History Characters / CentralPark

* GoodIsNotDumb: She may be a fun and cheerful person, but in "Lunar Palaver", she once told Paige that Molly and Cole would eventually face discrimination based on their skin color, clearly showing she's not oblivious that there's still racism out there and she may have experienced it herself.

* WideEyedIdealist: Discussed. In "A Matter of Life and Boeuf", Paige spends the entire episode trying to talk Abby out of working at the Brandenham, believing that her sister's status as this is making her blind to the kind of person Bitsy is. However, Abby later admits that she knows Bitsy is the worst sometimes, but is willingly choosing to try and find the good in her and the Brandenham anyway- not just [[Main/FreudianExcuse because of her experience with playing villains in her past plays by questioning what their reasons would be for being "evil"]], but because she knows she’ll never make it in New York if she just goes around believing everything is the worst all the time instead of trying to find the good in something, impossible as it may seem.

[[folder: Leopold Brandenham]]

[[folder: Mr. Brandenham]]
!!Mr. Brandenham

Paige's younger sister who moved from Oshkosh, Wisconsin to leave in New York City to become an actress.

!!Family Members of the Tillermans and the Hunters

* RememberTheNewGuy: It was never mentioned that Paige has a younger sister in the past seasons as she made her debut in Season 3. Although this is due to Kristen Bell stepping down from her role as Molly after Season 1, so Abby was created so Kristen can still have a role on the show.

!!Friends of the Tillermans

A boy who flies his kite in Central Park and Molly secretly has a crush on him. [[spoiler:He is Bitsy's great-nephew]].

!!What's New, New York?
[[folder: Marvin]]
!!Marvin
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TonyShalhoub

The editor-of-chief of What's New, New York? and Paige's boss.

* BenevolentBoss: He originally had Paige write fluffy news and Paige is trying to convince him to let her write real news stories. But after she wrote a story about the turtlehead flowers getting destroyed thanks to the people trying to find Bitsy's dog, he printed her story online and gave her the chance to write real news.
* DaEditor: He's a calmer version of this, but he still demands Paige to get him a story for the papers.

[[folder: Doug]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Brian Huskey

A co-worker of Paige

!!Others
[[folder: Mayor Whitney Whitebottom]]
!!Mayor Whitney Whitebottom
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HJonBenjamin

The mayor of New York City.

* AlliterativeName: '''W'''hitney '''W'''hitebottom.
* ButtMonkey: He may be the mayor, but Bitsy doesn't treat him like an equal and is not afraid to hurt him or throw stuff at him.
* CorruptPolitician: He's in league with Bitsy, who wants the Central Park defunded so she can buy the park when it starts to deteriorate.
* DirtyCoward: When a fight between the politicians and socialites breaks out during the Hat Luncheon, he hides under the table and doesn't try to pacify the fighting. He even abandons his people and has Paige help him escape in exchange he provides a quote to her.
* ExtremeDoormat: To put it simply, he is a pushover.

[[folder:Anya]]
!!Anya
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->'''Voiced by:''' Jessica Lowe
->''"Your husband-\\
Will love me despite my oligarch daddy"''
-->--'''Show Up'''

The daughter of a Russian mobster working with Bitsy. Molly and Paige befriend her when they find her running away from her wedding.

* PepTalkSong: "Show Up", a song meant to encourage her to show up at her own wedding, which she sings together with Paige and Molly.
* PostStressOvereating: She's so nervous about marrying her fiancé that she starts stress eating. Eventually, she gets cold-feet and runs from the wedding, but not before grabbing some meat from the hotel's kitchen. Molly found her and hides her in her room, where she eats all the expensive snacks in her room.
* RunawayBride: She flees her own wedding out of fear that, by marrying Zack, she will permanently tangle him with her family's shady business.

[[folder:Ambrose Brandenham]]
!!Ambrose Brandenham
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EdwardAsner
->''"What's soft and white and has a family crest?\\
Sitting on his fortune like a viper on his nest.\\
Big Deal."''
-->--'''Big Deal'''

Bitsy's older brother and the inheritor of the family fortune. He lives off of it and is quite nasty to his sister.

