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Survivor	comment	If The Real World is the grand-daddy of the reality show, Survivor is the daddy. It debuted in 2000, proved to be a huge hit and a big moneymaker for CBS, and launched a wave of reality shows that, even in The New '20s, we're still recovering from.The story is as follows: a fixed number of men and women are stuck in a wilderness setting (typically, but not always, a deserted tropical island), where they're divided into at least two tribes (mostly random, but sometimes with some kind of overrarching theme). While settling in to their castaway life, they take part in a range of physical challenges intended to sow division between them, cumulating in a Tribal Council each episode where a tribe gets the opportunity to vote out one of their members. The game is played in roughly three phases: The Pre-Merge sees the competing tribes play a Reward Challenge for some kind of nice group reward, and an Immunity Challenge, the losing tribe of which is sent to Tribal Council. Around halfway through this phase, a Tribe Swap usually occurs in which contestants are randomly reassigned their tribes to even the numbers back out and to shake up the status quo of alliances. At some point when roughly half of the contestants have been eliminated, everybody is united into a single tribe and the Post-Merge begins. Reward Challenges are now played for the benefit of a single or small group of winners, and Immunity Challenges now give its sole winner immunity from being voted out at the subsequent Tribal Council. In this phase, contestants who are voted out join the Jury and are able to passively observe every subsequent Tribal Council. Once the finalists are decided, the Final Tribal Council now sees the remaining contestants plead their case to the Jury for why they deserve to win the title of Sole Survivor and the $1,000,000 prize based on their performance throughout the game. The winner is decided by Jury vote.In typical reality show fashion, the occasional seasonal or episodic gimmick or twist is introduced to keep the format fresh. The most enduring of these has been the Immunity Idol, a trinket hidden on the island that gives whoever discovers it the ability to nullify any votes casted for them in a single Tribal Council. This has since become a staple of the game for the mindgame and negotiation potential that it creates.Several podcasts dedicated to contestant interviews, remembering past seasons nostalgically, and discussing strategy exists online, including Rob Has a Podcast, Armchair Survivor, Survivor Oz, Dom And Colin, and Survivor Historians.A list and summary of the US seasons can be found on the Recap page.Based on a format created by Charlie Parsons. The first produced show based on the format was the Swedish reality game show Expedition: Robinson. The original concept was said during All-Stars to have been inspired by William Golding's 1954 novel Lord of the Flies.Not to be confused with that one show that's actually about surviving. Or the third series from Erin Hunter. Or the band best known for "Eye of the Tiger". Or the game about trying to escape from a fire.Note: The Australian, British and South African versions now have their own pages.WARNING: Spoilers ahead are unmarked. You have been warned.
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Survivor / int_108c268e	type	Hotter and Sexier
Survivor / int_108c268e	comment	Hotter and Sexier: The Amazon. The previous season, Thailand, had a cast that skewed older and more conservative and it failed to connect with audiences. Amazon not only had a much younger and prettier cast, including the series' first swimsuit model, it also divided the tribes by gender. This not only led to scenes like the youngest women bathing each other, it also generated a lot of sexual tension becuase both tribes fixated on sex as much as they did food. It also helps that in Thailand the younger players were voted out early, while in Amazon the younger players made it the deepest into the game.
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Survivor / int_121476bd	type	The Millstone
Survivor / int_121476bd	comment	The Yanu tribe in 46 had two players assigned to them that ended up being major Millstones, Jelinsky who caved way too early in challenges and Bhanu the Nervous Wreck who couldn't keep his mouth shut, putting them on the back foot for most of the tribal phase.
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Survivor / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
Survivor / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Well, not actual death, but anyone can get eliminated no matter how safe they seem: Ever since Gretchen Cordy was booted off it was made clear that even the strongest competitors could go home. Ever since Michael Skupin fell in the fire, it's been revealed that people can be medically evacuated from the game. Ever since John Carroll went, even members of majority alliances could be overthrown. Ever since Paschal English was voted out, the purple rock (and later, firemaking tiebreakers) ensured that people could be eliminated without receiving any votes. Ever since the immunity idol was introduced in Fiji, there is literally no way to call anyone completely safenote Since people will try to vote for any of their opposition to get around the idol, even if they aren't the biggest threat unless they happen to be wearing an immunity necklace... ...most of the time, because Erik Reichenbach from Micronesia was voted out after giving up immunity! Even an immune person isn't 100% safe from themselves. Cirie Fields from Game-Changers was voted out despite receiving no votes and no purple rock. Everyone else pulled out immunities and she was eliminated by default. Gabon in particular is a season where no one is safe from elimination.
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Survivor / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Survivor / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: A few players over the years have been smart enough to know that they were going to be edited as the villain and played it up accordingly. Examples include Jonny Fairplay (Pearl Islands, Micronesia), Russell Hantz (Samoa, Heroes vs. Villains, Redemption Island), and Corinne Kaplan (Gabon, Caramoan). An inversion of this is Jerri Manthey, at least in Australia. According to her, she did not expect to be edited as a villain, since she never did anything particularly villainous (at least to Survivor standards at the time), especially since she as a person received an extremely negative reception after the whole "Beef Jerky" incident. (Villany Marches On, though. People originally booed Jerri off the stage. After the likes of Ami, Russell Hantz, Rob, Corinne, Randy, Parvati, and Fairplay...putting her in the Villains tribe of Heroes vs. Villains may have been incredibly unfitting.)
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Survivor / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Survivor / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: Sometimes the previews give things away they don't mean to. If you're about to watch an immunity challenge, and the preview the week before showed a big argument that you haven't yet seen this episode? The tribe that argued is almost certainly about to lose. The trailer for the finale of Winners at War also spoiled that Natalie would return to the game from the Edge of Extinction.
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Survivor / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
Survivor / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Hantzes, from what we see of them. Russell (Samoa, Heroes vs. Villains, Redemption Island) is an Entitled Bastard and revels in being a Jerkass. His nephew Brandon tried to be better than that in South Pacific, but frankly sucked at it and melted down at every screwup. In Caramoan he gave up trying and displayed an extreme Hair-Trigger Temper. And in the South Pacific family visit, we met Brandon's dad/Russell's brother, who told Brandon to suck it up and get the money (not bad advice given Brandon's issues, but comes off as "abandon your principles") and tried to bully Coach into helping Brandon. (Plus, another of Russell's brothers, Willie, was on Big Brother and his behavior actually got him disqualified.)
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Survivor / int_15a4103a	type	Jerk Justifications
Survivor / int_15a4103a	comment	Jerk Justifications: With the best one being that it is only a game, which many contestants fail to truly digest. Depending on your perspective, every Jerkass in the show is justified. Lex van den Berghe is infamous for making paranoid or hypocritical (or both) rationalizations for why he votes the way he does, despite being otherwise compassionate.
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Survivor / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
Survivor / int_15da4941	comment	Dreamz Herd forever doomed himself into being The Worst Guy Ever in Fiji. Yau-Man Chan, an Badass Adorable grandpa and fan favorite, had won an SUV in a reward challenge. Seeing no possible use for it because he already had a decent car, he gave it to Dreamz in exchange for a promise: if he won that night's immunity challenge, Dreamz would give the immunity to him. Dreamz won immunity... and kept it. Yau-Man got voted out right then. To Dreamz's credit, Yau-Man had done the ploy to exploit Dreamz, and said he was surprized he got edited favorably during it.
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Survivor / int_167bd2ca	type	All According to Plan
Survivor / int_167bd2ca	comment	South Pacific: Vote out Coach, he's doing the same thing Rob did! Oh wait a second...
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Survivor / int_16c3b640	type	Apple of Discord
Survivor / int_16c3b640	comment	Apple of Discord: Some individual rewards force the winner to choose a couple of tribemates to join him/her (or put another way, has to choose a bunch of people to get nothing). "Coconut chop" challenges are also good for this, as they put the social pecking order on display. In both cases, there's a good chance for someone to get offended.
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Survivor / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Survivor / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Anyone who played a good game at the age of 40 and beyond. Special mention to Tina Wesson, Tom Westman, Bob Crowley and Denise Stapley for winning their respective seasons, Terry Deitz for having an awesome immunity streak and Rudy Boesch for playing twice in his seventies.
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Survivor / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Survivor / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: Looking at shooting schedules, Heroes Vs Villains filmed just before Samoa aired. This means that none of the other H vs V players had the chance to see Russell in action before the season, which became important. The tie-breakers for the first 5-6 seasons definitely fall under here as well, since most of the contestants seemed so unsure of how they would proceed that they avoided forcing one like the plague. Also counts for the one season where contestants believed the tie-breaker would be pulling stones, and was instead the fire-building challenge. Actually, much of the strategy in Australian Outback and Africa was based on the survivors knowing that a tiebreaker involved who had the most previous votes. Tina from the Australian Outback managed to give her tribe, Ogakor, a majority during the merge when she tricked Kimmi from Kucha into revealing who had the most votes from Kucha.
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Survivor / int_1869b4b1	type	Unreliable Narrator
Survivor / int_1869b4b1	comment	Unreliable Narrator: Jeff Probst, occasionally. Most blatantly in the previouslies. His intense dislike for Gabon's Fang tribe during recaps became increasingly obvious during the season, mainly because of their Ulong-reminiscent losing streak. Occasionally, the editors have a bit of fun with this. In One World, contestants said that Christina was lazy. Yet they overlapped this with footage of her working. Debbie in Game Changers gets so bad at this at one point that they actually include flashbacks for the first and only time to make a joke out of it. For a challenge she asks to be the one to do the balance beam portion, then fails at it extremely badly and her tribe loses. Afterwards, she gets extremely mad at Brad Culpepper and says he forced her to do the balance part against her will (cue flashback to her asking to do it). Then she blames the loss on Sierra and says claims she got through the balance portion in seconds and Sierra failed (cue flashback to the Sierra having zero issues and Debbie failing).
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Survivor / int_18d15922	type	Title Drop
Survivor / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The show's (occasionally bizarre) official titles for episodes are derived from players' quotes in the respective episodes. Of course, many of the chosen quotes mark critical moments in the game. Once Survivor stopped going to new locations they added gimmicks instead. These gimmicks get name-dropped constantly each season. In Worlds Apart everyone is constantly talking about the collar and in David vs Goliath they rarely stop talking about being "A David".
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Survivor / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
Survivor / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: There are such contestants; even Colby Donaldson didn't seem to mind about Tina Wesson winning Australian Outback. Some people have actually been alright with being voted out by someone they consider a Worthy Opponent. Lillian Morris from Pearl Island picked Sandra Diaz-Twine to go to the final jury over Jonny Fairplay, knowing she would have likely lost to either, and instead wanted to make sure Fairplay didn't win.
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Survivor / int_19ebe383	type	Never Trust a Trailer
Survivor / int_19ebe383	comment	Never Trust a Trailer: Discount most of what a preview or commercial tells you will happen next episode except for an injury or medical emergency. This was particularly obvious during Russell Hantz's first two seasons, where every preview made it appear that he was in mortal danger of being voted out next week and he rarely was.
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Survivor / int_1ba34641	type	The Glomp
Survivor / int_1ba34641	comment	The Glomp: Sarah Dawson gives an epic one to Jeff Probst at the Philippines reunion show.
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Survivor / int_1bdbbbae	type	The Klutz
Survivor / int_1bdbbbae	comment	The Klutz: Boo Bernis in Fiji was infamous for stumbling a lot during his season. Less funny when he tore his ACL, and otherwise being a threat to comp out and win the season.
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Survivor / int_1c0dbffc	type	Pyromaniac
Survivor / int_1c0dbffc	comment	Pyromaniac: Butch Lockley on the Amazon became one during the latter days of his season when the wilderness started getting to him, with hilarious if tragic results. Happens again in Nicaragua, when a tribe tries to shelter their fire from the elements... with materials that happen to be flammable.
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Survivor / int_1c21e3fb	type	The Place
Survivor / int_1c21e3fb	comment	The Place: Many of the earlier seasons were given this form of subtitle. It has since dropped off due to the series starting to use the same location every year.
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Survivor / int_1c5599e4	type	Reformed, but Rejected
Survivor / int_1c5599e4	comment	Jerri Manthey has one of the longest, and simultaneously heartbreaking, and finally heartwarming examples over three seasons. When The Australian Outback aired, she was seen as one of the most despicable people in America thanks to contemporary aversion to strategy types. In All-Stars she became Reformed, but Rejected and was booed off the stage after making a fairly accurate comment about people not being the audience's playthings. Many many years later she came back for Heroes vs Villains where after being put on a tribe of Villains, being one of the nicest people out there (even compared to the Heroes), and comes so close to winning, she's finally cheered by the audience and has finally become a fan favorite.
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Survivor / int_1c571556	type	The Tease
Survivor / int_1c571556	comment	The Tease: Parvati Shallow deliberately plays the role in just about any season she's in (Cook Islands, Micronesia, Heroes vs. Villains, and Winners at War). Kimmi Kappenberg on Australian Outback told her teammates that if she was still on the show by her birthday, she would spend the day "in her birthday suit" to celebrate. That was a ways away, and she ended up being voted out before her birthday.
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Survivor / int_1d91d828	type	Deadly Game
Survivor / int_1d91d828	comment	Deadly Game: While not outright life-threatening, the physical exertion required in challenges combined with the near-starvation conditions and oppressive heat present in many seasons have definitely taken their toll on the contestants. Not to mention the possibility of contracting foreign diseases. Lex from Africa was apparently sick for months after the game with a variety of illnesses and Daniel Lue, an early castoff from Amazon contracted malaria. Sandra was asked to return in All Stars but said she was still recovering from parasites she had contracted in Pearl Islands. Marquesas, while not deadly, still had discomfort caused by bugs so the location will never be used again. However, some contestants have had brushes his death mid-season, including Mike Skupin in Australia who got dreary from smoke inhalation while working on a fire and partially FELL INTO IT. Fortunately for Skupin, his glasses and hat hit the fire before his face, but he still took third-degree burns to his arms and spent three weeks in a burn unit. All of the medical evacuations fall into this - Jonathan's Knee and Joe's leg probably count as well; seeing as these were considered life-threatening. It's actually mentioned there's quite a bit of Dangerous Terrain; which is a bit of a risk and often an obstacle to finding good places to film the show. Samoa, for example, is a good place for a show, but the contestants have been apparently ordered to stay within 20-30 feet of the shore (in the ocean) because the waters are actually quite turbulent, and there's the risk of riptides and undertow. It didn't show up much in Samoa and Heroes vs. Villains, but one of the show's best swimmers (Ozzy) in the South Pacific season shows exactly how big the waves are...and how beautiful the ocean around the islands are. Some contestants actually have sustained injuries that followed them outside the game. The first person eliminated from Guatemala had torn his bicep in a challenge (after the hike). Months later, he was interviewed, and his arm was still in a splint. (It should be noted that he was actually one of the oldest contestants that season, which slowed down the healing process) Ian from Palau stated that he has nerve damage in parts of his feet from the nearly-12-hour-long-endurance challenge. In addition to disgusting water and oppressive heat, Africa also featured the unique risk of being eaten by lions. The tribes were actually responsible for building a barrier around their camp to keep predators out and Mark Burnett actually yelled at Boran for not doing so and risking the lives of his crew. In the fourth episode of Kaoh Rong, THREE people went down after the reward challenge due to intense heat and strain on their bodies and the entire crew had to get involved to check on the contestants, with one ultimately getting evacuated after his kidney and liver failed.
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Survivor / int_1dcd2d70	type	Obstacle Exposition
Survivor / int_1dcd2d70	comment	Obstacle Exposition: Before every challenge with very few exceptions, the players (and the viewers) are informed of the challenge's rules through an expository spiel by Jeff Probst.
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Survivor / int_1dd14f5a	type	I Surrender, Suckers
Survivor / int_1dd14f5a	comment	I Surrender, Suckers: Some of those who find hidden immunity idols want to encourage others to try to vote against them. They may talk of being ready to leave, irritate tribemates, or otherwise draw drama and disfavor. Having allies reinforce these perceptions can help. If the finders can attract enough soon-to-be-worthless votes in this way, the Idol holder's partner(s) can complete the minority that ends up controlling the vote. Amanda Kimmel did this brilliantly in Micronesia and didn't even have to lie to keep her plan with Parvati a secret. She didn't find the idol in exile...because it was hidden at camp.
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Survivor / int_1e1aa82a	type	Diabolus ex Machina
Survivor / int_1e1aa82a	comment	In the penultimate episode of Caramoan, Brenda Lowe was put into an impossible situation (see Diabolus ex Machina above) and tried her hardest to make things up to Dawn Meehan, even easing up during the challenge so Dawn could take immunity. And Dawn still helped vote her out that night.
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Survivor / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
Survivor / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Ace Gordon was evicted from Gabon because Sugar Kiper betrayed him at tribal council. Pixellation makes the vote card appear a bit blurry, but Sugar's vote read "Ace-Hole". A Nicaragua challenge had the players make their way through barriers: first a haystack, then wooden rods and then a brick wall.
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Survivor / int_1faf34ad	type	Prisoner's Dilemma
Survivor / int_1faf34ad	comment	Prisoner's Dilemma: Survivor 41 features these as a regular mechanic, as each episode takes a handful of players from different tribes and tells them to each make a decision which will be affected by the other players' choices. For instance, the first two episodes had "Protect Your Vote" (nothing happens, good or bad) versus "Risk Your Vote" (get an extra Tribal Council vote for later use if someone else chose to Protect, but if all players Risk then they lose their votes in their next Council(s) instead).
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Survivor / int_20210131	type	Poor, Predictable Rock
Survivor / int_20210131	comment	Poor, Predictable Rock: Three out of three times (Samoa, Heroes vs. Villains, and Redemption Island) now, Russell Hantz's alliance strategy is "find some pretty little bimbo that I can manipulate". It didn't work the first two times, both of the girls were at least as savvy as he was, and it actively backfired when they manipulated him and one even won! The third time around, he managed to pick a properly empty-headed pretty girl and an ignorant girl who was almost as bad at the social game as he was. Unfortunately for him, the other members of his tribe knew what he was up to from the start and kicked him out early - the tribe even lampshaded in the first or second episode that he was probably collecting a harem as they spoke. And since the girls actually were just lackeys this time, they were no help in convincing the others to keep him around.
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Survivor / int_21c05222	type	Long-Runners
Survivor / int_21c05222	comment	Long-Runners: Over forty one seasons (21 years) and counting. To put it in perspective: the youngest contestant from season 33 (Millennials vs. Gen X) was only 2 years old when the first season was airing. Starting around Survivor 41, contestants who weren't even born when Survivor first aired started to appear.
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Survivor / int_21e5b9c7	type	Failed a Spot Check
Survivor / int_21e5b9c7	comment	In Micronesia, Eliza Orlins immediately realizes that Jason Siska's "hidden immunity idol" is just a poorly carved stick. It had been planted on Exile Island by Ozzy, who didn't even take making it seriously. She plays it at Tribal Council anyway, hoping that something "miraculous" would happen. Once Jeff confirms that Jason's been suckered, Eliza promptly blabs that Ozzy must have the real Idol.
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Survivor / int_21ef4ccd	type	Good Is Not Dumb
Survivor / int_21ef4ccd	comment	Good Is Not Dumb: Natalie White and Brett Clouse in Samoa; the former used Russell's scheming against him for her own benefit, and the latter managed to outstay the Pagonging of his tribe. Also "Fabio" Birza in Nicaragua, who had a "lovable goof" personality but was reasonably game-savvy and combined the two to get the win.
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Survivor / int_22569655	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Survivor / int_22569655	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: Intended to be invoked in One World, where the two tribes are sharing a living space, but subverted as the tribes set up separate camps next to each other instead of living as one group. Subverted with the Casaya tribe in Panama. Despite them being an extremely dysfunctional and combative tribe, they all managed to work together well enough in challenges to Team Kill the more peaceful and coherent La Mina tribe. This was the Fatal Flaw of the Timbiras in Tocantins, with Coach and Brendan jockeying for the alpha male position, and Erinn and especially Sierra getting the All of the Other Reindeer treatment. The tribe was in a big enough division, that come the merge, the incoming Jalapaos (who were in the minority) exploited the tribe's "factions" and easily picked off the Timbiras one-by-one.
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Survivor / int_22a27b19	type	Alpha Bitch
Survivor / int_22a27b19	comment	NaOnka Mixon from Nicaragua and Alicia Rosa from One World are teachers (physical education and special education, respectively), but demonstrated things kids probably shouldn't be learning. Namely, NaOnka had a bad attitude towards a disabled tribemate (and everyone else, but the disability rivalry stood out) and quit at the expense of her team, while Alicia spent much of her game as a selfish Alpha Bitch.
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Survivor / int_230d64	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!
Survivor / int_230d64	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Some seasons's auctions have sold advantages in Immunity Challenges. These bonuses may take the form of a guaranteed spot in the challenge's last stage, a second chance at its overall goal, or partial credit towards the user's progress in the challenge. In Worlds Apart, one of these turned out to be not a challenge advantage but a Tribal Council advantage, an extra vote to be cast in a future Council. Unfortunately, this is probably what caused the end of the auctions, as the increasingly cutthroat nature of the game made it too common for contestants to hoard money for a possible advantage.
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Survivor / int_2319aa2e	type	All or Nothing
Survivor / int_2319aa2e	comment	All or Nothing: While all the contestants get something for their time (ranging from around $2,500 for last place to $100,000 for the runner-up,) and one can still win the Fan Favorite prize in seasons where it is offered, the prize structure is still essentially winner-take-all.
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Survivor / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
Survivor / int_237404cc	comment	Sandra, in turn, burned Russell's hat at the end of Heroes Vs Villains, something he admitted that he was fazed by, but by then Russell's own behavior had made him an Asshole Victim.
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Survivor / int_23eb99cc	type	Voted Off the Island
Survivor / int_23eb99cc	comment	Amanda Kimmell became the fourth member of the jury in Heroes vs Villains. The catch? This was the first time she was Voted Off the Island in her Survivor career, having been in the final tribal councils of her 2 previous seasons. Even worse: if you total the jury votes she got in her first two tries, the pattern is obvious: she only got a single vote from China, and three from Micronesia. After her boot, she had spent a total of 108 days in her three tries. The numbers are definitely against her that season.
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Survivor / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
Survivor / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: During the Final Tribal Council of Africa, juror Brandon asked Ethan which jury member would be least deserving of being in the Final 2. Ethan bluntly answered "You".
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Survivor / int_246c5b47	type	Ascended Fanboy
Survivor / int_246c5b47	comment	Ascended Fanboy: Unsurprisingly, most people who sign up for the show are already fans of it, and thus any given cast probably has several of these. That said, it wasn't until John Cochran appeared on South Pacific and informed the audience that he had written a prize-winning essay about the show that "superfan" became one of the show's favorite casting archetypes.
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Survivor / int_246c9dc5	type	Unknown Rival
Survivor / int_246c9dc5	comment	Unknown Rival: In Micronesia, Jason Siska compared himself to Ozzy Lusth and wished to overtake him. He just never brought this up to Ozzy, who wound up leaving the game before hearing about it. Russell Hantz to Boston Rob, at least in the early stages of Heroes Vs Villains (but certainly no longer unknown in Redemption Island). Early in Nicaragua ep. 1, two of the La Flor "alpha males" agree to avoid this, after noting that Russell and Boston Rob could have done even better if they had been partners in Heroes vs. Villains. Jeff Kent in Philippines was focused on making sure that none of the returning players won over the newbies, with much of his attention directed towards Jonathan Penner, whom he was on the same starting tribe as throughout the tribal portion of the game. Several of his confessions throughout the season revolve around targeting Penner and planning for his demise. Penner, however, had no idea of Kent's obsession with him, as the two formed an alliance early on and Penner's discovery of the immunity idol made blindsiding him very difficult, forcing Kent to play nice and use Penner as a shield in the meantime. It reaches its head in the second tribal after the merge, where Penner inadvertently gets Kent eliminated,note At the final ten, Penner and Kent were part of a tentative alliance of five that were set to vote together against Pete, while the opposing five would vote for Kent, forcing a tie and leading to either someone flipping their vote or a rock draw. Penner tossed a stray vote to Abi-Maria instead, splitting the alliance's support and allowing enough votes to land on Kent to get him out leaving Penner mostly unaware of their feud until the game had wrapped up.
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Survivor / int_2536f695	type	Game-Breaker
Survivor / int_2536f695	comment	Game-Breaker: In-Universe. The hidden immunity idol in Panama and Cook Islands. In Panama it kept outsider Terry Deitz from being easily defeated by a majority alliance, and Cook Islands' Yul Kwon used it strategically to sway Jonathan Penner, but it otherwise made both invincible at the latter half of the game. You can see why they added a rule stating you can only use it until the final six, and why it had to be used BEFORE votes are counted.
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Survivor / int_26589ace	type	Show the Folks at Home
Survivor / int_26589ace	comment	Show the Folks at Home: During the Tribal vote, each castaway stands at a Confession Cam to explain the reasoning behind his or her vote and show his or her ballot. Though time prohibits airing everybody's speech and showing all the votes would kill the tension for the ceremony itself, the remaining votes are quickly shown as a montage at the end of the show. This sometimes fuels additional drama by revealing a traitor, but it also proves that the producers didn't change the outcome.
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Survivor / int_2673425b	type	Kid Hero
Survivor / int_2673425b	comment	Kid Hero: Spencer Duhm from Tocantins, Natalie Tenerelli from Redemption Island and Brandon Hantz from South Pacific were all 19 years old at the time of filming. Will Wahl from Millenials vs Gen X took this even further, being 18 at the time of filming, and the first ever castaway to play the game while still in high school.
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Survivor / int_2676e225	type	Girl Posse
Survivor / int_2676e225	comment	Girl Posse: Several alliances: Jenna Morasca, Heidi Strobel, and Shawna Mitchell from The Amazon. Emphasis on girl, given the younger age of most of the cast. The Yasur Alliance from Vanuatu. Notable for being run by seemingly-misandrist Ami Cusack, giving them an Amazon Brigade vibe. The Black Widow Brigade from the latter half of Micronesia. Andrea Boehlke, Natalie Tenerelli, and Ashley Underwood from Redemption Island. Only Ashley was all that great at challenges, but each made it far into the game. The Salani Five from One World, arguably the most successful female alliance in Survivor history. The Witches Coven from Cambodia, consisting of Kelley Wentworth, Ciera Eastin, and Abi-Maria Gomes. The Dara Women alliance from KaÃ´h RÅ�ng.
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Survivor / int_2683e0ec	type	Island Help Message
Survivor / int_2683e0ec	comment	Island Help Message: Some of the challenges have involved building these, fitting the general "castaway" theme.
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Survivor / int_2711e392	type	The Complainer Is Always Wrong
Survivor / int_2711e392	comment	The Complainer Is Always Wrong: As good as reason as any to kick someone out early, or condescedingly keep them around as a goat sure to lose in the finals. For example, why Jimmy Tarantino was booted in Nicaragua.
