit).
• Malicious Slander: While strategizing with her alliance, Fiore considers spreading untruths about Gabby and Ellie to get them eliminated.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After being fed up with Grett's mistreatment of her, Gabby insults Grett several times. She calls her out for being ungrateful, implies she's lazy, and states that she doesn't have to feel bad for her because she experiences Parental Favoritism. She then tells Grett that everyone has problems but she can't treat people like shit.
• Tempting Fate:
  • Several times Grett brags about how she's going to win the season. Later, she gets voted off roughly halfway in the game. It's subverted as she later learns that she was only switching teams.
  • In Episode 6, Ellie tells Gabby she doesn't need to give her her totem (which renders all votes against the contestant invalid if used before the elimination ceremony) because she was confident that Alec would easily vote off Fiore. Not only was it hard for Alec to decide who to vote off, Ellie gets eliminated instead.
• Throwing the Fight: As part of their scheme to have their alliance member Grett win immunity, Alec and Fiore intentionally lose Episode 8's challenge.
• We Need a Distraction: During a plan, Ashley has Lill distract the other teammates via giving them strawberries while she sneaks into one of her team's tents and takes Fiore's notebook.
• "What Do They Fear?" Episode: The challenge of Episode 3 is based on the cast's phobias, similarly to Phobia Factor from Total Drama.

Tropes for Season 2:

• Abusive Parents: Lake is described as having them. Her family makes her study every minute she gets, she has to eat little or rarely at all, and they arranged for her to marry a guy she does not know.
• Acrofatic: Oliver is on the pudgy side, but he's the first contestant to make it to Kristal, showing that he's rather fast.
• Artistic License: While the show has even more faithful portrayal to Survivor regarding how immunity idol is supposed to be used than Total Drama, as its owner has to reveal their intention to use it before the votes are read which risks wasting it; immunity idols on Survivor have a deadline of when they can be used, with it usually being until the final 5. Here, Riya is able to use it in the final 4.
• Asshole Victim: Given how much of an asshole he is to everyone and how he planned to have James poison Aiden, it's hard to feel any sympathy for Yul when James poisons him instead.
• Back for the Finale: Much like on most seasons of Total Drama, the eliminated contestants return in the finale to root for and support the finalists during the final challenge.
• The Big Bad Shuffle: While Yul is the initial antagonist, being a Jerkass bully that antagonizes the others, he ends up leaving in Episode 5 after his plan to poison Aiden backfires and he ends up getting poisoned instead. While Episodes 6 and 7 have No Antagonist, Karol becomes the new antagonist in Episode 8 after rejoining the game, being The Corrupter to Riya and Aiden, while trying to take down Aiden and James, she ends up medically evacuated by breaking her leg just one episode after rejoining. Afterwards, in Episode 10, Riya ends up pulling a Face–Heel Turn when she backstabs Rosa by stealing James's phone and puts it along with her perfume in her bag in the challenge, while stealing her totem, getting her eliminated and becoming the main antagonist for the rest of the season.
• The Big Girl: Maggy is taller than every character in the season and is bigger as well. Maggy isolates herself because of this.
• Bratty Half-Pint: Nina, Marcus' puppet. She has a lot of rude comments to say to everyone and enjoys being a sadist.
• Breather Episode: Episode 6. Not only does it end up being a non-elimination episode, but all duos end up at least slightly bonding with each other if not heavily strengthening their bonds, and everyone happily joins celebrating in a hot tub, giving a drama-less impression of everyone being friends before the events to come.
• Disc-One Final Boss: Yul gets eliminated halfway through the season, leaving a much more strategic James and a vengeful Karol to take as the antagonist of the second half.
• Everyone Has Standards: James doesn't want to harm the contestants just to win, even refusing to poison Aiden unlike Yul.
• Evil Laugh: Due to thinking he could eliminate Riya or Connor, Yul laughs out of cruelty.
• Final Girl: Lake in the horror-themed challenge, though she does not survive this, losing the challenge to the "killer" and being eliminated in the same episode.
• Flipping the Bird: After Kai is eliminated, he flips off Yul to show him disapproval.
• The Friend Nobody Likes: Hunter and Tess are working with Yul, but it's clear that they can't stand him because of how superior and snotty he acts. Hunter occasionally gives him a Death Glare and Tess smiles if he's humiliated. Once Yul is booted, Hunter admits that they only put up with him because his unlikability gave them a good cover from the others when it was time to send someone home.
