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Hezekias "Zee" was a camper on Total Drama Island (2023) as a member of the Ferocious Trout. He returned for Total Drama Island (2024) as a member of Team Rat Face.
Personality
Zee is a laid-back, go-with-the-flow, friendly, and fun-loving guy who is willing to be friends with everyone, even if he acknowledges them as a horrible human. While not the smartest or strongest person, he can be friends to people regardless of personality, ranging from disgusting and rude to pushy and selfish. He cares about his friends and their wellbeing, wanting everyone to get along and not understanding why people go by "winner takes all". He doesn't understand metaphors, taking them in a literal approach. He can at times be forgetful, whether it's what he was talking about or what he's supposed to be doing. His most prominent trait is his ability to keep his cool even in life-threatening situations.
Zee loves to drink orange soda, and mysteriously almost always has a can at hand. He doesn't know where they come from or how he keeps getting them when it shouldn't be physically possible to obtain one. He has no qualms in eating disgusting foods, but as soon as he discovered where milk comes from, he was so disgusted by the fact that it comes from cows, he ran as far away from it as possible.
Zee has come to terms with being born without the lower half of his left leg and having to wear a prosthetic to walk properly a long time ago, although during the start of the season, he originally hid his condition from everyone by wearing pants and never mentioned it beforehand. Unlike other contestants with medical issues, he is perfectly okay with his condition. He tends to show off his prosthesis to his friends and has no problem with people asking why he doesn't have his left leg, being fully aware it's inevitable. Instead of telling the truth, he makes up cool stories how he supposedly "lost" it to entertain people. He considers his prosthesis his favorite leg and packs a spare just in case.
Total Drama Island (2023)
Zee in his audition.
In Meet the Victims, he introduced himself as Hezekias, but told the audience to call him "Zee." He tries to hug Chris but is almost instantly shut down by him. He bets $20 that Caleb would win this season, much to Priya's confusion. Zee panics when he doesn't have a question when Chris asks, however is silenced by the air horn. Zee interacts with Ripper after debating which bunk Ripper wanted, Zee showed no care and let him decide however Ripper told him he wanted whichever one Zee wanted, he decided to pick a different bed. Zee later states that the challenge seemed super easy, till Chris revealed the plot twist of blind folds. Zee then begins drinking a soda, which Ripper questions where he got it from. Zee doesn't remember where he got it from so is unsure how to respond. He's amused that Ripper's pants ripped, exposing his bare bottom.
Zee gets his prosthesis leg back, revealing he's an amputee.
In Pirates of the Cabbagean, he ate some of the squirrel Axel prepared after saying he was hungry. He was the last player on his team to be on their ship, so he took Scary Girl's advice and tried to steer it into the Frogs of Death ship to force a tie, but a seagull landed on the steering wheel, crashing it into a boulder, and sunk the ship. As he swims to shore, a shark goes after him, and seemingly bites off his lower left leg, horrifying everyone. Much to everyone's shock and confusion, he's simply upset that he lost his favorite "leg", leading Priya to believe he's in shock. The shark spits out his "leg", which revealed to be a removable prosthesis, showing that he wasn't injured and revealing to everyone that he's secretly an amputee. As he puts it back on, Axel questions why Zee didn't tell anyone about his leg being a prosthetic earlier. Zee claims it's the same reason she never mentioned her legs weren't. Since his pants were ruined, he switched to cargo shorts for good. In the confessional, he explained he's sure he isn't going to get voted off because everyone was probably curious about how he "lost" his leg. He secretly reveals to the audience that he was actually born without it, but he likes to tell cool stories to entertain people when someone asks him. Luckily for him, he was right, as the team decided to vote off Axel due to her bad leadership skills.
Zee tells Chase and Damien one of his fake stories about how he lost his leg.
In Drown Town Abbey, he was in the main lodge telling Damien and Chase that he lost his leg while bungee jumping off a helicopter into a piranha pit and tells them not to do it, much to the former's horror and the latter's amazement. Damien scolds him for "doing" something so dangerous. When it was his turn on the obstacle course, he thought and moved like a worm.
In Numbskull Island, he is in charge of a fire hose to spray the Frogs of Death. He warns everyone to stand back, but Ripper tells him not to.
Zee gets left behind for the first time.