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Survivor / int_27a0daff	type	OddlyNamedSequel
Survivor / int_27a0daff	comment	Oddly Named Sequel: Most early seasons were named after their location, but then we have the returning-contestant seasons of All-Stars and Heroes Vs Villains. Panama is also known by the subtitle Exile Island, its gimmick. (Micronesia similarly used to be known as Fans vs. Favorites, but with Caramoan using the same gimmick and subtitle the location is now necessary to differentiate.) Eventually, due to most seasons filming in Samoa or Fiji, titles based on the gimmicks became commonplace and are no longer "odd". Then, in a first for the series, the season after Winners at War was simply titled Survivor 41.
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Survivor / int_2867ed5f	type	Too Cool to Live
Survivor / int_2867ed5f	comment	Too Cool to Live: The strong, cool and outstanding players are In-Universe usually the first ones to be targeted for elimination (post-merge) by their fellow castaways because they see him/her as a great threat in the game. Usually leads to a Shocking Elimination.
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Survivor / int_28a5213a	type	Small Name, Big Ego
Survivor / int_28a5213a	comment	Russell Hantz of Samoa and Heroes vs. Villains, being a huge manipulator, backstabber, and having an ego the size of the island he's living on.
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Survivor / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Survivor / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Most of the tribe names that aren't simply the names of local islands or cities are words in the native language. Our recap page lists all the tribe names and their meanings. In an interesting twist, occasionally a merged tribe is named something that a contestant claims to be meaningful, but is really just a bad pun or a shout-out to their family.
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Survivor / int_29f510be	type	Auction
Survivor / int_29f510be	comment	Auction: This was a commonly recurring "challenge" up until Worlds Apart (Season 30). Mystery Box: Jeff typically pulls out several covered items during auctions. It's usually either something absolutely disgusting (pond water, plant roots), or the best thing at the auction (steak and fully loaded baked potato, a full breakfast plate). Screw the Rules, I Have Money!: Some seasons's auctions have sold advantages in Immunity Challenges. These bonuses may take the form of a guaranteed spot in the challenge's last stage, a second chance at its overall goal, or partial credit towards the user's progress in the challenge. In Worlds Apart, one of these turned out to be not a challenge advantage but a Tribal Council advantage, an extra vote to be cast in a future Council. Unfortunately, this is probably what caused the end of the auctions, as the increasingly cutthroat nature of the game made it too common for contestants to hoard money for a possible advantage. Zonk: At least one useless item shows up per auction, always hidden in one of the above-mentioned Mystery Boxes. Subverted in Worlds Apart, where Will Sims bought himself a disqualification from the auction and was sent back to camp... where production had hidden a large stash of extra rations for him to find.
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Survivor / int_2a02e5c9	type	Guile Hero
Survivor / int_2a02e5c9	comment	Sandra Diaz-Twine, in Heroes vs. Villains, after the merge. Before the merge, Tyson Apostol's boneheaded moves destroyed her original alliance, and post-merge the Heroes completely botched every attempt to carry out her plans. In spite of it all, she managed to win for the second time.
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Survivor / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Survivor / int_2a090d00	comment	Take Chase Rice and Sash Lenahan's loyalty to Brenda Lowe in Nicaragua, for example, as detailed by Brenda herself:
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Survivor / int_2a6da241	type	Obituary Montage
Survivor / int_2a6da241	comment	Obituary Montage: In "Heroes vs. Villains", there's a reunion that features a brief Good-Times Montage for the late Jenn Lyon, with warm and respectful words from Jeff Probst (who met up with her after she left her season).
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Survivor / int_2a7e7af1	type	Limited Wardrobe
Survivor / int_2a7e7af1	comment	Limited Wardrobe: Justified, since the contestants only get to bring the clothes on their back. However in some seasons contestants, typically female, use buffs in new and interesting ways to create the appearance of different clothing.
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Survivor / int_2b1c4491	type	Anti-Rage Quitting
Survivor / int_2b1c4491	comment	Anti-Rage Quitting: After two players quit at the same time in Nicaragua, a rule was introduced that considers quitting a violation of the players' contract, and allows the producers to withhold their consolation prize, and if applicable, their spot on the jury.note Voted out players leaving the Edge of Extinction is considered okay. This may be waived if the producers feel the quitter had a valid reason for doing so, such as an injury serious enough to demand treatment, but not life-threatening to necessitate a medical evacuation. Also note that no player has reappeared on the show after quitting the game.
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Survivor / int_2b694b8	type	Flawless Victory
Survivor / int_2b694b8	comment	Flawless Victory: Earl Cole from Fiji, J.T. Thomas from Tocantins, John Cochran from Caramoan, and Jeremy Collins from Cambodia. Each got 100% of the votes-to-win in their respective final tribal councils. Winners with a No-Damage Run but uneven finale votes may also count, namely: Tina Wesson (The Australian Outback), Ethan Zohn (Africa), Brian Heidik (Thailand), Sandra Diaz-Twine (Pearl Islands), Tom Westman (Palau), andd Natalie Anderson (San Juan Del Sur). Plus, everyone with a Flawless Victory except Earl Cole, who only got one vote anyway.
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Survivor / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Survivor / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Trying to play a VERY strong physical game in the early parts of the game. Unfortunately, this winds up depleting your body (and possibly causes your body to consume muscle if you're male and don't have as much fat) and either causes you to slow down, get sick and either lead to you being Voted Off the Island or even worse, a Non-Gameplay Elimination. And unless you can carry yourself with immunity wins; you'll be seen as a threat around the merge.
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Survivor / int_2f253c94	type	Glass Cannon
Survivor / int_2f253c94	comment	Glass Cannon: Boston Rob. He is an extremely formidable player when things are going his way but he is easily dispatched if put on the defensive. This is because his core strategy is being intimidating enough to make everyone believe they're the target of his alliance, even if they're in it. See All-Stars and Redemption Island for the former, Marquesas, Heroes vs Villains and Winners at War for the latter.
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Survivor / int_309b8806	type	Cursed with Awesome
Survivor / int_309b8806	comment	Cursed with Awesome: Players considered to have strong athletic, social, or strategic prowess are likely to get voted out before making it to the final jury. This led producers to move from a Final 2 to a Final 3, so there would be more than one compelling choice in the finals.
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Survivor / int_30d1e0df	type	Full-Name Basis
Survivor / int_30d1e0df	comment	If you're named "Jeff", be prepared to have a nickname. Jeff Probst isn't always referred to on a Full-Name Basis, and it's why Varner is never called by his first name.
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Survivor / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Survivor / int_30d2ae29	comment	Happened twice in a row at the beginning of Nicaragua. As a result of panicking over her vulnerability before and during Tribal Council, Wendy DeSmidt-Kohlhoff fell victim to this in episode 1, and was first to be evicted. Ironically, she had admitted (before the vote) that her chattiness was often irritating; she didn't say much early on, but it was enough to give an impression of being odd. In episode 2, alpha male Shannon Elkins went on a rant that included homophobic comments, likely turning what would have been a tie into his own ouster.
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Survivor / int_313d7228	type	Previously onâ€¦
Survivor / int_313d7228	comment	Previously onâ€¦: There is a recap nearly every episode, but it has been accused of being biased and not very truthful.
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Survivor / int_318d4432	type	Tropical Island Adventure
Survivor / int_318d4432	comment	Tropical Island Adventure: Most of the series is set on tropical islands in Oceania and Southeast Asia, with Pearl Islands, All-Stars, and Panama also set in the Pearl Islands off the southern coast of Panama.
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Survivor / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
Survivor / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Natalie Bolton sums up the Micronesia women's intentions in ep. 11:
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Survivor / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Survivor / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Some players love pairing fellow contestants for some reason, such as Cirie for Amanda and Ozzy (and jokingly Erik and Ozzy) in Micronesia.
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Survivor / int_32821ceb	type	The Unintelligible
Survivor / int_32821ceb	comment	The Unintelligible: Big Tom Buchanan of Africa and All-Stars. To quote Jeff Probst: Rupert Boneham could go this way too, as well as Chicken Morris in China, although Chicken only lasted one episode and Rupert was only that way sometimes.
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Survivor / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Survivor / int_32da91b8	comment	Thanks to being Out of Focus in Samoa, Kelly Sharbaugh. Apparently, Kelly was such a huge threat to Foa Foa that they needed to take her out second (after Erik Cardona), but thanks to a blatantly severe lack of screentime, it's impossible to tell why. However, the reason why she was edited poorly was because of the way she was taken out of the game; they didn't want the audience to be too disappointed with her elimination so they made her as much of a non-entity as they could.
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Survivor / int_33f095a8	type	Jaded Washout
Survivor / int_33f095a8	comment	Jaded Washout: Eternally-miserable Randy Bailey from Gabon and arguably blunt army man Frank Garrison from Africa.
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Survivor / int_34082c59	type	Wolverine Publicity
Survivor / int_34082c59	comment	Wolverine Publicity: Until Russell Hantz came along, Rupert Boneham was easily the Survivor poster boy for this trope. He was so overexposed during his original two seasons (Pearl Islands and All-Stars), in fact, that at one point he was handing out the checks to the winners. Russell Hantz vs Boston Rob in Redemption Island. Subverted in Russell's case when most of his tribe decided to go Off the Rails and eject him ASAP. Within the larger "CBS Reality Show" family, Boston Rob and Amber Brkich got to go on The Amazing Race while they were at the height of their popularity. They also got to go on their All-Stars season. South Pacific continued to sponge off of Russell's infamy. He didn't come back again, but the cast included his nephew, Brandon Hantz. And Russell got namedropped some more when Brandon came back again in Caramoan. Big Brother also had Russell's brother and Brandon's uncle, Willie Hantz.
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Survivor / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
Survivor / int_34dcfc96	comment	Kick the Dog: There are a lot of Jerk Asses on this show, but if you really want viewers to hate you, either tell fake sob stories for sympathy and brag about it in confessional (like Johnny Fairplay in Pearl Islands and Russell Hantz) or make racist comments, sexist (misogynist, or otherwise bigoted (such as NaOnka Mixon's rants against Kelly Bruno for being an amputee in Nicaragua). Other unforgivable sins include but aren't limited to: betraying someone directly after they went out of their way to save you or your ally (Boston Rob to Lex van den Berghe in All-Stars), hiding food from people not in your alliance (Ami Cusack to all the men in Vanuatu), and not giving up your reward for supplies even after you announced your intention to quit (NaOnka again), or targeting out a non-threat that everyone likes just to spite them (John Carroll causing Gabriel Cade's elimination in Marquesas). Dreamz Herd forever doomed himself into being The Worst Guy Ever in Fiji. Yau-Man Chan, an Badass Adorable grandpa and fan favorite, had won an SUV in a reward challenge. Seeing no possible use for it because he already had a decent car, he gave it to Dreamz in exchange for a promise: if he won that night's immunity challenge, Dreamz would give the immunity to him. Dreamz won immunity... and kept it. Yau-Man got voted out right then. To Dreamz's credit, Yau-Man had done the ploy to exploit Dreamz, and said he was surprized he got edited favorably during it. In the penultimate episode of Caramoan, Brenda Lowe was put into an impossible situation (see Diabolus ex Machina above) and tried her hardest to make things up to Dawn Meehan, even easing up during the challenge so Dawn could take immunity. And Dawn still helped vote her out that night. In the first challenge of Heroes vs Villains, the Villains go on a dog-kicking spree, with Courtney yelling "Break her shoulder!" to her team, Parvati Shallow dislocating Stephenie LaGrossa's shoulder, Russell Hantz brutally twisting Tom Westman's leg, and Sandra Diaz-Twine deliberately unhooking Sugar Kiper's top.
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Survivor / int_35543514	type	Just Eat Gilligan
Survivor / int_35543514	comment	Just Eat Gilligan: There are numerous seasons where the audience is saying "Come on! VOTE OUT THIS GUY!" at the TV. Vanuatu: Vote out Chris Daugherty! He will take advantage of your infighting, worry about the alliance later! Samoa and Heroes Vs Villains: You know Russell is trouble! Dump him! Thankfully, the Redemption Island cast took notes, but... Redemption Island: Vote out Boston Rob, he's playing all of you! South Pacific: Vote out Coach, he's doing the same thing Rob did! Oh wait a second... One World: Vote out Kim Spradlin! She's the most dominant player in the season and knows you don't know!
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Survivor / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Survivor / int_364b9be6	comment	Brian Heidik in Thailand was gloating in the penultimate episode about why he wouldn't lose and starts to count down on his fingers the ways he's manipulated everyone in Chuay Gahn into doing his bidding. By the time he's gotten to Clay Jordan, Brian inadvertently was Flipping the Bird to the camera; but it seemed like he meant he was doing it to Clay, who was the other finalist.
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Survivor / int_372c3848	type	Memory Match Mini-Game
Survivor / int_372c3848	comment	Memory Match Mini-Game: Occasionally, one of the challenges will have contestants unveil covered items, with the goal of finding matching pairs. In Samoa, tribes could opt to keep whichever items they matched should they win reward, at the cost of having it count towards their score.
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Survivor / int_375bb8f2	type	Good Is Dumb
Survivor / int_375bb8f2	comment	Good Is Dumb: Most of the cast of Samoa, with the major exceptions of Natalie White, Brett Clouser, and Russell Hantz (all of which are not dumb, and Russell is also not good). Also the Heroes tribe in Heroes Vs Villains, considering they went along with J.T.'s plan to give Russell Hantz an idol.
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Survivor / int_381855db	type	Five-Second Foreshadowing
Survivor / int_381855db	comment	Five-Second Foreshadowing: In 41, when Danny McCray mentions the possibility of Erika Casupanan pulling out an idol, Naseer Muttalif snickers a little. During the next challenge, Naseer gets a confessional and it turns out he found the idol.
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Survivor / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Survivor / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: Many, but the Ur-Example is almost certainly when Richard threw the last competition of Borneo. He waited deliberately until Jeff came in with a temptation (in this case they were oranges), and stepped right off the platform, waiting for either Rudy or Kelly to win. If Kelly won (which Richard was banking on given that she's younger than Rudy), she takes Richard to the finals on the assumption that the jury would hate Richard for pagonging them all. If Rudy won, he takes Richard to the final two out of loyalty, in which case Richard believed he would lose. In either case, Richard doesn't have to get his hands dirty and potentially lose a jury vote (whether it was Rudy or Kelly who eventually left), and since he is a better public speaker than either, he could very well win against Rudy as well.
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Survivor / int_38f1a7ed	type	Defector from Decadence
Survivor / int_38f1a7ed	comment	Defector from Decadence: In the middle of one Palau challenge, Gregg Carey once promised Katie Gallagher that he wouldn't hasten her loss; since protecting Jenn Lyon was always his top priority, he was later forced to go back on his word. Katie happily forgave him when Gregg invited her and Jenn to join him for the overnight cruise. This didn't stop her from agreeing to blindside Gregg at the next vote, however.
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Survivor / int_391d6577	type	Sequel Escalation
Survivor / int_391d6577	comment	Sequel Escalation: The locations for the first three seasons became progressively harder for the contestants to live in. During Borneo, the contestants were merely very uncomfortable. During Australian Outback, Elisabeth almost died of starvation, Barramundi's camp was completely flooded out, and early on there were wildfires near Ogakor's campsite. During Africa, which had the most oppressive heat of any season by far, several contestants contracted various illnesses which took them months or even years to recover from, not to mention the extreme scarcity of water and the very likely chance that one of the players could have been eaten by one of the wild animals roaming around. Season 4, which was supposed to take place in Jordan (apparently it was supposed to be called ''Survivor: Arabia") would have continued this escalation, but the events of September 11th stopped this dead in its tracks.
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Survivor / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
Survivor / int_3946634e	comment	Parvati Shallow during Cook Islands was seen as merely a flirty girl who was on a losing tribe, which itself was overshadowed by Yul Kwon and Ozzy Lusth. But during her first return to Micronesia, she managed to use her unassuming reputation to great effect, and built an all-female alliance which took her to the finale and eventually a victory. Her reputation grew even more during Heroes vs Villains when she herself managed to overshadow the self-described "best player ever" Russell Hantz in strategy, making several ingenious moves and also overcoming the bias other players had against her. She didn't win this season, but she did come in second, and many believe that she was more deserving overall than either Sandra Diaz-Twine (who also had already won) or Russell Hantz (who was considered a goat).
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Survivor / int_39b8d3d6	type	Boring, but Practical
Survivor / int_39b8d3d6	comment	Boring, but Practical: Pagonging. Essentially, if you control a majority and remove all the other alliances and the floaters, you can waltz to a game milestone almost completely unopposed. Editors wouldn't like this strategy as it can make a season quite boring. Thankfully, it's only happened in its entirety in Borneo, Thailand, Cook Islands, Redemption Island, and South Pacific. And YMMV on Cook Islands since the tribe doing the Pagonging was actually an underdog. Also downplayed in South Pacific, where Redemption Island allowed Ozzy to return and make it to the Final Four. Obfuscating Stupidity or/and The Quiet One as a strategy. The editors don't like it unless you're doing something amusing like Fabio did in Nicaragua (look how little screentime Vecepia, Brett, and Natalie got!), but when the other players think you're stupid/easy to beat, then if you play your cards right you'll be dragged along and possibly the last man out of your alliance. Natalie's strategy in Winners at War throughout the Edge of Extinction: Hoard fire tokens, then use them all on protein and advantages in the final challenge during the last day you can spend them. It's undoubtedly the optimal way to play with the Edge of Extinction and fire tokens in the game, but that doesn't make it particularly exciting to watch.
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Survivor / int_3abfffa4	type	DavidVsGoliath
Survivor / int_3abfffa4	comment	David vs. Goliath: The theme and title of Season 37; which pits a tribe of "Goliaths" who gained success with improbable advantages, against "Davids" who had to overcome adversity to get where they are in life.
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Survivor / int_3b16449	type	Plot Tumor
Survivor / int_3b16449	comment	Plot Tumor: In some seasons, the influence of the hidden immunity idol becomes so important that it's hard to imagine the boot order occurring even remotely like it actually did if the idol wasn't in place. It must be slightly jarring for modern viewers to imagine that once upon a time, there were no idols.
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Survivor / int_3b4f620a	type	No Fourth Wall
Survivor / int_3b4f620a	comment	No Fourth Wall: Generally defied; despite Survivor being a program with real-life contestants stranded in harsh real-life conditions, many of the earlier seasons try to make it a point of editing out any references to past seasons of Survivor, or even the fact that they are being filmed for TV. The most obvious exception to this rule happens to be from the very first season, Borneo. Not only are there frequent references to the fact that the show they are participating in will soon be seen by millions of TV audience members, but the players also don't even know most of the terminology for the show's set pieces. The Tribal Council is sometimes interchangeably called both the "Island Council" and the "Immunity Council", and BB calls the Immunity Challenge that his tribe is about to attend the "Indemnity" Challenge, although in context calling the challenge an "Indemnity Challenge" would actually make just as much sense. In a later episode, Kelly says that "We're not evil, we just play bad people on TV!"; and in the episode before that, Colleen makes fun of the upcoming trivia-based reward challenge by saying that they already are on a game show. The trope is sometimes played straight in later seasons, as superfans are generally allowed to make references to prior seasons, to establish their character as such.
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Survivor / int_3bebfcc0	type	Living Lie Detector
Survivor / int_3bebfcc0	comment	Living Lie Detector: The biggest asset of Sandra Diaz-Twine; who's scoffed through lies by designated villains Jonny Fairplay, Burton Roberts, and Russell Hantz that weren't sussed out by the other contestants until after the season aired. Her capacity to play along with these lies before using them against her opponents often leads to a game of Xanatos Speed Chess. She won twice, and one of those was in the particularly twisted Heroes vs. Villains season, packed with series' veterans.
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Survivor / int_3c0a4666	type	Noodle Incident
Survivor / int_3c0a4666	comment	Noodle Incident: Jake Billingsley's adventure stories during Episode 9 of Thailand apparently involve him fighting off men with alligators and doing something nefarious in the middle of an airport (according to Clay and Ted), but unlike Coach in seasons later, we never got to hear exactly what he said.
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Survivor / int_3c3f28a5	type	Blessed with Suck
Survivor / int_3c3f28a5	comment	Blessed with Suck: Assuming they make the merge, players who are considered unimpressive or unpopular are likely to be brought to the end because they are considered easily beatable. This is occasionally subverted, as other players recognize that others wanting to take these "goats" to the end actually made them threatening because it increased one's own likelihood of getting voted out; examples include Courtney Marit from Panama and Abi Maria Gomes in Second Chances.
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Survivor / int_3d038b36	type	Rhetorical Question Blunder
Survivor / int_3d038b36	comment	Rhetorical Question Blunder: in Nicaragua, Fabio is upset with Sash after he goes back on his word to take him along on the family reward challenge. When Sash returns, Fabio asks him how it was. When Sash tells him it was great, Fabio responds by telling him that he knew it was great; he was just calling him out with a rhetorical question.
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Survivor / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Survivor / int_3d699462	comment	The tribe merge, where all the players are brought together into a single tribe for the rest of the game. This also includes a feast for everyone on merge day in place of a reward challenge. The only time a merge hasn't happened was during Palau, due to a severe Curb-Stomp Battle. And even then, buffs were made in advance for a presumed merger.
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Survivor / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
Survivor / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: But just as many survivors will return even kinder than before, such as Jerri who was hated in Australian Outback and All-Stars for her Jerkass attitude, but became the beloved "sweetheart" in Heroes Vs. Villains. Or Boston Rob who, as mentioned above, was awful in All-Stars, but in Heroes Vs. Villains and Redemption Island became the Team Dad Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
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Survivor / int_3eee0728	type	Captain Obvious
Survivor / int_3eee0728	comment	Captain Obvious: Jeff Probst whenever he announces for a challenge; usually in the form of "Player X, doing Y." After Jonathan Penner got irritated at his announcements during a Cook Islands challenge and told him to shut up, Jeff broke the fourth wall for the first time with this immortal line:
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Survivor / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
Survivor / int_4063acfd	comment	Woman Scorned: As the women of Micronesia are plotting to blindside Jason Siska (who they concede might find an actual immunity idol in exile, for once), Alexis Jones immediately quips "Hell hath no fury".
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Survivor / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
Survivor / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Gabon featured "video messages from home" as a teaser for the 11th Reward Challenge; Jeff claimed that the true Reward would simply be pizza and a longer message, and later told the losers that he had nothing for them. While eating (alone), Bob was pleasantly surprised to see his wife step from behind a nearby tree and led her back to meet the tribe. Then, he turned around, whistled sharply, and the other players' loved ones crested the hill down to the camp.
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Survivor / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Survivor / int_40c57041	comment	In One World, all the males on Manono who aren't "Roosters" align with each other, and Colton, the leader, refers to them as misfits, which they most definitely are. They proceed to vote out the head of the "Rooster" alliance.
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Survivor / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Survivor / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: For everybody who lost the Final Tribal Council. As expressed by several losing finalists, it would be sad when you realize that you lost the title of the Sole Survivor, but at least it is rewarding that you have survived till the final day in an unfamiliar location, and still more cash than those who didn't make it to the jury.
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Survivor / int_41a3e267	type	Hidden in Plain Sight
Survivor / int_41a3e267	comment	Hidden in Plain Sight: The hidden immunity idol is sometimes a blatantly visible item that the contestants simply don't realize is the idol, notably in the China and Philippines seasons. Adam Klein attempted to pull this off in Winners at War, but the item (a fleur-de-lis decoration on Jeff's podium at the Tribal Council area) turned out to be just that: a decoration. He got voted out that night.
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Survivor / int_41f26c58	type	Happy Dance
Survivor / int_41f26c58	comment	Happy Dance: Richard Hatch did one when he won individual immunity in Borneo.
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Survivor / int_43a46119	type	Surrounded by Idiots
Survivor / int_43a46119	comment	Surrounded by Idiots: Joel Klug in Borneo was the only player on Pagong that realized that forming an alliance would be an excellent strategy, as there were rumors of an alliance on the other tribe and they would surely be picked off one-by-one after the impending merge. His idea was shot down in the name of sportsmanship and this was used as part of the reason for sending him home. His tribe went on to fall apart exactly as he predicted (with the MVP of being kicked out immediately) and "Pagonging" entering the Survivor lexicon as the name for a systematic post-merge annihilation. Sandra Diaz-Twine, in Heroes vs. Villains, after the merge. Before the merge, Tyson Apostol's boneheaded moves destroyed her original alliance, and post-merge the Heroes completely botched every attempt to carry out her plans. In spite of it all, she managed to win for the second time. James Clement almost invoked this trope word for word on Fans vs. Favorites, saying something to the effect of "I feel like I am back in China with a bunch of idiots!". Of course, his own actions weren't exactly brilliant.
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Survivor / int_44bd31e2	type	Trope Codifier
Survivor / int_44bd31e2	comment	Thailand winner Brian Heidik is perhaps the Trope Codifier of the show. He never showed any deep care for his alliance members and tribemates and spent the entire game doing things just to advance himself. He just never showed why he did what he did to those who trusted him.
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Survivor / int_44dd01be	type	Tagalong Kid
Survivor / int_44dd01be	comment	Ami Cusack's Yasur Alliance in Vanuatu decided to target Eliza Orlins instead of obvious target Chris Daugherty. Eliza immediately defected to Chris and two other women get rid of Ami and shatter her alliance.
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Survivor / int_44f6517d	type	Beach Episode
Survivor / int_44f6517d	comment	Beach Episode: This is more or less a Beach Series, and the reasoning behind such episodes is part of why there will never be Survivor: The Arctic. Even the ones not actually on beaches tend to be in tropical climates, encouraging players to show some skin.
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Survivor / int_44fc28e8	type	Honor Before Reason
Survivor / int_44fc28e8	comment	Honor Before Reason: Subverted. A lot of contestants talk a big game about how they want to play with honor, but then they vote either according to reason or against whoever annoys them. Coach Wade is one of the biggest examples of this, talking about integrity and warrior's honor incessantly but then not putting it too far ahead of reason. However, a more conventional example of this trope is the finales for The Australian Outback and Pearl Islands, where Colby Donaldson and Lillian Morris took someone to the finals that they knew had a large chance of winning the jury rather than the person they chose to eliminate. Subsequently, Tina Wesson and Sandra Diaz-Twine won their first seasons. Many of the players in the earliest seasons simply refused to make alliances because they either thought: (a) the game element is boring to them (Greg Buis from Borneo), (b) alliances go against their morals (most of the Pagong tribe from Borneo, most contestants from The Australian Outback), or (c) they are trying to play the game in a way that avoids alliance making (Sean Kenniff and Gervase Paterson from Borneo, Gabriel Cade from Marquesas). Most of these attitudes have died out by today, but sometimes a player or two will bring them to a later season. Brandon Hantz was one of the biggest followers of this in South Pacific, often seeming to abandon reason entirely in his attempts to live righteously. It probably wasn't any help to him that sharing a tribe with Coach encouraged this mindset. He arguably kept the mindset in Caramoan, he just had a radically different definition of "honor" then.
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Survivor / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Survivor / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Now and again, one of the jury members will say that one or more of the finalists is this. The reverse is equally true, but it can be the finalists buttering up the jury. An example would be David Murphy from Redemption Island, who was impressed by Boston Rob's game and lamented being placed on the opposite tribe of him.