* BigBrotherBully: Raised as the favorite, Ambrose would bully Bitsy just like his own father and nanny would do to her. Even in their old age, he is still mean to her.
* {{Foil}}: While he and Bitsy are short, cranky, rich old people, they have their differences. He has a lot of family members who mooches off of him while she has no family of her own. He inherited their father's money and hasn't earned money himself that wasn't interest, while she inherited her family's hotel and worked hard to turn it into a multi-million dollar business without any help.
* MiniatureSeniorCitizen: He's only slightly taller than Bitsy.
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Bitsy accuses him of being one, as all the money he made for himself was out of loans with the family money, while Bitsy took their rundown hotel and turned into a multi-million dollar business. Both of them also see his extended family as this, as they live by mooching off of him.

[[folder: Mr. Brandenham]]
!!Mr. Brandenham
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DanStevens

Bitsy and Ambrose's father.

* TheAlcoholic: He's shown drinking a lot, even while he's teaching Bitsy how to drive.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Considering everything Bitsy learned from business came from her father, it's safe to say this is how he was in past. In "Where There's Smoke", he sung "Clean Money", which is about having clean money mixed in with dirty money to ensure that no one can find out about the dirty money.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: He thought Bitsy how to drive and gave her terrible advice that he stands firmly on.
-->"Seat beats are for cowards. Everything is a parking spot if you park there. Never go under 40 miles an hour. ''(later on)'' Driving is like negotiating. You should do it fast, tipsy, and make everyone feel like they're gonna die."
* PosthumousCharacter: He's been long dead since Bitsy and Ambrose inherited his assets, but his influence on Bitsy is what made her the woman she is today.

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!!Family Members of the Tillermans

!!Friends of the Tillermans and the Hunters

!!Brandenham Hotel
[[folder: Bitsy Brandenham]]
!!Bitsy Brandenham
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/StanleyTucci (Adult Bitsy), Keala Settle (Young Bitsy); Tsuyoshi Hirabayashi (Japanese), Bernard Alane (European French), Marcio Simoes (Brazilian Portuguese), Michael Iwannek (German), Gerolamo Alchieri (Italian), Xavi Fernandez (European Spanish), Beto Castillo (Latin American Spanish)

->''"I'll make 'em pay\\
Tell their bankers to wire, pay\\
To build my empire, pay\\
My desire to raise every rent, and squeeze every cent\\
They'll pay\\
Oh, they'll pay!"''
-->--'''Make 'Em Pay'''