In Jurassic Fart, he and Chase partnered up while hiding from the raptors. Because of the baked beans they ate make them uncontrollably fart, Zee ended up having to hold his butt for him to keep him from farting. A raptor snuck up behind them, making them run away. Zee's prosthesis got caught between two rocks and Chase left him. Fortunately, the raptor has his leg stuck in its mouth, thus saving him. Without his spare leg at hand, Zee has to hop his way to the finish line, forgiving Chase for what happened.
Zee hallucinates fantasy animals.
In The Launchback of Notre Game, Zee was given the task to be flung in the lightning round. Before being launched, he told Ripper he lost his leg while being on a human catapult. He was racing Julia, and threw his prosthetic leg to gain airtime. He was struck by lightning, receiving a hallucinogenic trip. He landed in the designated 10,000-point target, earning the win for his team.
Zee gets left behind once more.
In Severe Eggs and Pains, Chris makes an announcement, which startles Zee enough to spit out his soda onto Chase. Chris and Chef reveal its time for the teams to officially merge. He teams up with Ripper to obtain a cassowary egg, but Zee inconveniently got the hiccups from being startled. Zee and Ripper eventually find a cassowary, but Zee unintentionally wakes it up with his hiccups. However, this romantically attracts the cassowary, as they sound like a mating call. This gives Ripper the idea to have him dress as another cassowary to distract it while he collects the eggs. While the disguise worked, the beak falls off, causing him to flee. He gave the cassowary a fake number, only for it to chase him into the confessional stall.
Zee is disgusted after being told where milk comes from by Julia.
In The Wheel of Vomit, Zee and Ripper got wedgied by Julia. Throughout the challenge, he is the only person who ate the disgusting foods without any fuss, even asking for seconds. Despite Julia's efforts to gross him out enough to quit or to sabotage him, he just takes it as having a friendly conversation. Weirdly enough, when there was milk along with the toe jam cookies, as he never had milk before and wonders where it comes from, Julia tells him milk comes from cows, much to his shock and disgust. She continued to explain it in a gross manner, to the point he ran right through the wall to get away from his glass. At the elimination ceremony, Chef told Zee that he could be going home because him "showing off" during the challenge could make the other campers see him as a threat.
Zee reveals his plan to vote out Chris.
In Paddle Field Earth, both of the newly formed alliances want Zee as their deciding vote. However, he prefers to unite everyone rather than cause conflicts. After he climbs on top of the mountain, he's not sure whether to help Bowie or Julia out of a pit, until he decides to use both his hands to help both. In spite of helping them, he's betrayed by the two and immediately thrown into a pit. At the Campfire Ceremony, Zee reveals his plan to gather everyone to vote out the host instead of each other, which causes other contestants to lose patience with him and vote him out in a re-vote requested by Bowie. In a confessional before taking the Drone of Despair (which he was confused by), he admits he lasted way longer than he thought and had a "wild ride" on the show despite losing.
Zee returns alongside the other eliminated contestants in the finale. He thought the Wheel of Losers was a harsh name, but Chris refused to change it. Zee is last seen partying with the other contestants after Chris announces a second season.
Total Drama Island (2024)
Zee is picked to join Team Rat Face in the season premiere. Zee confirms that he’d become an influencer with a soda company after season one. Zee is eliminated from the challenge after his fizzing soda can gave him away.
In Taking It to the Rim Reaper, Zee slides through the one-point slide and scores a point for his team, later he goes for the two-point slide, without being aware about the "one person at a time" rule, which was later revealed to not be an actual rule, regardless, he scores two points for his team. Later on, he scores another point for his team. Zee then goes through the two-point slide and takes a raccoon with him, who then parachutes away using a plastic bag, however Zee does not score any points for his team, missing the target. He fails multiple times later and claims "Being a basketball is hard" in a confessional. Caleb takes Zee for a one pointer, but crashes into him, falling into the water as Axel drags him out. He and the rest of the team do not approve of Millie's ploy of sending Damien through the four-point slide.
Zee wants to keep Olivia.
