List of Guitar Hero characters

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The following is a list of all the playable characters to appear in the Guitar Hero series. Each Character, except for unlockable characters, represent a genre of Rock, like Johnny Napalm represents Punk Rock.

[edit] Main series

Character Name	Genre of Rock	GH	GH:2	GH3	GH:WT	GH5
Axel Steel	Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal), Power Metal	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Judy Nails	Alternative Rock, Gothic Rock, Alternative Metal, Nu Metal	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Johnny Napalm	Punk Rock, Pop Punk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Casey Lynch	Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Grunge, Punk Rock	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pandora	Gothic Rock, Nu Metal, Horror Punk (GH1), New Wave (GH80s), Glam Metal, Glam Punk (GH2), Gothic Glam, NWOBHM, Speed Metal	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Izzy Sparks	Glam Rock, Glam Metal, Hair Metal, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock, Arena Rock	Yes (1)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Lars Ümlaüt	Extreme Metal, Viking Metal, Doom Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Heavy Metal	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Eddie Knox	Rock N' Roll, Rockabilly, Psychobilly	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Clive Winston	Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock, Folk Rock, Southern Rock, Progressive Rock Heavy Classic Rock	Yes	Yes (1)	No	Yes	Yes
Midori	J-Rock, Pop Rock, Pop Punk	No	No	Yes	Yes	No
Grim Ripper	Heavy Metal, Death Metal	Yes (1)	Yes (1)	Yes (1,2)	No	No
Xavier Stone	Funk Rock, Funk Metal, Psychedelic Rock, Acid Rock, Blues Rock	Yes	Yes (1)	Yes	No	No
God of Rock	Power Metal	No	No	Yes (1,2)	No	No
Elroy Budvis	Rock N' Roll	No	No	Yes (1,3)	Yes	No
Metalhead	Industrial Rock, Heavy Metal, Alternative Metal, Industrial Metal	No	No	Yes (1,3)	Yes	Yes
Bret Michaels	Glam Metal, Hair Metal, Hard Rock	No	No	Yes (2,5)	No	No
Tom Morello	Alternative Metal, Hard Rock, Funk Rock, Funk Metal	No	No	Yes (4)	No	No
Slash	Hard Rock	No	No	Yes (4)	No	No
Lou	Heavy Metal	No	No	Yes (4)	No	No
Matty Cannz	Heavy Metal	No	No	No	Yes	No
Shirley Crowley	Alternative Metal	No	No	No	Yes	No
Marcus Fretshredder	Power Metal, Scandinavian Folk Metal, Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal	No	No	No	Yes	No
Riki Lee	Classic Rock	No	No	No	Yes	No
Ozzy Osbourne	Heavy Metal	No	No	No	Yes (8)	No
Ted Nugent	Hard Rock	No	No	No	Yes (4)	No
Sting	Rock, New Wave, Post-Punk	No	No	No	Yes (10)	No
Hayley Williams	Pop Punk, Power Pop, Alternative Rock	No	No	No	Yes (8)	No
Jimi Hendrix	Classic Rock, Hard Rock, Blues-Rock, Psychedelic Rock	No	No	No	Yes (13)	No
Zakk Wylde	Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal	No	No	No	Yes (4)	No
Billy Corgan	Alternative Rock	No	No	No	Yes (11)	No
Travis Barker	Alternative Rock, Pop Punk, Punk Rock	No	No	No	Yes (9)	No
Skeleton		No	No	No	Yes (12)	Yes (25)
Rockubot		No	No	No	Yes (13)	No
Aaron Steele		No	No	No	Yes (14)	No
Johnny Viper		No	No	No	Yes (14,19)	No
Rina		No	No	No	Yes (14)	No
Nick		No	No	No	Yes (14)	No
Johnny Cash	Country	No	No	No	No	Yes (27)
Carlos Santana	Rock, Blues Rock, Psychadelic Rock, Latin Rock	No	No	No	No	Yes (27)
Shirley Manson	Rock, Alternative Rock	No	No	No	No	Yes (27)
Matt Bellamy	Alternative Rock, Progressive Rock, New Prog, Symphonic Rock, Space Rock	No	No	No	No	Yes (27)
Kurt Cobain	Grunge, Alternative Rock	No	No	No	No	Yes (27)
Golden God		No	No	No	No	Yes (27)
Frankenrocker		No	No	No	No	Yes (27)
Shadow		No	No	No	No	Yes (27)
Gerald Contest Winner		No	No	No	No	Yes (27)

