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Ella was a contestant in Total Drama: Pahkitew Island as a member of the Wâneyihtam Maskwak. She returned as an alternate universe child in the Total DramaRama episodes "Dissing Cousins" and the credits of "Stingin' in the Rain" as the cousin of Gwen.
She is voiced by Sunday Muse.
Personality
Total Drama: Pahkitew Island
Ella is a songbird with a personality as angelic as her singing voice. She is highly enthusiastic and enjoys expressing her emotions through music and dancing, even when the time isn't appropriate. Her voice is hypnotic to the fauna of Pahkitew Island; they love her, and she loves them right back. It shows that the only things that break her happiness are the mistreatment of her animal friends and being rejected. Although she has befriended most of her peers, Ella can be oblivious when someone dislikes her. Despite this, she has proven that she genuinely wants everyone around her to be happy and will do what it takes to brighten their moods.
Total DramaRama
Ella retains her original counterpart's personality, being a songbird with a heart of gold whom the other kids like. Beneath her fairy tale princess appearance, however, lies a dark twist. In the past, Ella was apparently a naughty girl with a temper that Gwen described as being like a "fire breathing dragon". While she has since cleaned up herself, she is still capable of getting angry and if pushed too far, she will literally transform into a dragon, and attack whoever it is that angered her. This is a complete opposite of her older self, who rarely shows anger towards anyone, even to those who are openly mean to her.
Why She Brings Joy to the Heart and Makes Us Want to Sing Along with Her
- She's one of the Pahkitew Island contestants that were actually likable.
- She is the nicest person during the season as she rarely gets mad (only once or twice), and hardly makes any enemies and she doesn't even see Sugar as an enemy; while she declares Chris and Max as her enemies, she doesn’t outright show her hate for them, and is still very nice.
- She has a beautiful singing voice; it's very pleasant to listen to that almost everyone in the show, including the animals, like her, and even gets the animals to help her at times, even saving her from falling to her doom.
- She doesn't mind her more annoying teammates, which were Beardo, Leonard, and Sugar as she befriends Leonard, never makes Beardo her enemy, and tries to befriend Sugar.
- She also gets along with some of her better teammates, which are Dave (before and after he got flanderized), Sky, and Shawn.
- She likes to help in any way she can to others, such as saving Dave from a bear by calming it down with her singing.
- She's one of the good members of her team:
- In "So, Uh This Is My Team?", she helped the team build their possible shelter, even if it was Leonard’s stupid idea.
- In "I Love You, Grease Pig!", she got her team’s pig across the grease tires during the challenge by singing to it.
- In "I Love You, I Love You Knots", she was telling the truth about wanting to be friends with Sugar, which would have gotten her team a point had Sugar not intervened. Thankfully, she was the one that ultimately won it for her team during the final dare as she easily untied her bag and got the other team’s shock remote out. While she didn’t press it due to her kind nature, Clucky the chicken ended up pressing it for her and Chris decided to accept that, much to Ella’s relief.
- In "A Blast from the Past", she sang to calm Scuba Bear, and when Chris tried to have it attack her, it went after him instead, and then she safely got her team a dueling stick during the challenge.
- In "Mo Monkey, Mo Problems", she sang to the bear which freed Dave and led him to the vending machine as the bear had the monkey who had the coin.
- She has some funny moments, like how she picked up a bucket of glitter in "So, Uh This Is My Team?", and drew a smiley face on her balloon in "Twinning Isn't Everything".
- She was a good friend to almost everyone, mainly to Shawn, Dave, and Sky, and easily got used to their weirdness and work together with them.
- While she did have a short-lived crush on Dave (developed in the last episode he was a good character), she didn't get jealous when Dave revealed that she likes Sky (in the episode where he was flanderized), and while she got heartbroken, she just showed sadness, and calmly told Sky she was the one that captured his heart, much to Sky’s happiness.