A business entrepreneur and the heiress of the Brandenham Hotel. She has a plan of destroying Central Park by making a huge business deal to own the property and sell it to multiple business and condos.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: In "A Fish Called Snakehead", she's revealed to be unlikable in New York in a poll created by the mayor. How unlikable? A SerialKiller did better than her in the poll. Another poll asked what's New York's most hated thing, with the options being slow walkers, New Jersey, Bitsy, rats, and tourists, Bitsy is the highest. If some dialogue is to be believed, she doesn’t really care about it.
* TheAlcoholic: She's always drinking constantly and in large doses.
* BeneathNotice: How she was treated her entire life. This allowed her to operate as "The Shadow", as no one ever paid attention to her or knew she was there.
* BigBad: Bitsy is the central antagonist of the series' first season, as she has a long plan to destroy the park slowly in order to force the city to sell it to her, and subsequently for her to sell the area to multiple companies. Among her actions are to make it harder for the park to be able to take the garbage out and pushing the city to block the money inflow of the park. She's also targeting Owen and tries to tarnish his reputation as park manager so that he can be fired and replaced with somebody who won't get in her way. Her antagonism takes a backseat during season two in favor of expanding her character and ''slightly'' humanizing her.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Bitsy is the rich owner of a luxurious hotel, but she has connections with the mob and the government with which she intends to force the city to sell her the property of the park. Thanks to Birdie, Paige figures out in "Dog Spray Afternoon" that she is involved in a real state scheme buying cheap properties from the mayor for millions in order to send money to him under the table and push him to start screwing over the park.
* TheDogBitesBack: During the 70s she operated as ''The Shadow'' and robbed a litany of hotels of their valuables just to get back at her abusive father, tarnishing his reputation.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She loves her dog Shampagne just a, well, bit too much, to the point where she spoils Shampagne in ways he doesn't like.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: While she may be a rich and terrible person who's trying to buy Central Park, she hates her stuck-up, privileged relatives because while she worked hard to get where she is, her relatives just coast through life with the money they were given or inherited. She hates how they only came to her birthday party just to brag and compare their riches and calls their behavior an embarrassment.
* FieryRedhead: Before her hair started turning grey, she used to be a redhead.
* {{Foil}}: While she and her brother, Ambrose, are short, cranky, rich old people, they have their differences. She has no family of her own, while her brother has a lot of family members. She inherited her family's hotel and worked hard to turn it into a multi-million dollar business without any help, while Ambrose inherited their father's money and hasn't earned money himself that wasn't interest.
* FreudianExcuse: In the song "Make 'Em Pay", Bitsy expresses how she came from an abusive family, as well as not being popular with the other children in her youth.
** As the Shadow, Bitsy left crumpled up wrappers in the shape of a penis. This was in defiance of her father, who wanted another son instead of Bitsy.
* HatesRichPeople: Despite being rich and greedy herself, Bitsy seems to have only contempt for other rich people, due to growing up ignored and belittled by her rich family and her fellow rich classmates. She prides herself on having built up the Brandenham from nothing while others use her own birthday party to mooch off her success. Her whole drive to buy Central Park is in part to make them notice her.
* HeyYou: Even though she has heard of Owen and Paige's name, she never calls them by their name. She usually refers to Owen as "park guy" or "park person" and she admits she refuses to learn Paige's name.
* INeedAFreakingDrink: When in the presence of her family, she is so thoroughly annoyed by having to interact with them, she asks for an entire jar of beverage, and asks Helen to keep her having access to drinks all day.
* JerkassHasAPoint: She may be a grump, but she's right about how her brother Ambrose is a RichIdiotWithNoDayJob.
* TheLoad: Whenever she and Helen are in danger, Helen is the one who usually does all the work while Bitsy does nothing and complains or makes things worse for them as demonstrated in "Live it Up Tonight" and "Central Dark".
* LonelyAtTheTop: Downplayed. She's hated by everyone, talked over and ignored by fellow businessmen, her constant companion can barely stand her, and even her precious dog likes Cole more than her. But she's also a misanthrope, so she barely seems to notice that she's ''miserable.''
* LuxuriousLiquor: She's constantly drinking different alcohol beverages with martinis being her favorite drink.
* MiniatureSeniorCitizens: She's so short that even Cole is taller than her.
** Then again, as ''Make 'Em Pay'' shows her as being about the same height she was as a child and she mentions in her song being smaller than the other kids, it's possible she has dwarfism. This seems to be a case when we see her in a flashback in "The Shadow" as a young adult and she's the size of a child.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Evokes the dog-loving hotel magnate and "Queen of Mean" herself, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leona_Helmsley Leona Hemsley.]]
* PetTheDog:
** A literal since with her pet dog Shampagne whom she constantly showers him with affection.
** Bitsy also compliments Molly on her drawings despite Molly being the daughter of the park manager Bitsy wants to get rid of.
** She realizes that she genuinely loves the Brandenham hotel and would rather keep owning it than giving it up for the park (even if the park is worth a whole lot more money).
* SelfMadeWoman: Downplayed. Bitsy prides herself on the fact that unlike her brother, she actually did make something out of herself by turning into a rich owner of a prosperous hotel. However, while the hotel was already her family's and she inherited it from her father, the hotel was in a really bad state, with the implication it was a consolation prize because her father wanted to give everything he owned to his son, and the only reason why it's the profitable business it is now is because of her management.
* ScrewPolitenessImASenior: She is not afraid to express how she feels about certain people at her age.
* TheUnfavourite: In her words, her brother was "the golden child" and she was never liked or respected by her father. A comment in "Squirrel Interrupted" implies that her brother got all the fortune of the family, while she got the Brandenham Hotel in pretty bad shape and had to make it the profitable business it is now herself.
* VillainBall: In an attempt to be taken seriously by her brother's family, she reveals to them her plan to buy Central Park, a plan that's supposed to be a secret to the public because of the illegal actions she taking to make it possible. While none of them take her seriously, [[spoiler:Brendan]] is the only one who does and he later reveals this to the Tillermans, making Owen, the park manager, and Paige, a newspaper journalist, aware of her plan.
* VillainSong:
** "Make 'Em Pay". A musical number she sings when other entrepreneurs start talking over her, the song talks about her bitterness over how mistreated she was when young and how she'll make everyone that disrespected her pay for the insolence.
** "Big Deal". A musical number about how she despises her brother and his extended family, and her plan to take over Central Park.
** " That Was All Me". A musical number where she reveals why and how she operated as the Shadow.
* WomanChild: She may be old, but she acts childish and sometimes [[BlowingARaspberry blow raspberries]].

