Chris McLean

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Base Breaking Character
Full Name	Chris McLean
Alias	No information
Origin	Total Drama
Powers/Skills	No information
Family	Unnamed mother Jerd McLean (cousin)
Allies	No information
Enemies	No information
Goals	Become the most popular reality show host ever (succeeded). Get away with dumping toxic waste on the island during TDROTI (failed). Escape and break out from prison and return to Total Drama games with assistants from Chef Hatchet (succeeded). Get revenge on Scott for flinging him into the toilet (succeeded). Turn Dave against Sky (also succeeded). Turn Jasmine against Shawn (initially succeeded but backfired and failed). Invite the contestants into his games and hurt them. Continue his popularity (both ongoing but sometimes failed).
Why Do Some People Hate The Character?	He became more sadistic and mean-spirited in the fourth to sixth seasons. He often gets away with his most hateable crimes.
Why Do Some People Love The Character?	Christian Potenza's performance. His charming presentation as a host. His ego and dark jokes are considered to be funny. Many felt he was rerailed into his original self in the reboot.
Type of Base Breaking Character	Humorous Sadist

Chris McLean is the main antagonist of the Canadian animated franchise Total Drama.

As the host of the show, Chris is in charge of designing challenges for the contestants to compete in—all of which he intentionally makes excruciating and gruesome for the contestants to satisfy his sadistic tendencies.

He was voiced by Christian Potenza in the first five seasons and by the show's executive producer Terry McGurrin in the sixth and seventh seasons.

What Makes Him a Base Breaking Character?

What Do People Like About Him?

• Christian Potenza's performance helped to make Chris' charming and bombastic personality as remembered as it is. Even when his role was taken over by Terry McGurrin in the reboot, many believed he did a decent job making Chris entertaining.
• He is a thrilling host who made Total Drama as interesting it is, making the challenges unpredictable and interesting.
• Many consider his villainy to be funny, as the ways he makes dark jokes and torments the contestants are done in a humorous way which endears him to the audience.
• Despite his enjoyment towards torturing his contestants, he shows care towards them at times.
• Some felt that Chris' character was rerailed in the reboot where his sadism compared to the previous seasons was toned down and he slightly returned to his characterization prior to his derailment.

What Do People Hate About Him?

• Some fans think his sadism comes off as being more cruel than funny, feeling sympathy towards the contestants' misfortunes and feeling that Chris' actions go too far. He also gets away with his most hateable crimes, making many see him as a karma houdini.
• From Revenge of the Island to Pahkitew Island, he became more jerkish and sadistic, often having several mean-spirited moments.
  • In "Sunday Muddy Sundae", he changed the rules of the challenge to force Courtney to eat her disgusting sundae. While she had it coming for betraying her friends, many felt that her punishment was too excessive especially since she was criticized for being derailed in the episode.
  • In "Lies, Cries and One Big Prize", he turns Jasmine and Dave against Shawn and Sky respectively, causing Dave to lose his sanity and leading to his downfall.

Trivia

• Chris' former voice actor, Christian Potenza, expressed that he hated how Chris had become more sadistic (to the point of comparing him to Jigsaw) than he was before due to behind-the-scenes drama, which was one of the factors that contributed towards him stepping down from voicing Chris alongside the false allegations he faced at the time.

External Links

• Chris McLean on the Villains Wiki
• Chris McLean on the Inconsistently Heinous Wiki
• Chris McLean on the Total Drama Wiki