Runners

Main Characters

These runners can be unlocked by collecting EXP:

SpeedRunner	Unic	Cosmonaut Comrade	Hothead
The titular hero. He wears an all black suit with blue highlights and has an aerodynamic helmet.	A superhero dressed as a pink unicorn. He knows a lot about horses.	A hero who wears a red outfit with a golden star on his round helmet. Designed to be reminiscent of the USSR in his design.	A character with a fire motif and a tiki head. Inspired by Hawaiian mythology.
Moonraker	The Falcon	Buckshot	Maneki Neko
The first female character to be added to the game. Wears a silver suit and has brown hair.	A superhero who is SpeedRunner's rival. He's a man with glasses who wears a white bird costume.	An anthropomorphic deer and an expert marksman who carries a rifle.	An anthropomorphic cat with a red collar and a golden bell. Inspired by Japanese culture.
Gil	SkullDuggery	Salem	Luc J'adore
A undercover detective wearing a shark costume. Is The Falcon's ally/partner.	A skeleton in brown rags with a purple scarf. Wields a shovel.	A black cat dressed as a witch. She carries a broom.	A macho man with a blue mask and a rose in his mouth.
Sherlock Bones	Jailbird	Fort Knight	Excel/XL
An anthropomorphic dog with gold fur. Is a parody of Sherlock Holmes.	A female prisoner, who has her hands bound together, which make her animations unique.	A 'knight' wearing armor made of cardboard boxes, paper bags, and crates. Is equipped with a wooden sword.	A typical business man who carries a suitcase around all the time. XL wears sunglasses and a cap, and instead carries a boombox around. Excel is playable during weekdays, and is replaced by XL on weekends.
Burger	The Original Mr. Quick	Flamenco	Doctor Smart
A man dressed like a burger, likes to eat lots of ketchup and mayonnaise.	SpeedRunner's likely predecessor, with an even more retro design.	A man who is dressed and runs like a bull.	A gorilla dressed as a doctor.
Veloci-T-Rex	Beach-Body Speedrunner	Summertime Cosmo	Scout
A velociraptor. Wears black jeans.	SpeedRunner, but in a summer-themed outfit.	Cosmonaut Comrade, but in a summer-themed outfit.	The character Scout from the game Team Fortress 2.

DLC Packs

These characters can be bought on the Steam store, and cannot be unlocked. They are split into two packs:

Team Falcon (YouTuber Pack 1):

Markiplier - Wears a black-and-red outfit with an "M" in the center. He has a pink mustache.

PeanutButterGamer - Wears an outfit similar to Toon Link's from the "The Legend of Zelda" series.

UberHaxorNova - Wears a grey jacket and has short, pink hair.

Jesse Cox - Wears an orange and purple costume with wings.

Team SpeedRunners (YouTuber Pack 2):

PewDiePie - Wears a crown, headphones and a pink outfit.

Strippin - Wears a tiara and a princess dress.

CinnamonToastKen - Wears a bear headdress. Doesn't have an upper costume.

Dodger - Wears an orange fox costume.

Civil Dispute!:

Showtime - Wears sunglasses and a white outfit.

Cannon Fyodor - Wears an eyepatch, a helmet and a white shirt.

Diamond Diva - Wears a diva costume, her face is makeup in black and white.

Dashwell - Wears a majordome costume.

Secret Characters

These characters can be played by typing in their respective commands on the character select screen (case insensitive):

Gang Beast- The character from gang beasts. Command: /gangbeast.

Hoxton - Character from the game PAYDAY 2. Command: /hoxton.

Dallas - Character from the game PAYDAY 2. Command: /dallas.

Wolf - Character from the game PAYDAY 2. Command: /wolf.

Cloaker - Special Enemy from the game PAYDAY 2. Command: /cloaker.

Octodad - The main character in Octodad: Dadliest Catch. Command: /octodad.

These characters were removed in the r44.9 patch (6 October 2015):

Potato - Normal potato. Command: /sallad ( not accessible )

Goat- The goat from "Goat Simulator". Command: /baaaahhh!!! (not accessible)

QWOP - The character from "QWOP" the game. Command: /qwop (not accessible)

PewDuckPie - A duck in a barrel. Command: /pewduckpie (was only accessible by certain people) ^{[citation needed]}.

Gallery

A Happy Holidays 2014 postcard by Lerika, one of the game's artists.