DJ is very muscular, incredibly gentle, and rarely has any mean thoughts crossing his mind. As a result, he is one of the most well-liked contestants. However, he is easily frightened by the most innocuous of things, despite his size. He was originally put on the Killer Bass in Total Drama Island, where he is shown to be very mindful of the wildlife and the other competitors, though a generally strong competitor in the challenges. He was eventually voted off in a horror movie-themed challenge, when he was the only contestant to be eliminated from the challenge without having actually encountered the psycho killer. He qualified for Total Drama Action, where he was placed on the Screaming Gaffers. D.J. was forced into an "illegal alliance" with Chef, where Chef would "toughen him up" in exchange for splitting the prize money with him should he win the competition (which amounted to Chef cheating in D.J.'s favor). Despite doing well as a result, his conscience gets the better of him, and he voluntarily eliminates himself from the competition. D.J. returned for World Tour and was one of the three founding members of Team Victory. Due to an encounter with a mummified animal in the very first challenge in Egypt, he began to believe that he was cursed. The curse would cause him to hurt animals, and so he had attempted to vote himself out and lose challenges to prevent any more suffering to every animal he accidentally encounters. Ironically, he would be the last remaining member of Team Victory due to Alejandro capitalizing on this "cursed" behaviour and causing the eliminations of most of his teammates. Being a strong competitor, if only being forced to work alone and deliberately trying to lose, both of the remaining teams would try to court him into being an unofficial member of their team. D.J. would eventually align with Alejandro and Team Chris, though Chris would decline D.J.'s attempt to formalize this. Being of no use to him, Alejandro eventually engineers his elimination.