Everyone and Lightning

This article focuses on the interactions between Everyone and Lightning.

Overview
Over the course of Total Drama Around the World, Lightning has interacted with many of his fellow competitors, and his arrogance, stupidity, aggressiveness, and selfishness has caused him to make many enemies amongst the cast, though there are a few people who see his softer side, and finds him likable. As the season goes on, he gets more and more cocky and aggressive, which makes many officially loathe and hate him.

His aggressiveness and arrogance is toned down in Total Drama Toxic Brawl, but his anger issues are still there, and can be pushed over the edge, though he is a tiny bit friendlier.

Alejandro
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For the first few episodes of Total Drama Around the World, these two do not speak to one another, as they are on separate teams, but both of their egos, and their obsessions with their fit bodies eventually have them form a friendly competition throughout the first half of the season. Soon enough, they trust one another to consider being an alliance (which does not come true until Aloha, Merge!), where they get rid of many threats, and strategize with one another through the second half of the season. Lightning is extremely annoyed and angered when Alejandro is eliminated, and swears to make everyone miserable for making that mistake. They end off the season having some respect for one another, and on friendly terms. They are on separate teams in Total Drama Toxic Brawl, but there is no sign of conflict or issues between the two.

Amy
In Let's Have a World Tour!, Lightning falls on Amy by accident when they're pushed out of the plane. When Amy is fighting Anne Maria in Australian Rivals, Lightning wishes that his partner beats the crap out of "dem hoes", referring to Amy. When Lightning and Alejandro form an alliance in the beginning of Aloha, Merge!, Amy interrupts them and tries to steal Alejandro, which pisses Lightning off. Amy tries to enter into Lightning and Alejandro's conversation in London the Ripper, and tries to speak about gameplay with him, but he completely ignores her, since she is not in their alliance. Later in the episode, he is completely shocked that Alejandro is gone over her, and yells at everyone for not voting her out.

Lightning goes on a complete rampage in Grand Slam, Home-Run, Hit, Strike, Foul, and You're Out. When Geoff enters economy class, he sees Amy crying from Lightning's harsh insults. Lightning promises to make everyone's, including Amy's, life miserable for as long as he is in the game. In the finale, Lightning does not support Amy to win the competition.

In A Radioactive Beginning, they are put not the same team together, and he apologizes to her for his treatment towards her in the previous season, which she forgives him for.

Anne Maria
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Both of them end up on the same team in Let's Start a World Tour!, and Anne Maria soon uses her flirtation to get him to vote off Mike. She likes the idea of having a strong man by her side, and he quickly grows attracted to her, which ends up being mutual. They constantly flirt with one another, and easily hold most of the power on the Underdog Unicorns (especially when the team is down to them and Beth). Anne Maria starts to have worries in Jamaica Man! about where her relationship with Lightning is going (if it is an actual relationship or just friends with benefits), but their issues are forgotten as they form an official alliance when both of them merge. Things take a turn for the worst when Anne Maria votes for him and Alejandro to leave the competition, and he breaks up with her after finding out that she betrayed him, and lashing out at her. Things seen to be a bit better between them by the end of the season, but they are still not together. Anne Maria still has an attraction for him in the Season 3 special, but there is no sign that he is interested in her.

Beth
After losing three times in a row, Lightning desperately rants and speaks to Beth about them needing to win, and calls her the brains, and him the brawn in Korean Pop Quizzing. He ends up impulsively kissing her when they get 2nd place in the challenge. In Icey Antarctica, Lightning repeatedly slams the code that will open the door to Cameron, but Beth tells him to stop.

The two speak about the confusing relationship Lightning has with Anne Maria in Jamaica Man!, and that if they do not lose these next 3 challenges, the three of them will be in the merge. The two are paired up together for the bobsleigh challenge. When they go to do the challenge, Lightning calls Beth a non-pretty girl (which she does not appreciate), and to cling on and caress the muscles on him, since it will be the closest she gets to an attractive man, which she is not pleased by. Soon enough, they fall off, and they are given the highest mark for the challenge, and they hug when they get a victory.