[[folder: Helen]]
!!Helen
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->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DaveedDiggs, Creator/MitsuruMiyamoto (Japanese), Guillaume Beaujolais (European French), Luiz Carlos Persy (Brazilian Portuguese), Felix Isenbugel (German) , Andrea Mete (Italian), David Jenner (European Spanish), Merlussa (Latin American Spanish)

->''"If there's a will\\
there's a willy-nilly way\\
To be livin' like I'm top-notch\\
filthy stinking rich, watch!\\
Just gotta be smart like so\\
Keep playin’ my part like so\\
Don't step on my toes\\
Nobody knows what really goes on\\
In Bitsy's rich'n'famous lifestyle penthouse in the tower\\
Gonna have my hour with the willpower..."''
-->--'''If There's A Will'''

Bitsy's assistant. Beleaguered and disrespected, she plans to some day inherit all of Bitsy's money and get rid of Shampagne.

* BeleagueredAssistant: She's clearly very exasperated at having to serve Bitsy. She's only doing so in the hopes of inheriting Bitsy's fortune.
* DragonWithAnAgenda: She's Bitsy's right-hand woman who constantly serves her, but only so that she may inherit Bitsy's fortune.
* HiddenDepths:
** Despite her serious personality, she loves monkeys and even has a monkey bank.
** She's from Weehawken, New Jersey and despite wanting to be rich she still loves her hometown and gets frustrated when Bitsy keep talking down on it.
* HyperCompetentSidekick: She's very competent at being Bitsy's assistant and usually does all the legwork for Bitsy when dealing with her hotel staff and rescuing her.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: She ends up becoming as close to friendly as she can get with Cole when he offers to walk Shampagne for her.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Helen seriously contemplates offing Shampagne to get the dog out of Bitsy's will, but ultimately can’t go through with it due to Cole’s influence. Then, she ends up saving Shampagne and Cole when they race into traffic anyway.
* LongGame: Helen has been working for an unknown amount of years for Bitsy in order to make sure she is in her will and will get everything she can from Helen. Believing that she is in the home stretch, her main goal now is to make sure that Shampagne isn't in front of her.
* MyMasterRightOrWrong: In "Celeste We Forget", she admits to Paige that she hates Bitsy for the way she treats her and would gladly hurt her, but she put in a lot of effort to gain Bitsy's trust, sacrificed all her happiness, and tries to make sure she's in her will to betray her trust now.
* ServileSnarker: She'll make snarky comments at Bitsy without her knowing about it.
* VagueAge: While she looks old, she isn't old like Bitsy and her exact age is unknown. In "The Shadow" Bitsy lampshades this and thinks her age is between 40 and 90.
* {{Workaholic}}: She realizes she's this in "Mother's Daze". When she's finally given a day off and goes to a spa resort to relax, she grows bored and ends her day off because she didn't know how to relax and she would rather continue to try to get into Bitsy's will.

[[folder: Shampagne]]
!!Shampagne

%%->'''Voiced by:''' TBA

Bitsy's pet dog.

* AmbiguouslyGay: He is referred to with male pronouns and has a romance with a great dane that is also referred to with male pronouns. This is not really brought up, as AnimalsLackAttributes.
* MoralityPet: Literally. He's probably the few living things Bitsy shows any affections and kindness towards.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: In this case, quite literally. He's named "Shampagne", but it is pronounced like the drink of the same name.
* SpoiledSweet: A dog variant. Despite Bitsy constantly spoiling Shampagne with gifts and affection, he remains a rather well-adjusted and friendly dog.

!!Central Park
[[folder: Birdie]]
!!Birdie
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/centralpark_birdie.png]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JoshGad, Creator/ShunsukeTakeuchi (Japanese), Thierry Wermuth (European French), Olivier Podesta (singing, European French), Alexandre Moreno (Brazilian Portuguese), Manuel Straube (German), Gabriele Lopez (Italian), Miguel Antelo (European Spanish), Luis Leonardo Suarez (Latin American Spanish)

->''"They call me Birdie, cause I sing like a bird, and I bathed on that fountain."''

A busker at Central Park and the show's narrator.

