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40 free Skullgirls trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Skullgirls began as a sketchbook of character designs and grew into a cult-favourite indie fighting game. Its hand-drawn fighters are the draw: a schoolgirl with a living head of hair, a circus star with a living hat, a princess with a military squad at her back, and a long list of newcomers added through downloadable content. This quiz is about those characters first. It asks who wields what, who works for the mafia and who was rebuilt in a secret laboratory, with a run of questions on Cerebella for her fans. It then widens out to the lore of the Skull Heart and the Canopy Kingdom, the tag-team mechanics, Skullgirls Mobile, and the story of how fans kept the game alive. It is written for players who picked a team and stuck with it, whether on console, PC or phone. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something.
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Q 01Skullgirls' tag-team play and assist attacks were modeled on which earlier fighting game?
Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 supplied the template, but with a twist: a player can instead pick a single fighter, who gets more health and hits harder than members of a team of two or three.
Q 02What is the name of the Parasite, an unruly mop of demonic hair, on Filia's head in Skullgirls?
Samson
Samson came with a second mouth on the back of Filia's head: the average schoolgirl woke one day with no memories and the powerful Parasite already attached.
Q 03Skullgirls made the 2013 Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition for the most what per character?
Frames of animation
Frames of animation set the record: the eight launch fighters shared 11,515 frames between them, an average of 1,439 each.
Q 04Which former orphanage maid became the Skullgirl and the final boss of arcade mode in Skullgirls?
Marie
Marie made her wish on the Skull Heart after a tragedy and aimed her rampage at the Medici mafia, but the Heart pushed her toward ever more severe destruction.
Q 05What is the name of Cerebella's Living Weapon hat, which only she can control, in Skullgirls?
Vice-Versa
Vice-Versa answers to nobody but her, which is why the mobster who raised her rations his affection to keep the circus star fighting in his corner.
Q 06Beowulf, the ring champion of Skullgirls, is known worldwide for felling which Gigan warrior?
Grendel
Grendel was the high point: after Beowulf left the ring, a mediocre acting career tarnished his legacy, so he steps back in to relive the glory.
Q 07The Skullgirls team raised nearly $830,000 for new DLC characters through which crowdfunding site?
Indiegogo
Indiegogo backers cleared the original $150,000 goal in under 24 hours, and the money kept coming until five extra fighters had been paid for.
Q 08Which Skullgirls fighter hears confessions in the Grand Cathedral and usually appears as a smiling nun?
Double
Double is really a formless monster of unknown origin that can take the shape of any person, and it serves the Skullgirl with no apparent will of its own.
Q 09What are the cinematic super moves in Skullgirls called, each costing stored meter to perform?
Blockbusters
Blockbusters deal heavy damage and can hit several times, and a player with enough meter can chain them back to back in what the game calls a sequel.
Q 10Which undead opera singer was the first DLC fighter funded by Skullgirls' 2013 crowdfunding drive?
Squigly
Squigly comes from a long lineage of opera singers and was spared from becoming a mindless minion by Leviathan, the Parasite who is her family's friend and guardian.
Q 11Which royal family rules the Canopy Kingdom, the 1940s-style setting of Skullgirls?
Renoir
Renoir is the crown's name, and the family carries a scar: its queen wished on the Skull Heart for peace during the Grand War and became a Skullgirl who nearly ruined the world.
Q 12Which city is the main setting of Skullgirls, a home of art and culture secretly run by the mafia?
New Meridian
New Meridian mixes humans and ferals from all over the world: its Little Innsmouth district houses the fish-like Dagonians, while the upper class keep to the posh suburb of Maplecrest.
Q 13Which Living Weapon does Parasoul, crown princess of the Canopy Kingdom, wield in Skullgirls?
Krieg
Q 21Which Skullgirls fighter, a clone of Filia added in 2014, began as an April Fools' Day joke?
Fukua
Fukua was meant to be a temporary nod to the palette-swapped fighters of older games, but fan feedback convinced the developers to keep her.
Q 22Which director of the Anti-Skullgirl Labs keeps the unstable Painwheel under control in Skullgirls?