In Indian Dance, for the challenge, Lightning dances with Beth, and twirls her around, but ultimately fails when they both lose. The two, along with Alejandro and Anne Maria, form an alliance in Aloha, Merge! so they can have the majority vote. In London the Ripper, Beth decides to vote off Alejandro instead of sticking with voting off Eva and Amy, causing Lightning to yell at everyone (including her) for making a dumb choice, and for turning on the alliance.

Lightning yells at everyone, including Beth, in the beginning of Grand Slam, Home-Run, Hit, Strike, Foul, and You're Out, calling her a coward, pathetic, a backstabber and a traitor for voting off their own ally, and cuts off all ties with her, even though she technically did not betray the alliance. He promises to make everyone's life miserable for as long as he is in the game, including Beth. Lightning and Beth have to work together in The Big Apple, as he is her assistant to help her push Scott. They act cordially to one another, though he is still annoyed with her from the last episode, though she could care less. Lightning also supports Beth in the finale.

In the special, Lightning apologizes to Beth, saying that he rewatched the past season, and found out that she was loyal to him, which she accepts. They are placed on the same team in Total Drama Toxic Brawl, and they both agree to stick together, and to put everything behind them in A Radioactive Beginning. Both of them decide to vote off Jo together.

Bridgette
In Icey Antarctica, Bridgette rudely calls Lightning "Brightning", causing him to tell her to shut up, and calls her a ho, which completely shocks her. Lightning is paired up with Bridgette in Aloha, Merge!, where they have to make a doll of Sadie, and they surprisingly work off really well together, and manage to finish the challenge second. Lightning, with the help of Alejandro, tells Bridgette about a rumor they created about Amy and Geoff having an affair in African Safari, telling her that he sees them sneak off to the confessional constantly, which she refuses to believe, but still has her doubts. His alliance sticks together to successfully vote off Bridgette. In London the Ripper, Lightning angrily tells Geoff that no-one cares about that "tramp" leaving, referring to Bridgette.

Cameron
When Lightning arrives in Let's Have a World Tour!, he looks around and cheers when he realizes that Cameron is not in the season, as he ruined things for him. In Icey Antarctica, Chris tells Lightning that Cameron will be cameoing in the episode, which causes Lightning to tick, and fight the air, yelling and lashing out at how Cameron ruined things with his father. He punches the door excessively where Cameron is trapped in (which he used to motivate him for the entire challenge), but gives up when he is told it does not work. As soon as Cameron leaves the door, Lightning brutally attacks him for everyone to see, and yelling at him for ruining his life.

Chris McLean
Lightning ends up fighting and strangling the air in Icey Antarctica when Chis mentions that Cameron is cameoing, and the host tells him to stop fighting with the air in a sad, almost embarrassed manner. Chris instantly eliminates Lightning from the competition in Grand Slam, Home-Run, Hit, Strike, Foul, and You're Out when his mother gives the host millions of dollars to remove Lightning from the competition, pissing off the athlete.

Courtney
In A Radioactive Beginning, Lightning and Courtney at the elimination ceremony, and Lightning asks her if she has any alliances, and she replies with a no. She asks him the same thing, and he replies the same. He asks her for an alliance, which she agrees to, though she calls him a sucker in her confessional, insulting his intelligence and merely wanting to use him.

Eva
In Egyptian Torture, Eva lashes out, and Lightning tells her to calm down, referring to her as "Jo-Wannabe", which pisses Eva off and puts him on her bad side, with her replying that Jo is a rip-off of her.

In African Safari, Lightning and his alliance decide to vote Eva back into the competition, but she starts to resort to her old ways. He tries to get her on his side, revealing that she is only back so she can join the alliance, but she refuses, and insults him by calling him Tyler (because he continuously called her Jo, which irritated her). He reveals that bringing her back was a mistake, and him and Alejandro happily vote her out in London the Ripper.

Geoff
In Icey Antarctica, Lightning swings a hammer at fellow teams, including Geoff, yelling that no-ones getting Cameron but his team. Frightened, Geoff politely asks Lightning to stop.