[edit] Expansion series

Character Name	Genre of Rock	GH:80s	GH:A	GH:M	GH:SH	GH:VH	BH	DJH	GH:AR
Axel Steel	Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal)	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes
Judy Nails	Alternative Rock, Gothic Rock, Alternative Metal, Nu Metal	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes
Johnny Napalm	Punk Rock, Pop Punk	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes
Casey Lynch	Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Grunge, Punk Rock	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
Pandora	Gothic Rock, Nu Metal, Horror Punk (GH1), New Wave (GH80s), Glam Metal, Glam Punk (GH2), Gothic Glam, NWOBHM	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
Izzy Sparks	Glam Rock, Glam Metal, Hair Metal, Heavy Metal, Hard Rock	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
Lars Ümlaüt	Extreme Metal, Viking Metal, Doom Metal, Death Metal, Black Metal, Heavy Metal	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?	Yes
Eddie Knox	Rock N' Roll, Rockabilly, Psychobilly	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
Clive Winston	Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock, Folk Rock, Southern Rock, Progressive Rock	No	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
Midori	J-Rock, Pop Rock, Pop Punk	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	?	?
Grim Ripper	Heavy Metal, Death Metal	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Xavier Stone	Funk Rock, Funk Metal, Psychedelic Rock, Acid Rock, Blues Rock	No	Yes	No	No	?	?	No	Yes
Elroy Budvis	Rock N' Roll	No	Yes(1,3)	Yes(1,3)	No	?	?	?
Metalhead	Industrial Rock, Heavy Metal, Alternative Metal, Industrial Metal	No	Yes(1,3)	Yes(1,3)	No	?	?	No
God of Rock	Power Metal	No	No	No	Yes	?	?	No	yes
Lou	Heavy Metal	No	Yes(1)	Yes	Yes	?	?	No
Joe Perry	Hard Rock, Blues Rock	No	Yes(4)	No	No	No	No	No
Tom Hamilton	Hard Rock, Blues Rock	No	Yes(1)	No	No	No	No	No
Brad Whitford	Hard Rock, Blues Rock	No	Yes(1)	No	No	No	No	No
DMC	Rap	No	Yes(6)	No	No	No	No	No
Matty Cannz	Heavy Metal	No	No	Yes (1,24)	Yes	?	?	?
Shirley Crowley	Alternative Metal	No	No	Yes (1,23)	Yes	Yes	?	?
Marcus Fretshredder	Power Metal, Scandinavian Folk Metal, Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal	No	No	Yes (1,22)	Yes	?	?	?
Riki Lee	Classic Rock	No	No	Yes (1,25)	Yes	?	?	?
Kirk Hammett	Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal	No	No	Yes (17)	No	No	No	No
Robert Trujillo	Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal	No	No	Yes (18)	No	No	No	No
Lars Ulrich	Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal	No	No	Yes (19)	No	No	No	No
James Hetfield	Thrash Metal, Heavy Metal	No	No	Yes (20)	No	No	No	No
Zach Harmon	Thrash Metal, Death Metal, Heavy Metal	No	No	Yes (21)	No	No	No	No
Lemmy	Heavy Metal, NWOBH	No	No	Yes(26)	No	No	No	No
King Diamond	Heavy Metal, Speed Metal, Black Metal	No	No	Yes(26)	No	No	No	No
Fembot	Heavy Metal, Speed Metal, Black Metal	No	No	Yes(26)	No	?	?	No
Mario Greendale		No	NO	No	Yes	No	No	No	No
Eddie Van Halen	Hard Rock, Arena Rock	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Alex Van Halen	Hard Rock, Arena Rock	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Wolfgang Van Halen	Hard Rock, Arena Rock	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
David Lee Roth	Hard Rock, Arena Rock	No	No	No	No	Yes	No	No
Quincy Styles	Rap, Hip Hop	No	No	No	No	No	Yes (28)	No
Taylor Swift	Country Pop	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Adam Levine	Pop Rock	No	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Members of No Doubt		NO	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
DJ Jazzy Jeff		No	no	No	no	No	No	Yes
Grand Master Flash		No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
DJ AM		No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes
Z-Trip		No	No	No	No	No	No	Yes

