Scarlett (Total Drama: Pahkitew Island)

Scarlett is a contestant in Total Drama: Pahkitew Island, who was one of the likable characters in the season, being a smart and resourceful person. She was nice the first 9 episodes, before revealing her evil side in episode 10, but unlike most antagonists in this season, it was handled well.

Why She Rocks

 * 1) She’s one of the Pahkitew Island contestants that were actually likable.
 * 2) She was a pretty smart person, making the inventions Max and herself used throughout her appearances.
 * 3) She manages to stay calm most of the time, even against her more annoying teammates, which were Amy, Rodney, and Topher.
 * 4) She managed to be a good friend to Sammy, Jasmine and Sky (after the swap) before the merge, and work together with them pretty well. She also knew that Sammy was pretending to be Amy the entire time, but didn’t expose her.
 * 5) She kept her cool when dealing with Max, even if she was starting to get annoyed with him, she didn’t reveal her true colors until the moment was right.
 * 6) She’s one of the good members of her team:
 * 7) * In episode 1, she helped her team build their shelter during the challenge.
 * 8) * In episode 2, she leaves a trail of pecans to get her team’s pig through the grease tires during the challenge. She also completes the evil helmet which Max uses to have the pig slow down the other team by throwing grease at them.
 * 9) * In episode 3, she gave Max the suggestion of using a dart blower to blow darts onto the other team’s balloons, which he did to Sky’s.
 * 10) * In episode 4, she beautified a bear which got her team a point during the Truth or Scare challenge.
 * 11) * In episode 5, during the challenge, she gave Max the suggestion of an electricity dueling stick, which she helped him out with to shock Ella and get their team a dueling stick. Then, she herself got her team a dueling stick.
 * 12) * In episode 6, she gave her team the idea of playing monkey see, monkey do, to find the monkey with her team’s coin, while also setting up Max to eliminate him if her team loses, which would have worked if not for Sugar calling Ella out on breaking Chris’ no singing rule.
 * 13) * In episode 7, she led Max out of the cave by building a device which opens all garage doors, which opened an elevator.
 * 14) * In episode 8, she kept her team’s babies safe, she also piggy back rided on Jasmine to scare the Lion and Jasmine quickly got the idea and they made him coward.
 * 15) She was one of the likable players to make it to the merge and stay a good character (unlike Dave and Sky who both got flanderized).
 * 16) She stayed pretty strong after the merge:
 * 17) * In episode 9, she still kept cool while with Max, and found out the island is artificial, seen when she found a control panel hidden in a tree.
 * 18) * In episode 10, she and Max quickly found the control room, and with his help they got in.
 * 19) Her evilness was foreshowed in her audition tape when an Earth ball with knives stabbed into it was shown in her room, as well as her growing hatred for Max seen, and her scaring Topher in "Three Zones and a Baby".
 * 20) She showed her true evil colors in "Scarlett Fever" when she got to the control room, got Max chased by a robot bear and led the others to the Chris robots room, where she planned to get Chris to hand over the money or the island explodes, and her evil personality was handled well.
 * 21) Her character design is good, before and after she revealed she was evil.
 * 22) Kristi Friday did a good job voicing her.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) She can be a motor mouth at times, specifically in the episode "Mo Monkey, Mo Problems" when she was explaining her plan to her teammates but her advanced and extensive vocabulary only confused her teammates, and much to her charging, she is forced to simplify her suggestions.
 * 2) She revealed in the episode "This is the Pits!", that she made her brother’s remote control toys come to life and attack him in the night for 6 years, which sent him to therapy, all because he pulled her hair once. This shows she likes to torment her brother, even for one little bad thing he did, because this was going too far. At least Sammy gave Amy her comeuppance for all the bad things she did to her, while Scarlett’s brother didn’t even get a chance to get her sister in trouble for what she did to him. Although, Scarlett being defeated by the others in "Scarlett Fever", where she revealed she was evil, could be considered her comeuppance for what she did to her brother.
 * 3) She unfortunately did not return in the finale, which was a wasted opportunity as she could have teamed up with Shawn or Sky to get revenge on Chris and punish him for torturing her and the other contestants throughout the season. Although, this is understandable as she planned to blow up Pahkitew Island and in turn, end the season prematurely.

Trivia

 * Scarlett is one of a few characters to have their name referenced in an episode title ("Scarlett Fever"), the others being Harold, Owen, Courtney, Bridgette, Chef Hatchet, Chris, Ezekiel, and Sky.
 * Scarlett is the only character to be eliminated in an episode where their name is referenced.
 * Scarlett is one of fourteen contestants to never be voted out normally. In her case, she was disqualified. The others are Amy, Anne Maria, Cameron, DJ, Ella, Jasmine, Max, Mike, Shawn, Sierra, Sky, Sugar, and Zoey.
 * Out of all the main antagonists in Total Drama, Scarlett has caused the least amount of eliminations, with none at all.
 * Scarlett and Jasmine are the only contestants to have known about Sammy's plan to pretend to be Amy up until the former's elimination.