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Heroes
- City Guards: Also comes in royal and holy varieties.
Villagers
- Edible Ammunition: The Master Baker has a unique, yet useless, ability to throw bread at enemies.
Monks
- Bare-Fisted Monk: All of their attacks are unarmed strikes, even though some of the monks carry batons for some reason.
Acolytes and Underlings
- Wicked Witch: The Witch is neither an acolyte nor an underling, but is nonetheless part of their group.
Elves, High Elves, and Drow
- Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Downplayed. All three races have rangers and mages of both genders, but their warriors are all male.
Dwarves and Deep Dwarves
- Barrier Warrior: All common dwarves are able to cast Force Wall.
Halflings and Kobolds
- Hobbits: They're one pixel shorter than most characters.
Goblins
Orcs
Cyclopes and Triclopes
- Palette Swap: All triclopes and most cyclopes can only be told apart by the colors of their clothes. The Cyclops Lord breaks the mold by wearing a crown on his head.
Gnomes
Undead
- Dem Bones: There are three types of skeletons, two types of liches, and one floating skull to choose from.
Vermin
- Big Creepy-Crawlies: Spiders and scorpions.
- Blob Monster: Blobs, jellies, and slugs.
Spirits
- Living Shadow: Shadows and Dark Ones.
Yetis
- An Ice Person: All of them can cast Iceball.
Trolls
- Zerg Rush: Trolls only spawn in one area in the game, but there's always a large number of them. If you land in their territory, you will get swarmed.
Gremlins
Oddities
- Chest Monster: Mimics. Not that it does them any good, because the game doesn't even have treasure chests.
- Joke Character: The living statues. Good luck beating the game with a character that cannot walk.
- Viral Transformation: Cubes have no offensive powers; their only attack transforms their opponent into another cube.
Crabmen
Eyeballs and Brain Suckers
- Grand Theft Me: Control is the signature ability of the brain suckers, which lets them switch bodies with their target.
Elementals
- Bizarro Elements: Who knew citrus and purple were considered elements?
Ents and Animals
- Killer Rabbit: In the hands of a competent player, even small and cute animals like the Cucco and Puppy can kick reasonable amounts of ass.
Dragons
- Secret Character: The Platinum Dragon and its family don't spawn naturally in the dungeon, and can only be acquired using the free unlock that you get for beating the game.
Birdmen
- Bird People: They resemble skinny humanoids with large beaks and wings for arms.
Bosses
- Cowardly Boss: Unlike every other boss, the Chicksnakentiger flies away from you if you approach it. Good luck trying to catch it if you didn't pick a flying character.
- Humongous Mecha: GIANT ROBOT. Though, due to the game's art style, it's hard to tell if it's humongous or just a bit tall.
- King Mook: Quite a few bosses are giant versions of common dungeon enemies, such as Cthulhu (a giant Brain Sucker) and the Ent King.
- Tin Tyrant: Iron Knight, Dragon Knight, and Shadow Knight, three bosses that resemble giant warriors in plate armor.
Blue Squad and Green Squad
Astronauts and Aliens
Hidden Characters
- Author Avatar: Tim is an unlockable character who can only paralyze people.
- Badass Santa: Santa is an unlockable character who can throw presents to damage enemies. It only deals 1 damage and has a relatively long cooldown.