* TheAgeless: [[spoiler: In "Castle Sweet Castle", when Birdie meets first meets the Tillerman decades ago, back when Molly was a toddler and Cole was a baby, he looks completely the same as he does in the present and even wears the same clothes]].
* AllKnowingSingingNarrator: He knows what's going to happen in the story and points out a small detail that will be important later on. Although, he has to stalk the Tillermans so he can explain to the audience what's going on.
* AmbiguouslyGay: Birdie shows hints that he has a crush on Owen. Sometimes calling him "cute", calling Owen his best friend, and loving it when he ''thinks'' Owen called him "baby".
* BeneathNotice: How he explains to Paige how he knew about Bitsy's money-laundering scam with the Mayor — people say all kinds of sensitive things in front of him without much concern that he's listening.
* ContinueYourMissionDammit: In numerous episodes, he has scenes where he tries to nudge the characters in the direction they need to take for the story to progress, such as singing loudly in order to get Molly to notice that Brendan is flying his kite in "Hat Luncheon".
* FamilyOfChoice: Birdie admits in "Rival Busker" that he sees the Tillermans as his own family.
* InkSuitActor: Closely resembles his voice actor, Creator/JoshGad.
* MeaningfulName: He’s called Birdie because he sings like a bird... and because he bathes in the Park's bird fountain.
* PungeonMaster: Birdie loves to make puns!
* SayingSoundEffectsOutLoud: When narrating, Birdie has a tendency to say sound effects out loud, such as making whooshing sounds when the camera moves or text flies in, or a whirring noise when a list is scrolling up the screen.
* SayingTooMuch: In "Dog Spray Afternoon", Birdie reveals there are rules he needs to follow as the narrator, the biggest one being that he can’t give spoilers to the characters in the story. [[InternalReveal He later blurts out to Paige that Bitsy is the one money laundering for Mayor Whitebottom,]] which in turn leads to a new narrator stepping in, with Birdie unaware of this.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: Despite the fact that Narrators aren’t supposed to interfere with the story, Birdie can’t bear to see the Tillermans in trouble and rushes in to help them, despite the threat of being removed from the story completely if he does.
* StalkerWithoutACrush: Justified since he's the narrator, but he knows it's bad if he gets caught.
* StreetPerformer: It's how he makes a living at Central Park and he plays the violin. It seems that being a narrator is also a job to him, though.

[[folder: Elwood]]
!!Elwood
->'''Voiced by:''' Rory O'Malley

A park ranger and Owen's partner at Central Park.

* TheDitz: He means well, but he's not the brightest worker at the park. In "Live It Up Tonight", he almost got Owen in trouble with an auditor who almost got him fired because he used the worm receipt to make a temporary home for his pet worm and then threw the receipt away and never told Owen about it. And in "Central Dark", he throws away all his electronics because he thinks that they don't work anymore due to the blackout.
* NumberTwo: He appears to be this to Owen, since he's the only park worker to update Owen on the status of the park.

[[folder: Fran]]
!!Fran
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JanelleJames, Creator/YvetteNicoleBrown (singing voice)

Another park ranger at Central Park who usually works with Owen and Elwood.

* DeadpanSnarker: She's usually this to Owen because of the way he take certain things seriously.
* TakingYouWithMe: A non-lethal example. In "Of Course You Realize This Means Ward", when the other workers think Owen is going to fire them, thanks to Elwood misunderstanding Owen's words, she tells Owen she quits and she's going to take this place down with her. After Owen clears things up, he's shocked that she had that ready to go.

[[folder: Brendan]]
!!Brendan [[spoiler:Brandenham]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EugeneCordero, Yasuaki Takumi (Japanese)

A boy who flies his kite in Central Park and Molly secretly has a crush on him. [[spoiler:He is Bitsy's great-nephew]].