In Indian Dance, to convince Chris to let his team win, Geoff convinces all of them to suck up to Chris' ego. Not wanting to lose while also being extremely annoyed by Geoff, Lightning punches both him and Trent. Geoff immediately gets up however, and doesn't seem to mind this violence as he continues to suck up to Chris.

In Australian Rivals, Geoff faces off against Lightning and Alejandro in a boxing challenge. Geoff attempts to punch Lightning, but doesn't hurt him hard enough and is throttled by him. After repeatedly punching Geoff, Lightning mocks him by saying he should just let the "real men" fight. Geoff tries to get up and punch Lightning but is ganged up on once again, with Lightning even insulting him by calling him a stoner. Despite this, Geoff is shown to be proud of Lightning when he eliminates Sadie, saying that Lightning is very smart, not showing any bad feelings towards the violent jock.

In African Safari, when Alejandro and Lightning team up with each other to plot against Bridgette and Geoff, as Alejandro says lies to Bridgette, Lightning glares at Geoff, hoping that he's gone, and saying that he "better watch them eyes", referring to Alejandro. The challenge is announced to be working with an animal and that your relationship with it will be judged. This gives Lightning the opportunity to ridicule Geoff by saying that Geoff is already with an animal (referring to Amy) and he's automatically the winner, but Geoff does not hear him. When Geoff leaves the area after being chased by a lion, Lightning mistakes thin air for Geoff and is about to say what Alejandro said about Geoff and Bridgette. In the confessional, Geoff says how happy he is that Lightning and Amy got immunity, calling them cool.

In London the Ripper, Lightning, along with Anne Maria and Beth, glare at Geoff. Later, Geoff attempts to have a friendly conversation with Lightning, but inadvertedly insults him by using the sha phrase, prompting Lightning to puff his chest and insults Bridgette, referring to her as a tramp and that nobody else cares about her. This shocks Geoff, although blames this behavior from Lightning more on Alejandro than he does on Lightning. When Lightning is gone from the challenge first, Geoff attempts to friendily say goodbye to him but is rudely ignored. Geoff later asks everyone why he's being ignored, to which Lightning replies by lashing out at Geoff, yelling that nobody cares about him, causing Geoff to back away slowly with a frightened look. Geoff attempts to tell Lightning, along with Anne Maria and Beth, that Alejandro is messing with them, but Lightning does not believe Geoff and ignores him. When Lightning is safe with one vote, he immediately assumes it's from Geoff and glares at him, but Geoff swears that it wasn't him nervously. When Geoff is called safe, he tells the others how safe it is but most people including Lightning ignore Geoff. Afterwards, Lightning is still seen glaring at Geoff. Although Geoff is happy when Alejandro is eliminated, he's slightly terrified when Lightning yells at everyone for eliminating Alejandro, including Geoff.

In Grand Slam, Home-Run, Hit, Strike, Foul and You're Out, Lightning yells at everyone about how angry he is that they eliminated Alejandro. Geoff enters economy class to see what all the fuss is about and sees Lightning harshly insulting Amy causing her to cry. Geoff politely asks Lightning to stop, but Lightning just yells right back at Geoff. In Fallout of the Alejandro Extermination, Lightning's solo consists of him criticizing the other contestants for voting out Alejandro, including Geoff. After this, Lightning warns Geoff that he's next, frightening Geoff. Lightning votes off Geoff due to his dislike of him.

In The Big Apple when Anne Maria says that she sort of misses Lightning but his mother did the right thing, Geoff shows that he agrees with her, implying that he wanted to befriend Lightning in some way. When Amy tells Geoff that she's become shy ever since Lightning insulted her, Geoff cheers her up by saying that Lightning probably didn't mean to be too harsh while also saying that Lightning is "a bit too much party", inadvertedly insulting Lightning's intelligence and attention span. Lightning also encourages Alejandro to throw the challenge to not have Geoff win immunity.

Jo
When he arrives in Let's Have a World Tour!, he looks around and cheers when he realizes that Jo is not in the season, still pissed off by he actions in the past seasons he competed in.