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Survivor / int_463084f4	type	Giving Someone the Pointer Finger
Survivor / int_463084f4	comment	Giving Someone the Pointer Finger: Alicia's claim to fame in Australia:
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Survivor / int_471a505f	type	Four Is Death
Survivor / int_471a505f	comment	Four Is Death: Marquesas (season 4) fourth placer Paschal English was eliminated in a very controversial manner due to the purple rock. Amanda Kimmell became the fourth member of the jury in Heroes vs Villains. The catch? This was the first time she was Voted Off the Island in her Survivor career, having been in the final tribal councils of her 2 previous seasons. Even worse: if you total the jury votes she got in her first two tries, the pattern is obvious: she only got a single vote from China, and three from Micronesia. After her boot, she had spent a total of 108 days in her three tries. The numbers are definitely against her that season. Cirie Fields was always connected with this number. She placed fourth in Panama (her original season), was part of a dominant Four-Girl Ensemble in Micronesia and was the fourth person eliminated in Heroes vs Villains. Also look at the numbers in between her three seasons (12, 16, 20). Her playing in Season 34 saw her eliminated at 6th place, but she was eliminated by default after the addition of 4 advantages during her final tribal council. Defied by "Boston Rob" Mariano. He was originally from the fourth season (Marquesas), but he finally won the game in his fourth attempt. Rupert Bonham became the first boot of the original Blood vs. Water, his fourth attempt at the game.
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Survivor / int_47becc77	type	Non-Gameplay Elimination
Survivor / int_47becc77	comment	James Clement became a victim of this twice now. The first led to his Non Game Play Elimination in Micronesia, the second had him Mercy Killed by his tribemates in Heroes vs Villains.
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Survivor / int_47d35854	type	Intergenerational Friendship
Survivor / int_47d35854	comment	Intergenerational Friendship: Most of the Cool Old Guys / Ladies and Youngsters can chill out and have fun with one another. Rudy Boesch to anyone he played the game with during both Borneo and All-Stars. Elisabeth Filarski-Hasselbeck and Rodger Bingham in The Australian Outback, with a very touching but purely platonic relationship that lasted their entire game. The majority alliance saved them for fourth and fifth because of how kind (and albeit non-threatening) they were. Neleh Dennis and Paschal English from Marquesas is another prominent example, and maybe one of the most unbreakable mini-alliances in Survivor history. Butch Lockley and Matthew von Ertfelda were both social outcasts with their tribe during the merge in The Amazon, and bonded because of this. It helped they were both avid fishers and saw themselves as a voting bloc. Tom Westman was known for his friendship with a lot of younger players in Palau. Gabon had Bob Crowley and "Sugar" Kiper, as well as Susie Smith and Matty Whitmore. Chase Rice and Jane Bright, as well as Marty Piombo and Jud "Fabio" Birza; both from Nicaragua. Aubry Bracco and Joe Del Campo in KaÃ´h RÅ�ng, who had over a 40 year age difference between them and were tight alliance partners for the majority of the season.
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Survivor / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
Survivor / int_47fea76b	comment	The Matsing ("monkey") tribe in Philippines. Also, Dangrayne. Penner joked that he tried to get the tribe named "Fucking rain" but the producers wouldn't allow it.
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Survivor / int_48218d3d	type	Neutrality Backlash
Survivor / int_48218d3d	comment	Neutrality Backlash: Occasionally, a player will find themselves between two equal alliances. Ignorant ones will consider themselves a swing vote with the luxury of choosing who to align with, but in reality neither side will trust them. On multiple occasions this has ended up with the swing vote getting taken out instead. Christy Smith in The Amazon and "Big" Tom Buchanan in All-Stars were both in this position but misplayed it so badly that the two sides joined together against them.
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Survivor / int_48d87e94	type	Planet of Steves
Survivor / int_48d87e94	comment	Planet of Steves: Samoa and Heroes vs. Villains were together a Planet of Russells. Samoa had Russell Swan, who was medevacked from the game, and the infamous Russell Hantz, who returned in H vs. V. Ponderosa's chef in H vs. V was also named Russell (the jury dubbed him "Good Russell"). Finally, the series' composer, who performs at reunion shows, is Russell "Russ" Landau.
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Survivor / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Survivor / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Especially in the seasons from Gabon onward, which were shot in HD.
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Survivor / int_4b32995a	type	Friend-or-Idol Decision
Survivor / int_4b32995a	comment	Friend-or-Idol Decision: The source of the most contentious drama on the show, where contestants typically choose to cut loose from their alliance for, what they believe to be, a better shot at winning.
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Survivor / int_4bfcfa7c	type	Kansas City Shuffle
Survivor / int_4bfcfa7c	comment	Kansas City Shuffle: Believe it or not, all three parts of this are played perfectly during the Cagayan merge vote: 1) Knowing that it's going to come down to five people on the new Solana vs. six people on the new Aparri, Tony and LJ (the two most typical merge targets) both consider playing their hidden immunity idols and attempt to cancel out the votes from Aparri, so that whoever they choose will go home. However... 2) ...the Aparri Alliance correctly predicts that these two might have idols to shuffle between them, and Take a Third Option by voting for Jefra, who nobody would think to pass an idol along to save, meaning that Tony and LJ both get no votes and waste their idols. Yet... 3) ...the Solana Alliance has caught wind of this and already let non-target/turncoat Kass decide who goes home. Meaning that while Jefra still receives the Aparri votes, the Solana Alliance plus Kass successfully manages to vote off Sarah, who nobody thought was in danger of going home.
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Survivor / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
Survivor / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Shii-Ann Huang and Eliza Orlins are notable examples because they managed to be ostracized by their tribes in multiple seasons (Thailand and All-Stars for the former, Vanuatu and Micronesia for the latter). Both responded each time by finding a way to spite the rest of their tribe, to varying degrees of success (see Diabolus ex Machina for a Shii-Ann attempt that didn't go so well, and Taking You with Me for a more successful incarnation from Eliza).
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Survivor / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Survivor / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Has its own page.
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Survivor / int_4ef92d0b	type	The Atoner
Survivor / int_4ef92d0b	comment	The Atoner: After starting Guatemala on a sour note, (see Smug Snake, below), Jamie suddenly got better. He traded the nice food Reward he earned in episode 9 for the lowest-quality food item available; he explained that he realized how much of an asshole he'd been. As the contestants sit to eat, Jeff reminds everyone of the sacrifice:
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Survivor / int_4efe80e1	type	Lazy Bum
Survivor / int_4efe80e1	comment	Lazy Bum: There's always one or two people a season who refuse to help out around camp: Aras Baskaukas almost lost Panama because some of the jury thought he was one. Gervase Paterson from Borneo is the Ur-Example, and escaped elimination by being The Charmer. Subverted when after Nick Brown was edited as being lazy during one episode of Australian Outback, almost the whole cast came to his defense that he was not, in fact, lazy.
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Survivor / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Survivor / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: Some people consider Borneo to be so different in tone and mood compared to the rest of the rest of the series that it's this. Note that this season had pretty similar actual rules and official gameplay to many seasons, but had been filmed more like a genuine test of survival, not politics with some survival in the background. The hidden immunity idol had to take a few seasons to have its rules refined. The first time it appeared in Guatemala, it worked just like regular Immunity, preventing the user from even being on the "ballot" in the first place. In Panama and Cook Islands, it was allowed to be played after the votes were read, when the user knows that they'd be voted out otherwise. The rules would then change once more to require it be played before the reading, forcing the user to take a risk on whether it would be needed or not.
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Survivor / int_4f4e43cc	type	Always Second Best
Survivor / int_4f4e43cc	comment	Always Second Best: Despite each being able to reach the finals in back-to-back seasons, both Amanda Kimmell (China and Micronesia) and Russell Hantz (Samoa and Heroes vs. Villains) failed to win both times due to (respectively) a poor final tribal council performance and wrong ways of rubbing people.
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Survivor / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
Survivor / int_4f84cdef	comment	Episode 9 of Marquesas, "Jury's Out." The dominant Rotu Four alliance has just taken out Boston Rob, Sean Rector is all set to go next, followed by Vecepia and Kathy, and the Rotu Four are set to dominate the game, just as every majority alliance has done for the past three seasons. Until this season, when the "coconut chop" challenge revealed the pecking order of the tribe, matching that previous sentence's exact order. Sean immediately catches the Rotu Four's scheming and turns the players against them. Neleh and Paschal finally abandon on the Rotu Four and align with the other outsiders, and start by taking down alliance leader John Carroll.
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Survivor / int_500696c6	type	Seinfeldian Conversation
Survivor / int_500696c6	comment	Seinfeldian Conversation: Most of the castaways' day-to-day conversations are left on the cutting room floor due to time constraints, but a few of these make it through. Panama had a lot of these, mainly to establish the sheer craziness of the Casayas. Early on Shane Powers randomly yelled at his tribe to not take a specific rock to sit down on as it was his "thinking seat". In another episode, Bobby Mason and the rest of his Casaya tribe argue about whether the outhouse that they just won should be used as an actual outhouse, or a place to store wood. In a later episode, Shane and Courtney Marit have another one of their big fights, this time over whether or not Courtney lives in a "shitty" apartment. One episode later, Terry Deitz and Aras Baskaukas have an argument over whether or not one's wife is more important to a loved one than one's parents. Africa had a moment where Frank Garrison's tribemates tried to explain to him what a "brunch" is.
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Survivor / int_505a1021	type	The Farmer and the Viper
Survivor / int_505a1021	comment	The Farmer and the Viper: Mick Trimming uses this general idea in Samoa ep. 13 to explain his concern that Russell Hantz will soon turn on him, despite an earlier alliance.
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Survivor / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Survivor / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: NaOnka Mixon in Nicaragua made a batch of tortillas but got stuck with the smallest one, so she swiped and hid all the tortilla-making supplies and some fruit. The only reason she brought any of it back was because she got caught. Boston Rob chose to vote out Matt Elrod early in Redemption Island because he shook hands with the other tribe after they won a challenge.
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Survivor / int_529ade8d	type	Schizophrenic Difficulty
Survivor / int_529ade8d	comment	Schizophrenic Difficulty: Due to the varying nature of the game locations (namely the weather), it may go from one of the harder seasons to one of the easiest seasons within the same year.
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Survivor / int_5300b1de	type	Invincible Hero
Survivor / int_5300b1de	comment	Invincible Hero/Invincible Villain: When one alliance pagongs another, all the suspense drains out of Tribal Council unless the larger alliance falls to infighting. If someone controls the game - such as Boston Rob in Redemption Island or Kim Spradlin in One World - then they become boring to watch, and if someone keeps losing control of the game, then it becomes more interesting...even though they're probably grinding their teeth.
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Survivor / int_53224e46	type	Bookends
Survivor / int_53224e46	comment	Bookends: At the beginning of Samoa, Russel burned Jamison's socks by throwing them into the camp's fire. Towards the end of the following season, Heroes vs. Villains, Sandra burns Russel's hat the same way. The first boot of San Juan Del Sur is Nadiya Anderson. The winner would ultimately end up being her twin sister, Natalie.
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Survivor / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Survivor / int_53f5119f	comment	Despite Parvati referring to Russell as her pet dragon in Heroes vs. Villains, this is what they likely were.
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Survivor / int_54f999c	type	AlternateCharacterInterpretation
Survivor / int_54f999c	comment	Burton and Jonny Fairplay were this thirteen seasons earlier in Pearl Islands, although it could be argued that Burton was just The Dragon.
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Survivor / int_557dabce	type	Deserted Island
Survivor / int_557dabce	comment	Deserted Island: The stereotypical setting for the show is on an island, though several seasons are instead in other sections of wilderness, such as The Australian Outback and Gabon.
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Survivor / int_558ae6f6	type	Moon Logic Puzzle
Survivor / int_558ae6f6	comment	Moon Logic Puzzle: The first clue to any hidden immunity idol is typically very cryptic to the point of potentially meaning anything. The Redemption Island clues have been commented on as particularly useless, amounting to "it's around your camp somewhere".
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Survivor / int_5860c090	type	Sitcom Arch-Nemesis
Survivor / int_5860c090	comment	Colby Donaldson tossed Jerri Manthey into the water in one of the early challenges in Heroes Vs Villains. But note the relationship between Colby and Jerri.
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Survivor / int_58626d87	type	Genius Ditz
Survivor / int_58626d87	comment	Genius Ditz: Fabio Birza played this card in Nicaragua. It worked and got him the million.
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Survivor / int_5869bd44	type	Arrows on Fire
Survivor / int_5869bd44	comment	Arrows on Fire: One Africa challenge involved shooting these at a bulls-eye. Hilarity Ensues when Brandon tried to shoot and botched it completely.
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Survivor / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Survivor / int_5989e3b6	comment	Janu Tornell's reason for quitting during Palau was to screw up the original Koror's plans and allow Stephenie LaGrossa another chance to survive.
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Survivor / int_5a57bdaa	type	Lucky Seven
Survivor / int_5a57bdaa	comment	Lucky Seven: After winning Pearl Islands, Sandra Diaz-Twine became the first two-time winner by winning Heroes vs Villains seven years later. J.T. won Tocantins with a 7-0 jury vote.
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Survivor / int_5c15399f	type	Player Elimination
Survivor / int_5c15399f	comment	Player Elimination: Besides the show itself taking the form of Voted Off the Island, several challenges feature elements of players whittling down over time: Several individual endurance challenges, such as "Hands on Hard Idol" and "Simmotion" require players to hold still and/or repeat a continuous process for a long period of time, testing their willpower (and physical ability). Players who mess up are out of the challenge until only one remains, winning immunity, or occasionally, reward. Several individual challenges have multiple legs, but only a finite number of players who continue onto the next one. For example, only the first four people to cross the balance beam get a shot at the puzzle. One recurring challenge saw two tribes each carry a set amount of weight while pursuing each other in a loop, continuing until one caught up to the other. Players could drop front the challenge at any time, but they would leave their weight to the other players, making it important to decide when the player themself is a bigger liability than the extra weight.
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Survivor / int_5d6710a	type	Pixellation
Survivor / int_5d6710a	comment	Pixellation: The editors blur out part of the screen when clothes are too small or tight or slip off or a contestant otherwise gets exposed, when contestants make rude gestures, and occasionally when over somebody's mouth when a dirty word is said. But mostly for exposure. The most notable instance was in the Heroes Vs Villains premiere, when Sugar Kiper gave Sandra Diaz-Twine a double finger while topless, leading to three large blurred patches on the screen.
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Survivor / int_5e68bb61	type	Gayngster
Survivor / int_5e68bb61	comment	Gayngster: Richard Hatch thanks to his Magnificent Bastardness.
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Survivor / int_5f505b82	type	I Was Beaten by a Girl
Survivor / int_5f505b82	comment	I Was Beaten by a Girl: In the first episode of South Pacific, Cochran mentions that he's afraid that he might be voted out before the girls. With him being a fan who's studied the game, this may not have been intended to be sexist; he may just be referring to the fact that women tend to get targetted first. John Rocker in San Juan Del Sur can't stand that he lost a challenge to his girlfriend Julie McGee for this reason
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Survivor / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
Survivor / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: When a contestant becomes contrary to the majority alliances' plan, they risk upheaving it and throwing the game out of whack. The earliest example is Kelly Wiglesworth of Borneo, who defected from the majority alliance and had to go on an immunity run to stay safe.
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Survivor / int_60200c6	type	Former Teen Rebel
Survivor / int_60200c6	comment	Former Teen Rebel: He's barely even out of his teens, but Brandon Hantz describes himself as one in South Pacific. He, shall we say, hasn't quite gotten the hang of it yet, though.
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Survivor / int_6076af84	type	ForTheLulz
Survivor / int_6076af84	comment	Sue Hawk in Borneo and Ralph from Redemption Island purposely spelled names horribly wrong For the Lulz.
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Survivor / int_60a3f0ba	type	Monty Hall Problem
Survivor / int_60a3f0ba	comment	Monty Hall Problem: Referenced during the Caramoan auction, when Jeff offered Reynold the chance to swap his mystery item for one of two other mystery items. Cochran called the situation by this name and advised him to switch, though technically it wasn't since there was no guarantee there was only one "good" item, and Jeff hadn't eliminated a bad one. (For the record, Reynold stuck with his original item, dodging a rotten coconut but getting only a slice of pizza instead of a whole one.) In 41 and 42, the Do or Die challenge results in the elimination of any player who does not find the correct option. Interestingly enough, the player in question in 41 plays it completely wrong but still wins.
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Survivor / int_60eac4ba	type	Off the Rails
Survivor / int_60eac4ba	comment	Russell Hantz vs Boston Rob in Redemption Island. Subverted in Russell's case when most of his tribe decided to go Off the Rails and eject him ASAP.
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Survivor / int_61b576af	type	I Take Offense to That Last One
Survivor / int_61b576af	comment	I Take Offense to That Last One: At one point in Panama, Shane Powers told Courtney Marit that if she backstabs him "he will drive to her shitty apartment in LA and kill her", coming off deadly serious the entire time. What does Courtney object to first and foremost in that scenario? The assertion that her apartment is shitty.
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Survivor / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
Survivor / int_62434fe2	comment	Sanity Slippage: The game has a pretty significant, though thankfully temporary, effect on the players. It's common for players to compulsively hoard food, experience night terrors and suffer from intense and persistent feelings of paranoia, claustrophobia and alienation for weeks after they get home.
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Survivor / int_62899967	type	Griefer
Survivor / int_62899967	comment	Griefer: It's not too common a strategy, given that the point of the game is to get jury votes, but sometimes people do try it: Randy Bailey from Gabon was the first notable user of this strategy, both pre-merge and post-merge, and gave it two silly names: first name was "Operation Let Everyone Else Crash And Burn", where he'd make his tribe as miserable as possible to capitalize on any mistakes they made; the second name was "Operation Strongarm", where he'd make everyone loathe him, pile their votes onto him, then idol whoever he and his alliance wanted, which would have actually worked had Bob Crowley not given him a fake immunity idol. Russell Hantz in Samoa, who in the premiere secretly emptied everyone's canteens and burned a guy's socks, claiming that it was manipulating his teammates to his advantage. He also tried to stir things up later by making it possible for the tribe's chickens to escape their coop, but they did not flee on that occasion. Sandra, in turn, burned Russell's hat at the end of Heroes Vs Villains, something he admitted that he was fazed by, but by then Russell's own behavior had made him an Asshole Victim. Sandra also tried to sabotage her tribe towards the end of Pearl Islands when she thought she was going to be voted out. She changed her mind when a plan to save her came into play.
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Survivor / int_6381b11	type	Game-Breaking Injury
Survivor / int_6381b11	comment	Game-Breaking Injury: For some, see Non Game Play Elimination; but more often these lead to a Suicide by Cop; especially if the injury happens other than right after a tribe wins immunity. The injured player will often ask the others to vote them out to prevent more than one person being sent home, and thus helping their friends's chances of winning. James Clement became a victim of this twice now. The first led to his Non Game Play Elimination in Micronesia, the second had him Mercy Killed by his tribemates in Heroes vs Villains. Dehydration in Africa led to Diane Ogden and Jessie Camacho being the first two voted out, despite both being well-liked. Palau, wherein Jeff Wilson twisted (and possibly broke) his ankle because he stepped on a coconut in the middle of the night and was unable to perform well in challenges, despite carrying all of them before. Guatemala. Jim Lynch tore his bicep and asked to be voted out. Months later he was still in a cast. Among other injuries, Chet Welch in Micronesia had a piece of coral stuck in his foot, which was why he basically asked his tribemates to send him home. Jerry Sims in Tocatins suddenly got sick and had to ask his tribe to vote him out, which derailed his tribe's plans to send home Erinn Lobdell. Fourth elimination in Samoa Ben Browning said that despite being sent home for his abrasion, he was likely to have been voted out sooner or later anyway, because he had torn a ligament in his leg.
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Survivor / int_64b303c0	type	Drunk with Power
Survivor / int_64b303c0	comment	Drunk with Power: For future contestants, beware of becoming this. For example, Sarah Lacina from Cagayan and Christy Smith from Amazon fell into the trap of openly declaring their status as the swing vote and flaunting it, directly resulting in their eliminations.
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Survivor / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
Survivor / int_64e975cf	comment	Manly Tears: Even the manliest Survivors can break down during the "Letters/Visits from Home" challenges. Notably, there's Shane Powers in Panama. Terry Deitz won that season's "visit from home" reward challenge, and was forced to decide which relatives would get some quality time with their respective Survivors. He immediately chose himself and his wife Trish for the overnight resort stay. Of course, Cirie Fields's husband "HB" also would go back to camp with her. Meanwhile, Shane was already misting up when his son Boston walked in for the cameras, but upon Terry inviting them to come along, Shane promptly broke down tears-and-parental-hugs style. He may have been a bit abrasive and uncaring to the other players, but his fathering is what gets him to care.
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Survivor / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
Survivor / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble: Obvious in many final four lineups or four-person alliances like: The Tagi alliance in Borneo: Richard is choleric, Kelly is sanguine, Rudy is melancholic, and Sue is phlegmatic. Bonus points for being the first alliance and being the final four. The final four in Thailand: Helen is choleric, Jan is supine, Clay is phlegmatic, and Brian is sanguine. The final four in Pearl Islands: Sandra is phlegmatic, Lil is melancholic, Jon is choleric, and Darrah is sanguine. The final four Chapera alliance in All-Stars: Amber is supine, Boston Rob is choleric, Jenna is melancholic and Rupert is sanguine. Koror's final four in Palau: Tom is choleric, Katie is phlegmatic, Ian is sanguine, and Jenn was melancholic. The Aitu 4 from Cook Islands: Yul is choleric, Ozzy is phlegmatic, Becky is supine, and Sundra is sanguine. The Black Widow brigade in Micronesia: Parvati is sanguine, Amanda is phlegmatic, Cirie is choleric, and Natalie is melancholic. Note that they were the final four, too. Gabon final four: Bob is melancholic, Susie is choleric, Sugar is sanguine, and Matty is phlegmatic. Samoa's final four: Natalie being supine, Russell being choleric, Mick being phlegmatic, and Brett being melancholic. Jaison was phlegmatic when he was part of the Foa Foa alliance with the first three mentioned. Heroes vs Villains final four; Sandra is phlegmatic, Parvati is sanguine, Russell is choleric, and Jerri is melancholic. The four winners who returned in All-Stars (Ethan is sanguine, Richard is choleric, Jenna is melancholic, and Tina is supine) and Heroes vs Villains (Sandra is phlegmatic, Parvati is sanguine, J.T is supine, and Tom is choleric). Redemption Island final four: Natalie is supine, Ashley is melancholic, Rob is sanguine, and Phillip is choleric. South Pacific final four: Ozzy is phlegmatic, Albert is choleric, Coach is sanguine, and Sophie is melancholic. The four Fans that reached the merge in Caramoan: Sherri is melancholic, Eddie is phlegmatic, Reynold is sanguine, and Michael is choleric.
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Survivor / int_66b00970	type	Dangerous Terrain
Survivor / int_66b00970	comment	It's actually mentioned there's quite a bit of Dangerous Terrain; which is a bit of a risk and often an obstacle to finding good places to film the show. Samoa, for example, is a good place for a show, but the contestants have been apparently ordered to stay within 20-30 feet of the shore (in the ocean) because the waters are actually quite turbulent, and there's the risk of riptides and undertow. It didn't show up much in Samoa and Heroes vs. Villains, but one of the show's best swimmers (Ozzy) in the South Pacific season shows exactly how big the waves are...and how beautiful the ocean around the islands are.
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Survivor / int_66d4d0e6	type	Defeat by Modesty
Survivor / int_66d4d0e6	comment	Defeat by Modesty: Kathy Vavrick-O'Brien lost Marquesas' final challenge because she was trying to cover up. Making matters worse, her alliance partner turned on her at the last second and Kathy got sent out of the game and the challenge. Courtney Yates in China lost a challenge because her bra kept slipping and she kept turning around to cover it up. Averted in the Heroes Vs Villains premiere; Sandra Diaz-Twine tried to sabotage Sugar Kiper by undoing her bra top, but Sugar merely wiggled out of her top and ran topless to the finish. Sugar then flipped the bird to the cameras, giving the audience a rare double blur.
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Survivor / int_676e942c	type	We Hardly Knew Ye
Survivor / int_676e942c	comment	Not to mention the possibility of contracting foreign diseases. Lex from Africa was apparently sick for months after the game with a variety of illnesses and Daniel Lue, an early castoff from Amazon contracted malaria. Sandra was asked to return in All Stars but said she was still recovering from parasites she had contracted in Pearl Islands. Marquesas, while not deadly, still had discomfort caused by bugs so the location will never be used again.
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Survivor / int_68069489	type	Nipple and Dimed
Survivor / int_68069489	comment	Nipple and Dimed: Some fairly strenuous physical competition takes place among women dressed in bikini tops or skimpy shirts. On occasion breasts and nipples have been exposed. As this is American TV, such wardrobe malfunctions are visually bleeped out by blurring or pixelating the screen. It is also noticeable that during a game involving women contestants bobbing for items in a tub full of gloopy brown mud, several bikini tops were dislodged exposing breasts and nipples. But since the women involved were by then slathered from head to waist in a coating of mud, the bared breasts were not visually bleeped out and left in the full "uncensored" camera view.
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Survivor / int_687d991e	type	Security Blanket
Survivor / int_687d991e	comment	Security Blanket: Luxury items were provided to the contestants in some of the early seasons. It's been brought back a couple times since, but mainly faded as the game focussed less on literal surviving and more about political metagame.
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Survivor / int_68d43ebc	type	Game Show Host
Survivor / int_68d43ebc	comment	Game Show Host: Jeff Probst is third only to Bob Barker and Alex Trebek in fame for this one...and was hosting "Rock and Roll Jeopardy" when his more famous gig began.
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Survivor / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
Survivor / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: The standards for single-gender alliances are not-so-subtly biased. Rocksroy was vilified as a misogynist in 42 by the editors and other players for trying to make an all-male alliance when they had a 6-4 lead over the women. All female alliances (e.g., Black Widow Brigade in Micronesia and Witch's Coven in Cambodia) have been treated more sympathetically by the show. Jamal was called a misogynist for suspecting an all-women's alliance when his tribemates talked about making one in Island of the Idols.
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Survivor / int_6b261d5e	type	Artistic License – Statistics
Survivor / int_6b261d5e	comment	Artistic License â€“ Statistics: Invoked - Probst regularly says that, when the numbers of players dwindle, the players have a one-in-x shot at winning a million. Except that it's actually not determined by luck of the draw - He actually says this to help motivate players to make it further.
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Survivor / int_6bd7b49a	type	Spicy Latina
Survivor / int_6bd7b49a	comment	Spicy Latina: Sandra Diaz-Twine may not have the sex appeal associated with this trope (YMMV), but she certainly has the lippy attitude. Brenda Lowe of Nicaragua also seems to apply to this trope.
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Survivor / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Survivor / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: The Manono tribe in One World. Considering how dysfunctional it became and that it started as the men's tribe, "Man, o no" seems appropriate. The Matsing ("monkey") tribe in Philippines. Also, Dangrayne. Penner joked that he tried to get the tribe named "Fucking rain" but the producers wouldn't allow it. One of the tribes in San Juan Del Sur (Hunahpu) is named after one of the Hero Twins of the Mayan Mythology. The season's Sole Survivor came from this tribe, and her twin sister was the season's first boot.