In You Poor Saps, Zee holds Damien back from Millie telling him that she's not worth arguing with. During the challenge, he, Damien and Nichelle go through the avalanche path but falls behind, not wanting to make it through life too fast and wanting to make the good times last. He gets distracted by a rainbow near a waterfall and ventures off to find treasure. As he asks the "Great rainbow dude in the sky" to send him a sign, a trash can falls on him causing all of the rubbish, and a raccoon, to stick to his body due to the sap. He recognizes the raccoon from the previous episode, it acts aggressive but they calm down after Zee hums a lullaby. As Zee finishes the challenge, he greets everyone and introduces his new raccoon friend, Olivia von Trashpanda. Chef orders the interns to spray the sap solvent on Zee and the raccoon immediately. Olivia decides to stay with Zee and goes into his shirt, which tickles him, but Chef tells him that he can't keep her as a pet due to rabies. Zee is uncharacteristically annoyed about it as he already had his rabies shot twice, thus thinking it means he's immune and the next one is free. He takes her with him for the elimination.
In Choosin' for a Bruisin', Emma tells Zee where to step for the challenge and he complies. Unfortunately for him, her prediction was incorrect causing Zee to fall through the bridge and land in the pool of wolverines where he is attacked. Zee shouts out for Emma to keep picking the wrong answers for Caleb, causing Emma to angrily throw a tantrum after realizing she was being used and that she had actually been picking the wrong answers the entire time.
Zee tells Priya that Caleb would like her.
In Ice to Beat You, Zee walks into the cabin to see Priya rubbing a pillow against her face, he runs and snatches the pillow off her and throws it against a fan, thinking that the pillow was attacking her. After trying to get her away from the other pillows before they turn evil, Priya reveals that she was kissing it. Zee is confused and feels awful for killing her "pillow boyfriend". Priya reveals that she has a crush on Caleb and Zee promises to keep it a secret, or in his words, a "Zee-cret". Throughout the challenge, Zee has trouble keeping the secret safe and continuously drinks a lot of lychee soda to distract him, he drinks so much that he later has to pee. Priya tells Zee that he can use the toilet while the rest of the team discusses a plan, however he pees on one of the pillars the team needs to jump on causing it to melt. The team is upset with him with Axel asking him if he knew where he was looking with Zee responding he was thinking about something important, Nichelle asks what causing Priya to glare at him. He attempts to chug another bottle of lychee, but Axel knocks it out of his hands, saying his bladder has had enough for the day. After losing the challenge, the Rat Faces are disappointed that they lost the challenge with Zee saying he did great. Chef was about to explain why Zee might get eliminated until Nichelle interrupted him. After she gets eliminated, Zee, along with the rest of the team, are annoyed with Julia after she reveals she wrote Nichelle's fake contract.
In Canoe Believe It?, Caleb is doing one-arm handstand pushups while Zee walks up to him. Zee observes that Caleb has been spending a lot of time with Priya recently, Caleb explains that an alliance with her will help him win the competition. Zee thought that he liked her romantically, but Caleb says he likes Priya platonically and tells Zee it's all strategy. For the challenge, Zee is paired with Damien and they both take their canoe to the beach. On the way, Damien observes the love in the air between Caleb and Priya. Zee thinks Caleb's using his charm and showing off his muscles to create an alliance, but Damien explains that Zee's description is called flirting. Zee is now under the impression that Caleb is pretending to like-like Priya, just so he can be in an alliance. Damien and Zee are forced to duel against each other in the challenge, Damien continuously swings his dueling stick at Zee while he dodges. Eventually, Damien throws Zee's stick into the water and attempts to knock him off. Zee gets himself eliminated from the challenge after his plan of knocking Damien off fails.
Zee doesn't do a lot in Fun Fight at the O'Cake Corral, he spies on Priya and Caleb just before they were about to kiss, potentially wanting to see proof that Caleb doesn't like-like Priya. He is paired with Priya, Caleb, and Damien for the cooking challenge.
