Special Token

Special Tokens are objects which look like orange coins with a star in their center.

Collecting a Special Token will transform a player into one of the Token-Earnable characters. The player remains a Token-Earnable character until they die.

Special Tokens spawn in random locations around the map. Upon spawning, they explode violently. The explosion causes players to get flung if they are within the blast radius, and the amount of damage the explosion does varies depending on how close a player is to the Special Token.

Before spawning, they do a glowing charge-up animation and sound effect in order to warn players that they are about to spawn in that location, giving the players time to get out of the way before the Special Token fully spawns and explodes.

Players that own the "VIP" gamepass are notified when a Special Token spawns, unless they're a Special Character or on Firewall Security.

Special Token-Earnable Characters
Depending on which team a player is on, they will have a chance to spawn as one of the following Special Characters which correspond to their team:

Possible characters for Corruption Teams (Virus, Malware):
 * Spyware
 * Scareware
 * Creeper
 * CIH
 * Happy99
 * Bodiers
 * Gruel
 * Espacio
 * Ransomware

Possible characters for Program Team:
 * Hardware
 * Bloatware
 * Software
 * Princess RAM
 * Edgygram
 * Cookie

The Firewall Security team cannot pick up Special Tokens, thus they have no Token-Earnable characters that correspond to their team.

Possible characters for Seasonal Events


 * MadSack (Halloween)
 * Freeze Stalagmite (Christmas)
 * Spyware Hitman (4th Anniversary)

 Token characters that have been Removed from the Token list 


 * Ghostgram (Removed)
 * V-Sign (Replaced by Gruel)
 * McDod Employee Chubb & Software Sweets Employee Chubb (Removed)
 * Infected Chubbs (Turned into Rare Spawns)
 * Lesser Bloatware (Removed)

More Facts

 * Ghostgrams were once Token-Earnable characters, but then they were turned into a rare spawn. After the Bytes and Gyggle update, they were removed along with Edgygram.
 * V-Signs were also once Token-Earnable characters. They were removed during the 3rd Anniversary Event.
 * Full-sized Bloatware were originally Token-Earnable characters, but were switched to rare spawns. Lesser Bloatware were switched to Token-Earnable characters at the same time Bloatware were switched to rare spawns. However, on September 14th, 2020, Lesser Bloatware was removed from the special characters and replaced with Bloatware again.


 * Captured Chubbs were Token-Earnable characters at one point in the game, but they were changed to a random spawn for Corruptions.
 * When Special Characters (Token-Earnable characters) were initially being added to the Test Version in 2018, the Software Sweets Chubb (old design) and the McDod Chubb (old design) were Token-Earnable, with the Software Sweets Chubb being named "Henry Sweetums" and the McDod Chubb being named "Donnie McChubb". Henry and Donnie were like regular Chubbs, except buffed health-wise and damage-wise, and they could only spawn food from their respective restaurants (Henry would spawn Software Sweets food, Donnie would spawn McDod food).
 * When Special Characters (Token-Earnable characters) were initially being added to the Test Version, there was a Special character that was just an extremely health-buffed Program. It looked just like a regular standard Program, so it could not be distinguished from regular Programs, and Corruption players who were testing out the Special Character Test Version update would get tricked into thinking that these Programs were regular Programs, and were in for a spicy surprise when they'd hit the Program only to realize the Program has more health than normal.
 * Special Tokens started off spawning in random locations around the map. At some point in Databrawl's development, this was changed so that Special Tokens would spawn on top of Special Token spawn pads which were at fixed locations around the map. Later, on August 2nd, 2019, the spawn pads were removed and Tokens went back to spawning randomly anywhere around the map.
 * In 2018 when Special Tokens were initially being added, they did not explode upon spawning. The explosion was added later on as a way to prevent players from camping Special Token spawn pads. Even though the spawn pads were eventually removed, the explosion remained as a part of Special Tokens' mechanic.
 * In the Halloween Event, special tokens are purple and have skulls instead of stars. They also make a maniacal laughing sound when they spawn.
 * In the 2020 Christmas Event, the only difference was the color of the special token changing to blue with no additional changes.
 * In Databrawl Origins, Hardware Paladins are token characters even though Hardware Paladin was never a token character before.