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Survivor / int_6c7d91af	type	Finale Production Upgrade
Survivor / int_6c7d91af	comment	Finale Production Upgrade: A given for each season from Australian Outback (Season 2) onwards. The contestants/jury are brought back and cleaned up, the votes are taken back to the United States to be read at CBS Television Studios, the families of all the contestants are brought in, and in at least one occasion, the final vote reading took place in a giant theater with a giant audience.
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Survivor / int_6cead2c4	type	Viewer Name Confusion
Survivor / int_6cead2c4	comment	Viewer Name Confusion: In-universe as Player Name Confusion. A variety of people means a variety of cultural backgrounds and names that someone will inevitably misspell. With first names, it happens a lot at Tribal Council. Sue Hawk in Borneo and Ralph from Redemption Island purposely spelled names horribly wrong For the Lulz. Robb Zbacnik from Thailand's parting words were "Two 'B's, guys" because the votes read Rob instead of Robb. Clay Jordan in Thailand would write down where people were from instead of names until he wrote "Bye Bye Denver Diva" to vote for Ghandia. Jeff Probst had no idea who the vote was for and put a stop to the nicknames.
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Survivor / int_6d9bc945	type	Babies Ever After
Survivor / int_6d9bc945	comment	Boston Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich (who was in the audience with their cute baby in the Heroes Vs Villains Reunion Show); many other players are happily wedded to non-contestants, of course. Some of these spouses show up for the "visit from home" reward challenges.
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Survivor / int_6ee09826	type	Religious Bruiser
Survivor / int_6ee09826	comment	Religious Bruiser: Tyson Apostol from Tocantins is a Mormon. Brett Clouser from Samoa is a prayer warrior. Matt Elrod spent almost all of Redemption Island on Redemption Island, staying there by going on a challenge streak and talking about God in most of his confessionals.
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Survivor / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
Survivor / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Several players failed at the game and admit they failed. The producers likewise failed with a couple of twists, such as the "Have and have not" tribes in Fiji. The "Redemption Island" mechanic is considered a pretty big failure, its initial season and the follow-up, South Pacific, were not well received due to several reasons, including diminishing the "finality" of Tribal Council and duels replacing Reward Challenges and taking episode time away from other things such as strategy. It and its successor, the "Edge of Extinction", are commonly considered to be among the worst twists in Survivor history. Cook Islands was another massive failure, at least from an "out-of-universe" perspective, due to dividing the initial tribes by race. This lead to massive backlash and sponsors dropping the show. It especially didn't help when it was looking like it was going to end up with the Final Five being the entire white tribe.
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Survivor / int_6f33059b	type	Iconic Outfit
Survivor / int_6f33059b	comment	Iconic Outfit: Notable examples are Rupert's tie-dye shirts, Boston Rob's Red Sox cap, Russell's hat, among others. It could be said that Richard's memetic outfit is his birthday suit.
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Survivor / int_714342fb	type	Erotic Eating
Survivor / int_714342fb	comment	Erotic Eating: Jerri Manthey toyed the idea with chocolate to Amber Brkich during Australian Outback. Hilarity Ensues when Colby Donaldson, aware of the Double Entendre, reacted uncomfortably but privately:
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Survivor / int_71ee0f38	type	Beware the Honest Ones
Survivor / int_71ee0f38	comment	Beware the Honest Ones: See the Redemption Island premiere, where Phillip's honesty led him to blab his alliance's plan at Tribal Council. In South Pacific, Brandon Hantz went through a cycle of feeling "Catholic guilt" over some falsehood, coming clean about it, lather, rinse, repeat; throwing tribal dynamics into chaos every single time. Bhanu in Survivor 46 was a Nervous Wreck who had no control over his emotions or his mouth. The breaking point came when he told his tribe just how much he told the other tribes about them and put targets on their backs, at which point they deemed him unsalvageable.
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Survivor / int_722b3319	type	Camp Gay
Survivor / int_722b3319	comment	James Miller from Palau, the physically-fit steelworker, got beaten in a fight by Coby Archa, a Camp Gay hairdresser who just ran at him without thinking. James claimed he knows a knot from his time in the U.S. Navy that was impossible to see the end of and would only get tighter the more the other tribe tried to untie it. The other tribe untied it just by yanking it hard enough.
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Survivor / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
Survivor / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Sometimes, players will make boneheaded moves or plans with little or no reasoning behind them for extended periods of time: Lex van den Berghe giving up a 6-4 lead for his tribe and almost getting voted out during the merge in a close vote due to his rampant paranoia. The only reason he was saved was that Brandon Quinton was carrying an even bigger idiot ball than him. "Big" Tom Buchanan in All-Stars just barely touched the idiot ball when he called himself the swing vote between the Rob-Amber alliance and the Rupert-Jenna alliance. Normally not a bad thing to say to the Confession Cam, but instead, he did it right to Boston Rob's face. At the final five. That was all an already-wary Rob needed to turn the vote against Tom and send him packing. The Coconut Chop in Marquesas' merge portion, where the Rotu Four worked together and ended up showing up their intended boot order, causing the other five to rally together and vote them all out. In Palau, Tom Westman tells Ian Rosenberger that if one of them wins the reward they need to NOT pick the other to go with them so they can divide the girls and prevent them from forming a majority alliance. No problem, Ian promised to take Katie Gallagher anyway. Ian wins and takes...Tom? Poor Tom had to fake excitement despite being pissed at Ian. James Clement getting voted out of China with two idols. It gets brought up a lot, but what is often forgotten is that he could only use them for the next three tribal councils and was no slouch at individual immunity challenges. Dan Kay the lawyer reads a clue to the hidden immunity idol at Exile Island in Gabon that says "across the lake there is a sandy crater" and that the idol is in it. His genius analysis is "maybe it's in the lake". He then checks a bush. Dan the attorney cannot figure out this clue, but Sugar Kiper the pin-up model finds it easily. Sash Lenahan grabbed it twice in Nicaragua: first when he chose to vote out Kelly Bruno even though Marty Piombo was clearly the bigger threat; and then again at the end, when he was duped by Fabio Birza into blindsiding Jane Bright, and then proceeded to tell her right to her face that she was the next to go. To be fair course, Chase Rice had it too that second time. In Philippines, Carter Williams asks Jonathan Penner who they should vote for at tribal council... "Katie Hanson or Penner?". It's a shock that the blindside of Penner didn't work out.
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Survivor / int_73328e84	type	Suicide by Cop
Survivor / int_73328e84	comment	Suicide by Cop: Some people actually asked to be voted out, be it they're sick, injured, or just can't take it anymore. It's normally a bit better rather than risk a Non-Gameplay Elimination; since a Non-Gameplay Elimination means your tribe can wind up losing two people if the Tribal Council isn't cancelled. The earliest known example is B.B. Andersen from Borneo. Jeff Wilson from Palau asked to be voted out after spraining his foot on a coconut and realizing he wouldn't get very far with the injury, as well as to save his love interest, Kim (who ended up going home next). Jim Lynch from Guatemala asked to be voted out because he tore his bicep...and was shown as still having it in a splint months later! Tina Sheer in Panama asked to be voted out first because she was still mourning her son, who had recently died in a car crash. Lisi Linares in Fiji said she was done with the game and asked to be voted out. Jonny Fairplay also asked everyone to vote him out first in Micronesia, saying he wanted to be with his pregnant fiancee and daughter, which everyone thought was a ploy. His tribemates honored it, but there's still rumors he was suffering the after effects of a fight with Danny Bonaduce or had grown tired of the show. GC in Gabon hated being in the wilderness, despite being generally liked and decent at challenges. Hannah Rose asked to be voted out of Survivor 45 since she realized she was in over her head and was suffering nicotine withdrawl. The tribe almost didn't do it, until she said that she would probably leave regardless of whether they voted for her or not. There are also unconfirmed rumours of people asking to be voted out. Allegedly; Chet Welch asked to be voted out of Micronesia because he probably would have been evacuated had they not, because had stepped on a piece of coral. Stephenie LaGrossa also was apparently still hurting when she dislocated her shoulder and asked to be voted out of Heroes vs. Villains. Ashlee Ashby also wasn't shown asking to be voted out of Pulau, but the fact was confirmed outside the game.
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Survivor / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Survivor / int_733e007a	comment	After first season winner Richard Hatch showed that the game is really about politics, not actual wilderness survival, every contestant has subsequently tried to be this. Most wind up being Unwitting Pawns.
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Survivor / int_73641290	type	The Strategist
Survivor / int_73641290	comment	The Strategist: Richard Hatch from Borneo, Tina Wesson from Australian Outback, Brian Heidik from Thailand, Yul Kwon from Cook Islands and Todd Herzog from China won the game for being this.
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Survivor / int_73733868	type	Awesomeness by Analysis
Survivor / int_73733868	comment	Awesomeness by Analysis: Yau-Man from Fiji and Bob Crowley from Gabon, who effectively used maths and physics in challenges; Stephen from Tocantins also used math in at least one challenge to win. Christian from David vs. Goliath successfully created an algorithm to search the island more efficiently for idols. Praise should be given to all of the Survivor contestants who actually knew how to survive out there, despite little-to-no prior experience or survival skills. To name the more obvious examples: Richard, Rudy, Greg and Gretchen from Borneo, Michael from Australian Outback, Hunter from Marquesas, Rupert from Pearl Islands, Ozzy from Cook Islands... and the list goes on.
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Survivor / int_737394ab	type	Iconic Item
Survivor / int_737394ab	comment	At the beginning of Samoa, Russel burned Jamison's socks by throwing them into the camp's fire. Towards the end of the following season, Heroes vs. Villains, Sandra burns Russel's hat the same way.
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Survivor / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
Survivor / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each tribe has a color given to its buffs, flag, challenge props, etc. Starting with Tocantins, a tribe's entire wardrobes are more-or-less color-coded in its color.
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Survivor / int_75c93c08	type	Embarrassing Password
Survivor / int_75c93c08	comment	Embarrassing Password: In 41 and "42'', a set of "Beware Advantages" force their holders to say a code phrase in public in order to get an advantage. The phrases were made to be completely ridiculous and improbable to be thought up by anyone unaware: "I truly believe that butterflies are just dead relatives saying 'hi'.", "I'm as confused as a goat on AstroTurf.", and "I didn't realize this until now...broccoli is just a bunch of small trees", "Potatoes have skin. I have skin. Am I a potato?", "It's another classic case of the bunny rabbit having dinner in the mailbox", and "There's such grace in a game of soccer, it makes me cry."
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Survivor / int_762b9223	type	Played for Laughs
Survivor / int_762b9223	comment	The Mary "Who?" Sartain from Micronesia was Played for Laughs. It looked like the cast had absolutely no idea who Mary was. They were actually asking for clarification (Kathy's case; because she was away on Exile Island) or expressing shock at how she was specifically voted out over Chet, who had underperformed (in Eliza's case, who didn't see what went down at the Fans's tribe).
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Survivor / int_76a5eaf8	type	Spotlight-Stealing Squad
Survivor / int_76a5eaf8	comment	Redemption Island, setting up a season to give Rob Mariano or Russell Hantz the wins that many claimed they deserved, casting a vast vast majority of people who had never seen the show before or had only seen Boston Rob and Russell's seasons, cutting half of these people from the show, and tailoring the challenges to their respective strenghts. South Pacific was also the same with Coach and Ozzy but has been received better, mostly because they didn't forget they actually cast eighteen people and not just four this time.
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Survivor / int_76d167c0	type	Hazy-Feel Turn
Survivor / int_76d167c0	comment	Hazy-Feel Turn: When a "hero"/"villain" switches on their supposed "perspective". However, most of these are typically not true "turns", but strategies to gain an advantage or stay in the game.
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Survivor / int_76d233f9	type	Straw Feminist
Survivor / int_76d233f9	comment	Straw Feminist: While some seasons encourage mild sexism by dividing tribes by gender, Vanuatu's Ami Cusack took the idea and ran with it. Obsessed with creating an all-female alliance, she went so far as to hoard a food reward from the remaining men, and then mock them with the bones...after they had just returned from working! Appropriately, she got the Survivor equivalent of a Karmic Death when she was voted out by the four people she despised most and the lone remaining guy survived the sisterhood and won.
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Survivor / int_78c895c8	type	Amusing Injuries
Survivor / int_78c895c8	comment	Boo Bernis' increasingly Amusing Injuries in Fiji (until the end when it wasn't played for laughs). Along with everyone else falling at the start of Fiji.
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Survivor / int_78d0ebcf	type	Crying Wolf
Survivor / int_78d0ebcf	comment	Crying Wolf: After his famous "dead grandma" ploy in Pearl Islands, Jonny Fairplay had basically established himself as the player who had no limits about what he thought was accepted to get himself farther in the game. So in Micronesia, when he told a sweet story about feeling emotionally detached from the game because he was thinking about his soon-to-be-born daughter, the other players thought he was up to his old tricks and voted him out first. He was telling the truth that time, at least about his baby. He may have been playing up the rest, of course. Fairplay later confirmed in a Reddit AMA that he did give up during the season after having to play while enduring an injury without painkiller medication. He directly asked to be voted out when he couldn't take it anymore, and his tribe obliged.
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Survivor / int_794cff5	type	Transatlantic Equivalent
Survivor / int_794cff5	comment	Transatlantic Equivalent: In 2001, ITV premiered a British version of the show which never quite caught fire, but was revived in 2023 by the BBC.
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Survivor / int_7c862b8a	type	Chronic Backstabbing Disorder
Survivor / int_7c862b8a	comment	Lex van den Berghe in All-Stars decided that it would be a great idea to vote off loyal tribemate Jerri Manthey and keep Amber Brkich around to fulfill a deal Boston Rob offered him. Then the merge hits, and Lex realizes that Rob has a rather nasty case of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder.
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Survivor / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
Survivor / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: Several players voted out take it poorly, shown in post-Tribal Council confessionals, finale retrospective confessionals, or bitter jury speeches during the final Tribal Council. Russell Hantz has to take the cake here, as his reactions to his first three losses were 1) try to buy the title from the winner, 2) complain that the rules need to be changed, and 3) threaten to sue his tribemates for throwing a challenge to get him out. Also worth noting is Judd from Guatemala. After being blindsided (hilariously enough after claiming it was just a game and no one should take it personally), he told the people who had just voted him out "Thanks guys! I hope you guys get bit by a freaking crocodile. Scumbags."
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Survivor / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Survivor / int_7d89315b	comment	He elevated it to a full scale "The Reason You Suck" Speech when Colton Cumbie quit in Blood Vs. Water.
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Survivor / int_7db2e3e0	type	Invincibility Power-Up
Survivor / int_7db2e3e0	comment	Ever since the immunity idol was introduced in Fiji, there is literally no way to call anyone completely safenote Since people will try to vote for any of their opposition to get around the idol, even if they aren't the biggest threat unless they happen to be wearing an immunity necklace... ...most of the time, because Erik Reichenbach from Micronesia was voted out after giving up immunity! Even an immune person isn't 100% safe from themselves.
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Survivor / int_7f0f19e5	type	I Coulda Been a Contender!
Survivor / int_7f0f19e5	comment	I Coulda Been a Contender!: Any contestant that was removed for injuries, especially ones that pretty much had everything in place to make it to the end: Jonathan Penner in Fans vs. Favourites, Michael Skupin in Australian Outback, and Russell Swan in Samoa. These three were later brought back in Philippines for exactly this reason. Even some people who were voted out early: Gabriel Cade in Marquesas, Dolly Neely from Vanuatu, Tracy Hughes-Wolfe and Yau-Man Chan (who was playing a second time) in Micronesia, and Marisa Calihan and Betsy Bolan from Samoa. Jolanda Jones from Palau won the first individual immunity challenge in which she got to pick her tribe, but was voted out first for being bossy. The other members of her tribe Ulong said she really could have helped them because, "She was in the Olympics, man!". Also Wanda Shirk and Jonathan Libby from that season, who were voted out before even being put on a tribe.
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Survivor / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
Survivor / int_7febc23b	comment	Boston Rob to Amber Brkich in All-Stars. As the guy said: "Because she's beautiful, and any idiot can see that!".
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Survivor / int_802d0b2d	type	Self-Proclaimed Liar
Survivor / int_802d0b2d	comment	Self-Proclaimed Liar: Boston Rob was a master at this in his seasons (Marquesas, All-Stars, Heroes vs. Villains, Redemption Island).
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Survivor / int_80360df0	type	Dark Horse Victory
Survivor / int_80360df0	comment	With the way 41 was edited, Xander Hastings appeared to be the big threat to win, with his loss to Erika Casupanan being treated as a major Dark Horse Victory for her. Jury members revealed in post season interviews that Xander was nowhere near as impressive of a player as editing made him look, with many admitting they had no plan of voting for Xander going into Final Tribal Council.
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Survivor / int_805b13e	type	Wacky Marriage Proposal
Survivor / int_805b13e	comment	Wacky Marriage Proposal: Six seasons before Rob famously proposed to Amber at the live All-Stars reunion, Australian Outback's Keith proposed to his girlfriend via instant message during an internet reward challenge. She said yes. Matty also proposed to his girlfriend during the loved ones visit in Gabon.
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Survivor / int_808324e1	type	The Runner-Up Takes It All
Survivor / int_808324e1	comment	The Runner-Up Takes It All: Sometimes, a non-winner will be the fan favorite over the winner, or otherwise get more mileage out of their appearance. Notable examples include Elizabeth Filarski (now Hasselbeck), who went on to have a ten year gig on women's talk show The View after placing fourth on The Australian Outback and Russell Hantz, who went on to have multiple return appearances and win the fan favorite award while the actual winner of Samoa faded into obscurity.
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Survivor / int_808b6d16	type	Sdrawkcab Name
Survivor / int_808b6d16	comment	Sdrawkcab Name: The merged tribe of Gabon was named "Nobag", and in Caramoan it was "Enil Edam" after Malcolm Freberg's mother, Madeline.
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Survivor / int_8093cc73	type	Foiler Footage
Survivor / int_8093cc73	comment	Foiler Footage: The first season shot multiple combinations of contestants at tribal council, creating a phony boot order.
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Survivor / int_8135d194	type	Elimination Catchphrase
Survivor / int_8135d194	comment	Elimination Catchphrase: Among Jeff Probst's many catchphrases is the Trope Codifier: "The tribe has spoken; it's time for you to go." In seasons with Redemption Island, this is altered slightly. Subverted with the game's very first quitter, Pearl Islands' Osten. Having never had his head in the game from the start, he asked his tribe to vote him out on Day 19. After confirming that Osten was indeed quitting, Jeff, clearly annoyed, snuffed out Osten's torch with a curt "Go home!"
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Survivor / int_814fd889	type	Ratings Stunt
Survivor / int_814fd889	comment	Ratings Stunt: Some seasons have the gimmick of organizing the starting tribes by a certain trait like age, gender, occupation, or so on. Cook Islands did it by race, which received some backlash. Redemption Island, setting up a season to give Rob Mariano or Russell Hantz the wins that many claimed they deserved, casting a vast vast majority of people who had never seen the show before or had only seen Boston Rob and Russell's seasons, cutting half of these people from the show, and tailoring the challenges to their respective strenghts. South Pacific was also the same with Coach and Ozzy but has been received better, mostly because they didn't forget they actually cast eighteen people and not just four this time.
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Survivor / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
Survivor / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Episode 2 of Nicaragua is an hour full of crazy; with Holly Hoffman's weird revenge scheme, NaOnka Mixon's unprovoked bile, and Shannon Elkins's out-of-nowhere ranting. The Casaya Tribe from Panama, in between Shane randomly going off at people, Courtney randomly going off at people, and Shane and Courtney going off at each other, the tribe really was one of the most dysfunctional tribes to ever be slumped together. Between Alicia and Christina's shouting matches, Tarzan's Cloudcuckoolander antics, and pretty much anything Colton said or did, the first half of One World made for one of the most dysfunctional seasons in the show's run. Caramoan put Brandon and Phillip on the same tribe, which proved to be, shall we say, volatile.
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Survivor / int_8288929a	type	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves
Survivor / int_8288929a	comment	Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: When someone sells out their alliance and joins another one. The result? Your only shot to the finals is going to be individual immunity since you'll be the third wheel to "your" new alliance. If you do make it to the finals, expect to be called out on it by multiple jurors.
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Survivor / int_832c1497	type	Non-Gameplay Elimination
Survivor / int_832c1497	comment	Especially emphasized in Philippines plus Bruce in 45, as the returnees didn't get to play out their previous seasons due to medical evacuations, and the eponymous Second Chances.
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Survivor / int_83445b04	type	Pun
Survivor / int_83445b04	comment	In Pearl Islands the Morgan tribe was trailing in the very first challenge when Osten's boxers started falling down (again), and some of the other men stripped off their own shorts in solidarity. So now everyone's bare rears are exposed (and blurred out) - and what had been a "Morgan trailing" caption became "Morgan behind".
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Survivor / int_83535879	type	Tall Poppy Syndrome
Survivor / int_83535879	comment	Tall Poppy Syndrome: This guy's stronger than everyone else and charismatic enough to be liked? He's a threat. Get rid of him - even if this can setback your entire tribe. All the winners that returned in All-Stars got hit by this, and again in Heroes vs. Villains. Tom Westman, in particular, was targeted by the Heroes due to his impressive win in Palau, while according to post-game interviews, Randy attempted to target the winners on the Villains tribe in the days before he was voted out. Eventually subversions started appearing, though; as people realized that weak players were also a threat for the fact that more strategic players wanted to protect them.
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Survivor / int_859bbabc	type	The Cassandra
Survivor / int_859bbabc	comment	The Cassandra: The appropriately-named Sandra plays this role in the early stages of the Heroes vs. Villains merge - first, in her attempts to rat out Russell and Parvati's scam to the Heroes, then in her attempts to persuade Candice to stay with the Heroes. An encore from her days in the Pearl Islands warning people not to trust Jonny Fairplay. An early example: Joel Klug from Borneo was voted out on Day 18 for several reasons such as supposed chauvinism, being the richest tribe member other than B.B (and thus not really needing the prize money), being a physical threat during the merge, etc. But one other excuse for eliminating him according to his tribe was that he was "telling people what to do" or something similar for bringing up the idea of alliances. He says on camera to his tribe that it's in Pagong's best interest to vote as a unified whole just in case Tagi was planning to do the same (and they were), and most of his tribe punished him for not being naive and assuming everyone would vote emotionally.
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Survivor / int_86c9b9b9	type	Badass Decay
Survivor / int_86c9b9b9	comment	Badass Decay: In-Universe, James laments Colby's disappointing struggling early in Heroes Vs Villains.
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Survivor / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
Survivor / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: The infamous "peeing scene" in Marquesas actually is a common remedy. Note that urine doesn't immediately heal a sea urchin wound, it cleans it so it allows it to heal.
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Survivor / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Survivor / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Pearl Islands allowed eliminated players to return to the game as "The Outcasts". This twist was borrowed by two international editions (the Israeli version's "Dead Man Island" and the second season of the Philippine edition's "Isla Purgatoryo"). Three of the four (Pearl Islands had two Outcasts) aforementioned returning players nearly won their respective seasons. Redemption Island and the Edge of Extinction are Not Quite Dead variants: when someone's voted out, they're sent to Redemption Island/the Edge. In Redemption, the new arrival challenges the person already there; loser is out for good; while the Edge just collects everyone who wants to stay. At the merge and just before the finals, one player (either Redemption Island's reigning champion or the winner of an Edge of Extinction challenge) will be able to return to the game.
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Survivor / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
Survivor / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Thailand winner Brian Heidik is perhaps the Trope Codifier of the show. He never showed any deep care for his alliance members and tribemates and spent the entire game doing things just to advance himself. He just never showed why he did what he did to those who trusted him. Russell Hantz was arguably positioned as one of these in Samoa, although he came off as more as an Anti-Hero. He was firmly villainous in Heroes vs. Villains, however.
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Survivor / int_8a8b2a87	type	And Knowing Is Half the Battle
Survivor / int_8a8b2a87	comment	And Knowing Is Half the Battle: Just before dismissing them from Tribal Council, Jeff Probst will add a brief remark about that vote or the tribe's prospects in general. Most are rather obvious, but the best may be the line from ep. 12 of Micronesia: "You guys are perfecting the art of the blindside. That is the good news, and that is the bad news."
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Survivor / int_8abe13b6	type	It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Survivor / int_8abe13b6	comment	It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time: Heroes Vs. Villains: Parvati Shallow and Danielle DiLorenzo decided it would be just peachy to keep an immunity idol hidden from Russell. You really don't want to infuriate your alliance partner, particularly if your alliance is firmly in the driver's seat. Lex van den Berghe in All-Stars decided that it would be a great idea to vote off loyal tribemate Jerri Manthey and keep Amber Brkich around to fulfill a deal Boston Rob offered him. Then the merge hits, and Lex realizes that Rob has a rather nasty case of Chronic Backstabbing Disorder.
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Survivor / int_8ad43dc9	type	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Survivor / int_8ad43dc9	comment	Ragtag Bunch of Misfits: Many tribes on Survivor comes across this way, and even more tribes are verified as such by contestants post-show. It only makes sense, being that Survivor is an individual game at the end of the day. Casaya from Panama was one of the most dysfunctional tribes the show has ever seen, with the yoga instructor who tried to start fire with his mind alone and the couch potato who was scared of leaves on her first day being the sanest members of the bunch. The other members? A Manchild with a Hair-Trigger Temper made ten thousand times worse by severe nicotine withdrawal, a fire dancer who moonlighted as a Talkative Loon and Cloudcuckoolander, an easily irritated woman with the world's heaviest Boston accent, a lawyer not above Drowning My Sorrows, and a ridiculously Asian guy with his own martial arts Zen garden. In spite of all this, the Casaya tribe were still able to stick together to pick off their rivals at the more harmonious La Mina tribe both before and after the merge. In One World, all the males on Manono who aren't "Roosters" align with each other, and Colton, the leader, refers to them as misfits, which they most definitely are. They proceed to vote out the head of the "Rooster" alliance.
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Survivor / int_8b4f491c	type	Villainy-Free Villain
Survivor / int_8b4f491c	comment	Villainy-Free Villain: It's a game show at the end of the day. Almost of the villains are ruthless in gameplay moreso than personality.
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Survivor / int_8b67aba7	type	Cerebus Retcon
Survivor / int_8b67aba7	comment	Cerebus Retcon: In Island of the Idols, Kellee claimed that she Hates Being Touched because she's Terrified of Germs. The later admits that this is a lie; Dan was being inappropriately handsy with her and other women and claiming to be a germophobe was a way to get him to back off without making a scene. Bruce Perrault and Katurah Topps's feud in 45 appears to mainly be because Katurah finds Bruce annoying and dislikes him trying to micromanage everyone in his alliance. Then comes episode 11, which reveals Katurah was a cult survivor, implying the real reason that she hates Bruce is because his micromanaging reminds her of her time in the cult.
