Survivor: Blood versus Water- Hero or Villain

For now, this is the last installment of me assessing whether someone is a hero or villain from a certain Survivor cast. There will probably be more of this in the future, but I don’t know when or what seasons it could be. Here I go listing the cast of Blood versus Water and I’ll let you know if I think that they are a hero, villain, or neither.

Rupert was put on the heroes tribes for the twentieth season. Is he still the same type of player this season? His biggest move this time was basically falling on his sword so that another person could play the game. While it wasn’t a smart move, it was definitely heroic and he remains a hero in this season like all the others he was in.

Colton is someone that not a lot of people like. That typically makes one a villain. Now he certainly was a villain the first time he played the game. But, his status as a villain deserves to be revoked. That won’t make him a hero, but that will make the category easy this time. Why’d he quit anyways?

Rachel may not seem to have a category at first. But then, you may notice that she was sacrificed by her tribe in an effort to shake up the game. And while this ultimately didn’t work in her or her tribe’s favor, it made her seem like a hero to me.

Marissa is another player that was sacrificed by her tribe in order to possibly better their own games. She then won a lot of the early Redemption Island duels before she fell short at one and was eliminated from the game. Like Rachel, I see her as being a hero.

Candice may be a pick that I could potentially get backlash with. But, let’s face it, things can change. For instance, the first time she played may have been villainous and then production wrongly places her on the heroes tribe for her second season where she ends up betraying them. Then, a stupid twist and possibly her negative reputation or the fact that she’s a last minute replacement in the game gets her voted out of the game before it even starts basically. She wins a lot of duels to stay in the game before barely falling short at one that she could have potentially won given better ways of doing them. Suddenly, the status of hero finally fits Candice, the way she fought hard to stay in the game.

Brad may have fumbled his way through the game as he tried to control the alliance he was in and at the bottom of. To me, everything about him screamed villain. He may not have been as good a villain as others, but he helped screw enough people out of the game before he was blindsided himself.

Kat could be a hero, possibly. But, that might only work if you were to grasp at straws. She’s not a villain for sure. So, while some may argue for her status as a hero, I think that it’s clear that she was in neither category. What one would fit anyways?

John, for me, is another one that’s easy to classify. Why do I say that? Well, once again we have a player get sacrificed for other people’s own game while the person sacrificed then has to go fight for their lives in the game. He fought tooth and nail through the duels once he made it there before failing short when he would have reentered the game. So, once again, we have a hero in this game.

Laura Boneham may be hard to classify at first. But then you realize that she never did anything to fit either category. She tried to cause chaos, but was too bad at it to mean anything. Plus, there was never anything heroic that fit her either.

Aras could be fairly easy to identify. He is in my mind at least. Now sometimes leading a tribe is heroic. But it depends on how you do it. The way he controlled it, for a while at least, was very villainous. His game might have ended sooner than he wanted to, but he was certainly a villain this time around.

Vytas may not have had much of an edit outside of his brother’s shadow. But he stood out in different ways. While he was a good player, in my mind, he was certainly not a hero. There are many different ways this is clear to me. He’s a villain to me.

Caleb might not fit into either category. He made a move that was villainous when he helped blindside Brad. Other than that, he might be considered heroic the way he fought through the game. His death would certainly make people think better of him, if they didn’t think good of him already. Meanwhile, I’m still not sure if he fits into a category.

Katie, to me, can be considered a hero. There are not actually a lot to say to support that, but I think that there are in the end. She stay loyal to her alliance, even when it got her a rock drawn and eliminated (to Redemption Island) from the game. Also, she was pretty nice and kind to people from what we saw so it makes sense that she’s a hero.

Hayden is someone that different people might have an opinion on. There could be some evidence that he’s a villain since he abandoned the singles alliance for his own. But, I still see him as a hero the way he lead his alliance to fight against the villains of the season.

Laura Morett fought hard to stay in the game. She came back from Redemption Island and spent a record amount of time back in the game before being voted out again. I’m not sure what she might have been in her first season, but she’s undoubtedly a hero in this one.

Ciera is called a hero by some. I don’t know why they call her that. She flipped on the only two alliances in the game and helped vote out her own mother. I don’t see anything heroic in her. But I do like her as a villain. When I was revoking Colton’s villain status, I even put Ciera as a placeholder for greatest Survivor villain briefly, but I have since given that to Tony from Cagayan. The point is, she’s a great villain, but certainly not a hero.

Tina fits as a hero from her previous seasons and it seems that nothing in this season would change that. She still seems to fit the heroic name that she has. She may not have stood out as much this season as she would have wanted to, but a hero she remains.

Gervase was covered in my post regarding hero/villain status from Borneo. I didn’t see anything that put him in either category that season. But his next season of Blood versus Water is what made him find a category, this one being that of a villain. Why is he a villain? Well, that’s quite simple. He teamed up with another well known villain and they fought their way to the end together. They did a bunch of villainous things together.

Monica has the most improved finish of any two time player going from premerge boot in One World to second place this season. Of course, that doesn’t mean that she’s a hero. Everything about the way she played through the game seemed like that of a villain to me and I don’t think that many people would disagree with me about this.

Tyson was put on the villains tribe during heroes versus villains. While he might not have been that good a villain in previous seasons, his win this time proves that he is a good villain. I don’t see any evidence that he’s a hero and he certainly fits the villain persona. The villains were pretty successful as a tribe as they have produced three winners (Sandra, Boston Rob, and Tyson).

The cast: Rupert- hero, Colton- neither, Rachel- hero, Marissa- hero, Candice- hero, Brad- villain, Kat- neither, John- hero, Laura Boneham- neither, Aras- villain, Vytas- villain, Caleb- neither, Katie- hero, Hayden- hero, Laura Morett- hero, Ciera- villain, Tina- hero, Gervase- villain, Monica- villain, Tyson- villain.

Well, those are my thoughts regarding the cast of Blood versus Water and whether or not they were a hero or villain. I hope that I did well in picking them to whoever read this. Can you provide evidence to support Ciera being a hero should you believe that? Or do you agree with me that she’s a villain? Is there anyone else that you think that I got wrong? What all did I get right? I don’t know when or even if I’ll go through the cast of any other seasons to see if they were heroes or villains. For now, this is Adam Decker, signing off.