Zee, once again, spies on Priya and Caleb through the cabin door in Haulin' n' Ballin'. He states Priya is into Caleb while Caleb is only interested in her alliance and his flirting is an act, and Zee can't tell her the "truth" because he doesn't want to break her heart, however, he comes up with an idea. Zee is walking past by Julia and MK, and they both observe his strange behavior. MK removes his shorts from his mouth and accidentally reveals that he's hiding a secret, he stuffs his shorts back into his mouth and walks away. Shortly after, he hallucinates MK and Julia holding hands and telling him to "Let it out", he shuts his eyes, and they disappear. Zee encounters Priya after he trips over a rock and his shorts fall out of his mouth, she keeps talking to him about Caleb while Zee politely tells her to stop speaking, he takes his shorts and runs away. During the challenge, Zee is hit on the head by a boulder resulting in his shorts to fall into the water. Julia tries to manipulate Zee into spilling his secret, but he stops himself by stuffing a squirrel into his mouth. Now with the squirrel gone, he puts a tire over his head and runs away from Caleb and Julia, screaming all the while. Julia catches up to him and lies saying that she probably already knows the secret, this makes Zee almost reveal the secret just before a booby trap interrupted him. Julia still tries to pry his secret until Priya wins the challenge. After she and Caleb kissed, Zee spits the ball out of his mouth and reveals Caleb's "true" feelings for Priya. Damien realized that it was messed up and asked Zee if he knew about Caleb’s crush on Priya all along and Julia asked Zee if he feels better and Zee said that he is and said that he would feel better if he got the other secrets out, surprising the other contestants. Zee reveals that Julia once stole feather earrings from her grandmother, Raj likes to smell other people’s hockey bags, Damien hasn’t changed his underwear all season, MK sleeps with a stuffed unicorn named Theodore and that Chef has calf implants. But, before Zee can reveal Chris’ secret, Chris cuts him off, by saying that he thinks they heard just about enough. Zee is confused after everyone chooses to sit away from him at the elimination ceremony. After he's eliminated, he grabs his suitcase and is carried off by the Drone of Despair.
In the finale, Zee is one of Wayne's supporters. He gets distracted by pizza in the race. He celebrates with the rest of Wayne's supporters when he wins the season. He opens a can of soda which causes the confessional camera malfunction.
Appearances
Total Drama Island (2023)
Total Drama Island (2024)
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Audition tape
View this video for Zee‘s audition tape.
Zee introduces himself before forgetting what he was talking about.
Hezekias, or Zee, introduces himself by drinking a breakfast soda in his room. He simply explains that he's not fast, strong, good at trying, or even remembering what he's talking about.
Trivia
Comparisons
- He is one of the contestants to have more than one main design. He had long pink pants, but switches to pink cargo shorts once it was revealed he's an amputee.
- Zee is one of fourteen characters who wears a hat as part of their regular outfit, the others being Chef Hatchet, Ezekiel, Geoff, DJ, B, Shawn, Jasmine, Damien, MK, Wayne, Junior, Laurie, and MacArthur.
- Zee is one of ten contestants to be known by their nickname, the others being Blaineley, DJ, Lightning, B, MacArthur, MK, Samey, Raj, and Scary Girl.
- Zee is the second tallest member of the fourth-generation cast, being only shorter than Caleb.
- Like Tyler and Cameron, Zee is bad with secrets.
Competition
- Zee is the first contestant to be eliminated as a result of a revote.
- Zee is one of fourteen contestants who competed in more than one season and always made it to the merge, with the others being Alejandro, Bowie, Cameron, Duncan, Julia, Mike, Owen, Priya, Raj, Ripper, Scott, Wayne, and Zoey.
- In both seasons he has competed, Zee has been eliminated in the third episode of the merge and the fourth overall contestant to be eliminated after the commencement of the merge.
- Zee has been eliminated back-to-back with Ripper in both seasons of the reboot, with his elimination following Ripper's both times.
Miscellaneous
- He is one of few contestants in Total Drama confirmed to have a medical condition. In his case, he has congenital amputation, a birth defect that results in him being born as an amputee instead of going through an amputation procedure.
- Zee is one of 4 contestants confirmed to be Hispanic/Latino the others being Axel, Alejandro, and Brody.
- Zee's green cap was originally going to be plum-colored, but the crew felt that the color would be lost against Camp Wawanakwa's dark brown trees, so they looked for alternatives until they settled with green.
- According to Terry McGurrin, Zee was created thanks to the efforts of Fresh TV's DEI Silvana Rose Miller and Warner Bros.'s DEI Diana Theobald, the latter who has the same amputation as Zee, leading McGurrin to consult Theobald over how to represent Zee's amputation correctly.
- Due to a mistake, his label on a Facebook post was initially the same as Bowie's before it was corrected to the current one.
- He's never eaten a vegetable before.
- Zee is the sole cause behind both of his eliminations:
- He’d attempted to join both alliances into one in Paddle Field Earth to vote off Chris, annoying and frustrating everyone for wasting their vote that they want a revote.
- In addition to calling out Caleb in Haulin' n' Ballin' regarding his relationship with Priya (which gave everyone the impression that Zee kept the secret purposely for strategy), Zee told everyone else’s secrets. This made the other contestants upset with him enough to vote him off once again.
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