• Gamer Chick: Ally. She packed enough consoles for herself in order to play games and even has backups.
• Gasp!: After it's revealed that Connor has decided to leave the camp of his own terms, Riya gasps in shock.
• Gold Tooth of Wealth: Connor has a single gold tooth. He's a wealthy businessman who can afford to buy the hotel where the eliminated contestants stay in so that he doesn't have to stay there after his elimination.
• The Heart: Rosa Maria acts as one in her friend group with Lake, Maggy, and Riya.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: Riya fears being lonely in the game, so her connecting with Connor and Rosa Maria makes her feel like she can relate to them. Unfortunately, her paranoia over Rosa apparently hiding the fact that she found the idol at first causes her to flip and send home Lake in a betrayal to their alliance.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While grumpy and surly, Karol was right about telling Connor to act like his own age as that'll make him more accepted by everyone.
• Living Emotional Crutch: Rosa Maria towards her friends, especially Lake.
• Lighter and Softer: While being Darker and Edgier than Total Drama tone and storywise, the gameshow itself is much less of a sadist show, with contestants being put in less danger and overall treated better than on Total Drama.
• Love Triangle: Hunter bonds well with Ally and Tess, and both of them like him back. Connor informs him of this fact, but he tells them not to discuss it til after the competition. Eventually, it seems to fade away to a mere friendship between the three.
• Morality Pet: Karol doesn't like anyone, but animals warm her up. She nurtures them whenever they're injured, and was happy to leave with an animal by her side.
• My Greatest Failure: Rosa Maria wants to be tender and compassionate towards adult Riya since she didn't get to say goodbye to Maggy because of the team swap and had gotten into an argument with Lake about her family traditions.
• Precision F-Strike: Kai blows off these towards Yul during episode 3 and at his own elimination.
  • James blows one in Episode 11 after being exposed by Riya for using his relationship with Aiden to gain followers.
• Pushover Parents: Averted. Marcus disciplines Nina if she starts to get out of control.
• Reluctant Fanservice Girl: Ally during the dares challenge.
• Sanity Slippage: Kristal knows about how sadistic her father became, so she has her intern let her know when to be rational towards the campers. However, she starts to ignore her plan and becomes sadistic and ratings-hungry like her father. This comes to a head when Oliver gives her a "The Reason You Suck" Speech and quits, and the next episodes give her a big dose of humble pie when she’s forced to see how hard an intern's job really is under her employ.
• Series Continuity Error: Ally's tattoo is only visible as of Episode 6. It's clearly missing when she's in her Playboy Bunny costume in Episode 4 and 5, which Word of God even admitted to being an honest oversight.
• Ship Sinking: After initial Ship Tease, Connor x Riya sinks in the first part of the finale, with Connor refusing to continue supporting her during the challenge after realizing her Face–Heel Turn, and with her claiming she doesn't need him in turn.
• So Proud of You: Unlike the canon version of this show, where everyone is mostly against each other, this series has everyone be happy of their successes and how they've changed.
• Tampering with Food and Drink: In Episode 2, Krystal gives Karol and Ally glasses of orange juice. After they drink it, she reveals put powerful sleeping pills in the drinks.
• Team Mom: Rosa Maria is 19, but has a toddler-aged daughter. She also acts motherly and comforting to her friends.
• Token Adult: Connor, Karol, and Riya are the only contestants who aren't around the age of teenagers.
• Two Guys and a Girl: The final 3; Aiden, James, and Riya.
• We Hardly Knew Ye: Actually averted:
  • Oliver gets to stay as an intern, which allows him to continue appearing for the rest of the season (sans several episodes when he ran away), further developing his struggles and relationship with the host, Kristal.
  • Karol, who otherwise would've been the most underutilized character of the season, got to return after her elimination, even becoming a temporary antagonist. While she's quickly eliminated afterwards, her return still allows her personality to be more fleshed out and gives her more plot relevance.
  • Both Kai and Maggy were eliminated fairly early, but got to showcase their personality just enough and even had a romantic plot with each other. They also stayed in the forest, allowing them to have cameo appearances in future episodes.
  • While Connor didn't last too long in the competition, he managed to establish his personality, get some Character Development appreciating his age, and developed a closer bond with Riya.
  • Yul, the last pre-merge boot and the only pre-merge boot who didn't get to return in any way after his elimination, also got to establish his personality and left quite an impact as the first antagonist. And everyone eliminated after him lasted long enough to avert this trope, with almost all of them feeling like main characters of the season.