Characters[]
Characters are characterised as: Prisoners, Enemies, and Story (Cutscene Characters and the Cat audience).
Playable Characters[]
A Prisoner is a Friend who has been imprisoned by the cat guards of BattleBlock Theater and are forced to perform on stage. Both Prisoners and Friends are distinguished by their heads.
The player can unlock most Prisoners from the Gift Shop by using their collected gems on the Prisoner Concession Devices.
Some Prisoners, specifically in the ones in the Special category, are unlocked through other methods, such as completing Furbottom's Features every Friday, or booting up the game during certain events. It is worth noting that on the Xbox version of the game, Special heads stopped cycling in July of 2018. From that point until October of 2019, booting up the game on Xbox would give any player the Final Unicorn, Buckle Your Pants, and Behemoth Chicken heads if they didn't have them already, and Furbottom's Features would always give the Lava Lamp head for completing it. In October 2019, Furbottom's Features was finally shut down forever on Xbox, and the game stopped giving out the 3 aforementioned heads when booting it up.
Prisoner Head Shapes[]
There are up to 383 heads in total that span across 6 - 7 head categories, or shapes (depending on which platform you play on) with 64 different face options for most. These shapes/categories include:
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| Circle Heads | Triangle Heads | Square Heads | Cylinder Heads | Star Heads | Custom Heads* | Enemy** |
*Exclusive to the Steam version
**Cannot be obtained legitimately - Check "bbt modding"
Prisoner Trivia[]
- The Custom and Enemy shapes are the only ones that have less than 64 faces total.
- Custom can have up to 60, while Enemy only has 3 unique ones,
- Custom is the only head shape that can be "unlocked," and it's made available by putting a valid custom head into the UserFaces folder.
- Enemy cannot be unlocked, it can only be forcibly put on via hacking and on Steam, the game will force it off of you when you reboot the game. This is because of the Steam Item System, and it's set up so that it forces any head not in your Steam Inventory off of you if you're using it. The Xbox version does not do this, however, if you switch off of it, you will need to hack it back onto yourself as you cannot switch back to it.
- The prisoner Cecil (Cooking cat) was inspired by one of Dan Paladins’ Skyrim runs as confirmed by him on the official Behemoth discord.
- Cleo, Bookie Boy, Brainne, Reverse Merman, Flowers, What is this thing?, Rigel, Gordon, Reginald, Rigel and the default head Mom are some of the few canon prisoners to actually make an appearance in the cutscenes, although not by their Steam inventory names.
- If you enter Player Setup with the Enemy heads (or any head you don't own) equipped on the Steam version, they will instantly be removed and set back to Mom, unless they are locked down. This does not occur on Xbox.
Some Examples[]
This is a gallery for some of the prisoners that exist in BattleBlock Theater. Click on an image to view its page.
Story Characters[]
These are all the Characters that appear in the games story cutscenes.
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Mom | The default Circle Head who appears in all of the Cutscenes. | |
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The Golden Whale | Appears in Custscen 1 and final Cutsecne, ingame it serves as an arena mode where it poops gold. | |
| Space Bear | The Space Bear only appears in the final Cutsecne and ingame has a poster about the bear and a potrait in the hall of dudes. | |||
| Nightmare Princess | Her brother Schmucko is a playable Cylinder Head Prisoner. | |||
| Alien Hominid | The Alien only appears in the final cutscene as an easter egg, the alien is also a playable Special Prisoner, aswell as the FBI Agents. | |||
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Cleo | A Circle Head Prisoner who can be unlocked in the gift shop | |
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Flowers | A Square head prisoner who can be unlocked in the gift shop | |
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Reginald | A Prisoner who can be unlocked by purchasing Square heads in the Gift shop. | |
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Rigel | Called Reginald a genius | Has a brother named Nigel. (He's the cylinder head with one eye in the gallery above). |
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Brianne | Wants to male a race of super bats, but is absolutely terrified of bats. | |
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Gordon | Best Chef in all the lands! | |
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What is that thing? | This....uh..thing | |
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Bookie boy | ||
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Reverse Merman | This handsome fellow |
Trivia[]
- Hatty is a playable character in Castle crashers if you already own BattleBlock Theater on steam, on other versions he is purchasable in the Insane store.
- The Golden Whale serves as an animal orb in Behemoths other title "Castle Crashers" if you have purchased battleblock theater, or in the Church store on insane mode on other versions.
- The Nightmare Princess is the Orange Princess from Castle Crashers.
- Brianne's Cutscene is a reference to the boss Pipistrello, a boss from Castle Crashers which perhaps hints that battleblock theater is before castle crashers in the timeline.
- The Space Bear that is shot by Hattys's green laser on the final cutscene shows up in behemoths other game Pit people in the first cutscene. Hatty Hattington himself also makes an appearance in Pit people's final cutscene.
- Purrham Furbottom is a recruitable allie in Pit People.
Companions[]
Companions are helpul entitys in the game, these are the Horse, and Duck Shark as they help you complete puzzles and levels.
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Duck Shark |  Summon by landing on top of its egg. |
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Horse | N/A |
Companion Trivia[]
- The Horse has its own arena game called "Capture the Horse".
- The Duck shark appears in the first and final Cutsecne.
Villains[]
The main antagonists of BattleBlock Theater are the Cats who run the Theater and have imprisoned everyone.
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