- Her goodbye song is nice to listen to and given how Chris shoots her off as she sings the last word is poignant in displaying how she was one of the nicest contestants, if not the nicest, in comparison to several others.
- Ella returned as an alternate universe child in Total DramaRama, as the cousin of Gwen, which was nice, mainly the episodes "Dissing Cousins", where she still retains her happy personality for most of the episode as well as the credits of "Stingin' in the Rain", in which she had the animals help clean up the classroom.
- Her design as a child and teenager are both absolutely adorable and the cutest in the season and spin-off.
- Her dragon design in Total DramaRama, while scary looking, is really cool to look at.
- Sunday Muse does an amazing job voicing her in both Pahkitew Island and when she reprised her role in Total DramaRama due to her beautiful singing voice!
Bad Qualities
- She could be considered a butt-monkey, mainly due to Sugar’s torturing her depsite Ella trying to be friends with her, and because of Sugar, she was unfairly eliminated due to singing, and Chris was a part of that unfair elimination. She was also a butt-monkey in Total DramaRama, as Gwen came up with ways to make her mad, such as making messes. It eventually worked when Max (Owen’s cousin in this spin-off), finally broke her cool.
- Sadly, she did not return in the finale of Pahkitew Island. While her goodbye song in "Mo Monkey, Mo Problems" was admittedly nice, it's unfortunate that her character was shot away as she was singing and never returned given that she was one of the best out of a bunch of characters that predominantly ranged from decent or mediocre to just completely bad or flanderized.
- Her alternate universe child self, while still very likable, was slightly flanderized in the spin-off, where she will turn into a dragon if she gets too mad and shows a few signs of anger when things go wrong, until Max pulled the breaking point, and she began to terrorize everything in sight until Gwen calmed her down after Max fled. She also runs away before Chef could catch her, getting away from being punished, thus making her a Karma Houdini. This could be because she was a butt-monkey for most of the episode, this could even it out for the unfair torture she got.
- As mentioned in WSR#14, her dragon design in Total DramaRama is indeed scary-looking.
Trivia
- Ella shares many similarities with original contestant Lindsay:
- Both are labeled as "Princesses".
- Both have major conflicts with "Queens", which are mostly one-sided.
- Both times the "Queen" causes the "Princess" elimination.
- Both place ninth in their debut season. Additionally, both were eliminated due to disqualification rather than being voted out.
- Ella is one of five contestants with the ability to communicate with animals, the others being Izzy, Dawn, Bridgette, and Ennui.
- Ella is a member of a love triangle, alongside Gwen, Duncan, Courtney, Zoey, Mike, Anne Maria, as well as fellow contestants Sky and Dave.
- Ella is one of fourteen contestants to never be voted out normally, with the others being Amy, Anne Maria, Cameron, DJ, Jasmine, Max, Mike, Scarlett, Shawn, Sierra, Sky, Sugar, and Zoey. In her case, Max was originally going to be voted off, but Ella ended up being disqualified due to breaking Chris' rule about singing.
- Ella is one of four contestants to leave in an episode in which her team wins the challenge, along with DJ, Izzy, and Anne Maria. In her case, she was disqualified.
- Ella is the third known contestant who is not from the first generation cast to have watched Total Drama World Tour. The others are Anne Maria and Cameron.
- Ella is one of two characters to wear gloves as part of her default outfit, the other being Crimson.
- Ella is also one of the few competitors to take ballet lessons, next to Heather and Courtney.
- Ella states that she has sung every song from Total Drama World Tour.
- Ella parodies the stereotypical Disney princess since like them, she loves to sing songs at random moments and loves animals. Her design resembles that of Snow White, her name is a reference to Cinderella, and her outfit is based on Cinderella's original ball gown with Sleeping Beauty's color scheme.
- In addition, the scene where Dave puts her shoe back on in "A Blast from the Past" is a parody of the famous glass slipper scene in Cinderella.
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