Subway Surfers makes several characters have the same animation as previous characters.
List of Character[]
| -th Character | Base Character | Same Animation Character | Version Update |
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| 1 | Rabbot | Frankette | 
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| 2 | Prince K | J Balvin | 
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| 3 | Ramona | Vivienne | 
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| 4 | Clockwork Johnny | Captain Flash | 
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| 5 | |||
| 6 | Maeko | Thunder | 
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| 24 | Kaleo | 
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| 7 | Diego | Azura | 
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| 8 | Spike | Astra | 
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| 9 | Dino | Red Panda | 
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| 10 | Ace | Lucky |
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| 11 | Zi Hao | Faiza | 
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| 12 | Buzz | Electra | 
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| 15 | Glorgalax | 
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| 13 | Catrine | Riley | 
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| 14 | Carlos | Ventura |
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| 16 | Hou | Leo | 
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| 17 | Nicolai | Ozzy | 
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| 18 | Manny | Billy Bean | 
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| 19 | Dragon | Ruhi | 
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| 20 | Rin | Kedi |
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| 21 | George | Pumpkin Pete | 
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| 22 | E.Z. | Leif | 
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| 23 | Nina | Demi Lovato |
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| 25 | Liu | Rani | 
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| 26 | Trym | Finlay | 
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| 27 | Hamza | Stevie | 
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| 28 | Logan | Costa | 
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| 29 | Ribbon | Berta |
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| 30 | Gabriel | Rochelle Rebelle | 
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| 31 | Saru | Asher |
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Notes[]
- Characters that are variants of other characters, are not included in the list (e.g. Jake with Outatime Jake or Pixel Jake, Tricky with Ballerina Tricky, King with Guard King, Miss Maia with Pride Miss Maia, Yutani with Yutani Harlequin Toad or Rin with Parkour Rin)
- Characters in the list can be characters that use all or part of the animations of other characters. (e.g. Electra only reused one animation from Buzz, Glorgalax reused every animation from Buzz)
- Characters in the table are sorted by the version in which they appear.
Trivia[]
- Dragon and Ruhi have same animations and are 2024 surfers.
- Ribbon and Berta have same animations and are 2025 surfers.
- Gabriel and Rochelle Rebelle have same animations and are 2025 surfers.
- Saru and Asher have same animations and are 2025 surfers.
- This making Ruhi the first 2024 character and Berta the first 2025 character to have the same animations from other character of the same year.
- Stevie is the second character (2025) to have the same animations from a 2024 character (Hamza). Rochelle Rebelle is the second character to have the same animations from a 2025 character (Gabriel).
- Costa is the third character (2025) to have the same animations from a 2024 character (Logan). Asher is the third character to have the same animations from a 2025 character (Saru).
- Captain Flash and Clockwork Johnny are the first 2023 characters to have the same animations and they were released during the same edition, unlike Dragon and Ruhi.
- Buzz, Electra and Glorgalax have all the same animations making them the first characters to reuse two animations.
- Maeko, Thunder and Kaleo have all the same animations making them the second characters to reuse two animations.
- Vivienne is the first character with reused animations to receive an outfit, Kaleo being the second, Thunder being the third, Rani being the fourth, Stevie being the fifth, and Berta being the sixth, and Asher being the seventh.
- Kaleo is the first 2025 character and outfit to reuse an animation. The other characters that follow are Rani, Finlay, Stevie, and Berta.