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Survivor / int_8bb79fdf	type	Designated Girl Fight
Survivor / int_8bb79fdf	comment	Designated Girl Fight: Some challenges require certain numbers of male and female players, especially those played in rounds of only 1 or 2 players per tribe. Unsurprisingly, the rounds are mostly man vs. man and woman vs. woman.
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Survivor / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Survivor / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Many survivors who return to the competition do so on a sour note for various reasons, such as Jenna Lewis, Boston Rob, and Lex van den Berghe in All Stars, Stephenie LaGrossa in Guatemala, and James Clement in Heroes vs Villains. Hell, even Jeff Probst has become more aggressive in his questioning and role in the show in later seasons.
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Survivor / int_8cb259f4	type	Overshadowed by Awesome
Survivor / int_8cb259f4	comment	Overshadowed by Awesome: Becky Lee during the Cook Islands finale. She was overlooked because the jury only considered the strategic and social mastery of Yul Kwon and the physical prowess of Ozzy Lusth. It also didn't help that Becky and Sundra Oakley's tie-breaking challenge during Tribal Council (basically building fire that's huge enough to snap a piece of string) took almost two hours to finish, making her look even more incompetent. It took so long that the game's producers gave her and Sundra matches instead of the usual flint and knife, just so they could hurry up and finish. And even then, Becky only won because Sundra ran out of matches.
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Survivor / int_8d0c61b6	type	Team Title
Survivor / int_8d0c61b6	comment	Team Title: Overlaps with most of Versus Title below except Blood vs. Water, though the original B vs. W was originally planned to be this.
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Survivor / int_8d189cee	type	Nothing Can Stop Us Now!
Survivor / int_8d189cee	comment	Nothing Can Stop Us Now!: Russell Hantz in every season he's been in (Samoa, Heroes vs. Villains, and Redemption Island) has gloated to the point of absurdity before ultimately losing.
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Survivor / int_8d4e3278	type	Kingmaker Scenario
Survivor / int_8d4e3278	comment	Kingmaker Scenario: Those voted out post-merge become a jury of kingmakers for the final vote. Additionally, the player who wins the Final Immunity Challenge often gets to decide who to bring to the end with them.
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Survivor / int_8d8c3304	type	Deadly Scratch
Survivor / int_8d8c3304	comment	Deadly Scratch: An occasional cause for medical evacuation, as limited access to medicine and bandages can make an otherwise controlled cut seriously infected. Jonathan Penner (Micronesia) and Neal Gottlieb (Kaoh Rong) both had to be pulled for infections that could have costed them their leg, if not their life, while James Clement (also Micronesia) had to be removed for an infection on a cut no wider than his finger.
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Survivor / int_8de2e803	type	Confession Cam
Survivor / int_8de2e803	comment	"Big" Tom Buchanan in All-Stars just barely touched the idiot ball when he called himself the swing vote between the Rob-Amber alliance and the Rupert-Jenna alliance. Normally not a bad thing to say to the Confession Cam, but instead, he did it right to Boston Rob's face. At the final five. That was all an already-wary Rob needed to turn the vote against Tom and send him packing.
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Survivor / int_8e14da7a	type	The Flame of Life
Survivor / int_8e14da7a	comment	The Flame of Life: The show symbolically has the players light torches the first time they visit Tribal Council, and whenever someone is Voted Off the Island their torch is snuffed out.
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Survivor / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Survivor / int_8e20979	comment	Another contender for the title of Wham Episode would be "Trial By Fire" of Australia, where Michael Skupin became the first castaway to be medically evacuated after he suffered serious burns to his hands. The episode left everyone (even executive producer Mark Burnett) in shock and it hammered home the point that Survivor wasn't a glorified vacation. Castaways would be removed from the game because their life was in danger, and if it could happen to Michael (who was arguably the most qualified survivalist on the show), then it could happen to anyone.
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Survivor / int_8e4a0f15	type	Dumb Blonde
Survivor / int_8e4a0f15	comment	Jud from Nicaragua got pegged as a himbo (not completely unfairly) and was given the nickname "Fabio", but he used it to his advantage to sneak past people perceived as bigger threats and won, even managing to trick Chase and Sash into telling Jane they were voting her out to her face.
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Survivor / int_8e803915	type	Strategy Versus Tactics
Survivor / int_8e803915	comment	Strategy Versus Tactics: Some players focus on their overall strategy and how they'll win in the finals, others focus more on the tactics of surviving round to round. Obviously, it's best to balance both - Russell Hantz and Cirie Fields are prime examples of what happens when you follow one at the expense of the other (in Russel's case, he poured all his energy into tactics with no thought to his endgame strategy, suffering total defeat in the finals twice, while Cirie is considered one of the best long-term planners the game ever had, always controlling votes stealthily from the majority with a great relationship with other players that one would think would net her a win if she got to final three, but always gets tripped up by unexpected twists and maverick players that cause her to be swiftly voted out at the height of her power, never once reaching the final tribal.)
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Survivor / int_9034be60	type	Shocking Elimination
Survivor / int_9034be60	comment	A sort of consensus among the older fans of the show is that episode 7 of Borneo is the single most important episode of the show's history. In a game that had up until then been an outdoor adventure and voting had been based on sociability/ survival merit, the Tagis banded together and forced out Gretchen, the most qualified survivalist and somebody who was hardly disliked. This act of putting politics before ability almost completely changed the course of how the game and all the future seasons would play out.
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Survivor / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Survivor / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The bane of every outright deceitful and manipulative player once they reach the final tribal council and are at the whims of people they forced out have the power. But sometimes, this comes a bit earlier: The Rotu Four in Marquesas made their alliance and intended boot order so blatantly obvious during a challenge that the other players rallied and sent them all home one after the other. In Pearl Islands, Jonny Fairplay got soundly beaten in the final immunity challenge by the one he'd been using as his biggest punching bag all season, Lillian Morris, who promptly voted him out. Ami Cusack's Yasur Alliance in Vanuatu decided to target Eliza Orlins instead of obvious target Chris Daugherty. Eliza immediately defected to Chris and two other women get rid of Ami and shatter her alliance. Julie hiding Philip's shorts in Redemption Island just for a laugh. Philip assumes it's Steve, but Julie eventually admits it was her, confident he wouldn't find them. Inevitably, she's voted out at Tribal. Oh, and he finds his shorts the very next day. The Four Horsemen in Fiji thought they had the game in the bag and wanted to punish Cassandra Franklin for sending Mookie to exile island. Then flighty near-outsider Dreamz Herd and a blindside by the other players caused the swift downfall of that alliance. Edgardo Rivera, Mookie Lee, and Alex Angarita were voted out by both Cassandra and Dreamz, also one after the other. In Heroes Vs Villains, J.T. Thomas's boneheaded plan to give Russell Hantz an immunity idol backfired and got him voted out only one episode later. And earlier, Tyson Apostol screwing up his alliance's plan got him voted out immediately.
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Survivor / int_921cdca8	type	Nothing Personal
Survivor / int_921cdca8	comment	Nothing Personal: Most of the eliminations that take place are strictly due to gameplay or strategic purposes. As shown on social networking sites, many players who go after each other in-game are usually on good terms with each other outside of it.
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Survivor / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
Survivor / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back: The seasons featuring returning players.
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Survivor / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Survivor / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once an alliance has eliminated their competition, the perceived strongest member(s) is/are the one(s) who get voted out by their tribemates because they see them as a threat. This is also why traitors from opposing factions last only a spot longer than whoever they ratted out.
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Survivor / int_949221ec	type	Evil is Cool
Survivor / int_949221ec	comment	Evil is Cool: In-Universe, Some contestants believe this (as it is a game of deception), and swear to lie, cheat, and steal their way to the million. Most of them realize that they are on a television show, and deliberately do this to play up to the cameras. The Villain tribe from Heroes vs Villains. Their dramatic entrance alone was all kinds of cool, the descent of their chopper literally blowing sand right at the Hero tribe's faces.
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Survivor / int_94b81c55	type	Spin-Offspring
Survivor / int_94b81c55	comment	Spin-Offspring: Brandon Hantz from South Pacific and Caramoan is the nephew of Samoa, Heroes vs. Villains and Redemption Island castaway Russell Hantz. Blood vs. Water gives us three; Ciera Eastin (daughter of Samoa castaway Laura Morett), Katie Collins (daughter of Australia winner and All-Stars castaway Tina Wesson) and Marissa Peterson (niece of Borneo castaway Gervase Peterson). Bonus points for actually competing in the game against their respective loved ones.
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Survivor / int_94d2506d	type	Can't Catch Up
Survivor / int_94d2506d	comment	Can't Catch Up: If one tribe does poorly enough in the pre-merge game, then they wind up entering with a severe minority and are (usually) easy pickings for the majority. Ulong and Ravu are the most famous and prominent examples. Ulong in Palau lost every single immunity challenge and were reduced to just one member. Ravu in Fiji was intentionally given much fewer supplies than the Moto tribe as part of a "have vs. have not" setup; and they never were able to catch up to the much better fed and rested Moto. The producers admit that Fiji was a failed experiment. Matsing from Philippines did fail bad enough to be the "three tribe season" version of Ulong, but had both their surviving members make it far into the game. One of them even won! More generically, when one is down a member, the other tribes are forced to sit someone out. Competing in back-to-back challenges without any rewards can easily cause tribemates to get tired out and be unable to perform in the immunity challenge. Instinctively, the players who are ahead sit out their weaker players for the immunity challenge because that's the more important one. Some seasons subvert this when a winner comes from a tribe that was in a minority during the merge. Such as the awesomeness of the post-mutiny Aitu Four in Cook Islands that soundly whooped the eight-strong Raro tribe after realizing their weakness in numbers.
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Survivor / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
Survivor / int_950bbfa7	comment	2) ...the Aparri Alliance correctly predicts that these two might have idols to shuffle between them, and Take a Third Option by voting for Jefra, who nobody would think to pass an idol along to save, meaning that Tony and LJ both get no votes and waste their idols. Yet...
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Survivor / int_95c2a9dd	type	Outliving One's Offspring
Survivor / int_95c2a9dd	comment	Outliving One's Offspring: During San Juan Del Sur, the second Blood vs. Water season, all the children in the children-parent pair were eliminated before their parents. This is played within the original Blood vs. Water with the Tina and Katie (mother/daughter) pair. Tina was technically eliminated before Katie, but she kept on winning at Redemption Island, defeating Katie in the process and thus came Back from the Dead before being eliminated again to be the last jury member. Played tragically straight, however, with her son (and Katie's brother) dying in an accident at the time the season was still airing.
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Survivor / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Survivor / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: Most seasons have at least one contestant that plays the role, either of the anti-villainous or card-carrying variety.
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Survivor / int_978a82e6	type	Big Bad Duumvirate
Survivor / int_978a82e6	comment	Big Bad Duumvirate: Despite Parvati referring to Russell as her pet dragon in Heroes vs. Villains, this is what they likely were. Burton and Jonny Fairplay were this thirteen seasons earlier in Pearl Islands, although it could be argued that Burton was just The Dragon.
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Survivor / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Survivor / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: Arguably in Africa after the tribal swap when Frank Garrison and T-Bird voted out Silas Gaither. Also from Africa: Lex van den Berghe spends an early part of the merge alienating himself and risking elimination, just to vote out someone he feels wronged him.
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Survivor / int_98576799	type	Throw the Dog a Bone
Survivor / int_98576799	comment	Throw the Dog a Bone: Whenever a player is evacuated or quits on the day of an immunity challenge, Tribal Council is usually cancelled afterwards, sparing teams the potential setback of losing two members in a single day. The only exceptions are Shamar's evacuation in Caramoan and Jackson's evacuation in Survivor 42, though the latter reduced what would've been a double-elimination challenge to a single-elimination.
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Survivor / int_9858c391	type	Chick Magnet
Survivor / int_9858c391	comment	Chick Magnet: Colby. Lampshaded by Sandra and Parvati.
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Survivor / int_987be393	type	Gambit Roulette
Survivor / int_987be393	comment	Gambit Roulette: The game of choice of Cirie Fields in Panama. Her pet hobbies include: organizing 3-2-1 vote splits and orchestrating scenarios to convince people to give away immunity at Tribal Council and then immediately voting them out. These are plans that would fail by just one person moving out of line, which they never do because Cirie has everyone convinced she's loyal primarily to them. This finally backfires on her in Heroes vs. Villains, when J.T. Thomas displays what happens when someone does stray away from her master plan and got rival Tom Westman to whip out his idol.
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Survivor / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Survivor / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Some players who started weak become stronger as the game progress, such as Fabio in Nicaragua, who started as a himbo and went on an immunity run to win it all. There's also returning players who do far better a second time around, like Parvati Shallow making the finals in both Micronesia and Heroes vs Villains. Lill Morris from Pearl Islands is considered one of the most memorable examples of this trope. Overall quite mopey and sensitive, she was basically Jonny Fairplay's pawn and punching bag for the season. Then she ends up dominating the final immunity challenge, taunting Fairplay as she pretty much handed him his ass on a silver platter. All while refusing his repeated and desperate attempts at trying to convince her to cut a deal, quickly sending home without a second thought after she wins. Cochran. In South Pacific he was basically a nerdy whipping boy for both tribes. In Caramoan he won four individual challenges, including the final immunity challenge, and basically ran the game for the last few episodes.
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Survivor / int_9c550e26	type	Word Salad Title
Survivor / int_9c550e26	comment	The show's (occasionally bizarre) official titles for episodes are derived from players' quotes in the respective episodes. Of course, many of the chosen quotes mark critical moments in the game.
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Survivor / int_9cb3e22e	type	Interface Spoiler
Survivor / int_9cb3e22e	comment	Interface Spoiler: The voting for Cambodia's cast was determined by online vote, and showed Carolyn and Mike from the then-airing Worlds Apart on the ballot, but not several other people who were still in the game at the time. This resulted in many viewers speculating that the winner was not them, as the theme of Cambodia was a second chance. Probst revealed that if Mike or Carolyn won they would ergo be ineligible. At the same time, this also resulted in many viewers thinking that those two did win just by looking at the candidates, expecting that if one of them won they would be ineligible. However, this arguably also wound up making Carolyn screwed, as some viewers pointed out on blogs that voting for Mike or Carolyn would be a "Waste", as the edit did not paint an obvious picture to either of them being the winner. Subverted when Probst revealed at the Cambodia cast announcement that Mike apparently did receive enough votes to get on the cast if he hadn't won while Carolyn missed the cut.
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Survivor / int_9d0cfdb9	type	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny
Survivor / int_9d0cfdb9	comment	Sex Is Evil, and I Am Horny: Brandon Hantz in the first few episodes of South Pacific, regarding his tribemate Mikayla. And since he said she's at fault for tempting him, he didn't exactly redeem the Hantz family name.
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Survivor / int_9d0f2549	type	Public Secret Message
Survivor / int_9d0f2549	comment	Public Secret Message: Survivor 41 and 42 contain Immunity Idols with a twist, in that they're shared among all three tribes and can't be used until all three are found, and each holder must alert the others by saying a code phrase in front of the tribes during a challenge. The secret phrases in 41 are: "I truly believe that butterflies are just dead relatives saying hi", "I'm as confused as a goat on AstroTurf", and "I didn't realize this until now... broccoli is just a bunch of small trees"; and in 42 are "Potatoes have skin. I have skin. Am I a potato?", "It's another classic case of the bunny rabbit having dinner in the mailbox", and "There's such grace in a game of soccer, it makes me cry."
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Survivor / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Survivor / int_9d12bbc1	comment	The show showed Courtney Yates yelling "Break her arm" as Foreshadowing for when Stephenie LaGrossa dislocated her shoulder in that challenge. She had actually said it after the injury in jest of what just happened.
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Survivor / int_9dd2cbc2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Survivor / int_9dd2cbc2	comment	Greg Buis (in Borneo) was the first Cloud Cuckoo Lander of Survivor, beginning with his coconut phone, and ending with his unexpected descent into tears. Greg's final Jury question "Pick a Number between 1 and 10" ended up being the deciding vote. He just did it to mock the seriousness of everyone else and because he liked to screw with the production crew. The correct number was "whatever Richard picked" so there was no luck involved.
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Survivor / int_9f5c935a	type	Long Speech Tea Time
Survivor / int_9f5c935a	comment	Long Speech Tea Time: A couple of people's rambling has been met with eye-rolling. First Phillip Sheppard in Redemption Island (the editors even made a fake Time-Passes Montage during one of his speeches) and then Semhar Tadesse with her poetry in South Pacific.
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Survivor / int_9f62723d	type	Get Out!
Survivor / int_9f62723d	comment	Get Out!: Jeff Probst tends to say something like this when someone quits the game. When NaOnka Mixon and "Purple" Kelly Shinn quit Nicaragua, both times he said "You wanna go? Go.". He was equally unsympathetic to the show's first quitter, Osten Taylor, fourteen seasons earlier in Pearl Islands. Instead of being told "the tribe has spoken", Probst just said "Go home.". He elevated it to a full scale "The Reason You Suck" Speech when Colton Cumbie quit in Blood Vs. Water.
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Survivor / int_9f81bd21	type	Stealth Parody
Survivor / int_9f81bd21	comment	Stealth Parody: Easily one of the cleverest of these (if not the only one) was in Borneo when Greg Buis asked both of the finalists to pick a number between one and ten during the standard Q&A jury session featured on each finale. Presumably whoever answered closest to the correct answer would get Greg's vote, and they did (Richard picked 7 and Kelly chose 3 when the secret number was 9). As some time went by and people began to call Richard an overrated winner since he basically won through luck and all the machinations and intrigue of his season were thus pointless, an old interview with Greg then surfaced claiming that he had planned to vote for Richard the entire time and only did the "pick a number" gimmick to mock the overly serious nature of Tribal Council.
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Survivor / int_9fa2cfd1	type	Sliding Scale of Plot Versus Characters
Survivor / int_9fa2cfd1	comment	Sliding Scale of Plot Versus Characters: For the first eight or so seasons, Survivor focused more on the players day to day lives at camp, but in later seasons, it increasingly focuses on game strategy and twists to the point where most of the characters are flat out ignored. Early seasons had big chunks of episodes dedicated to catching fish, hunting a pig, a fight because someone ate a can of food without the tribe, someone accused of smuggling beef jerky, a mock morning radio show and lots of instances of just people living on an island. Compared to modern seasons where this is seldom shown and every scene is about who people are going to vote for.
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Survivor / int_a0af3dcf	type	Elimination Statement
Survivor / int_a0af3dcf	comment	Elimination Statement: The contestants' final words vary from being encouraging words to the remaining tribe, reminiscing over things they regret, or bitter words towards the people who voted them out.
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Survivor / int_a1575551	type	Living Prop
Survivor / int_a1575551	comment	In Redemption Island, Ashley appeared to have been one of the Living Props on Boston Rob's team who was incapable of doing a thing by herself...until she started winning challenges and worried Rob a lot because she didn't anger anybody on the jury and was actually not incompetent. You can spot Rob's Oh, Crap! face.
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Survivor / int_a1b27125	type	Nervous Wreck
Survivor / int_a1b27125	comment	Bhanu in Survivor 46 was a Nervous Wreck who had no control over his emotions or his mouth. The breaking point came when he told his tribe just how much he told the other tribes about them and put targets on their backs, at which point they deemed him unsalvageable.
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Survivor / int_a3a4a800	type	Too Clever by Half
Survivor / int_a3a4a800	comment	This has become less and less relevant in the more recent seasons as now fans are overwhelmingly cast. This means that many many players are inherently aware of the meta, of former players and how to win. Of course, knowing and doing are two different things - and many times superfans can get so into their head they mess up in ways that recruits wouldn't.
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Survivor / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Survivor / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: Many of the episode titles in the earlier seasons are Shout-Outs to various pieces of literature, film, music, or events that happened earlier in the season. They are also allusions to what is going to happen in that night's episode. For example, Thailand's premiere episode is called "The Importance Of Being Eldest", a reference to Oscar Wilde as well as to the opening twist (and is also a clue to how the season itself plays out). "Redemption Island", while being an obvious reference to the twist introduced in that season, is also a subtle reference to the fact that two of the most notorious Survivors who had never won a season, Boston Rob and Russell Hantz, were trying to "redeem" themselves by finally winning it all.
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Survivor / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
Survivor / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Poor Boo Bernis of Fiji was one. He not only hurt himself numerous times on the same day (which was actually pretty funny) but later tore his ACL - then it went into the unfunny territory.
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Survivor / int_a58e5ad7	type	Naked People Are Funny
Survivor / int_a58e5ad7	comment	Naked People Are Funny: Rich Hatch (Borneo and All-Stars) liked to strip down, and it's largely played for laughs. It's his other major shtick, besides being the show's first Manipulative Bastard.
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Survivor / int_a5cfe2ac	type	And There Was Much Rejoicing
Survivor / int_a5cfe2ac	comment	And There Was Much Rejoicing: Can easily happen given how someone is ejected every episode. Not only for the audience but sometimes the contestants act this way, too. Jerri leaving Australia was a relief to the other players (one even whistled "Ding Dong, The Witch Is Dead"), and just about everybody (including many viewers) was glad to see Russell finally get voted out in Redemption Island.
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Survivor / int_a60e3252	type	Rule of Funny
Survivor / int_a60e3252	comment	Rule of Funny: There was absolutely no strategy behind Sugar convincing Bob to give Randy a fake Immunity Idol in Gabon. Either way, he was going home, but she knew it would be hilarious to have him humiliate himself on the way out. And it was.
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Survivor / int_a679184b	type	Due to the Dead
Survivor / int_a679184b	comment	Due to the Dead: In the earlier seasons (last seen in Season 26, Caramoan), the finale usually included a part for the finalists to reflect on all the people voted out (and for said people voted out to reflect on their time in the game), which is often presented like this.
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Survivor / int_a696c783	type	Event Title
Survivor / int_a696c783	comment	Event Title: The series title itself invokes people surviving. For specific seasons, the ones named after twists or/and gimmicks such as One World (tribes sharing a camp) and the ones under Versus Title below.
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Survivor / int_a6ff7243	type	Hates Being Touched
Survivor / int_a6ff7243	comment	In Island of the Idols, Kellee claimed that she Hates Being Touched because she's Terrified of Germs. The later admits that this is a lie; Dan was being inappropriately handsy with her and other women and claiming to be a germophobe was a way to get him to back off without making a scene.
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Survivor / int_a70f9aba	type	Accentuate the Negative
Survivor / int_a70f9aba	comment	Accentuate the Negative: Quite common among the contestants, especially when people are forced to vote out one of their own and needed to accentuate someone's negatives to get them out. Stephanie Lagrossa, for example. Did you know that she actually made the Final Two when she played the game a second time in Guatemala? And that she was actually in a majority alliance? The way everyone mentioned/carried on about how she was on Ulong in Palau during Heroes vs. Villains, you'd be surprised to find out that detail. Poor Dreamz - even if he clearly was sorry for having broken a promise during Fiji and regretted it (even months later at the reunion), everyone VICIOUSLY chewed him out for it.
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Survivor / int_a7850fbf	type	Only Known by Their Nickname
Survivor / int_a7850fbf	comment	Only Known by Their Nickname: It happens fairly frequently. In a lot of cases, the fact that a grown adult introduces themselves to strangers with a silly nickname is a sign of having a bit too much ego (see: "Jonny Fairplay", "Dreamz", "Shambo"). Also Cochran of South Pacific; it is his last name, but he specifically requested it on grounds that Jeff Probst calls his favored contestants by their last names. "Sugar" and "Fabio" are two of the exceptions, being some of the game's nicer contestants (and the name "Fabio" wasn't his idea anyway, it was coined by his tribemates). While "Boston Rob" has ego to spare, he's also justified in going by a nickname because his first two seasons (Marquesas and All-Stars) ran up against the One-Steve Limit. Similarly, "Coach" Wade absolutely dislikes being called Benjamin by anyone he meets, not just on the show.
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Survivor / int_a7aef9ff	type	Obfuscating Stupidity
Survivor / int_a7aef9ff	comment	Obfuscating Stupidity: Natalie White in Samoa noticed that strong, aggressive women got booted, so she made herself a hanger-on to Russell. If you're not convinced about the "Obfuscating" part, watch her confessional in episode 4 after the arrangement was made. She won handily, and snagged not one but two goats by bringing the unreliable tribe leader Mick the finals. Vecepia Towery did the same thing (albeit about strategy, not general stupidity) seven years earlier in Marquesas and also won. Fabio from Nicaragua also did this, to the point where the audience figured out what he was doing long before the other contestants. It's almost like he realized that it normally works on this show. Then again, that seems to be his real personality for the most part anyway. Phillip Sheppard claimed near the end of Redemption Island that he purposely became the villain, knowing that it would both take the heat off Boston Rob and convince the man that he was someone to be going up at the end. Not everyone is convinced that his weirdness was all an act, however.
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Survivor / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
Survivor / int_a7b324e	comment	Sash Lenahan grabbed it twice in Nicaragua: first when he chose to vote out Kelly Bruno even though Marty Piombo was clearly the bigger threat; and then again at the end, when he was duped by Fabio Birza into blindsiding Jane Bright, and then proceeded to tell her right to her face that she was the next to go. To be fair course, Chase Rice had it too that second time.
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Survivor / int_a7ddc88e	type	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes
Survivor / int_a7ddc88e	comment	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes: Combined with Informed Ability; there's usually at least one contestant whose job and life experiences back home don't seem to translate to Survivor as well as it should. Some examples include: Kelly Wiglesworth from Borneo, a professional river guide who lost a boating race to Gervase Paterson, a man who couldn't even swim. Keith Famie from The Australian Outback, a chef cooked rice was so badly that the result was inedible. His inability to cook was made all the more blatant when actor Jerri Manthey made tortillas from scratch that the whole tribe ended up loving. Lillian Morris from Pearl Islands couldn't tie the fisherman's knot and easily lost a fishing hook, despite being a Boy Scout leader. James Miller from Palau, the physically-fit steelworker, got beaten in a fight by Coby Archa, a Camp Gay hairdresser who just ran at him without thinking. James claimed he knows a knot from his time in the U.S. Navy that was impossible to see the end of and would only get tighter the more the other tribe tried to untie it. The other tribe untied it just by yanking it hard enough. Jean-Robert Bellande in China, the poker player who was so bad at telling who was trustworthy that he ends up not only sending potential allies and easy fall guys home, but also got himself into crosshairs of threats who would have otherwise ignored him. Crystal Cox from Gabon, an Olympic gold medalist who couldn't run, climb, throw, or dunk a basketball...on a five-foot hoop. She had admitted to steroid use in the past, which could have affected her performance, but some would argue that she should have performed better regardless. In an attempt to not be seen as a physical threat, she claimed she was actually a kindergarten teacher and homemaker, which everyone wound up believing to the point that they were incredulous when they were given proof she actually was in the Olympics. She at least had an imposing frame that helped with her alliance's strategizing. Also in Gabon, Dan Kay the lawyer could not parse what an immunity idol clue referred to, and squandered his time in Exile Island after thinking "sandy crater across a lake" meant "sandy crater in a lake". Sugar Kiper, the model and actor, managed to follow the instructions to get on the other side of a lake, and got the idol without breaking a sweat. NaOnka Mixon from Nicaragua and Alicia Rosa from One World are teachers (physical education and special education, respectively), but demonstrated things kids probably shouldn't be learning. Namely, NaOnka had a bad attitude towards a disabled tribemate (and everyone else, but the disability rivalry stood out) and quit at the expense of her team, while Alicia spent much of her game as a selfish Alpha Bitch. Phillip Sheppard from Redemption Island, a "Former Federal Agent?" who couldn't pierce tribal council Double Speak, got upset and proceeded to reveal all of his alliance's secrets. Yes, even the captions appeared to question his profession. A fan theory is that his actual government job was much less impressive than he tries to make it sound. Emily Flippen from 45, an investment analyst, fails a math based challenge to get her vote back.