* ConnectedAllAlong: He turns out to be a member of [[spoiler:the Brandenham family]].
* FirstKiss: He's kissed by Molly in "Hat Luncheon". Unfortunately, he has a peanut allergy and Molly ate a peanut butter parfait, so he suffers an allergic reaction and his face swells up. Their subsequent attempts in "Hot Oven" don't really work out that well, but they're less deadly and more awkward.
* GenericGuy: Brendan is usually portrayed as a simple NiceGuy who happens to be Molly's crush. The only other thing that makes Brendan stand out is that [[spoiler: he's member of the Brandenham family]].
* NiceGuy: Brendan is a polite and pleasant boy who gets along with everyone. Even when Molly gave him an allergic reaction by accident, he doesn't hold it against Molly and continues to be friendly with her. [[spoiler: It makes the fact that he's related to [[{{Jerkass}} Bitsy Brandenham]] all the more surprising]].
* OhNoNotAgain: In "Squirrel, Interrupted", [[spoiler:when Bitsy tells him that Anton was [[BlatantLies accidentally locked inside the broom closet downstairs]] and he needs to be set free, Brendan opens the door and sees Anton BoundAndGagged and he's not even surprised]].
-->'''Brendan:''' I feel like this happens every year. I wished I'd gone to Jacob's bowling party.
* PlotAllergy: He's revealed to have a peanut allergy when his face starts swelling up after Molly kisses him having just eaten peanut butter parfait.
* SecretlyWealthy: When we first meet him, he looks like a regular kid at the park just flying his kite. [[spoiler:Then we get the reveal that he's a member of the Brandenham family, who's rich, and he keeps his family name a secret because he feels embarrassed when he tells people his last name and they get weirded out by him.]]
* SpannerInTheWorks: [[spoiler: After Bitsy reveals her plan to buy Central Park to her brother's family, none of them take her seriously, except for Brendan. Thanks to him, the Tillermans are now aware of Bitsy's plan to buy the park]].
* WalkingSpoiler: After learning about his last name, it's hard not to bring up his relationship with [[spoiler:Bitsy]].

[[folder: Glorious Gary]]
!!Glorious Gary
->'''Voiced by:''' Christopher Jackson

A local skater in Central Park who usually skates around Skater's Circle.

* RhymeThemeNaming: His name is Gary and his best friend is named Larry, which is lampshaded by Owen.

[[folder: Griffin]]
!!Griffin

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->'''Voiced by:''' Andrew Rannells, Creator/KENN (Japanese)
->''"You've been distracted by a dude\\
Who's been uprooting the whole plot\\
I'm not trying to be rude\\
But there's no way in hell he's got\\
A pair of First Class Hands\\
Don't you wanna be in\\
First Class Hands?"''
-->--'''First Class Hands'''

Another busker in Central Park, who becomes the new narrator at the end of “Dog Spray Afternoon" after Birdie breaks the rule of revealing spoilers to a character in the story.

* AlienNonInterferenceClause: Griffin explains to Birdie that narrators aren’t supposed to insert themselves in the story or meddle in the lives of its characters — in his own words, “they gotta make their own decisions, we just get to watch“.
* BystanderSyndrome: He will do anything to keep himself from being involved in the story, even letting Owen and Cole die.
* EvilCounterpart: He's one to Birdie as both are street musicians that also serve as narrators to the story, but while Birdie is friendly to the main characters willing to help them on occasion at the risk of loosing his role of narrating, Griffin is apathetic to them even willing to let them die to maintain his occupation.
* FreudianExcuse: Its possibly hinted he's the pig farm kid who lost his piggy in the song "Too Close". In which case yes, he does have a personal reason why to not get too attached, even if the powers that be ultimately got tired of him.
* HateSink: He manages to be this in the one episode he appears in, if only because he’s such a egotistical and smug hypocrite who annoys everybody with his constant bragging. Then he allows an owl attack a father and son adding to his status as this.
* {{Hypocrite}}: He ''claims'' to be a much better narrator than Birdie, but most of "First Class Hands" is him ''bragging'' about it, quite clearly breaking the established "don't make [the story] about you" rule. Not only that, his insistence on narrating the “right” way and never getting “too close” (physically or emotionally) to the people he’s narrating almost gets Owen and Cole ''killed,'' which would’ve ruined the story ''way'' worse than Birdie’s one spoiler did.
* LackOfEmpathy: Because of his instance on following the rules and being a detached, objective, “perfect” narrator, Griffin lacks Birdie’s attachment to the Tillerman family. He’s ''so'' detached, in fact, that he doesn't do anything to help get Owen and Cole — who are stuck in a tree and getting attacked by an angry mother owl — down, even when he ''knows'' that he’s the only one around to do something about it.
* {{Narcissist}}: Almost every scene he’s in is just him bragging how awesome he is.
* PutOnABus: After Birdie gets his role as narrator back, Griffin leaves the story completely, with no explanation to where he is going.
* TheSociopath: Shows signs of being one such as having a huge ego and showing no remorse in letting a father and child die.
* TakingUpTheMantle: He becomes the narrator because Birdie accidentally broke the narrator rules by revealing a spoiler to Paige.
* VillainSong: "First Class Hands". The song is one big brag of how much better he is at narrating than Birdie and subsequently trashing Birdie for messing up and losing his job.
* WouldHurtAChild: {{Downplayed}} in that Griffin himself doesn't directly hurt children, but he does allows an owl to attack an 11-year old boy and was willing to let said boy potentially fall to his death.

