Duncan (Total Drama)

Duncan is a character and the recurring major character and antagonist in Total Drama series.

He was once a contestant in Total Drama Live Reality Shows. During his time he did antagonize other contestants like Harold. And eventually became a contestant again in All-Stars until being arrested and put to prison for blowing up Chris McClain's cottage. He currently remains in prison for blowing up Chris's cottage.

Roles
He appears as the secondary antagonist-turned-deuteragonist in Total Drama Island, the main protagonist in Total Drama Action, a supporting antagonist/anti-hero in Total Drama World Tour, a cameo character in Total Drama: Revenge of the Island and a supporting protagonist/anti-hero in the first part of Total Drama All-Stars and Total Drama Pahkitew Island, and one of the main character in the spin-off Total DramaRama.

Debated Validations

 * It can be argued that he is simply an on & off character. As he did get DJ a new bunny. However, given that his actions progressed consistently towards villainy. Such as his worst Moral Event Horizon that he crossed with blowing up Chris McClain's cottage for the sole purpose of him wanting to prove to be bad. Which that there is a big Moral Event Horizon. Most of the good he doesn't even see much value in is outweighed by the criminal mischief he clearly does anyways based upon the Total Drama continuity.
 * He had relationships one with Courtney since Total Drama and the second with Gwen in Action until All Star. Considering the nature of the many villains within the franchise and Duncan who lies a lot and get into a lot of mischief like picking on and threatening Harold many times. Alongside how he was trying to get a kiss from Courtney on a bet rather than genuinely loving her. As well as him continuously fueling the rivalry with the both Gwen and Courtney a lot more directly since All-Stars. Add along his criminal history prior events before Total Drama which he takes pride in. And it is more than likely he cared about his criminal mischief activities rather than both Gwen nor even Courtney.
 * Him rooting for Heather (a villain) facing agaisnt the ladder last contestant in the Total Drama: World Tour season finale may be seen as a somewhat redeeming trait out of Duncan. However, this is yet hypocritical. Mainly since one, Duncan has a criminal nature not to mention how he was a bully in mostly the first and second Total Drama installments with his common target being Harold, and two Heather isn't really much of a hero anyways. She is never if ever heroic. And she was just fighting against a larger threat at the time. (i.e. Alejandro; who is another antagonist who eventually has some redeeming qualities with Heather than with Duncan's ultimate outcome for his overall story-arch.) Plus, regardless if she was doing a good thing or not, she likely had did this mostly out of pragmatism as she may have cared about money, fame, popularity, and power being an egoist rather than a genuinely nice person.
 * Him trying to protect the ones he may seem to love Gwen or Courtney or any others like with warning Gwen about the Psycho Chainsaw Killer with a Hook and an eye patch, and warning Courtney, and Gwen about Mike as "Mal" requesting to form an alliance isn't enough to consider him a redeemed. His worst Moral Event Horizon within the same series he does his redeeming acts blowing up Chris' Cottage stands out greatly from his character. Thus making him more like a Fallen Hero instead.

What made him heroic?

 * In Total Drama Island, He got DJ a new bunny.
 * In Addition, he was upset with seeing Courtney get eliminated.
 * He helped Gwen with her relationship situation with with Trent.
 * In Action, he was at least was one of the few contestants who protested against DJ’s elimination.
 * In World Tour, he and other World-Tour contestants like Courtney cheered for Heather the Total Drama Island's main antagonist who was fighting against anothrr antagonist who posed as a larger threat; Alejandro.
 * He warned Zoey and Gwen and Courtney about Mike as "Mal" in All-Stars before he would get eliminated from Total Drama: All-Stars.

What made him villainous?

 * The franchise overall through Total Drama welly establishes that Duncan has been a criminal. He causes some trouble with against Harold numerous times pulling pranks against him taking pride of it and still doing so since Action. And he caused a romance cheating scandal between him, Courtney, and Gwen causing part of the plot for World Tour, he even lashes out on numerous contestants and Chris.
 * One most notable villainous act done later on hugest Moral Event Horizon which is by far one of the worst he has chose to cross choosing to intentionally blow up the cottage owned by Chris McClain out of nothing more than unjustifiable utter arrogance and sole egoism to prove he is the baddest and the worse. And he barely shows any kind of redeeming traits throughout the Total Drama franchise after doing this, he only gets worried and scared due to being arrested and being sentenced to prison rather than feeling sorry for what he did justifying his actions claiming he was naive and dimwitted. He was proud of his actions for the most part because he was successfully able to be perceived as a villain by others but eventually is scared that his actions prompted him into being sentenced into Prison and a prison inmate who looks at him weirdly begging his mother for a Lawyer.

Trivia

 * He alongside Courtney are the only Fallen Heroes throughout the franchise. And possibly Dave from Total Drama.
 * It can be agreed upon that he was actively an anti-hero/anti-villain before the events of All-Stars. However, he willingly chose to be a villain many times for the sole purpose of concealing an insecurity literally becoming a villain to prove others wrong about him being soft or nice. Which he was briefly successful yet it him his arrest and eventual sentence in Prison. Thus with all of the information we have gotten he is a Fallen Hero.
 * It remains unknown and inconclusive if he ever wanted to redeem himself from Total Drama: All-Stars during Prison where he is currently at. For obvious reasons, If there is an instance where he later on manages to redeem himself and progres into a hero. Then he can no in fact qualify as a Fallen Hero anymore. However, it still remains unknown if he wants to redeem himself due to the inconclusiveness of his story-arch with All-Stars. Any possible information adding up to such may give more answers about his morals and affect his status as a Fallen Hero either strengthening his status or possibly debunking it.
 * His Total Dramarama spin-off younger counterpart is up for Debate due to how he poses much more like an anti-hero/anti-villain being on & off. He barely takes an exact side other than being your typical ordinary anti-hero and his story on the episode has yet to explain whether or not he would fall down to villainy or redeem himself which would make him not qualify if he does redeem himself.