

Deadly Walls: If you touch the borders of the screen, you're out.There is an item that allows you to drop three crates of your own. Crate Expectations: Subverted, crates in SpeedRunners are nothing more than tripping hazards.Cosmetically Different Sides: The game includes many different characters with their own appearances and animations, but they all play identically, so that any player can use whatever character they prefer the look of and it is only player skill that determines the outcome.City of Adventure: Every map takes in New Rush City.Chummy Commies: Cosmonaut Comrade fills this role to an extent, although he's just another competitor in the Speed Runners competition.The YouTuber characters existing in the game with their own title cards reading "Let's Play Some SpeedRunners" could qualify as an out-of-universe example. Celebrity Endorsement: In-Universe with SpeedRunner promoting a fictitious beverage called "BoostaCoke" on a billboard in some maps.Burning with Anger: Hothead, not big surprise.

Grappling tends to be faster than running.