!!What's New, New York?
[[folder: Marvin]]
!!Marvin
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/TonyShalhoub

The editor-of-chief of What's New, New York? and Paige's boss.

* BenevolentBoss: He originally had Paige write fluffy news and Paige is trying to convince him to let her write real news stories. But after she wrote a story about the turtlehead flowers getting destroyed thanks to the people trying to find Bitsy's dog, he printed her story online and gave her the chance to write real news.
* DaEditor: He's a calmer version of this, but he still demands Paige to get him a story for the papers.

[[folder: Doug]]
->'''Voiced by:''' Brian Huskey

A co-worker of Paige

!!Others
[[folder: Mayor Whitney Whitebottom]]
!!Mayor Whitney Whitebottom
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/HJonBenjamin

The mayor of New York City.

* AlliterativeName: '''W'''hitney '''W'''hitebottom.
* ButtMonkey: He may be the mayor, but Bitsy doesn't treat him like an equal and is not afraid to hurt him or throw stuff at him.
* CorruptPolitician: He's in league with Bitsy, who wants the Central Park defunded so she can buy the park when it starts to deteriorate.
* DirtyCoward: When a fight between the politicians and socialites breaks out during the Hat Luncheon, he hides under the table and doesn't try to pacify the fighting. He even abandons his people and has Paige help him escape in exchange he provides a quote to her.
* ExtremeDoormat: To put it simply, he is a pushover.

[[folder:Anya]]
!!Anya
[[quoteright:279:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/centralpark_anya.png]]

->'''Voiced by:''' Jessica Lowe
->''"Your husband-\\
Will love me despite my oligarch daddy"''
-->--'''Show Up'''

The daughter of a Russian mobster working with Bitsy. Molly and Paige befriend her when they find her running away from her wedding.

* PepTalkSong: "Show Up", a song meant to encourage her to show up at her own wedding, which she sings together with Paige and Molly.
* PostStressOvereating: She's so nervous about marrying her fiancé that she starts stress eating. Eventually, she gets cold-feet and runs from the wedding, but not before grabbing some meat from the hotel's kitchen. Molly found her and hides her in her room, where she eats all the expensive snacks in her room.
* RunawayBride: She flees her own wedding out of fear that, by marrying Zack, she will permanently tangle him with her family's shady business.

[[folder:Ambrose Brandenham]]
!!Ambrose Brandenham
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/EdwardAsner
->''"What's soft and white and has a family crest?\\
Sitting on his fortune like a viper on his nest.\\
Big Deal."''
-->--'''Big Deal'''

Bitsy's older brother and the inheritor of the family fortune. He lives off of it and is quite nasty to his sister.

* BigBrotherBully: Raised as the favorite, Ambrose would bully Bitsy just like his own father and nanny would do to her. Even in their old age, he is still mean to her.
* {{Foil}}: While he and Bitsy are short, cranky, rich old people, they have their differences. He has a lot of family members who mooches off of him while she has no family of her own. He inherited their father's money and hasn't earned money himself that wasn't interest, while she inherited her family's hotel and worked hard to turn it into a multi-million dollar business without any help.
* MiniatureSeniorCitizen: He's only slightly taller than Bitsy.
* RichIdiotWithNoDayJob: Bitsy accuses him of being one, as all the money he made for himself was out of loans with the family money, while Bitsy took their rundown hotel and turned into a multi-million dollar business. Both of them also see his extended family as this, as they live by mooching off of him.

[[folder: Hazel]]
!!Hazel
->'''Voiced by:''' Music/EsterDean

Molly's friend at school.

[[folder: Enrique]]
!!Enrique
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/StephanieBeatriz

Cole's best friend.

[[folder: Mr. Brandenham]]
!!Mr. Brandenham
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/DanStevens

Bitsy and Ambrose's father.

