This page contains the characters/mutants that the player can choose in Nuclear Throne. Each character is listed with a bit of their backstory, passive and active abilities and B-Skins. Click on a character's icon or name in the table below for more info.
The portals are said to aid people on their journey to the Nuclear Throne, but no-one has ever returned from them. All the mutants truly believe the wormholes will take them there, but which hero will make it to the Nuclear Throne?
Crystal can activate a temporary, stationary shield form that reflects most damage for a few seconds. The shield duration decreases the more damage is taken.
Throne Butt exchanges a lower duration shield for the ability to teleport to the cursor location after her shield disappears.
When Chicken dies, she loses 2 max HP and she can walk around headless for 5 seconds. Regaining HP will make her head grow back but max health remains lowered.
Chicken can throw her currently equipped weapon, which deals damage to a single target on contact.
Gets an additional Mutation choice when leveling up.
Horror can fire off all currently stored Rads in a beam, damaging enemies and destroying incoming projectiles.
Horror will also choose from three Ultra Mutations instead of the standard two.
Horror's radiation beam gets wider twice as fast with Throne Butt. Using the beam for extended periods of time now heals Horror (1 HP for every 1.5 seconds).
To unlock Horror you have to skip a Radiation Canister and on the next area skip a Big Radiation Canister. Horror will spawn as a mindless enemy breaking out of a canister in the level after skipping the Big Radiation Canister. Defeating the Hostile Horror in battle unlocks it as a playable character.
Frog will create a bunch of toxic clouds based on how long the special ability button was held for.
Has to move constantly. Stops moving only when the special ability button is held.
Immune to toxins and will take no damage from toxic clouds.
Frog's ability has him stand in place for as long as the ability button is held. When released, Frog will emit a bunch of toxic clouds that damage enemies.
Throne Butt causes toxic gas to spread further and faster.
If you damage the Mom boss at least once with a Golden Weapon and keep that weapon until she is killed, she will drop the Frog Pistol. Storing the Frog Pistol in a Proto Chest and finding it with a different character will turn the weapon into a Golden Frog Pistol. It will become that character's starting weapon if you take it through a portal. Playing the game with a character that has the Golden Frog Pistol set as its starting weapon, will replace that character with the Frog.