Talk about its characters (brawlers), most of their names are reference to some person or objects. Their dialogues are not any sort of dialogues that you get to hear in games like League of Legends (which are just fine) or worse, cringy dialogues in Mobile Legends: Bang Bang. Some pun intended dialogues that at times describe their characteristics and associating it to their name or the meaning or history behind their names.
Characters and their references
Let’s start with some of the first characters who were first added in the game.
Colt – This brawler is a typical wild west gunslinger wielding two pistols or revolvers and shooting a barrage of bullets. His name Colt is derived from a 1800s gun manufacturer Colt’s Patent Fire Arms invented and established by businessman Samuel Colt who invented the revolver mechanism. Hence, the name.
Shelly - Another wild west themed femme fatale bandit wielding a shotgun. A shotgun shoots bullets called shells. Hence, her name is Shelly.
Bull – Another Shotgun wielding brawler with high health (tank brawler) whose super is to charge on to enemies just like a bull and deal damage, and wearing a ring pierced in his nose like in regular bulls.
Dynamike – As the name depicts, this old geezer, Mike lobs dynamites at his enemies. Hence, the combination of the name.
Bo – he is a tribe member wielding a Bow and an arrow, name derives from the pronunciation of Bow.
Poco - is an undead skull of a Mexican guitarist who deals damage through the guitar strums and has healing advantage of himself and his allies. His name derives from the Spanish word poco which means little, often used in denoting music volume.
Barley – this robot is a bartender and he shoots cocktail molotovs at his enemies and heals allies with his tonic drink. Barley is a drink made of malted grains or cereals like wheat barley, rice barley. Hence, he is named Barley.
Brock – is a rocket launcher wielding brawler. His name’s suffix depicts the short form of rocket and he often refers his launcher as a Boom box. Also could be named as B-Rock or simply Brock.
Bea – she is a sniper brawler who commands her tamed bees to hit the target. Hence, her name.
Bibi – she is a Base Ball player who smacks her enemies with a Baseball bat and her super is spitting a massive bouncy Bubble gum. Her name Bibi could be made into an acronym BB for Base Ball.
Rosa – is a boxer and a botanist. Her name Rosa means rose and since roses have thorns, she too wears a pair of boxing gloves made of rose plant with thorns and also has a successful experiment of providing shielding through a plant that wraps her body. Indeed, she is one successful scientist in botany.
Spike – is a living Cactus that throws spike bombs that act like shrapnel and deal damage spread thorns of the spike bomb.
Rico – this robot is a marksman brawler who shoots bullets that bounce. Rico’s initial name was Ricochet which basically describes the bouncing feature of his bullets.
Penny – a pirate who likes to poke her nose into a treasure booty full of coins. Penny is a unit of money. She attacks her enemies with a bag full of coins that hit hard one enemy and fall wide to deal damage to other enemies. Hence, the name.
Darryl – is a robot made from a barrel from Penny’s pirate ship and wields dual shotguns. His name rhymes with barrel from its alternative pronounced name Darrel, and for the fact that guns have a barrel.
Frank – is a zombie with his grave in his hand as a weapon. His name is the initial of a legend zombie Frankenstein. He is similar to a gargantaur zombie.
Pam – is a roboticist, machine gunner and healer. She heals her allies who enter into the circle of her turret. Her name Pam is an acronym for Pulse/Power Amplitude Modulation and her in-game gadget is a Pulse Modulator.
Jessie – a technology enthusiast just like her mother Pam who attacks with a sophisticated rifle that shoots power orbs. Her name means “gift” usually “gift from God”, but gift could mean her turret named Scrappy that shoots enemies for her, probably gifted by her mom, Pam since she makes robots and maybe hinting Jessie as a gift for her mom being her daughter.
Mortis – is a zombie who dashes against his enemies and sucks the life out of them by summoning his bats, like a vampire. His name Mortis resembles/ sounds like the latin word mors, mortis, Portuguese: morte, Spanish: muerte, Italian: morte, French: mort.
Tick – is a short robotic canon that throws ticking mines of three in one shot and his super makes him detach his head which is basically a cannon ball that can move on its own seeking the closest target. His name is a reference to his normal attack of throwing mines that goes tick…tick…tick…boom or just boom if foes step on it early.
Gene – is a genie from a magic lamp, but he uses the lamp to shoot splitting projectiles of some kind of magical orbs. His name is derived from the word ‘jinn’ from Arabic mythology.
Tara – she is a typical fortune teller who throws tarot cards at her opponents. Her name sounds similar to tarot, and the meaning of her name in Sanskrit is ‘star’ for the fact she is one of the Brawl Stars.
Leon – he is an assassin or a ninja who shoots shurikens and goes invisible in thin air and ambushes his foes. His name is the suffix of ‘Chameleon’ and a chameleon we know camouflages its body, hence the name.
Stu - a robot with wheels and was a probable crash test dummy working in the circus doing stunts. His name is the first three letters prefix for the word ‘stunt’.
Ash – is a robot made of a trash can who roams around with his sweeping broom to bash his enemies. His name is the suffix of the words ‘Trash’ and ‘Bash’ which are his characteristics.
Mr.P - a penguin suited brawler who throws briefcases at his enemies that blast. He is the owner of his snow hotel. Since he is dressed as a Penguin, you can assume the P meant Penguin, but no one knows what lies inside the costume. Who knows, that P means something else?
Gale – is an old man who does the cleaning of Mr. P’s hotel with his vacuum cleaner, but he uses it to throw snow waves along with a strong wind or even create a mini tornado with his vacuum cleaner. His name itself means a very strong wind more than a breeze, less than a storm.
Jacky – she is a woman who works at the mines and drills with her jackhammer. She rides on her jackhammer that creates shockwaves on the surface thus dealing damage to her foes. Her name is derived as an alternative for Jack used in the word ‘Jackhammer’.
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