Brain Drain
Brain Drain keeps Painwheel on a mental leash because the experiments left her violent and unstable; he also built Robo-Fortune, who shows him neither loyalty nor cunning.
Q 23Which diva of the nightclub Bastet's Den secretly hosts the skeletal Parasite Sekhmet in Skullgirls?
Eliza
Eliza is widely known for her charity blood drives, which in truth feed her Parasite and preserve her ageless beauty.
Krieg is alive, and Parasoul wields it with grace, poise and cunning to destroy the Skull Heart so that nobody can repeat her mother's terrible mistake.
Q 14What did Ms. Fortune swallow in Skullgirls, leaving her body undying even when cut into pieces?
The Life Gem
The Life Gem was the target of a failed heist on the mafia that got the rest of her Fishbone Gang killed, so she plots revenge from the shadows of Little Innsmouth.
Q 15In Skullgirls, Peacock's abiding love of what shaped her biomechanical weapons into a gang of cronies?
Cartoons
Cartoons run through her whole arsenal: the Anti-Skullgirl Labs rebuilt the mutilated war orphan with reality-defying weapons, and her damaged mind turned them into toys.
Q 16Which Skullgirls fighter, a former beat cop left in an iron lung, was rebuilt by the Anti-Skullgirl Labs?
Big Band
Big Band is what officer Ben Birdland became after he ran afoul of his own crooked unit; his official profile even lists his blood type as B-flat, an experimental oil mixture.
Q 17Which elite military squad of the Canopy Kingdom does Parasoul lead in Skullgirls?
Black Egrets
Black Egrets answer to a commander whose loyalties to country and to family often collide, a conflict that began when her own mother became the Skullgirl.
Q 18Skullgirls Encore added a bonus mode that changes how super moves deal damage, inspired by which Sega game?
The Typing of the Dead
The Typing of the Dead inspired a mode where normal attacks do almost nothing and each super move's damage depends on how accurately the player types.
Q 19Which holiday is the official birthday of Valentine, the only survivor of the Last Hope, in Skullgirls?
Christmas Day
Christmas Day is the date on her official profile, which goes on to list sentimentality, bedside manner and candy among the things she dislikes.
Q 20When not performing in the circus, Cerebella serves the Medici mafia in Skullgirls in which role?
Leg-breaker
Leg-breaker is an odd job for someone her biography calls inherently good; the acrobatic orphan does it to win the attention of the mobster who took her in.
Q 24Which Skullgirls fighter, cursed by the Skull Heart never to grow up, hosts her own long-running TV show?
Annie
Annie has been alive for centuries, and the show's story that several actresses have played its lead is a cover: there has only ever been one.
Q 25Which Skullgirls fighter is the kingdom's youngest princess, partnered with the Living Weapon Hungern?
Umbrella
Umbrella has grown up sheltered inside the royal palace with Hungern as her only true friend, and she longs to fight evil the way her big sister does.
Q 26Which cyborg assassin, right hand of crime boss Lorenzo Medici, joined Skullgirls in the Season 1 Pass?
Black Dahlia
Black Dahlia was once an agent of the Anti-Skullgirl Labs; mortally wounded fighting a Skullgirl decades ago, she was rebuilt and then betrayed her peers to kill for hire.
Q 27Cerebella, an orphan in Skullgirls, longs for the attention of which mobster who took her in?
Vitale
Vitale became the closest thing to a father she has ever known, and he was left in charge of the whole crime family when its patriarch Lorenzo disappeared.
Q 28In Skullgirls, which queen, mother of Parasoul, wished for peace during the Grand War and became a Skullgirl?
Nancy
Nancy got her wish in the bleakest way: three warring nations stopped fighting each other to bring her down, and an uneasy peace followed her death.
Q 29Painwheel in Skullgirls was once a normal schoolgirl with which first name before she was kidnapped?
Carol
Carol was delivered to a secret lab, implanted with synthetic parasites and infused with Skullgirl blood, yet the scared young girl lives on inside the monster.
Q 30After the whole Skullgirls team was laid off in June 2012, under which new studio name did they regroup?
Lab Zero Games
Lab Zero Games shares its name with the secretive lab in the game's own story; the regrouped team carried on with the PC release and the downloadable fighters.