New opinion

G'day everyone, u/reid_2025 here. I'm known on this sub as a Duncan apologist, but today, I woke up and decided that my opinions have to change. Yep, I've now officially decided that Duncan (or Dumbcan as I will be referring to this awful excuse for a character from now on) is now my new least favourite character. Let's discuss why.

C'mon, he's most morally awful character in the entire series and a colossal Karma Houdini. Like people seriously think Chris is worse in both of these categories? WTF, take a look at Dumbcan! In Island, he bullied Harold for LITERALLY NO REASON! I mean, sure, he was leaving his clothes all over the cabin and refusing to take ownership of the situation, but seriously Dumbcan, you're supposed to be a tough guy, TAKE IT LIKE A FUCKING MAN! Speaking of being a M*N (🤮), he also made minor sexist comments towards Courtney, Gwen and Heather (who shouldn't actually be the season villain since Dumbcan is much worse than her morally), proving that he is literally Andrew Tate, and further proof of that occurs when he forms an ALL-MALE alliance to boot the girls one by one! In addition, he also fat-shamed Leshawna and scared Courtney and DJ with his stupid fucking hook. He also gets no karma for his actions since Harold rigged out Courtney instead of him (worst decision ever btw, as he clearly did absolutely nothing important in TDI's merge). If you like Island Dumbcan, then you deserve to be bullied relentlessly. But if you think that's bad, in Action he's even worse! Right from the get-go, he starts deliberately deceiving and manipulating Gwen into thinking Trent is crazy (which he totally wasn't btw, Dumbcan was just being ableist towards his definitely canonical OCD) when he says "4 letters in your name, 5 letters in Trent's, put em together and you get...". WTF Dumbcan, you were clearly deceiving and manipulating Gwen there, there's no way in HELL that that was just an inaccurate assumption. Forget the networks (🤮), Dumbcan is the REAL mastermind of the Gwent breakup. After that, he then starts bullying Harold even more FOR NO REASON (Harold rigging out Courtney is not even close to a valid reason), and I don't care if it's mostly slapstick, it's horrible! It also proves that Dumbcan is even more ableist towards autistic people, and combined with him saying "transgender troll" in the year 2009, this makes him more bigoted than Ezekiel, Yul and Jason Blunderwood combined. Speaking of slapstick, while that is mostly what Courtney's so-called """""abuse""""" was in Season 2, it still felt so good seeing her constantly beat the shit out of this dickhead, especially considering 1. He's a M*N and she isn't and 2. Just how close he was getting with Gwen early in the season. The 32 page letter was also totally justified since I hate his piercings too, plus given Courtney's infinite wisdom, she clearly must just be trying to steer him away from crime and keep him out jail (which he doesn't deserve since he's irredeemable and should be in jail for life). However, since all of that (plus all the times Harold got back at him) are just slapstick, Dumbcan is still a massive Karma Houdini this season, even more so since he outranks ALL of his victims (Trent, Gwen, Leshawna (for getting her booted for his own selfish means), Lindsay (for laughing after she voted herself off), Harold and Courtney) and makes the FINAL 2. Thank god Beth won in my country, otherwise I'd have to pay for a new TV. If you like Action Dumbcan, then you deserve to have your relationship deliberately sabotaged. However, to repeat the words of Billy Mays "But wait, there's more!" in World Tour. WT Episode 1 is simultaneously one of the best and worst episodes of the show, since Dumbcan quits and boy oh boy did that make me happy, since now Courtney and Gwen can patch up their fallout from last season (which was also Dumbcan's fault). But no, since the writers favour Dumbcan so much, they bring him back in London and he screws the raltable king out of the game (no it wasn't Alejandro's fault, I don't care if he orchestrated it). Then after that, he does his worst action yet: HE CHEATS ON COURTNEY, HIS PERFECT GF WHO ALWAYS TREATED HIM WELL! Not only that, Tyler gets booted in Area 51, making this the 2376017537th time a true-blue underdog gets booted in favour of this writer's pet Karma Houdini jerkface named Dumbcan. Then in Australia, he THROWS A DINGO AT CODY FOR NO REASON (Also Cody punching him in Greece is TDWT's best scene, change my mind), in addition to helping Gwen do delinquencies and