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    Leafos 
Voiced by: Louise O'Connor (née Ridgeway)
Leafos gives the player tutorials in the console games.
  • Adapted Out: Was set to appear appear in the show's third season.
  • Ambiguously Gay: She wrote this in the journal:
    Leafos: A girl (that I may or may not have liked) once told me that the Pink Flutterscotch reminded her of a kiss. When I asked if I could remind her instead, she ran away!
  • Butt-Monkey: Her journal entries indicate she goes through a lot of bad luck such as the entry on bread saying she has bandages on her fingers due to not being able to wait to tear open a loaf of bread fresh from the oven and saying in the entry for turnips that "The last time I saw something this swollen and purple, I'd slammed a door on my thumb".
  • The Cameo: Turns up in the intro for the cartoon as the camera pans across Piñata Island during the "Welcome to Piñata Island" sequence in the lower left corner, shielding her eyes.
  • Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Attacking her with the shovel too much will make her take away your shovel for a short while, while dowsing her with water from your watering can repeatedly results in her restricting you to a poor watering can for a little while.
  • Unexplained Accent: Despite most characters having American accents, Leafos has an Irish accent.

    Seedos 
Seedos occasionally visits the player's garden to drop some seeds, but you can get them quicker if you hit him with a shovel.
  • Cloud Cuckoo Lander: His obsession with seeds can cross into this, with him saying things like "My seeds say I shouldn't talk to you".
  • Video Game Cruelty Punishment: Hitting him to get seeds will result in him throwing weed seeds in your garden. The amount he throws is dependent on how many times you hit him. This can potentially destroy your garden if you abuse him too much.

    Storkos 
Storkos delivers eggs to piñatas that have romanced.
  • Delivery Stork: Although she is not actually a stork, her role in the game is to essentially deliver piñata eggs to piñatas that have romanced, and she does at least have stork in her name.

    Willy Builder 
Willy builds houses for piñatas, as well as produce stations.
  • Ridiculously Fast Construction: It doesn't take a lot of time for Willy to build the houses or facilities you ask of him. Most of them require him to take less than a game day to build.

    Langston Lickatoad 
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Voiced by: Mike Pollock
Langston Lickatoad runs Piñata Central.
  • Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: He wears the Piñata Central hat.
  • Actor Allusion: Langston is voiced by Mike Pollock, who is best known for voicing Dr. Eggman. It's fitting that in the TV show, he is always trying to capture a Fudgehog (hedgehog) and a Pretztail (fox).
  • Adaptational Nice Guy: He comes across as more patient and polite in Trouble in Paradise than he does in the TV show. Justified, as his main role in the show is antagonizing Fergy and Paulie, who are always running away from him and don't want to fulfill their duties, while in Trouble in Paradise, he acts as a helper to the player by selling them traps and giving them optional party assignments, something both Langston and the player benefit from.
  • Butt-Monkey: In the show, he never seems to catch a break.
  • Canon Immigrant: Along with Professor Pester, he's one of the only characters from the cartoon to appear in the main series.
  • Failure Is the Only Option: No matter what happens, he will never get Fergy and Paulie to a party.
  • Go-Karting with Bowser: Langston's only hostile to Fergy and Paulie when on the clock. When not trying to catch them, he has no qualms about joining them on adventures and even partaking in non-human parties with them.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: "My Pal Langston" reveals that he is very lonely because nobody wants to stick around with him and he loosens up and becomes nicer when Fergy and Paulie offer to be his friends.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In the TV show. He is a strict stick in the mud who is a bit too smug whenever he is trying to catch Fergy and Paulie, but he is ultimately well-meaning.
  • Series Goal: In the show, his goal is to catch Fergy and shoot him out of the Cannoñata to a party.
  • Talking Animal: Well, talking piñata, but the idea is the same. Which raises the question of whether or not the other piñatas in the games are also capable of speech.
  • Token Non-Human: In Trouble in Paradise, he's the only service NPC who isn't a human wearing a mask.

    Jardiniero 
Jardiniero was the original owner of your garden, at least in the console games.
  • Big Good: While Leafos is the one that helps you become a master gardener, Jardiniero is the one looking over your progress.

    Lottie 
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Lottie runs Costolot's store, which sells most of the items in the game.

    Gretchem Fetchem 
Gretchen Fetchem can find piñatas of species you've already made residents.
  • Composite Character: In Pocket Paradise she takes on Miss Petula's role of selling pets and accessories, and Fannie Franker's role of running the post office, in addition to fetching piñatas.

    Miss Petula 
Miss Petula sells pets and accessories.
  • Apathetic Clerk: Obviously isn't enthusiastic about her job and mostly speaks in an annoyed, bored tone of voice.
  • Lazy Bum: She isn't the most into her job, and Leafos makes it clear that she would rather loaf around than actually work. The tone of her voice makes it clear she isn't too thrilled about having to work.

    Ivor Beggar/Bargain 
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Ivor starts off poor, but after giving him the items he requests, he'll sell the best gardening tools in the game. Well, at least in the original and Pocket Paradise.
  • Demoted to Extra: He goes from a shopkeeper who sells some of the best items in the original game to only being heard in the wishing well.
  • Put on a Bus: As all the items in his store are moved into Costalot's store, he does not appear in Trouble In Paradise until you unlock the wishing well.
  • Rags to Riches: He starts out as a hobo named Ivor Beggar until you give him 1000 coins or more. Upon doing that, he works his life around and is now in a position to sell you rare and valuable items he found thanks to you.

    Arfur Stout 
Arfur Stout sells helpers in the console games.

    Fanny Franker 
Fanny Franker runs the post office.

    Doc Patchingo 
Doc Patchingo heals sick piñatas by pouring medicine onto them from a helicopter.
  • The Medic: When a piñata is sick, Doc will come to revive them upon being called. His introduction is him coming to revive the first sick piñata for free.
  • Shrinking Violet: Patch is rather timid, always stuttering and coming across as generally awkward and nervous.

    Bart 
Bart tinkers various items — that is, he transforms them using magic.

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