For characters in the official games, see here.
Elle
- Fragile Speedster: Subverted. She has the characteristics of this but is actually rather slow. In a nutshell, she has Zan's reach but is weaker on the whole, requiring a different playstyle.
- Mysterious Past: Woke up with no memories save for surviving an explosion, and that her right hand had been surgically replaced with a prosthetic whip limb.
- Palette Swap: Not exactly. She looks identical to Electra from 2 (curly blond hair, blue gray one-piece swimsuit looking thing, fishnet stockings). However, a massive amount of new animations were created for her, so she doesn't share posture or motions with Electra.
- Shock and Awe: Same as Electra, but taken up to eleven if you hit "call police" — she generates enough electricity to fill the screen.
Rudra
- Adaptational Villainy: Game Mods tend to depict her as a straight villain, leaving out her motivation for working for the Syndicate.
- Badass Longcoat: She wears a longcoat that only buttons to the waist and billows out behind her legs. And she's a ninja, so it's badass by default.
- Canon Foreigner: She may not have been in the original trilogy, but she's proven to be pretty popular with SOR fans nonetheless.
- Confusion Fu: About midway through her boss fight, she magically creates low-health copies of herself to overwhelm you; destroying them all or knocking down the real Rudra prompts her to do it again.
- Dark Action Girl
- Distaff Counterpart: To Shiva, though they have no (known) relation — they're both ambiguously East Asian martial artists with blue hair and black-with-red-trim outfits.
- Giant Space Flea from Nowhere: If you weren't aware she existed or didn't play the older versions of the game, she can come off as this when she jumps you at the end of stage 7 on the SOR3 route, which makes the subsequent high-speed boss fight even more harrowing.
- Heel–Face Turn: She's only a heel out of necessity (see I Have Your Sister below), but she can be unlocked as a playable character.
- Lightning Bruiser: As both a boss and a hidden character.
- I Have Your Wife: Why she's serving the syndicate. An SORMaker mod created by one of the developers sheds a little backstory on this. Play as Rudra in a 1 player game and end the game on the SOR1 or SOR2 routes to save the kid.
- Kill It with Fire: What happens when you use the "call police" button while playing as her.
- Mysterious Woman: According to her profile.
- Ninja: Her profile shows that she's trained in several disciplines related to ninja combat, and in-game her preferred weapons are the kunai and the katana.
- Ninja Run: She does a ninja run (body tilted forward, arms to the side) as her dash.
- The Rival: Her win-quotes in the game's Battle Mode paint her as one to Blaze, coupled with a bit of Leaning on the Fourth Wall.Rudra: Your honor as the main female character could now be mine...
Slash
- Canon Immigrant: A variant. Originally appeared on the US Streets of Rage cover but not in the game itself. In the remake, he's now an actual enemy.
- Expy: Of Jason Voorhees.
- Head Swap: Of Jack from II.
- Mythology Gag: His "pain" sprite is the same pose he took on the US cover art for the original Streets of Rage.
- White Mask of Doom: A white hockey mask.
Trucker
- Amusing Injuries: He appears after the fight in the electronics truck carrying a crate, sees the destroyed truck, and drops the crate on his foot.
- Almighty Janitor: Despite his profession, he's tough enough to qualify as a mini-boss.
- Deep South: Sports a Confederate Battle Flag bandana on his knee.
- Health Food: Trucker's palette swap, Vodka, will repeatedly pause during the fight to swig from his booze bottle and regain health.
- Lightning Bruiser: This guy is eye-poppingly fast on the draw.
- Pipe Pain: On the bridge level.
- Unique Enemy: Only two of him appear in the game.
Sniper
- Canon Immigrant: Much like Slash above, this character appeared on the US Streets of Rage cover but not in the game itself. In the remake, he's now an actual enemy. He appears in the upper-left corner of the box art.
- Crosshair Aware: He fires at you out of a second story window. You-the-player can track his aim by a green crosshair; it flashes and stops moving when he's about to fire.
- Invincible Minor Minion: You can’t hurt him, only avoid his shots.
- Unique Enemy: Kind of. On one hand, he has ONE appearance in the entire game, the first level in the SOR2 route. On the other, visually he appears to be just a Slum mook who has a sniper rifle.
Cody
- Metal Slime: Although he doesn't have any unique abilities (and as a Galsia clone, can't do anything besides punch), he has a large lifebar, drops a 1Up when defeated, and is fought in an area with a lot of pits, making it difficult to make sure he doesn't fall into one of the pits thus denying you the 1Up.
- Shout-Out: He is one of the Final Fight player characters (who look exactly like SOR1 Axel).