sabotaging votes throughout Episode 16, as he continues deceiving and manipulating her. And he makes the final 5 and outranks his most of his totally wholesome victims (Noah, Tyler, Gwen and Courtney) yet AGAIN, though at the very least some of his victims outrank him (Cody and Alejandro (I don't care if Alejandro is supposed to be the villain, if he's opposing Dumbcan, then he's always in the right)), but he's still a raging Karma Houdini since him getting constantly beaten up is just slapstick, while everything he does is meant to be taken seriously (it's painfully obvious). Honestly WT would be 10^(10^100) times better if Dumbcan went feral instead of Ezekiel, change my mind. If you like WT Dumbcan, then you deserve to get cheated on. Then there's All Stars, which officially makes him IRREDEEMABLE. The fact that he appears in an All Stars season AT ALL is an insult. I don't care that he made the final 5 three times, he's such a fucking jerk and I never want to see him ever again. For the first three episodes, Dumbcan is actually nice to Gwen....NOT! He's clearly just continuing to deceive and manipulate her and he doesn't even help her with Courtney. Then after he deceives and manipulates her some more by taking a leech in Episode 3, the writers switch him to Team Hero and Courtney to Team Villain. WHAT! DO THE WRITERS THINK THIS WALKING KIDNEY STONE IS A HERO! GODDAMN IT, HE REALLY IS THE BIGGEST WRITER'S PET IN THE SHOW! Whilst he is on the "heroes" team (I say heroes in inverted commas since they are no longer heroic at all now that Dumbcan is on their team) the heroes are actually...SORT OF NICE TO HIM? WHAT! CAN'T THEY SEE THAT HE'S IRREDEEMABLE? Especially Zoey, why is she friends with him? Doesn't she know that she is just another naive girl for Dumbcan to deceive and manipulate? Speaking of Dumbcan deceiving and manipulating, Gwen comes to her senses in Episode 5 and dumps Dumbcan for talking about Courtney. I don't care that that was put in just to make Dumbcan seem even more unlikeable than he already is (and that's really saying a lot) and to give Gwen a good excuse to dump him, because really Gwen should've dumped him for no reason other than the fact that he's Dumbcan and he's the worst fictional character ever created. Episode 6 and 7 Dumbcan are the only tolerable Dumbcan episodes in the entire series since most of time he's just being made fun of for being """"nice"""" by the based Courtney and Gwen and the ever-so-based Chris McLean. Though the fact that they paint him in the right compared to Mal sucks, considering that Dumbcan is far worse and far more irredeemable than him. Then in Episode 8, the merge comes a whole ONE episode PURELY so that Dumbcan can make the merge FOUR TIMES, and during the episode, he blows up Chris's house and is arrested. Yes, even CHRIS is a victim of Dumbcan now. Now you might think that I'd enjoy this considering everything I've said about Dumbcan in this rant, but I don't enjoy this for one reason: it wasn't real karma. Remember that this happened because he blew up Chris's house (which is still horrible and irredeemable, don't get me wrong) but it had nothing do with the other horrendous, irredeemable crimes against humanity that he perpetrated in the past. Though there is a way this scene could be made better, and I borrowed this from this great fanfiction named Courtney's Crusade For Redemption. The way to give him REAL karma would be to not only send him to jail for blowing up the house, but make sure that Zoey and all of his other friends end their friendships with him (I have no idea why they haven't done that sooner), have everyone treat him like an actual fucking monster for blowing up the house, have Chris blacklist him from the show permanently, have Courtney scream at him to "cut the crap and rot in hell" during his final seconds as he's being dragged away by the police, and have him be sent to jail with an implied LIFE sentence with NO chance of ANY of the contestants EVER forgiving him. But alas, this did not happen, and Dumbcan remains the biggest Karma Houdini in the series, and even worse, the writer of this fanfiction no longer thinks this was the right way to end Dumbcan's character, thus making him unbased. If you like AS Dumbcan, then you deserve to have your property destroyed, and if you like any incarnation of Dumbcan, then you are just as irredeemable as he is.

Anyways, I think this sums up my thoughts on Dumbcan fully, and why I think he's the worst character in TD history. Thank you for listening to Reid's magnum opus.