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Survivor / int_a8dcb1d7	type	Love at First Sight
Survivor / int_a8dcb1d7	comment	Love at First Sight: In Cook Islands, Billy Garcia misinterpreted Candice Woodcock's "we love you" like this. She said it to cheer him up since he knew his tribe intended to vote him out. Boston Rob to Amber Brkich in All-Stars. As the guy said: "Because she's beautiful, and any idiot can see that!".
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Survivor / int_a90f0639	type	Entitled Bastard
Survivor / int_a90f0639	comment	Entitled Bastard: Russell Hantz. In Samoa, he tried to buy the title off the winner. In Heroes vs Villains, he claimed that the rules were flawed. In Redemption Island, he even said that he should have sued every player on his team for losing just to get rid of him. Even after his nephew Brandon played in South Pacific, he referred to his own game as "greatness" and said Brandon was screwing it up.
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Survivor / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Survivor / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Odd Friendship: A staple when a Ragtag Bunch of Misfits share a tribe for an extended amount of time. The earliest example was in Borneo: Machiavellian gay nudist Richard Hatch and gruff homophobic Navy SEAL Rudy Boersch. Another prominent one from China: James Clement, the blunt, bulky, and aggressive gravedigger and Todd Herzog, the scrawny, flamboyantly gay manipulator.
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Survivor / int_a9540e4	type	Best Known for the Fanservice
Survivor / int_a9540e4	comment	Best Known for the Fanservice: Jenna and Heidi stripping for peanut butter and chocolate during Amazon. So much that they even posed for Playboy. In-Universe, Jenna lampshaded this during America's Tribal Council saying people will remember her stripping instead of actually winning that season.
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Survivor / int_a9de87d2	type	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass
Survivor / int_a9de87d2	comment	Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: Brett from Samoa simply hid behind the numbers and kept his mouth shut (losing a lot of screen time in the process), making the Foa-Foa's think he was nothing more than an easy-boot at the final six. But then all of a sudden, this quiet person who looks 16 starts to chain-win immunities. Then comes the scary part for the Foa-Foa's, since Brett is the last remaining Galu left, with a jury now 100% filled with Galus... not to mention he's the only one besides Natalie out of those six who ''had not'' angered anyone like Russell and Mick... Jud from Nicaragua got pegged as a himbo (not completely unfairly) and was given the nickname "Fabio", but he used it to his advantage to sneak past people perceived as bigger threats and won, even managing to trick Chase and Sash into telling Jane they were voting her out to her face. In Redemption Island, Ashley appeared to have been one of the Living Props on Boston Rob's team who was incapable of doing a thing by herself...until she started winning challenges and worried Rob a lot because she didn't anger anybody on the jury and was actually not incompetent. You can spot Rob's Oh, Crap! face. Before these three, Lillian in Pearl Islands. The entire season she's (again, not unfairly) built up as a woman in over her head. In a rather brilliant move, Fairplay comes into the final three with her and Sandra, neither of which had won any challenges. Sandra goes out easily as predicted... but Fairplay starts to get in trouble. He tries to get Lil to drop... but every single deal is shot down with a big "No", and she continues to wear him down. Sophie is sort of seen as this emotional girl who's being dragged by Coach in South Pacific... and then manages to beat Ozzy in the most crucial immunity challenge. Christina gets a moment in One World - she's pretty much abused all game but eventually, the abuse stops a bit as they decide to go after Kat instead. Throughout the game, she doesn't perform well in challenges, yet in the final immunity challenge, she comes in second... a very close second at that, as both her and Kim were leagues ahead of Chelsea and Sabrina!
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Survivor / int_aa30e350	type	Sole Survivor
Survivor / int_aa30e350	comment	Sole Survivor: This is the official title of the winner of the game, who is the last person left at the end.
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Survivor / int_ab031997	type	Underdogs Never Lose
Survivor / int_ab031997	comment	Underdogs Never Lose: The main story of Gabon is how four of the unlikeliest people could make the final four despite being in the minority and opposing possibly the tightest core alliance in the season: Bob Crowley, an elderly physics teacher who survived Kota's Total Party Kill by continually winning immunities; Susie Smith, a middle-aged mother and hairstylist who was always the lowest rung on the ladder and eventually survived long enough to get involved in a decent alliance; Sugar Kiper, a waitron/pin-up model who many tried to break the spirit of by sending her to Exile Island a record number of times and eventually ended up controlling the game; and Matty Whitmore, the personal trainer and supposed physical threat who had to carry one of the worst tribes in the show's history, yet came out of the whole mess no worse for the wear.
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Survivor / int_ab17f66	type	Big Brother Mentor
Survivor / int_ab17f66	comment	Big Brother Mentor: In Episode 6 of Thailand, after a quarrel over a misunderstanding Robb had, Ken takes Robb under his wing and becomes a sort of Big Brother Mentor to him, teaching him how to better relate to his tribe. This calmed down the normally very unpredictable Robb into having an epiphany about himself and suddenly becoming much nicer to his tribemates. Coach basically acted as one to Brandon in South Pacific, helping him keep himself together.
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Survivor / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Survivor / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: Some contestants are given these, namely, Richard Hatch (The King, The Emperor), Jerri Manthey (The Black Widow, The Wicked Witch), Ozzy Lusth (Dolphin Boy), Sandra Diaz-Twine (The Queen, The Empress), Rupert Boneham (The Pirate), Cirie Fields (The Puppet Master), Coach Wade (The Dragon Slayer- which he initialy gave himself), Earl Cole (The Godfather). Coach has since passed the "Dragon Slayer" title onto Sophie Clarke after she beat Ozzy Lusth at the final immunity challenge and went on to then win the million.
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Survivor / int_ab5d5d86	type	Evolving Music
Survivor / int_ab5d5d86	comment	Evolving Music: The series' Theme Tune, "Ancient Voices", has many seasonal remixes. Various regional instruments, spirited grunts, chants, shouts, and drums are woven into the main track each season. Averted with Nicaragua, which defaulted to the first season's theme, and Island of the Idols, which lacked it entirely. Russ Landau did create a version for Nicaragua, but it was tossed out.
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Survivor / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
Survivor / int_aba8065b	comment	This was the Fatal Flaw of the Timbiras in Tocantins, with Coach and Brendan jockeying for the alpha male position, and Erinn and especially Sierra getting the All of the Other Reindeer treatment. The tribe was in a big enough division, that come the merge, the incoming Jalapaos (who were in the minority) exploited the tribe's "factions" and easily picked off the Timbiras one-by-one.
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Survivor / int_abaead71	type	Reality Show Genre Blindness
Survivor / int_abaead71	comment	Reality Show Genre Blindness: In the beginning and midphase of the show, very few people coming on the show seem to have an idea how these things tend to work. For example: Being able to start a fire. Being able to swim. Wearing clothes suitable for the game environment. Although, this is somewhat justified - in seasons like Pearl Islands, Palau, and perhaps China, they weren't actually told they were going right to the game, they were told they were going to a promo event. Do you think Andrew Savage or David would have worn business suits if they knew they were going straight to the game in Pearl Islands and Redemption Island respectively, or that Ashley would have worn high-heel boots if she knew she was going directly to the game from the plane? Further justified as it's been made clear that castaways don't actually get to choose their clothes anymore. Another justification for the above list is that some contestants are "recruited" to be on the show, some of which have never watched it before, such as most of Fiji's cast. This is lampshaded by Taj from Tocantins: They also manage to not realize that there is a social aspect to the game too. The Jury players have to like you or at least respect you if you want to have any chance of winning. They also have not figured out that the producers may be unable to fix the game, but they can slant it, so, therefore, returning players become a liability. This has become partially averted as more and more fans have been cast. Returning players. One would honestly assume after Micronesia that they'd toss the returnees ASAP, yet every time they've done one returning player per tribe, they haven't (hell, in Redemption Island, it's almost as if all the other castoffs wanted Boston Rob to win). This has become averted as time has gone on however - despite returning players Coach and Skupin making it to the end of their respective returnee seasons, they both lost to newbies. And in the Edge of Extinction, while the returning players were kept around for a while to serve as shields by the final 9, they had all been voted out. This has become less and less relevant in the more recent seasons as now fans are overwhelmingly cast. This means that many many players are inherently aware of the meta, of former players and how to win. Of course, knowing and doing are two different things - and many times superfans can get so into their head they mess up in ways that recruits wouldn't.
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Survivor / int_ac6ea68c	type	Near-Villain Victory
Survivor / int_ac6ea68c	comment	Near-Villain Victory: Happens whenever the season's villain makes the finale with a good shot at swaying the jury. The most extreme example of this is Jonny Fairplay, who gets to the final three of Pearl Islands. His only real opponent Sandra Diaz-Twine is the first to fall out of the last immunity challenge, which means all he has to do is beat or sway his longtime pawn Lill Morris. Suddenly Lill turns on him for all the crap he's put her thru and reveals that she is good enough at squats to win an immunity challenge for the first time in the entire game, leading to his third-place finish.
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Survivor / int_accb41a9	type	Rule of Romantic
Survivor / int_accb41a9	comment	You can't agree to split the million-dollar prize, but you can marry the winner. (All-Stars) Not that CBS minded.
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Survivor / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Survivor / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: You can spot a couple "Oh Crap" faces, as well as people literally saying "Oh crap" when they realize they underestimated someone. Such as Russell to Brett, Boston Rob to Ashley, and Chase, Sash, and Holly to Fabio. Lex's expression just before getting voted out during All Stars probably takes the cake as the biggest "Oh Crap" face on Survivor. Edgardo and Alex◊ have one in Fiji that must be seen to be believed. Everyone except the Three Amigos when Malcolm plays two idols for himself and Eddie, preventing any of them from being voted off in that tribal since Reynold had immunity.
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Survivor / int_af2547c9	type	Informed Flaw
Survivor / int_af2547c9	comment	Informed Flaw: Happens a fair bit. Without fail, it is always either Manipulative Editing or many contestants] being untrustworthy themselves. Nick Brown was portrayed as a "Lazy Bum" in Australia; but when everybody saw the finished edit, practically the whole cast got on the editors's cases about how actually was helpful around camp. Anthony Robinson in Fiji was apparently dislikeable and shifty. Yet almost all the time during the fights between him and Rocky Reid, it's not that hard to see Rocky as the aggressor. Chet Welch in Micronesia was mostly shown as loser who sucked at challenges and would not handle the wild that only got by as a pawn. After the show was finished, a few contestants came to his defense about how he was helpful around camp and was a considerably nicer person than most of the cast. Even Chet himself didn't deny he was far from a physical threat, though. In South Pacific, the Upolus regularly consider Edna Ma for elimination because she's "sneaky", "devious", and a physical liability, yet the audience is shown nothing of her deviousness and sneakiness, and every challenge the Upolus won she took part in. Christina Cha in One World is said to be lazy, yet she's regularly shown working around the camp. She's also apparently annoying but is nothing compared to "Tarzan" Smith, Alicia Rosa, or Colton Cumbie, each of them being on her tribe by the shuffle.
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Survivor / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Survivor / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: In Borneo, B.B mistakenly refers to Greg as "Craig", and doesn't even know Jenna's name, referring to her as the "lady in the pink swimsuit." Brian in Thailand has one of the weirdest ones. He is a control freak and needs Shii Ann to switch to their team to get the majority so he does everything to bring her over except learn her name. He calls her "Soo-Yi" and "Sin-Jo" instead. In Micronesia, Ozzy mistakenly refers to Joel as "Troy" during the tribe swap. In the first Tribal Council of Redemption Island, Phillip consistently calls Francesca "Fransesqua", resulting in her indignantly correcting him. The third time, he said, "My mouth is dry, I've been getting treatment for it." During the vote, he writes her name down as "Francesqua", showing that he didn't really know Francesca's name. Either that, or he was trying to irritate her on purpose. In One World, Tarzan referred to Jonas as "Jason" and Christina as "Katrina". He explained he has nominal aphasia, meaning he needs to work at getting names right.
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Survivor / int_afab5e94	type	Reunion Show
Survivor / int_afab5e94	comment	Reunion Show: A reunion show is part of every season's finale (barring Winners at War due to the COVID-19 pandemic.) All seasons with returning players also qualify in a way.
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Survivor / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
Survivor / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: A few contestants have claimed over the years that the game reveals everybody's true personality, which is many times far different than the one they adopt back home.
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Survivor / int_aff29d6f	type	Beauty, Brains and Brawn
Survivor / int_aff29d6f	comment	Beauty, Brains, and Brawn: While our trope is usually used for a three-girl Power Trio, Cagayan and KaÃ´h RÅ�ng deserve mention for being themed after the dynamic and referencing it by name repeatedly.
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Survivor / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
Survivor / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Jeff Probst has several, almost always regarding gameplay gimmicks, to the point where he's ritualized half his dialogue. Some of the tribal council lines fall under Rules Spiel. For example, "Everybody, drop your buffs" is said by Jeff every time there's a tribal switch or merge. This one was played with a bit in Heroes vs. Villains as Jeff said "drop your expectations" due to the Villains tribe incorrectly guessing that there would be a merge with 12 castaways left; the merge was later done at 10 castaways instead.
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Survivor / int_b0485a20	type	Ditzy Genius
Survivor / int_b0485a20	comment	Ditzy Genius: Dr. Sean Kenniff in Borneo. Fans regularly make fun of his "Alphabet Strategy", but it actually made sense: most of the names that started toward the beginning of the alphabet were from the Pagong tribe. Why he failed was because of his neurotic demeanor, and reluctance to play as cutthroat as he had to. It didn't help matters that he thought of himself as a kind of Jerry Seinfeld entertainer kinda guy, noting in his audition tape that Seinfeld, Joey Buttafuoco and all of the Baldwin brothers are from his hometown (Massapequa, New York for the record). Also, his Superpole 2000 was hilariously ineffective and caught exactly 0 fish. Gervase Paterson called him the "dumbest smart guy" that he's ever met. Also, Sean's dad ended up being largely the same when he showed up for the first-ever "loved one" visit, with Sue calling the elder Kenniff a goof.
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Survivor / int_b04fdcc4	type	Loners Are Freaks
Survivor / int_b04fdcc4	comment	Loners Are Freaks: Not staying with the group makes people paranoid - or at least, not inclined to save you over their friends. So isolate yourself at your peril.
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Survivor / int_b0a529cb	type	Extreme Doormat
Survivor / int_b0a529cb	comment	The last episode of One World showed that Jeff is also visibly disgusted when a contestant doesn't even bother scrambling when they know they're going next; his reaction to Christina saying as much is evidence for this.
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Survivor / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Survivor / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: There are some things that players have gotten away with: Looking at other peoples' boards during certain puzzle challenges. Bribing other contestants. During Cook Islands, a couple of people accidentally wandered into the other tribe's camp. Luxury items. Colby used his Texas flag as a tarp in Australia. Peter from Marquesas had brought cologne, intending to use it as an accelerant for fire-making. Evidently, someone had once smuggled in a granola bar to the game, and another time, someone broke binoculars and used them to start a fire. There have been Obvious Rule Patches put in afterward. Using a pair of eyeglasses to start a fire. Giving the other tribe your immunity idol so you can vote one of your own out! (In One World) Stealing the other tribe's supplies during a "Get the supplies as fast as you can"-part. (Also One World) Taking the other tribe's fire using a stick. (One World again) You can't agree to split the million-dollar prize, but you can marry the winner. (All-Stars) Not that CBS minded.
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Survivor / int_b20fdfc8	type	Ur-Example
Survivor / int_b20fdfc8	comment	The jury, especially the bitter ones, are prone to do this to the finalists. The Ur-Example is Sue Hawk's "Rats and Snakes" speech, and just about everyone except Michelle and maybe Yau-Man pretty much said Take That! to Dreamz in Fiji. Edgardo and Lisi were particularly vicious.
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Survivor / int_b3b162c8	type	Honesty Is the Best Policy
Survivor / int_b3b162c8	comment	Honesty Is the Best Policy: Sandra Diaz-Twine from Pearl Islands and Randy Bailey from Gabon used this strategy to advantage: when you're mean but completely honest with your tribemates, they all know exactly where you stand and know you'll never lie to them. Unfortunately, this didn't work out so well for Phillip Sheppard in Redemption Island, who actually unveiled his alliance at the first Tribal Council and it forced him to jump alliances.
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Survivor / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
Survivor / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Lex getting a vote cast against him. Ever.
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Survivor / int_b4696332	type	My Greatest Second Chance
Survivor / int_b4696332	comment	My Greatest Second Chance: Any time a player returns for a second season unless they won the first time. Especially emphasized in Philippines plus Bruce in 45, as the returnees didn't get to play out their previous seasons due to medical evacuations, and the eponymous Second Chances. Played straight with Australian Outback and Cook Islands sixth placers Amber Brkich and Parvati Shallow, three-time loser Rob Mariano, South Pacific eighth placer John Cochran, two-time loser Tyson Apostol, and San Juan Del Sur tenth placer Jeremy Collins by respectively winning All-Stars, Micronesia, Redemption Island, Caramoan, Blood vs. Water, and Cambodia.
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Survivor / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
Survivor / int_b4eff8a8	comment	James spent most his time in China as a strong competitor who knew he would be sent home when the merge thinned out any rivalling alliances. He did what he could to get advantages ahead of time, but ultimately was sent home in a stupid fashion; not using either of the two idols he had, when there were only three places before the final immunity challenge. He did come back as a "favorite" for the first "Fans vs. Favorites" season, Micronesia, but only made it to the same place as last time before an injury got him medevac'ed, which got worse in Heroes vs. Villains.
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Survivor / int_b5049d76	type	Added Alliterative Appeal
Survivor / int_b5049d76	comment	Added Alliterative Appeal: As seen on the seasonal logos, the show's usual tagline is "Outwit, Outplay, Outlast", and in Heroes vs. Villains it was replaced with another alliteration, "Return, Revenge, Redemption". China is the only season without an alliterative tagline, as the usual one was loosely translated into Chinese. Some subtitles and formats have it too, such as Fans vs. Favorites, "Brains vs. Brawn vs. Beauty", Heroes vs. Healers vs. Hustlers, Edge of Extinction, and Island of the Idols.
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Survivor / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
Survivor / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: The jury, especially the bitter ones, are prone to do this to the finalists. The Ur-Example is Sue Hawk's "Rats and Snakes" speech, and just about everyone except Michelle and maybe Yau-Man pretty much said Take That! to Dreamz in Fiji. Edgardo and Lisi were particularly vicious. Edna Ma from South Pacific performs one to both Mikayla and more subtly to the recurring nature of "Mactors", actors or models who seemingly don't care about Survivor and are only on the show for exposure, in her voting confessional towards her: When Lindsey quit Cagayan, someone stomped "Shame on you Lindsie" in the sand.
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Survivor / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
Survivor / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Various contestants have pulled unbelievably boneheaded strategies. Drew Christy from San Juan del Sur: After spending the entire first week of the game sleeping and generally drawing ire from his tribemates, he then tried to sell the tribe flint to Jeff Probst (needless to say, this failed), exiled himself from his tribemates for a whole day, spontaneously decided to throw a challenge that was obviously noticeable,openly announced his plans to target the (non-existent) all-female alliance, and acted like a complete jackass the whole time. The result? He angers everyone so much that all of the girls (and Jeremy) band together to vote him out while the rest of the guys scatter their votes towards Keith and Julie. That's right, Drew's horrible gameplay against a non-existent girls alliance created one to get rid of him.
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Survivor / int_b5b4b077	type	The Ace
Survivor / int_b5b4b077	comment	In Micronesia, Jason Siska compared himself to Ozzy Lusth and wished to overtake him. He just never brought this up to Ozzy, who wound up leaving the game before hearing about it.
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Survivor / int_b5ea43e8	type	Ur-Example
Survivor / int_b5ea43e8	comment	Gervase Paterson from Borneo is the Ur-Example, and escaped elimination by being The Charmer.
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Survivor / int_b66699a2	type	Mundane Luxury
Survivor / int_b66699a2	comment	Mundane Luxury: Almost all rewards are something commonplace outside the game, but they are certainly worth playing for, especially after the first few episodes when the contestants have become hungry. In the first season, the contestants almost rebelled when they heard that the final reward would simply be a bottle of beer after Sean had gotten to go on a trip aboard a yacht during the last reward and the fact that the rewards were escalating in quality the more people left the game.
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Survivor / int_b89ed08a	type	Obvious Rule Patch
Survivor / int_b89ed08a	comment	Luxury items. Colby used his Texas flag as a tarp in Australia. Peter from Marquesas had brought cologne, intending to use it as an accelerant for fire-making. Evidently, someone had once smuggled in a granola bar to the game, and another time, someone broke binoculars and used them to start a fire. There have been Obvious Rule Patches put in afterward.
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Survivor / int_b90e8dc1	type	Hard-to-Light Fire
Survivor / int_b90e8dc1	comment	Hard-to-Light Fire: With fire critical for survival, nearly every season puts special focus on the effort the tribes make to first light fire at the beginning of the game (and on occasion, a second time after bad weather). A fire-making race has also been used as a challenge, both for tiebreakers at Tribal Council and, beginning in the late-30s seasons, as part of determining the Final Three.
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Survivor / int_ba3b41d6	type	Ironic Echo Cut
Survivor / int_ba3b41d6	comment	Ironic Echo Cut: Sometimes the editors have too much fun mocking unlucky or idiotic contestants: South Pacific Russell Swan in Philippines is shown interviewing to the camera about trying to find the Hidden Immunity Idol to save himself, even going as far to say that more than likely the camera will show him searching right around where the idol was hidden and missing it. We cut back to island time, as Malcolm Freberg searches right around where the idol is hidden, and even a glint is added to rub in the irony. A similar gag is used in Survivor 46.
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Survivor / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
Survivor / int_babc974	comment	Brenda Lowe won the family visit challenge in Caramoan, which is already fairly unenviable due to having to pick a tribemate or two to go along with and risk alienating everyone else. After she chose Dawn to share the prize, Probst hit her with the Sadistic Choice of keep the reward for her and Dawn Meehan or have both of them give it up to let everyone else see their loved ones, thereby forcing her to either actively deny the others their families or turn her kind gesture to Dawn into a case of Yank the Dog's Chain. And to add insult to injury, the reward took place just offshore from the camp, within view of anyone not participating thereby stoking their jealousy. For a "reward", there was really no way for Brenda to come out unscathed.
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Survivor / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Survivor / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Many contestants adopt this attitude. It's clearest when jury members give their speeches at the final Tribal Council, as several either bitterly tear into the finalists for betraying them or basically ask the finalists to suck up to them. As a Television Without Pity recapper put it, most final Tribal Council questions come down to, "My question is 'I want an apology'" or, "My question is 'You suck!'".
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Survivor / int_bb30961	type	Born Unlucky
Survivor / int_bb30961	comment	Born Unlucky: Part of the reason the Ulong tribe in Palau did so poorly was because of factors outside their control. Ashlee and Jeff were voted out because of illness and a twisted ankle respectively. The Yanu tribe in 46 had two players assigned to them that ended up being major Millstones, Jelinsky who caved way too early in challenges and Bhanu the Nervous Wreck who couldn't keep his mouth shut, putting them on the back foot for most of the tribal phase.
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Survivor / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
Survivor / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: A self-made one at that! At the beginning of Samoa, Russell Hantz tells the audience: "I'm going to show America how easy it is to win Survivor." And indeed he did. By treating the rest of his tribe like crap, destroying their belongings, bullying and threatening everyone, and blithely ignoring the social skills of his would-be goat, Russell did indeed demonstrate how easy it was for Natalie White to win Survivor. He had to beat sixteen people - she only had to beat two. And then Russell goes and does the same thing in the very next season, Heroes vs. Villains! At the time of filming, Samoa's results had not been announced and Russell was under the impression that he had won. He played the same game he had the previous season with the same results: he took Sandra Diaz-Twine to the finals expecting that he would easily win the vote against her, only for her to win another million.
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Survivor / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
Survivor / int_bc74ef27	comment	Benjamin "Coach" Wade's Berserk Button is apparently being referred to by his real name. "If anyone calls me Benjamin to my face, I'm gonna go nuts."
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Survivor / int_bcc9f4f7	type	Realpolitik
Survivor / int_bcc9f4f7	comment	Realpolitik: At the end of the day, everyone's in it for themselves. Good players recognize this, but too many players don't and they get offended when things happen at their expense.
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Survivor / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
Survivor / int_beb9a361	comment	Russell Hantz was arguably positioned as one of these in Samoa, although he came off as more as an Anti-Hero. He was firmly villainous in Heroes vs. Villains, however.
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Survivor / int_bec0417c	type	Happily Married
Survivor / int_bec0417c	comment	Happily Married: Boston Rob Mariano and Amber Brkich (who was in the audience with their cute baby in the Heroes Vs Villains Reunion Show); many other players are happily wedded to non-contestants, of course. Some of these spouses show up for the "visit from home" reward challenges. Rob and Amber aren't the only former contestants who are married. Erik Hafemann and Jaime Dugan from China, and Alex Bell from The Amazon and Kim Powers from Africa are married to each other as well. Blood vs. Water included married couples among their loved-one pairs: Rupert and Laura Boneham, Brad and Monica Culpepper, and John and Candice Cody-Woodcock.
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Survivor / int_bf2412a1	type	Recap Episode
Survivor / int_bf2412a1	comment	Recap Episode: Recaps were once per season for a while, up until South Pacific. Usually, the fall seasons' recaps were on Thanksgiving and the spring seasons' were sometime during March Madness. Stopped, for the most part, after a change in airing schedule from Thursday to Wednesday.
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Survivor / int_bf609406	type	New Meat
Survivor / int_bf609406	comment	New Meat: The two Fans vs. Favorites seasons as well as Blood vs. Water featured a tribe of new contestants competing against a tribe of returning/seasoned ones.
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Survivor / int_bf9163d9	type	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Survivor / int_bf9163d9	comment	Blonde, Brunette, Redhead: The Girl Posse in Amazon consisted of Jenna (brunette), Heidi (blonde) and Shawna (redhead).
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Survivor / int_c0ccf45c	type	Metagame
Survivor / int_c0ccf45c	comment	Metagame: What was once a simple game of numbers and alliances has evolved into a highly sophisticated competition that tests a variety of physical, mental, and social skills. Players now have to juggle several factors at once when they play: where a player ranks in their alliance, who's working at camp, who's an asset in tribe challenges (or a threat in individual ones), who's digging around for an idol, who is a potential goat to bring with you to the jury, who's a goat that someone else is trying to bring to the jury, who looks eager to flip on the alliance, and who can you vote off without costing you their jury vote. Oh, and by the way, you have to do this all with almost no food, water, sleep, shelter, and with TV cameras pointed at you every waking moment and all your tribemates scrutinizing every word you say. Good luck.