[edit] Mobile series and DS series

Character Name	Genre of Rock	GH:OT	GHOT:D	GHOT:MH
Judy Nails	Alternative Rock, Gothic Rock, Alternative Metal, Nu Metal	Yes	Yes	?
Johnny Napalm	Punk Rock	Yes	Yes	Yes
Axel Steel	Heavy Metal, Thrash Metal, Speed Metal, NWOBHM (New Wave of British Heavy Metal), Power Metal	Yes	Yes	Yes
Pandora	Gothic Rock, Nu Metal, Horror Punk (GH1), New Wave (GH80s), Glam Metal, Glam Punk (GH2), Gothic Glam, NWOBHM	Yes	Yes	Yes
Clive Winston	Classic Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Blues Rock, Folk Rock, Southern Rock, Progressive Rock	No	Yes	Yes
Midori	J-Rock, Pop Rock, Pop Punk	No	Yes	Yes
Gunner Jaxon	Grunge	Yes	Yes	Yes
Memphis Rose	Southern Rock, Sludge Metal	Yes	Yes	Yes
Simon Grimmsy	Indie Rock	No	No	Yes
Calista Valenz	Rock, Hard Rock	No	No	Yes

[edit] Key

(1): Must be purchased from the Store.
(2): Unique to the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC versions.
(3): Unique to the PS2 and Wii versions.
(4): Must be defeated in the corresponding battle before becoming available for purchase at the Store.
(5): This character is only available for their songs as a non playable, but it can also be use to sing on other songs by entering a cheat code.
(6): This character is non playable for their songs.
(7): Must play their song in Guitar career before being available for purchase.
(8): Must play their song in Vocals career before being available for purchase
(9): Must play their song in Drums career before being available for purchase.
(10): Must play their song in Bass career before being available for purchase.
(11): Must play their song in Band career before being available for purchase.
(12): Must complete Vocals career.
(13): Must complete Drums career.
(14): Is only playable for their songs.
(15): Must unlock the character with a cheat code.
(16): This character was chosen by Motorhead's Lemmy and Nevesoft's Joel as the Winner of the 2008 Rock Icon Contest.
(17): Must earn 100 stars in Guitar career before being available for purchase.
(18): Must earn 100 stars in Bass career before being available for purchase.
(19): Must earn 100 stars in Drums career before being available for purchase..
(20): Must earn 100 stars in Vocals career before being available for purchase.
(21): Must earn 150 stars in Band career before being available for purchase.
(22): Must earn 55 stars in Guitar career before being available for purchase.
(23): Must earn 55 stars in Bass career before being available for purchase.
(24): Must earn 55 stars in Drums career before being available for purchase.
(25): Must earn 55 stars in Vocals career before being available for purchase.
(26): Must play thier song in Career mode with any instrument before being available for purchase.
(27): Must complete the indicated task in Career mode to unlock the corresponding character.
(28): This character was named through the Name A Character Contest on the Band Hero website.