Strong Bad, Homestar's number-one hater, has become the star of the website.  Each week (or so) he answers his Strong Bad Email from fans of the site with a flash toon. He is the leader of Strong Badia and is the "dean" of Crazy Go Nuts University, where you can learn how to be as awesome as he is. He enjoys answering email, making fun of the other characters on the site and the people who email him, and pulling capers with his special helper, The Cheat.  His favorite word is "crap" and he hates it when people spell things wrong or use improper grammar when sending him an email.  When he gets and email reading "Strong Bad, how do you type with boxing gloves on?" he says "DELETED!"

 

The Cheat is Strong Bad's right hand man (if he can be called a man...).  The Cheat speaks in his own language, which cannot be understood by the outside world, but everyone in Free Country, USA can understand what he says.  He enjoys creating flash animations, sleeping in the refridgerator crisper drawer, throwing light-switch raves in the computer room, DJ-ing at Bubs' concession stand, and helping Strong Bad cheat at stuff, thus his name.  He's a major egotist, and gets jealous easily.  He has a gold tooth and thinks that pencil shavings are legal tender, so Strong Bad pays him with them.

 

Strong Mad is Strong Bad's oldest brother.  He is a wrestler, and is shaped like a giant square.  His speech is also almost completely undiscernable (although his eyebrows are quite expressive), and isn't very intelligent.  He is very good friends with The Cheat and would do anything for him.  Strong Mad enjoys wrestling, eating salads out of a drawer, and saying "I'm Strong Mad" a lot.  He often tries to help out with Strong Bad and the Cheat's capers, but usually only screws things up.

 

Strong Sad is Strong Bad's other brother.  He is always depressed (unless he's high on caffiene) so he is often the butt of the other character's jokes. The only characters who tolerate him are Marzipan and Homsar, but Bubs will sometimes be nice to him. Strong Sad is a little obsessive over Marzipan, but she doesn't notice. He is very soft spoken and artistic, has great handwriting, and enjoys going to Clash of the Titans Conventions, writing poetry, doing Tai Chi, and writing in Strong Sad's Lament (a blog). 

 

The Coach Z is (surprise surprise) Homestar Runner's coach.  He has a very strong mid-western accent that he often looses controll of.  The Coach Z loves to free-style rap, use sports plays for metaphors, and loves encouraging the other characters.  He is one of the few characters that doesn't say negative things to the other inhabitants of Free Country, USA.

 

Marzipan is Homestar's girlfriend, best described as a dirty hippy, minus the dirt.  She loves to play her guitar named Carol and eat tofu, and she is a huge animal rights activist (athough she will protest just about anything, including Decemberween *gasp!*)  She has an answering machine that most of the other characters leave prank calls on hoping to get things out of her.  She is the only female main character, and is the only character voiced by Missy Palmer (the rest are voice by Matt Chaps).  *note, by definition, "marzipan" is a paste made from almonds, often used in cooking to make flowers or other shapes to decorate baked goods.

 

Pom Pom hails from the isle of pom, and is yet another character who doesn't speak English.  Instead, he bubbles.  He is Homestar's main man, often helping him to get out of trouble.  He is often found talking to one of his many girlfriends on his cell or "pom pilot", and could be considered the true "player" of Free Country, USA (although Strong Bad would like to think he is).  He takes karate and has a dog named Trivia Time, and he only weighs four pounds when inflated, so he sort of appears to float.

 

Bubs owns the local concession stand, where he sells just about anything he can put a price on.  He loves dancing and teams up with the Coach Z to produce music. He is the general fix-it man, and uses duct tape as the main cure-all.  He gets along well with just about everyone, except Homsar, and with the help of Strong Bad, he sends spam to anyone silly enough to send SB a bad email.  He could once fly, but the power was taken from him when Strong Bad tricked him into saying his name backwards, minus the first B (Sbu).

 

The King of Town is the self-appointed king of Free Country, USA.  He is Marzipan's father, and loves eating, especially butter. He has also been known to eat an entire flock of sheep and candy-corn shaped decorative lights, but refuses to eat peas.  The Cheat lives in his grill. He is not very cool, although he tries to cover that up, usually resulting in him becoming more uncool. He was once svelt and young, but after eating all of the fishsticks from The Cheat's egg, he became a fat glutton.  He lives in a castle shaped like a deranged clown face, and has a Poopsmith.

 

The Poopsmith shovels crap for the King of Town. He's got a really crappy job, literally! This keeps him out of most social circles, but the King of Town and Pom Pom treat him pretty fairly.  He has taken a vow of silence, and has only made noise once when the King of Town said something objectionable to him.  He also acts as the Free Country, USA hazmat team.

 

Homsar is a parady, midget version of Homestar Runner.  Strong Bad really hates him, but Marzipan and Strong Sad don't mind him much.  He is a random little weirdo, and has a speech impediment worse than Homestar's, and only makes strange interjections and comments when he talks.  He can do a perfect imitation of Strong Sad, and is known for his strange little dancing walk and the noise he makes when he moves.  He is the captain of the Gravy Train and was raised by a cup of coffee.