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Survivor / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
Survivor / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: The game is built on backstabbing equipped with a Confession Cam, this is expected to happen. Russell Hantz took this up to eleven by using it for all of his confessionals, while Brian Heidik had a stark contrast between his confessional personality and the one he presented to his tribemates.
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Survivor / int_c2d5b652	type	Playing Both Sides
Survivor / int_c2d5b652	comment	Playing Both Sides: An effective, but tricky, strategy is to float between multiple large alliances. Done well, this gives the person in the middle a lot of leverage, but if done poorly, the player in question will effectively lose the game due to a lack of trust. Notable players to have pulled off this strategy include Rob Cesternino of The Amazon, Jonny Fairplay of Pearl Islands, and Tony Vlachos of Cagayan (who managed to win with it).
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Survivor / int_c2e2a445	type	Jade-Colored Glasses
Survivor / int_c2e2a445	comment	Jade-Colored Glasses: A lot of contestants become this on returnee seasons, but possibly the worst case was Ethan Zohn on All-Stars. He went from the lovable Africa winner to taking on this, after he had to constantly play defense thanks to the "winners must go" attitude.
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Survivor / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Survivor / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: In Philippines, the winner of the season comes from Matsing, one of the worst tribes in the history of the series.
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Survivor / int_c3448a6f	type	Informed Attribute
Survivor / int_c3448a6f	comment	Informed Attribute: A common problem when somebody's biography doesn't seem to match what they can do on the show. See The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes for most examples and Muscles Are Meaningless for some that are more justifiable.
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Survivor / int_c3accb7c	type	Double Speak
Survivor / int_c3accb7c	comment	Phillip Sheppard from Redemption Island, a "Former Federal Agent?" who couldn't pierce tribal council Double Speak, got upset and proceeded to reveal all of his alliance's secrets. Yes, even the captions appeared to question his profession. A fan theory is that his actual government job was much less impressive than he tries to make it sound.
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Survivor / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Survivor / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Happens frequently in most seasons. Justified in that most people don't want to know who's going home, lest they play an idol, or form a counter-alliance.
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Survivor / int_c4a1d337	type	Muscles Are Meaningful
Survivor / int_c4a1d337	comment	James Clement getting voted out of China with two idols. It gets brought up a lot, but what is often forgotten is that he could only use them for the next three tribal councils and was no slouch at individual immunity challenges.
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Survivor / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
Survivor / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: The producers seem to go out of their way to make certain contestants seem like the kind of guy/girl everyone wants to be friends with. Depending on the season, these guys are usually eliminated for being jury threats (as everyone likes them and would prefer them) or manage to make their way far into the game.
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Survivor / int_c5b47b36	type	Offscreen Moment of Awesome
Survivor / int_c5b47b36	comment	Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Tom Westman's famous shark-hunt in Palau. Pagong all voting for Jeff Probst at their first Tribal Council in Borneo, and Greg Buis's rebelliousness against the producers in general.
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Survivor / int_c6538cc6	type	The Dulcinea Effect
Survivor / int_c6538cc6	comment	The Dulcinea Effect: There's occasionally a guy whose thought process amounts to "whatever the pretty girl wants to do". Take Chase Rice and Sash Lenahan's loyalty to Brenda Lowe in Nicaragua, for example, as detailed by Brenda herself: When the Villains lose Heroes Vs Villains ep. 3's combo challenge, Randy Bailey says this is one of the reasons he predicts he'll be the next to leave; the other is even more common. He was right, and got voted out next. Parvati made this her strategy, to great effect. She's very smart, very ruthless... and very, very pretty. Men have a habit of falling in line around her (unless they're named Yul Kwon or part of the Heroes tribe). This was a heavily referenced trope in the Amazon season, where the men and the women were separated into different tribes which increased the sexual tension between both. Ozzy Lusth in South Pacific seemed to have an odd infatuation with Semhar. Despite this and Ozzy being the leader of their tribe, it didn't prevent Semhar from leaving first.
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Survivor / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Survivor / int_c75df49a	comment	Many of the episode titles in the earlier seasons are Shout-Outs to various pieces of literature, film, music, or events that happened earlier in the season. They are also allusions to what is going to happen in that night's episode. For example, Thailand's premiere episode is called "The Importance Of Being Eldest", a reference to Oscar Wilde as well as to the opening twist (and is also a clue to how the season itself plays out).
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Survivor / int_c83cd6b8	type	The Nicknamer
Survivor / int_c83cd6b8	comment	The Nicknamer: Coach Wade of Tocantins and South Pacific, who himself goes by a nickname. He calls Brendan Synnott "The Dragon", Stephen Fisbach "The Wizard" and the already-nicknamed J.T. "The Warrior". Coach even wrote "The Warrior" when he voted for J.T. to win Tocantins. Also, he even calls himself "The Dragon Slayer"! There is also Phillip Sheppard of Redemption Island and Caramoan, who after creating the Stealth 'R' Us alliance, gives each member a codename ranging from cool to just plain ridiculous.
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Survivor / int_c852ac43	type	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast
Survivor / int_c852ac43	comment	Mars and Venus Gender Contrast: Invoked in seasons where tribes are gender-segregated: Amazon, Vanuatu, and One World.
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Survivor / int_c9597a03	type	Self-Deprecation
Survivor / int_c9597a03	comment	Self-Deprecation: In Fiji, they used the "What do you think of your fellow castaways?" challenge again. When Jeff asked who the smelliest person in the tribe was, most people wrote "Dreamz", and Dreamz even wrote his own name down.
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Survivor / int_c9b7f3e	type	Variable Player Goals
Survivor / int_c9b7f3e	comment	Variable Player Goals: Specific to Palau, an individual immunity challenge where each contestant had a different sequence of pictures to figure out.
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Survivor / int_c9d80884	type	Scheherezade Gambit
Survivor / int_c9d80884	comment	Scheherezade Gambit: Every now and then a person will be on the chopping block for survival merit or because they've angered a clear alliance, but invoke their charm and personality to keep in the game. The very first example is Gervase Paterson, who managed to prove himself by the end of Borneo.
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Survivor / int_ca3a6dbd	type	Informed Ability
Survivor / int_ca3a6dbd	comment	Informed Ability: Stephenie LaGrossa is regularly touted as one of the physically strongest and most useful women ever to play Survivor, but she has only ever won one challenge on her own. And on all three of her Survivor stints, she was part of the (initially) lesser tribe, first with Ulong on Palau, following through one season later with YaxhÃ¡ on Guatemala, and finally with the Heroes tribe in Heroes vs. Villains. Crystal Cox in Gabon. A former Olympic relay racer that fails at every single challenge, and even loses a footrace to 60-year-old Gillian Larson, who got voted out for being physically weak. This was made apparent so early on, that the other contestants could not believe her back story and only feared her as a strategic threat. Thanks to being Out of Focus in Samoa, Kelly Sharbaugh. Apparently, Kelly was such a huge threat to Foa Foa that they needed to take her out second (after Erik Cardona), but thanks to a blatantly severe lack of screentime, it's impossible to tell why. However, the reason why she was edited poorly was because of the way she was taken out of the game; they didn't want the audience to be too disappointed with her elimination so they made her as much of a non-entity as they could. Russell Hantz. The producers and Jeff Probst tout him as a dangerous player. Meanwhile, he makes flashy moves that anger all the contestants, bosses people around and generally rubs them the wrong way, while all the while ignoring his alliance members who do a ten-times better job at making relationships with people. The only reason he gets as far as he does is that a savvier player brings him along as a goat.
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Survivor / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
Survivor / int_caa28b82	comment	Between Alicia and Christina's shouting matches, Tarzan's Cloudcuckoolander antics, and pretty much anything Colton said or did, the first half of One World made for one of the most dysfunctional seasons in the show's run.
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Survivor / int_caf89e54	type	Taking You with Me
Survivor / int_caf89e54	comment	Taking You with Me: In Micronesia, Eliza Orlins immediately realizes that Jason Siska's "hidden immunity idol" is just a poorly carved stick. It had been planted on Exile Island by Ozzy, who didn't even take making it seriously. She plays it at Tribal Council anyway, hoping that something "miraculous" would happen. Once Jeff confirms that Jason's been suckered, Eliza promptly blabs that Ozzy must have the real Idol. In an online interview, Ted Rogers Jr. from Thailand said that Helen Glover approached him in Ponderosa, telling him that finalist Clay Jordan was a racist. This caused Ted to negate any intentions whatsoever of voting for Clay. However, no one else could verify that Clay ever did anything racist or made any racial slurs during the show. Since Helen was vocal about her dislike of Clay during and after the show, earlier on even accusing him of being sexist (again, with no evidence), this might have been her way of taking Clay down with her.
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Survivor / int_cb19d4b8	type	Game Show Physical Challenge
Survivor / int_cb19d4b8	comment	Game Show Physical Challenge: Most, but not all, immunity and reward challenges involve physical exertion. While the most common challenges take the form of an obstacle course with a puzzle, or a test of physical endurance, other formats may be present, such as head-to-head combat and slingshot golf. Perhaps the tamest was a self-moderated game of bocce ball, while the other extreme includes an obstacle course in the blistering heat, requiring one player to be evacuated for heat stroke while two others needed medical themselves.
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Survivor / int_cbdd9a55	type	We ARE Struggling Together
Survivor / int_cbdd9a55	comment	We ARE Struggling Together: The Samburu tribe from Africa, being split right down the middle, spent more time in-fighting than working against Boran. In fact, in several instances where the Samburus could have tried to vote out a Boran member, they just voted each other out instead.
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Survivor / int_cbe32f62	type	Decided by One Vote
Survivor / int_cbe32f62	comment	Decided by One Vote: As a whole, the show averages about two votes per season decided on this marginnote This number increases if you include two vote differences (one person in the majority is enough to force a tie), idol plays (which throw off the vote count entirely), or the penultimate vote in seasons with a final two (where only one vote is even cast). Typically, such a divided vote sets a precedent where the side in the majority is in power going forward, but at times, this works the other way, kicking off a string of chaotic gameplay. A few notable examples include: Cook Islands featured an unexpected turn of events, where after an offer to change tribes, Raro was up 8-4 against Aitu. However, between a winning streak and a double elimination twist, Aitu was able to make merge without losing anyone. Then, with nine players left in the game, Jonathan, who was on the bottom of his side anyway, was convinced to flip when Yul revealed he had the idol. In a 5-4 vote, Nate was sent to the jury and the remainders of Aitu went on to become the final four. Three seasons later, Micronesia saw an infamous example, wherein Ozzy, a physical and strategic threat with an idol, was vulnerable, and with Jason on the outs, Parvati and Cirie were able to bring in Jason, Alexis, and Natalie, blindsiding Ozzy in a 5-4, flushing the idol, and securing power for the rest of the game. Cagayan saw another infamous example, where at the merge, swap Aparri was up one member at the merge. However, Sarah, who had connections on the other side, made too big a deal out of being the swing vote and alienated Kass. When it came time to read the votes, LJ and Tony played their idols on each other, but instead, it was Jefra who got votes. Nonetheless, all three managed to survive, as Kass flipped to vote out Sarah, firmly cementing the top and bottom for the rest of the season.
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Survivor / int_cc427069	type	Hard Work Hardly Works
Survivor / int_cc427069	comment	Hard Work Hardly Works: Colby Donaldson from Australia, Matthew von Ertfelda in The Amazon, Ozzy Lusth from Cook Islands and Parvati Shallow from Heroes vs Villains dominated the challenges in their respective seasons (especially the first three), but it still not enough for them to win jury votes. To be fair to the Hv H jury, Parvati had'' already won.
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Survivor / int_cdb2653e	type	Africa Is a Country
Survivor / int_cdb2653e	comment	Africa Is a Country: Or so the third season, Survivor: Africa, might lead you to believe.note Survivor: Africa was filmed in Kenya, which is at least mentioned a few times during the season.
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Survivor / int_cdb45c07	type	No Sense of Personal Space
Survivor / int_cdb45c07	comment	Episode 8 of Island of the Idols, "We Made It to the Merge!" The episode started off with a "Viewer Discretion Advised" warning, which is never a good sign. Dan had already established himself as having No Sense of Personal Space with the women around him, but the merge brings the problem to a head as Kellee is brought back into contact with him and is able to compare notes with other women who had to deal with his touching. She has a breakdown during a Confession Cam — and all hell breaks loose as first production steps in to give Dan a warning, and then two of the other women manipulate the accusations against Kellee. The night ends with Kellee and Jamal (who took her side) voted out, Janet trying to protect Kellee and tanking her own game as a result, and Dan and the manipulators completely safe.
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Survivor / int_ce10b025	type	Versus Title
Survivor / int_ce10b025	comment	Versus Title: Common in later seasons. The list includes Fans vs. Favorites (twice), Heroes vs. Villains, Blood vs. Water (also twice), and Millennials vs. Gen X, Heroes v Healers v Hustlers, and David vs Goliath. Cagayan and KaÃ´h RÅ�ng were also presented with the concept "Brawn vs. Brains vs. Beauty", though the phrase didn't make it into the titles, as does Worlds Apart with "White Collars vs. Blue Collars vs. No Collars".
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Survivor / int_cef6a167	type	Second Place Is for Losers
Survivor / int_cef6a167	comment	Second Place Is for Losers: See Samoa, where Russell Hantz was in tears when he didn't get first. And then he offered to buy the title from the winner. And when he lost first place again in Heroes Vs Villains, he claimed the rules were flawed because he wasn't winning. Since seasons are usually filmed two back to back before either airs, both Russell Hantz and Amanda Kimmell ended up in a situation where they played two seasons in a row (Samoa/Heroes vs. Villains and China/Micronesia respectively) and got to the finals both times without knowing if they won their first season. The result was both of them losing both seasons. This could be why Russell cried at the Samoa finale, he just found out he likely lost both seasons when he was expecting to get Two Million-Dollar checks.
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Survivor / int_cf9b131f	type	Muscles Are Meaningless
Survivor / int_cf9b131f	comment	Muscles Are Meaningless: In the short run, being fit might help, but in the long run, it rarely stays like that, especially given the small food supply. Competitions deeper into each season tend to further de-emphasize physical challenges. More people have won by social skills, scheming or surviving the scheming of others than by sheer physical prowess. And there is on average at least one contestant each season who's best described as a Dumb Muscle: not just in terms of being bad at strategies, but just a plain, if strong, dummy that's a liability more than a boon to the tribe. Richard Hatch from Borneo is the Ur-Example for the whole show. A cheerful, laid-back, bit chubby gay man who spent his first day just observing his tribe... and then proceeded to outplay everyone. He even directly used his image of a weakling in the final immunity challenge, by simply letting it pass and watching Kelly sweat, with a drink in hand. Yau-Man Chan from Fiji is another prominent example, further compounded by his age. While he didn't win, he consistently stayed on top of the game and in many cases proved that it doesn't matter how strong you are, but what you know. His famous crate-cracking even reached a status of minor meme.
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Survivor / int_d026cad8	type	Sigil Spam
Survivor / int_d026cad8	comment	Sigil Spam: The current season's logo appears on quite a lot: the tribe flags, challenge propsnote pennants, puzzle pieces, etc., the Buffs, Jeff Probst's hat, and much more. Then there's the Reward Challenge maze in Tocantins episode 13: the word "SURVIVOR" was at least 60 yards long.
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Survivor / int_d0347bf0	type	Four-Girl Ensemble
Survivor / int_d0347bf0	comment	Cirie Fields was always connected with this number. She placed fourth in Panama (her original season), was part of a dominant Four-Girl Ensemble in Micronesia and was the fourth person eliminated in Heroes vs Villains. Also look at the numbers in between her three seasons (12, 16, 20). Her playing in Season 34 saw her eliminated at 6th place, but she was eliminated by default after the addition of 4 advantages during her final tribal council.
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Survivor / int_d076824c	type	Every Episode Ending
Survivor / int_d076824c	comment	Every Episode Ending: Episodes almost always end up with one, or more, contestants sent home and lamenting their fate on a final Confession Cam.
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Survivor / int_d080f396	type	The Napoleon
Survivor / int_d080f396	comment	The Napoleon: Sandra Diaz-Twine, Jonny Fairplay, and Russell Hantz may be small in stature, but they're people you don't wanna mess with. Clay Jordan from Thailand was a 5'5" Manipulative Bastard who almost beat the Showy Invincible Player of that season.
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Survivor / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Survivor / int_d148b019	comment	Mundane Made Awesome: The earlier seasons, especially with the "This Is The Adventure Of A Lifetime" and "Tribal Council Is Scary/ Tribal Council Is Sacred" mantras repeatedly being emphasized every other episode.
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Survivor / int_d1f8448d	type	Born Winner
Survivor / int_d1f8448d	comment	Born Winner: Sandra definitely qualifies, as she has won two seasons (Pearl Islands and Heroes vs. Villains), with only one vote cast against her in both of them. J.T. made it to the end of Tocantins with no votes cast against him, and won all jury votes. Earl became the first person to have won all jury votes, and only has a single vote cast against him during Fiji. Cochran, like J.T., had a No-Damage Run and a Flawless Victory; however, he didn't do this until the second time he played in Caramoan. Jeremy made it to the end of Cambodia with no counted votes against him note he had three votes against him negated by an idol and earned all 10 jury votes.
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Survivor / int_d2ccb43e	type	Delicious Distraction
Survivor / int_d2ccb43e	comment	Delicious Distraction: Jeff Prbst pulls out a couple of variations once or twice a season during immunity challenges. In one version, he tries to get players to abandon long, uncomfortable endurance challenges by bribing them with snacks. Other times for quickly-completed challenges, he offers the choice up front: play for immunity or get to eat as long as the challenge lasts.
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Survivor / int_d46ddfa2	type	CloudCuckooLander
Survivor / int_d46ddfa2	comment	Coach Wade of Tocantins, for being... well, "The Dragon Slayer".
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Survivor / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
Survivor / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: In-game, people often criticize others for lying, making deals, or backstabbing them...when they themselves would do the same to get in their shoes. San Juan del Sur is a big example: they yell at Julie McGee for taking trail mix in despite praising her for thinking to take some trail mix back from the merge feast.
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Survivor / int_d567ce13	type	Who Will Bell the Cat?
Survivor / int_d567ce13	comment	Who Will Bell the Cat?: Comes up in several seasons, and is a major reason for the trend of conservative play: even if everyone wants a guy in a position of power voted out, nobody wants to be targeted for trying. Especially if said person has an immunity idol that can lead to a vote going against the people attempting the coup.
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Survivor / int_d62dd556	type	The Chessmaster
Survivor / int_d62dd556	comment	The Chessmaster: After first season winner Richard Hatch showed that the game is really about politics, not actual wilderness survival, every contestant has subsequently tried to be this. Most wind up being Unwitting Pawns. Cirie was one of the best, being the first player to successfully engineer a three-way split in the votes in Panama.
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Survivor / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
Survivor / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Ethan Zohn and Big Tom Buchanan on Africa. Rob Cesternino and Matthew Von Ertfelda in Amazon sort of had this. Rob and most of the others made fun of Matthew for sharpening the machete all the time and for being socially awkward. Even though most of the cast would have decided to boot Matthew for being an outcast, Rob decides to make fun of Matt even more by turning him and Butch into unwitting pawns of his during the merge (see the show's Funny Moments page). However, Rob and Matthew later develop a working relationship and Matt proves to be a more reliable ally despite Rob finding him annoying. By the Rob himself is out, he realizes he accidentally gave Matthew too much power and that Rob had to rely on him in return.
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Survivor / int_d848560f	type	Unusual Euphemism
Survivor / int_d848560f	comment	Unusual Euphemism: Frank Garrison of Africa claimed that Linda Spencer was "So solid, she's buried at the bottom the Hoover Dam." Huh?
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Survivor / int_d88afb2b	type	Sublime Rhyme
Survivor / int_d88afb2b	comment	Sublime Rhyme: Most of the tree-mail and Immunity Idol messages are in verse. The messages that aren't usually describe something complicated that wouldn't be easy to formulate in rhyme.
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Survivor / int_d97a0fb1	type	Mystery Box
Survivor / int_d97a0fb1	comment	Mystery Box: Jeff typically pulls out several covered items during auctions. It's usually either something absolutely disgusting (pond water, plant roots), or the best thing at the auction (steak and fully loaded baked potato, a full breakfast plate).
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Survivor / int_d9d2c40b	type	Amazon Brigade
Survivor / int_d9d2c40b	comment	The Yasur Alliance from Vanuatu. Notable for being run by seemingly-misandrist Ami Cusack, giving them an Amazon Brigade vibe.
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Survivor / int_d9f97805	type	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing
Survivor / int_d9f97805	comment	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: Chris Underwood in Edge of Extinction: the "Edge of Extinction" twist clustered more or less the entire cast into the jury. Chris, voted out third, entered the game at the final moment after spending about 30 days sitting on Exile Island not actually playing the game.... except for schmoozing with the jurors. Though to be fair, he did do everything possible to make an impression once he finally did come back, eventually giving himself a more impressive resume than the other players.
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Survivor / int_d9fe8277	type	I'm Standing Right Here
Survivor / int_d9fe8277	comment	In Philippines, Carter Williams asks Jonathan Penner who they should vote for at tribal council... "Katie Hanson or Penner?". It's a shock that the blindside of Penner didn't work out.
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Survivor / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Survivor / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Several, but the earliest and most accomplished AG is Kelly Wigglesworth from Borneo.
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Survivor / int_db71d717	type	Thanatos Gambit
Survivor / int_db71d717	comment	Thanatos Gambit: Janu Tornell's reason for quitting during Palau was to screw up the original Koror's plans and allow Stephenie LaGrossa another chance to survive. Shii-Ann Huang's elimination in All-Stars, highlighting who she thought was the biggest threat on her way out. Randy Bailey in Heroes vs. Villains used his vote to say "get rid of this guy". Ozzy Lusth voluntarily got voted out in South Pacific so he could go to Redemption Island, beat Christine Shields-Markoski and eliminate her for good, and come back. Jonathan Penner in Philippines casts his vote to let the tribe know who is going to win, he even yells her name back at them when he writes it down to make sure they know. She still wins.
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Survivor / int_dc4e0f9a	type	Eat That
Survivor / int_dc4e0f9a	comment	Eat That: There's was usually one "disgusting food" challenge every season, before they became a lot less common after All-Stars. Memorable examples include "Boston" Rob Mariano throwing up the farafu in Marquesas, Denise Martin screaming at the balut in China, and Tina Wesson again vomiting the cow intestine in The Australian Outback.
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Survivor / int_dceccabf	type	Cat Fight
Survivor / int_dceccabf	comment	Cat Fight: Danielle and Amanda had one in Heroes Vs Villains over a hidden immunity idol clue. Coincidentally, lone male Colby already had a bowl of popcorn with him at the time as it was a movie night reward. NaOnka and Kelly B had one in Nicaragua yet again over a hidden immunity idol clue, though that was slightly less entertaining because Kelly had an amputated leg. Both women later tried to write it off as not treating Kelly differently for being handicapped, but it rings hollow considering NaOnka's rants about wanting to tear the prosthetic leg off and throw it in the fire.
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Survivor / int_dd3272bb	type	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?
Survivor / int_dd3272bb	comment	What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?: Ma-Ti and his Power of Heart is referenced repeatedly by Jaison in Samoa. However, he ultimately concludes that Heart Is an Awesome Power, and wished he had it to help cope in the wilderness.
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Survivor / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
Survivor / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: The way they divided the tribes in Millennials vs. Gen X (placing 1984 as the first Millennial birth year) conflicts with many definitions of Gen Y/Millennial, which is often cited as starting in 1976. Although until about ten years ago, Gen X was said to begin in 1961, it has now been moved ahead to 1965. Alternately, some use 20 year generations, which would make Baby Boomers 1945-1965, Gen X 1966-1986, and Millennials 1987-2007. This would have likely worked better with what they were going for. However, it's likely the real reason they picked such a weird, random year is that it was the only way to divide the 20 contestants they picked evenly.
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Survivor / int_dd91f8d8	type	Audience Participation
Survivor / int_dd91f8d8	comment	Audience Participation: The America's Tribal Council after the All-Stars season. The Sprint Player of the Season awards. Second Chances featured a poll determining who would be the castaways that season (10 for each gender).
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Survivor / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Survivor / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: The number of plots, schemes and other forms of backstabbing can become absurd, especially as the number of contestants dwindles.
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Survivor / int_e003c829	type	History Repeats
Survivor / int_e003c829	comment	History Repeats: KaÃ´h RÅ�ng has a few similarities to Cagayan: One of the three tribes is quite dysfunctional and gets reduced to three members swap, broken up by them winning one immunity. In fact, the one immunity they won was actually in the same cycle for the one immunity that the brains won in Cagayan). There's a Non-Gameplay Elimination pre-merge. Albeit, under far different circumstances. Merge at eleven people, the swapped tribes are 6-5. Going by the original tribes, it's a 4-4-3 split. James Clement and Erik Reichenbach had a similar arc during their first two seasons: James spent most his time in China as a strong competitor who knew he would be sent home when the merge thinned out any rivalling alliances. He did what he could to get advantages ahead of time, but ultimately was sent home in a stupid fashion; not using either of the two idols he had, when there were only three places before the final immunity challenge. He did come back as a "favorite" for the first "Fans vs. Favorites" season, Micronesia, but only made it to the same place as last time before an injury got him medevac'ed, which got worse in Heroes vs. Villains. Erik debuted as a "fan" in Micronesia. He was a solid competitor and likeable guy, despite being a starstruck fanboy who was always on the outside of alliances. He made it past many of the more dangerous favorites, including the returning James Clement, before embarrassing himself by giving up his individual immunity to an alliance that outnumbered him 4 to 1. Years later, he got to appear on the second "Fans vs. Favorites" season, Caramoan as a favorite. He played a much better game, was in a pre-merge tribe with a solid winning streak and was careful with his trust into the merge. But sadly, he wound up getting evacuated at the same place he was voted out back in ''Micronesia'.
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Survivor / int_e057ad12	type	I'm Not Here to Make Friends
Survivor / int_e057ad12	comment	I'm Not Here to Make Friends: Quoted word for word on more than one occasion. Ironically, the social aspects - especially alliances - mean players actually have to make friends (or at least not make enemies) to win, and those who do make lots of friends are considered huge threats. In the premiere of Season 43, Morriah quotes the trope word-for-word, saying that she is there to make friends.
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Survivor / int_e135b3de	type	Pass the Popcorn
Survivor / int_e135b3de	comment	Danielle and Amanda had one in Heroes Vs Villains over a hidden immunity idol clue. Coincidentally, lone male Colby already had a bowl of popcorn with him at the time as it was a movie night reward.