* TheAlcoholic: He's shown drinking a lot, even while he's teaching Bitsy how to drive.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Considering everything Bitsy learned from business came from her father, it's safe to say this is how he was in past. In "Where There's Smoke", he sung "Clean Money", which is about having clean money mixed in with dirty money to ensure that no one can find out about the dirty money.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: He thought Bitsy how to drive and gave her terrible advice that he stands firmly on.
-->"Seat beats are for cowards. Everything is a parking spot if you park there. Never go under 40 miles an hour. ''(later on)'' Driving is like negotiating. You should do it fast, tipsy, and make everyone feel like they're gonna die."
* PosthumousCharacter: He's been long dead since Bitsy and Ambrose inherited his assets, but his influence on Bitsy is what made her the woman she is today.

[[folder: Celeste Tillerman]]
!!Celeste Tillerman
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JeniferLewis

Owen's mother.

* WackyParentSeriousChild: She likes having fun and going with the flow even if she forgets what she's doing, while Owen likes to make plans for things and stays focus on his goals.

->'''Voiced by:''' Janelle James, Creator/YvetteNicoleBrown (singing voice)

* FriendToAllLivingThings: He is caring and kind to all animals, especially Bitsy. He tries to do the same for even rats, such as trying to convince his mother to call off an exterminator, but he eventually decides to give up.

* ThePerfectionist: He is constantly on the alert for every single issue at the park he owns, wanting it all to go according to how he seems fit.

* ThePigPen: Downplayed. She looks fine, but sometimes she'll get so involved in her journalism that she can be oblivious on how messy she can be, and there are times where she'll forget to clean up her appearance, as demonstrated in her song "Momma's Got This".

* GracefulLoser: She's capable of taking her chess loss in "Squirrel, Interrupted" in stride. She says she knew she was going to lose, but wanted to learn how Constantine would defeat her for a next match. This is in stark contrast to Paige, who believed she would lose interest in chess if she ever suffered any loss.

* HerCodeNameWasMarySue: She's Molly's superhero persona and despite doing amazing things and she's not afraid to call out her awkwardness in her own comic.
* PrehensileHair: She can control uses puffy pigtails and use them like arms.
* PunnyName: Her name is a pun off of "fisticuffs".

* AnimalLover: When Birdie introduces him, he mentions he loves animals. And this is shown throughout the show, especially with his relationship to Bitsy's dog, Shampagne.
* EveryoneHasStandards: As much he loves animals, he freaks out when faced with a huge pack of rats.

* {{Fanboy}}: He's big fan of a series of fantasy books about magical squirrels in Central Park. Though his father can't stand the books, he tags along with him for a scavenger hunt themed after the books.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: He is caring and kind to all animals, especially Bitsy. He tries to do the same for even rats, such as trying to convince her mother to call off an exterminator, but he eventually decides to give up.

** A literal since with her pet dog Champagne whom she constantly showers him with affection.

* SpoiledSweet: A dog variant. Despite Bitsy constantly spoiling Champagne with gifts and affection, he remains a rather well-adjusted and friendly dog.

->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/KathrynHahn, Tsugumi Iki (Japanese), Barbara Beretta (European French), Marcia Coutinho (Brazilian Portuguese), Marion Musiol (German), Mattea Serpelloni (Italian), Lourdes Fabres (European Spanish), Irina Indigo (Latin American Spanish)

->''"What's often white and has a family crest?\\

* WouldHurtAChild: {{Downplayed}}. Griffin himself isn't seen hurting children directly, but he allows an owl attack an 11-year old boy and was willing to let said boy potentially fall to his death.

* HatesRichPeople: Despite being rich and greedy herself, Bitsy seems to have only contempt for other rich people, due to growing up ignored and belittled by her rich family and her fellow rich classmates. She prides herself on having built up the Brandenham from nothing while others use her own birthday party to mooch off her success.

* HateTheRich: Despite being rich and greedy herself, Bitsy seems to have only contempt for other rich people, due to growing up ignored and belittled by her rich family and her fellow rich classmates. She prides herself on having built up the Brandenham from nothing while others use her own birthday party to mooch off her success.

* HatesTheRich: Despite being rich and greedy herself, Bitsy seems to have only contempt for other rich people, due to growing up ignored and belittled by her rich family and her fellow rich classmates. She prides herself on having built up the Brandenham from nothing while others use her own birthday party to mooch off her success.

[[folder: Celeste Tillerman]]
!!Celeste Tillerman
->'''Voiced by:''' Creator/JeniferLewis

Owen's mother.

* WackyParentSeriousChild: She likes having fun and going with the flow even if she forgets what she's doing, while Owen likes to make plans for things and stays focus on his goals.