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Shane Dawson was invited by Joey Graceffa to attend a dinner party hosted at his Estate in the 1920s and given the role of The Renegade. Shane was secretly a member of the Society Against Evil and was tasked with banishing The Evil that inhabited the Estate. However, before Shane could carry out his mission, he was poisoned by The Evil and perished after the other YouTubers were unable to create an antidote in time. Shane left a note behind that instructed the remaining guests on how to perform the Binding Ritual and defeat The Evil.

His soul was later collected by the Collector and brought to her Museum of the Dead. The Collector placed his spirit in the Jar of Souls to be feasted on later. Shane was eventually freed by Joey after his infiltration into the museum.

Season Competed: Season 1
Role: The Renegade
Ranking: 9th
Challenges Entered: 0
Challenges Won: 0
Episode Eliminated: Ep. 1

Role

Season 1

Episode 1 - An Invitation

Shane was excited to be at a party that was themed to the 1920s and a 'vacation’. Before dinner was served, Shane and Eva want to go looking around the house. Shane knows that Joey knew something was up with the mansion and they go anyway. When they get upstairs, they saw Sarah dragging a body across the hall. When Shane gets back to the dinner table, he gets poisoned and they have to find an antidote by answering riddles. But, they take longer than the 15 minutes and Shane dies. After he dies, they find out that Shane was a member of the Society Against Evil.

Season 3

Episode 10 - The Carnival Master

Shane is shown in the Carnival Master’s crystal.

Season 4

Episode 1 - The Museum of Death Part 1

Shane’s soul is spotted by Liza being kept inside The Collector's jar of souls.

Episode 10 - The Collector Returns

After Joey, Bretman, and Colleen grab The Cosmic Sphere and are about to escape Purgatory, they quickly stop by where the Jar of Souls is located and Joey goes to release the souls kept inside it, Shane’s soul included, where they float away.

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Quotes

Season 1

  • “This party is insane. I mean, I have been to a few YouTube parties… That’s a lie, I’ve been to none. This is the first one I’ve been invited to.“ - Shane’s first confessional.
  • ”I love being in the 1920s. Mainly because I don’t have to text people back, I don’t have to worry about keeping up my Snapchat, I don’t have to make any videos. This is great. This is vacation.” - Shane during the dinner party.
  • “Can we look around?” - To Joey, when asking him if he and Eva can look around the Estate.
  • ”I don’t know, I can tell that he’s lying just by looking in his eyes. There’s something that he doesn’t want me to see.” - Shane sees through Joey.
  • "I know what you're doing." - To Sarah, showing he knows what she is up to and what he saw her doing.
  • ”I know I saw something with the maid. I don’t know for sure if Eva saw it, but I think it’s best for now to just not bring it up, but eventually I’m gonna have to tell everybody.” - Shane reflects on what he witnessed.
  • "Are y’all jealous?” - To the group, after receiving the note from Arthur.
  • "I think I got poisoned." - Shane's final words.

Trivia

  • Having more than 22 million subscribers, Shane is the most popular YouTuber to ever appear on the show.
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    Shane could only film for one day, so his death was staged, but it allowed for eleven people to start out the game. It was known he would die and at least one part of the tasks made to "save" him had been made impossible in the time limit given to purposefully kill him off.
  • Shane is the only guest to have died in the first episode of a season so far.
  • Shane is the very first person to die on the show.
  • Shane is also the only guest known to be a part of the Society Against Evil. However, since he was revealed as a member, Joey Graceffa, Matthew Patrick, and Nikita Dragun have all become members.
  • Joey confirmed that Shane's death was scripted in an interview: https://youtu.be/QVd8JbpZcKo?t=565
  • He also said in that interview that he tried to get Shane to return to Season 4, but doesn't specify why he was unable to.
    • The reason for Shane not being able to return for that season was later revealed to be because of scheduling issues.
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