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Survivor / int_e1acc872	type	From Nobody to Nightmare
Survivor / int_e1acc872	comment	From Nobody to Nightmare: Sometimes during seasons featuring returning players, a returning player who did relatively poorly the first time around ends up taking such a level in badass that their reputation skyrockets overnight. Boston Rob during Marquesas was at best a Smug Snake Ensemble Dark Horse with a smart alec mouth, but during All Stars, he ends up leading Chapera to becoming the overwhelmingly more dominant tribe compared to Mogo Mogo and Saboga, to the point where Mogo Mogo becomes pagonged, and the Saboga members who were absorbed into Chapera became his loyal followers. He made it to the finale, and was one vote away from winning despite how many bridges he had burned. By the time Heroes vs Villains rolled around, Rob was considered a Survivor legend. He then used that reputation to exploit his tribe members during Redemption Island, the season in which he did win. Parvati Shallow during Cook Islands was seen as merely a flirty girl who was on a losing tribe, which itself was overshadowed by Yul Kwon and Ozzy Lusth. But during her first return to Micronesia, she managed to use her unassuming reputation to great effect, and built an all-female alliance which took her to the finale and eventually a victory. Her reputation grew even more during Heroes vs Villains when she herself managed to overshadow the self-described "best player ever" Russell Hantz in strategy, making several ingenious moves and also overcoming the bias other players had against her. She didn't win this season, but she did come in second, and many believe that she was more deserving overall than either Sandra Diaz-Twine (who also had already won) or Russell Hantz (who was considered a goat). Cochran went from being the little superfan that everyone picked on in South Pacific to the man running the show in Caramoan. Kelley Wentworth went from being a forgettable pre-merge boot in San Juan Del Sur to being a huge threat in Cambodia. She was the first person to find an idol in a challenge, used that idol to negate the most votes ever with nine, and found another idol in the camp at the risk of being caught. She was impressive in challenges and had she won the final immunity, she would have won the whole thing.
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Survivor / int_e2d457	type	The Ditz
Survivor / int_e2d457	comment	The Ditz: Jud "Fabio" Birza from Nicaragua is a rare male example, who didn't know that crabs pinched. Although his strategy confessionals aren't quite so ditzy...; he did win after all.
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Survivor / int_e303d198	type	Whole-Plot Reference
Survivor / int_e303d198	comment	Whole-Plot Reference: Given that Survivor is a minimally violent version of war, frequently highlighting The Art of War in the China season was a stroke of genius. Each tribe receives a list of its main points and is encouraged by Jeff to review all that wisdom. Hidden Immunity Idol notes and some of the tree-mail occasionally cite the book. Certain major events are apparently inspired by passages from the text, such as the tribal swap in episode 5:
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Survivor / int_e313b4e7	type	Manchild
Survivor / int_e313b4e7	comment	Casaya from Panama was one of the most dysfunctional tribes the show has ever seen, with the yoga instructor who tried to start fire with his mind alone and the couch potato who was scared of leaves on her first day being the sanest members of the bunch. The other members? A Manchild with a Hair-Trigger Temper made ten thousand times worse by severe nicotine withdrawal, a fire dancer who moonlighted as a Talkative Loon and Cloudcuckoolander, an easily irritated woman with the world's heaviest Boston accent, a lawyer not above Drowning My Sorrows, and a ridiculously Asian guy with his own martial arts Zen garden. In spite of all this, the Casaya tribe were still able to stick together to pick off their rivals at the more harmonious La Mina tribe both before and after the merge.
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Survivor / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
Survivor / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: The gameplay style of Vecepia Towery and Sandra Diaz-Twine, winners of both their initial seasons Marquesas and Pearl Islands. They simply play the game "one day at a time," making it easier for them to adapt to the other strategies of players around them.
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Survivor / int_e409de66	type	Manipulative Editing
Survivor / int_e409de66	comment	Manipulative Editing: A source of contention for fans every season, who claim everything from alternative character interpretations to scenes being chronologically "adjusted". Admittedly some amount of this is a necessity, as they have to fit three days' worth of stuff into a single hour (Tribal Council alone takes hours in itself) and present a coherent "storyline" for the episode. It'd take a lot to list the examples that aren't just the most egregious ones. The show showed Courtney Yates yelling "Break her arm" as Foreshadowing for when Stephenie LaGrossa dislocated her shoulder in that challenge. She had actually said it after the injury in jest of what just happened. The Mary "Who?" Sartain from Micronesia was Played for Laughs. It looked like the cast had absolutely no idea who Mary was. They were actually asking for clarification (Kathy's case; because she was away on Exile Island) or expressing shock at how she was specifically voted out over Chet, who had underperformed (in Eliza's case, who didn't see what went down at the Fans's tribe). And according to Lex van den Berghe, the shot of his face on All-Stars after Kathy refused to give him her immunity necklace actually had nothing to do with her. It was more him expressing his disgust with Boston Rob than with him thinking that Kathy owed him or something. The shot was apparently too hilarious to resist including. Christine Shields-Markowski appeared to be Flipping the Bird at Rick Nelson during a duel in South Pacific, but apparently she was actually doing it to Jeff Probst. With the way 41 was edited, Xander Hastings appeared to be the big threat to win, with his loss to Erika Casupanan being treated as a major Dark Horse Victory for her. Jury members revealed in post season interviews that Xander was nowhere near as impressive of a player as editing made him look, with many admitting they had no plan of voting for Xander going into Final Tribal Council.
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Survivor / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
Survivor / int_e431c24c	comment	Redemption Island and the Edge of Extinction are Not Quite Dead variants: when someone's voted out, they're sent to Redemption Island/the Edge. In Redemption, the new arrival challenges the person already there; loser is out for good; while the Edge just collects everyone who wants to stay. At the merge and just before the finals, one player (either Redemption Island's reigning champion or the winner of an Edge of Extinction challenge) will be able to return to the game.
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Survivor / int_e4bb68b8	type	The Charmer
Survivor / int_e4bb68b8	comment	The Charmer: Parvati and Boston Rob have both been described by tribemates as having an intense, magnetic charisma that causes others to seek their attention and hang on their every word. Given that they're also both highly skilled manipulators and clever strategists, they are both able to easily use this trait to their advantage.
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Survivor / int_e4e80f5f	type	Greater Need Than Mine
Survivor / int_e4e80f5f	comment	Greater Need Than Mine: Parvati Shallow cleverly giving up her idols in Heroes vs. Villains to not just one but two other contestants, Sandra Diaz-Twine and Jerri Manthey, simultaneously, which ensured J.T. was immediately sent home, and that the Villains would take control. As Parvati had reason to worry that night, it was a bold move.
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Survivor / int_e4f5affb	type	The Chew Toy
Survivor / int_e4f5affb	comment	Jolanda Jones from Palau won the first individual immunity challenge in which she got to pick her tribe, but was voted out first for being bossy. The other members of her tribe Ulong said she really could have helped them because, "She was in the Olympics, man!". Also Wanda Shirk and Jonathan Libby from that season, who were voted out before even being put on a tribe.
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Survivor / int_e54b7b17	type	Zonk
Survivor / int_e54b7b17	comment	Zonk: At least one useless item shows up per auction, always hidden in one of the above-mentioned Mystery Boxes. Subverted in Worlds Apart, where Will Sims bought himself a disqualification from the auction and was sent back to camp... where production had hidden a large stash of extra rations for him to find.
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Survivor / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Survivor / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Russell Swan worked through a 5-day storm in Samoa before collapsing twice during a challenge, and was sent home because his heart rate dropped far too low. It was basically because of his failing that the Galu tribe quickly fell apart after the merge.
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Survivor / int_e68b72	type	The Load
Survivor / int_e68b72	comment	Jamie Newton in Guatemala rapidly earned this label. He did a lot to help his tribe lose two consecutive challenges, but he celebrated a little too much when they won the next one. When the contestants were forced to choose either enjoying the merge feast or playing for Immunity, Jamie sat and ate, while calmly mocking a very hungry Bobby Jon, competing just a few yards away. He didn't stay like that forever, though; see The Atoner, above.
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Survivor / int_e6f961a1	type	Garage Band
Survivor / int_e6f961a1	comment	Garage Band: After playing Rock Band together in the Ponderosa, Heroes vs. Villains jury members Coach Wade, Courtney Yates, and J.T. Thomas started a band called The Dragonz, named after Coach's self-given title. They wrote a few songs, wore custom T-shirts to Tribal Council, and even made a music video. Lex van den Berghe from Africa and All-Stars was part of a band called "Lucky Dog" at one point, which he mentioned during Africa's reunion show. Currently, he's in another one called "The Maids of Honor."
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Survivor / int_e7bfdba	type	Divide and Conquer
Survivor / int_e7bfdba	comment	Divide and Conquer: Allowing an Individual Reward winner to bring at least one other player along for the ride isn't about generosity. It "spreads out" the resulting envy from the remaining losers (and defensive efforts of the winners) onto multiple targets, which usually makes upcoming Tribal Councils less predictable.
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Survivor / int_e8ca5cb3	type	Freudian Slip
Survivor / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: Brian Heidik in Thailand was gloating in the penultimate episode about why he wouldn't lose and starts to count down on his fingers the ways he's manipulated everyone in Chuay Gahn into doing his bidding. By the time he's gotten to Clay Jordan, Brian inadvertently was Flipping the Bird to the camera; but it seemed like he meant he was doing it to Clay, who was the other finalist. Chris Daugherty in Vanuatu was assuring Eliza Orlins that he would stay solid in his deal with her but accidentally said that they were fine up until the final three (which was the absolute farthest he planned on taking her) as opposed to final two (which Eliza believed was the deal, and the general finale count at the time). Eliza's reaction was a rare example of not realizing Chris blurting his plans out loud and just correcting him words. The botched challenge taunt from Angie Jakusz in Palau, while in the middle of the Ulonging: "We're not going back to immuni- to Tribal Council!" Sash Lenahan in Nicaragua said "if there's a time when I lose trust in [my tribe] — or, I'm sorry, if there's a time when they lose trust in me". And he said this during a Tribal Council, too, so Probst made sure it didn't escape anyone's notice. During the reunion show of Redemption Island, Jeff Probst asked Russell Hantz a question, accidentally calling him Phillip Sheppard, which he immediately lampshaded.
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Survivor / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Survivor / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: On occasion, Jeff Probst will be careful with his wording to mess with the players: There was the time in Thailand where Jeff told the tribes they were together now, but later took great joy in informing them "Merge? I never said you merged." In the Tocantins premiere, the players are about to begin an hours-long hike to the campsites, when Jeff suckers them good:
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Survivor / int_ea5c413d	type	Biting-the-Hand Humor
Survivor / int_ea5c413d	comment	Biting-the-Hand Humor: Pagong from the first season, Borneo, all voted for host Jeff Probst during their first trip to Tribal Council out of sheer mockery of his seriousness. The mock vote for Jeff wasn't shown, but everyone including executive producer Mark Burnett claimed that it happened and that it infuriated Probst. Greg Buis in particular took this trope up to eleven.
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Survivor / int_eb0df85e	type	Ham-to-Ham Combat
Survivor / int_eb0df85e	comment	Ham-to-Ham Combat: Mark Burnett, the executive producer of Survivor and the one who brought the show to the United States, has said more than once that when casting the show the producers always try to pick "sixteen A-Type personalities". And of course, the entire point of "all-star" seasons is to pick the biggest Large Ham characters from previous seasons and try to see who can out-ham the others the best.
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Survivor / int_eb7c34cf	type	Crossover
Survivor / int_eb7c34cf	comment	Crossover: Big Brother winner Hayden Moss competed in the original Blood vs. Water, while two-time The Amazing Race contestants the Anderson twins competed in San Juan Del Sur, the second Blood vs. Water installment. Survivor also crossed over into The Amazing Race, as its Season 31 featured teams from previous Race seasons, Survivor, and Big Brother.
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Survivor / int_eb8e4fa8	type	Jerkass
Survivor / int_eb8e4fa8	comment	Julie hiding Philip's shorts in Redemption Island just for a laugh. Philip assumes it's Steve, but Julie eventually admits it was her, confident he wouldn't find them. Inevitably, she's voted out at Tribal. Oh, and he finds his shorts the very next day.
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Survivor / int_ec02c97e	type	Defied Trope
Survivor / int_ec02c97e	comment	Russell Hantz to Boston Rob, at least in the early stages of Heroes Vs Villains (but certainly no longer unknown in Redemption Island). Early in Nicaragua ep. 1, two of the La Flor "alpha males" agree to avoid this, after noting that Russell and Boston Rob could have done even better if they had been partners in Heroes vs. Villains.
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Survivor / int_edfb8d92	type	The Generation Gap
Survivor / int_edfb8d92	comment	The Generation Gap: It's occasionally present when older and younger tribemates don't see eye-to-eye. Some seasons deliberately invoke it by separating the starting tribes this way, such as Panama (which separated them by gender, too), Nicaragua, and especially Millennials vs. Gen X. Thailand's starting tribes were picked by the two oldest contestants, but were effectively split like this when Sook Jai head and oldest contestant Jake Billingsley purposely chose younger contestants in an attempt to overwhelm Jan Gentry's Chuay Gahns.
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Survivor / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
Survivor / int_ee7a60e9	comment	While "Boston Rob" has ego to spare, he's also justified in going by a nickname because his first two seasons (Marquesas and All-Stars) ran up against the One-Steve Limit. Similarly, "Coach" Wade absolutely dislikes being called Benjamin by anyone he meets, not just on the show.
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Survivor / int_ee9fc22	type	I Broke a Nail
Survivor / int_ee9fc22	comment	I Broke a Nail: Parvati Shallow split a nail with a machete in Cook Islands.
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Survivor / int_eeb4a5eb	type	Anti-Climax
Survivor / int_eeb4a5eb	comment	Anti-Climax: There have been a couple of seasons that were considered "blowouts" at the end because of the Final Two or Three and the winner being pretty obvious. Probst has pointed out that there were fan complaints of "blowout" seasons before they started doing a Final Three. Panama, wherein the players that viewers wanted to win were the last two evicted and left with Daniele and Aras. Fiji, wherein the fan favourite was the last person evicted and the Final Three faced a very bitter jury. The winner was liked, at least. Redemption Island, wherein the only characters that were considered interesting were on the losing side of a Pagonging and voted out early, and Rob had such a grip on his tribe to the point where everyone trusted him and believed whatever he said so that his win was almost written in the stars.
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Survivor / int_eec329f5	type	Lesser of Two Evils
Survivor / int_eec329f5	comment	Lesser of Two Evils: There isn't always a "good guy" to vote for at the end. This quote by Sean Kenniff from the very first season sums up most final tribal councils:
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Survivor / int_eef35d8d	type	A Handful for an Eye
Survivor / int_eef35d8d	comment	The Villain tribe from Heroes vs Villains. Their dramatic entrance alone was all kinds of cool, the descent of their chopper literally blowing sand right at the Hero tribe's faces.
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Survivor / int_f05444a4	type	Once per Episode
Survivor / int_f05444a4	comment	Once per Episode: Every season has been so standardized that you can almost always expect the same things happening in every episode. There are scenes of camp life spread across the tribes, an Immunity Challenge, the losing tribe strategizes and then heads to Tribal Council and votes someone out of the game.
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Survivor / int_f06b07ff	type	Locked Out of the Loop
Survivor / int_f06b07ff	comment	Locked Out of the Loop: This is the basic premise of a blindside. Letting a player (or their allies) know that they're getting votes runs the risk of an idol play, or outright talking their way out of trouble. On notable example came in Fiji, where the majority alliance had to play around the idol. After Dreamz Herd waffled between sides too much, the majority voted the yet-unmentioned Edgardo, leaving Dreamz out of it.
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Survivor / int_f09afb0	type	Digging Yourself Deeper
Survivor / int_f09afb0	comment	Digging Yourself Deeper: Dreamz Herd from Fiji and Neleh Dennis from Marquesas are notable examples. And Lex van den Berghe, every time he tried to justify why he can get away with playing ruthlessly, but others need to be punished for it. Happened twice in a row at the beginning of Nicaragua. As a result of panicking over her vulnerability before and during Tribal Council, Wendy DeSmidt-Kohlhoff fell victim to this in episode 1, and was first to be evicted. Ironically, she had admitted (before the vote) that her chattiness was often irritating; she didn't say much early on, but it was enough to give an impression of being odd. In episode 2, alpha male Shannon Elkins went on a rant that included homophobic comments, likely turning what would have been a tie into his own ouster.
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Survivor / int_f0b516b	type	Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us
Survivor / int_f0b516b	comment	Do Unto Others Before They Do Unto Us: Standard operating procedure every season. Noted nearly word-for-word in episode 7 of Blood vs. Water: Tina reveals to Monica that Kat wants Monica to be voted out, which would clearly break the Galang women's alliance. Monica has a grim realization:
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Survivor / int_f1919d5b	type	Being Evil Sucks
Survivor / int_f1919d5b	comment	Being Evil Sucks: Russell Hantz relishes being the bad guy (see "Griefer" below), but his "evil deeds" cost him the jury's votes twice (Samoa and Heroes vs. Villains) and got his third tribe (in Redemption Island) to throw a challenge to get rid of him. Jury backlash for evil deeds was also the reason Dreamz lost in Fiji.
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Survivor / int_f1a6c4f8	type	Inevitable Mutual Betrayal
Survivor / int_f1a6c4f8	comment	Inevitable Mutual Betrayal: Theoretically, this happens within an alliance once it knocks out all opposition. In practice, it gets messy since most people have different ideas of who to betray and when.
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Survivor / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Well, they wouldn't hit one, that's an immediate ejection, but many male contestants have no problem with tackling them to the ground or forcefully hauling them fifty feet to the goal line during physical challenges. Some more notable examples: Colby Donaldson tossed Jerri Manthey into the water in one of the early challenges in Heroes Vs Villains. But note the relationship between Colby and Jerri. Bobby "Bobdawg" Mason in Panama against the much smaller Ruth Marie Milliman. Instead of taking a bag from her, he took her with the bag to his tribe's mat get the points in a challenge. Played straight when Erik Reichenbach hits Eliza Orlins over the head with a heavy sack in the Beach Bash Challenge of Micronesia. He then got Amanda Kimmel in the same challenge with a judo-esque throw.
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Survivor / int_f4b744f5	comment	Unkempt Beauty: Some Survivors can look good in the wild, where they live without shaving or having any cosmetics to cover up, in dirty clothes and rough living conditions. Sometimes they look even better than when theyâ€™re dressed up for the reunion. The term "island hot" is frequently used by fans to describe players they consider to be becoming more attractive the longer they stay on the island. Depends on the viewer's opinion, though.
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Survivor / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: The occasional reward will be provided by a sponsor, in which case the name brand will be mentioned prominently. For the most blatant example, Nicaragua had an episode where the challenge itself was themed after the then-upcoming Gullivers Travels movie, with the players having to drag a giant "Gulliver" dummy through an obstacle course - and of course, a movie night was the reward. The contestant not participating sat in a 10-foot-tall chair.
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Survivor / int_f5b9dd15	comment	Captain Obvious Reveal: An In-Universe example: In Millennials vs. Gen X, Figgy attempted to tell Ken and Jessica about her showmance with Taylor in which she has been trying to hide from them. However, neither of them were actually surprised over that.
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Survivor / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: Most winners, as they have to survive all the harsh backstabbing and wilderness conditions. Jerri Manthey has one of the longest, and simultaneously heartbreaking, and finally heartwarming examples over three seasons. When The Australian Outback aired, she was seen as one of the most despicable people in America thanks to contemporary aversion to strategy types. In All-Stars she became Reformed, but Rejected and was booed off the stage after making a fairly accurate comment about people not being the audience's playthings. Many many years later she came back for Heroes vs Villains where after being put on a tribe of Villains, being one of the nicest people out there (even compared to the Heroes), and comes so close to winning, she's finally cheered by the audience and has finally become a fan favorite.
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Survivor / int_f76842b1	comment	The Fundamentalist: Elisabeth Filarski-Hasselbeck on Outback, who would go on to become a conservative commentator on The View. Examples abound in other seasons as well.
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Survivor / int_f9cc3ee0	comment	Group Hug: After Stacey Powell was voted off in South Pacific, Coach suggested the tribe give her one of these. They agreed; but it was swiftly rejected by Stacey, who understandably wasn't in the mood for a group hug from the people who just voted away from win a million dollars.
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Survivor / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Eric Hafemann's Edge of Extinction confessionals always being in a tree. Phillip Sheppard's job listed as "Former Federal Agent?" As of Survivor 41, it still appears this way in his profile on the CBS official website, and he last appeared in Season 26. Boo Bernis' increasingly Amusing Injuries in Fiji (until the end when it wasn't played for laughs). Along with everyone else falling at the start of Fiji. Michael Skupin in Philippines finding new and original ways to hurt himself, after he was the original medical evacuee in Australian Outback. The editors didn't even feed this, it happened!
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Survivor / int_fb17af62	comment	Rhymes on a Dime: The Treemail letters are usually written in prose, and immunity challenge notices also do this for their woes.
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Survivor / int_fb3576b2	comment	The Dog Bites Back: Players that are on the outs of the dominant alliances or are picked on by the resident Smug Snake sometimes find themselves in the position of turning the table on their abusers. See South Pacific, where tribal alliances were even and both were so solid that everyone on both tribes resigned themselves to random-chance elimination by purple rock. During the revote, team Butt-Monkey Cochran turned on his own tribe to avoid that situation. Jim immediately called him a coward, but Brandon said that he might not have flipped if they had treated him better than that.
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Survivor / int_fb9e25e9	comment	The four winners who returned in All-Stars (Ethan is sanguine, Richard is choleric, Jenna is melancholic, and Tina is supine) and Heroes vs Villains (Sandra is phlegmatic, Parvati is sanguine, J.T is supine, and Tom is choleric).
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Survivor / int_fd0925ef	comment	Bitch Alert: If - or rather, when - there's someone that's going to spend the month in the wilderness acting nasty, the editors will let you know quickly. For example:
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Survivor / int_fdb355db	comment	Fun with Subtitles: On rare occasions, onscreen labels are used for subtle snarking. In Redemption Island, the occupation of Phillip was presented as "Former Federal Agent?", though that may be justified if production couldn't get confirmation of classified work he did. Also in that season, the "participate or eat" challenge not only has the usual "Elapsed Time" caption for endurance challenges, but also "Elapsed Burgers" for those sitting out. In Pearl Islands the Morgan tribe was trailing in the very first challenge when Osten's boxers started falling down (again), and some of the other men stripped off their own shorts in solidarity. So now everyone's bare rears are exposed (and blurred out) - and what had been a "Morgan trailing" caption became "Morgan behind".
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Survivor / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: In Winners at War, the four people on Edge of Extinction had to do a task in which they had to repeatedly hike up and down the mountain to take twenty logs of fire to their camp. When Tyson joined them, the first thing he said was "Wow, look at all this firewood!"
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Survivor / int_fe614133	type	Beauty Is Never Tarnished
Survivor / int_fe614133	comment	Beauty Is Never Tarnished: While men are given no beauty products, women are provided the means to keep their legs and pits shaved throughout the season.
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Survivor / int_ff1505cb	type	This Is a Competition
Survivor / int_ff1505cb	comment	This Is a Competition: "This is a game" got used so many times during All-Stars it practically became the season's Arc Words.
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Survivor / int_ff9e9dde	type	Once a Season
Survivor / int_ff9e9dde	comment	Once a Season: Outside of tribal councils and jury votes, no every ritual is used in every season. However, some of CBS's favorites include: Family members showing up for a visit, often accompanied by a reward challenge where the winner gets more time to spend with their loved one. On multiple occasions, the loved ones have competed on behalf of respective contestants. The "three strikes/coconut chop" challenge, where correct answers to questions (either trivia or about each other) allow the players to "hit" each other, with three "hits" leading to a loss for that player; the "last one standing" wins, as usual. This challenge was retired following San Juan del Sur, where a very annoyed Jeff cancelled the challenge after watching the majority alliance negotiate who was going to win. Now most "how well do you know your fellow castmates?" challenges follow other methods. The "Survivor Auction", where contestants bid for various foods or other luxury items. It was retired after Worlds Apart. The "Rites of Passage", where the final three or four players collect torches of their eliminated peers and say parting words about what they knew of them. A short montage of an eliminated contestant would be overlaid onto the video with parting words from said contestant shown to the viewer. However, it's been retired for years. The tribe merge, where all the players are brought together into a single tribe for the rest of the game. This also includes a feast for everyone on merge day in place of a reward challenge. The only time a merge hasn't happened was during Palau, due to a severe Curb-Stomp Battle. And even then, buffs were made in advance for a presumed merger. Tribe shuffles/ swaps, where who belongs to what tribe is potentially changed. It's more common than not, but only truly guaranteed in season with more than two tribes or ones where where starting tribes are divided by a demographic attribute (like gender, race, or age). The deadline is four eliminations leads to a proper swap, or two in multi-tribe seasons. Breakfast (e.g., eggs, bacon, pancakes, fruit, wine, etc.) provided for cooking on the last morning for the final contestants.
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Survivor / int_ffd816e7	type	Everything Trying to Kill You
Survivor / int_ffd816e7	comment	Everything Trying to Kill You: All of the locations are designed to wear the hell out of the contestants, but Australian Outback and especially Africa qualify for this trope. The two tribes had to be barricaded inside a little rickety boma to keep from various predators who might eat or gore them and other animals who may stampede over them by accident. Arguably also Serial Escalation, as these were the second and third seasons, when Survivor hadn't quite become a social game yet.
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Survivor	hasFeature	Sole Survivor / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Some of My Best Friends Are X / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Spin-Offspring / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Spotlight-Stealing Squad / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Strategy Versus Tactics / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Suddenly Always Knew That / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Surprise Difficulty / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Tastes Like Purple / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Team Title / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	The Cassandra / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	The Flame of Life / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	The Mutiny / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	The Place / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	The Plan / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	The Runner-Up Takes It All / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	There Can Be Only One / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	They Just Don't Get It / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	This Is a Competition / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Throwing the Fight / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Tiger Versus Dragon / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Title, Please! / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Too Awesome to Use / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Too Clever by Half / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Too Cool to Live / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Towers of Hanoi / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Transatlantic Equivalent / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Trap Door / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Tribal Face Paint / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Tropical Island Adventure / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Truncated Theme Tune / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Trust-Building Blunder / int_d6b6971d
TV's Greatest Surprises	seeAlso	Survivor
Survivor	hasFeature	Two-Faced Aside / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Ultimate Job Security / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Undesirable Prize / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Unnecessary Makeover / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Unwitting Pawn / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Versus Title / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Victory by Endurance / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Villainy-Free Villain / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Voted Off the Island / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Was It Really Worth It? / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	We Hardly Knew Ye / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Who Will Bell the Cat? / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Who Would Be Stupid Enough? / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Wild Card / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	You Are the Translated Foreign Word / int_d6b6971d
RobHasAWebsite	seeAlso	Survivor
NowGetOutOfThat	seeAlso	Survivor
Survivor (Video Game)	seeAlso	Survivor
Strip Search (Web Video)	seeAlso	Survivor
Survivor	hasFeature	Law of Chromatic Superiority / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Metagame / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Recap Episode / int_d6b6971d
Survivor	hasFeature	Redemption in the Rain / int_d6b6971d

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