As soon as Jo cameos in Australian Rivals, he verbally attacks her, calling her a traitor, and to leave, only causing her to tell him to shut up. He tells her that he will refuse to do that, calls her a man-looking lady, and that he will get her. As he votes in the confessional, knowing it will be revealed, he threw a dig at Jo, calling her ugly and that she sucks. As she is reading the votes, she tells "jockstrap" that he is still a loser.

When the both of them go on the plane in the Season 3 special, their conflict continues when she ridicules everyone for letting Lightning get 5th last season, calling him "Brightning". He calls her by her real name Joanna, and tells her to shut up. She then accuses him of using steroids and angrily tells him to not call her by that name ever again. He tells Alejandro that Owen is not as bad as Jo is, which causes her to choke him, and to threaten that she is not the one he wants to mess with. He later tells Chris that he forgot to throw out the non competitors Jo (and Sadie) out of the plane.

Lightning and Jo are placed on the same team in A Radioactive Beginning, and after they lose the challenge, he tries to convince the Mutant Laser Squirrels to vote her off, as she is untrustworthy, and will throw any of them under the bus, but no one really listens to him. He continues this even at the elimination ceremony, but is happy when Jo is in the bottom 2, stating happily that she is leaving. When Jo is spared from elimination, she taunts him for thinking that his campaign to eliminate her would work, and that she is for sure going after him now.

Mike
He is convinced by Anne Maria to vote him off in Let's Have a World Tour!

Mike makes a cameo in Aloha, Merge!, and immediately kisses Anne Maria, which pisses her off. As soon as Lightning sees this, he reaches for Mike and brutally attacks him, telling him to never touch Anne Maria again, and threatening him.

Sadie
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They did not interact much during the first few episodes, but things quickly escalated when both of them would make a snide comment about the other, with him usually making fun of her weight, and her usually making fun of his idiocy. Things only got worse when Lightning started to befriend Alejandro, and warn him about Sadie, as well as things getting almost physical between the two of them. Both became determined to get the other out, but Lightning got the first strike, and eliminated Sadie, with her trying to stir trouble with Anne Maria and Lightning before she leaves. Even after she is eliminated, it is revealed that their conflict is still very heated.

Scott
Lightning is Beth's assistant in The Big Apple, and they have to push Scott. Lightning says that Scott has fleas, who replies that they will lose because Lightning is dumb enough to mistake 6s and 7s. The jock reminds him that he would be in the challenge if it as not for his mother pulling him out, and calls Scott a hater, who replies that there is nothing else but things to hate about Lightning, who tries to not punch Scott in the face. Later in the challenge, he comments on Scott's body odor, and him needing to take a shower, which Scott does not see why he needs to take one.

The two are put on the same team in Total Drama Toxic Brawl, and their conflict is continued. Lightning is annoyed that Scott is still afraid of Fang, and Scott calls him "Brightning" in retaliation. Lightning tells him that if he needs to say something, then he needs to say it to his face, which Scott does when he says that Lightning is not awesome. He tells Scott that Courtney probably left him because he gave her a nasty rash, also trying not pt punch Scott in his face.

Trent
In Indian Dance, Trent looks at Lightning (and Anne Maria) in disgust, and says that twerking and grinding is disgusting, which Lightning replies that he would get a girl if he danced like that. When Trent kisses up to Chris to prevent his team from getting last place, Lightning punches him, only to give a half apology afterwards.

Zoey
He hears Zoey say aloud something about an alliance on her team which he is confused by, and asks her what she meant in Icey Antarctica.

When Zoey turns into Commando Zoey in Australian Rivals, he is completely creeped out from her actions, and continues to say how crazy, loony, out of balance she is, and that Anne Maria was right about her. He states countless times that he hopes Anne Maria beats her up.

She is extremely hostile and angry towards him in Aloha, Merge!, as they are all dealing with the aftermath of Sadie's elimination. She calls him an idiot and a bad person for getting rid of her friend, while he brags about it and tells her that Sadie was never a friend to he, and that she was used by Sadie. She makes it known throughout the entire episode that she wants Lightning gone for elimination.