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Inhabitants of the Island
In General
The various unusual denizens of the island.
- Amazing Technicolor Population: The villagers from both the Valley and Forest are a variety of pastel colors.
- Ambiguous Gender: There's pretty much no indicator for whether someone's male or female. This is averted by a few characters, however.
- Armless Biped: No one has arms, though Piku wishes they had some.
- Black Bead Eyes: Again, everyone, though occasionally they'll have white scleras if they're surprised by something.
The Ghost
A ghost that helps Piku during the start of the game.
- Vague Age: They say "youth these days" after defeating Mr. Sunshine, suggesting that they're older than Piku, who is already implied to be very old.
Sam
A man made of slime who runs a pottery shop.
- Cruelty Is the Only Option: You have to break all of his pottery in order to get a trophy of him. His expression will even slowly change from happy to sad while you throw his work on the ground!
- Slime Girl: He's made out of indigo slime.
The Frog
A frog who you can talk to in order to leave a challenging area.
- Door to Before: You can talk to him to teleport back to the start of a challenging area.
Piku and Niku
Tropes that apply to both
- Silly Walk: Piku and Niku's walk animation is quite silly, since their main bodies accelerate and stop rapidly, but their legs are left having to catch up. When they start walking, their body leans forward and their legs stretch a fair distance before actually starting the walking animation with long strides; when they stop walking, their body stops suddenly and their legs have to course-correct, usually taking steps backwards so they remain beneath their body.
- No Mouth: Neither of them have mouths, unlike most other characters who at least have one when they speak.
- Waddling Head: They're basically ovals with retractable legs and No Mouth.
Piku
The protagonist of the story mode, Piku is a strange red ball with legs who has recently awakened from a long slumber.
- Aborted Arc: Anything related to them being "The Beast" is quietly forgotten about after they fix the bridge.
- Badass Adorable: A round red ball with legs that can beat up robots and literally kicked Mr. Sunshine into outer space.
- Beware the Nice Ones: They helped repair a bridge, reunited Ernie with his mother... and destroyed a bunch of Mr. Sunshine's robots.
- Vague Age: The ghost says that Piku was asleep for "a long time", though how long is never specified.
Niku
A playable character in co-op mode, Niku is pretty much identical to Piku besides from being orange.
- Advertised Extra: They appear next to Piku on the Nintendo Switch icon, but don't appear in the story mode whatsoever and are only playable in co-op mode.
Residents of the Valley Village
The Valley Villagers
- Bizarre Alien Biology: They have some strange stick-like things coming out of their body in pairs of three on each side of their bodies.
- Doom as Test Prize: Wow, Eli is so lucky, winning a free tour of Sunshine Inc's headquarters! Too bad he was actually kidnapped as an experimental subject and genetic source to create Mr. Sunshine's perfect future villagers.
- Fictional Sport: Baskick, invented by the "Baskick Champion" a month prior to the game's events. It's pretty similar to basketball; you score points by kicking a watermelon into a hoop.
The Rock
A rock who wants to play hide-and-seek with Piku.
- Animate Inanimate Object: They're a rock that can talk and teleport.
- Flashy Teleportation: Downplayed: a few small clouds appear when they teleport.
Mother Bird
A giant bird that lives in the clouds above the Valley. You're tasked with finding her children after they hatch.
- Ambiguous Gender: Averted. She's female, and one of the few characters to have a confirmed gender.
- Mama Bear: Well, mama bird, but she's still very protective of her two children.
Residents of the Forest
The Forest Villagers
- Bizarre Alien Biology: They look like walking leaves.
The Rebels
A trio of Forest Villagers who start a rebellion against Mr. Sunshine.
- El Spanish "-o": The green rebel calls the bunker "El Bunko", much to the annoyance of the other two rebels.
- Insistent Terminology: The green rebel insists on calling the bunker "El Bunko". Neither of the other rebels call it that, and one of them points out that "bunko" isn't even a word.
- La Résistance: They start a rebellion against Mr. Sunshine.
Residents of the Lake
The Worms
- Black Bead Eyes: Well, white bead eyes, but it's the same idea.
- Inflating Body Gag: They can inflate their bodies at will and basically become balloons. This comes in handy during the fight against the Lake robot, where they tether themselves to some platforms for Piku to stand on.
Ernie the Worm
One of the worms who has a large belly from eating toxic waste.
- Chekhov's Gunman: He helps Piku chase after Mr. Sunshine in the volcano.
- Inflating Body Gag: Has a large belly from eating toxic waste.
- Too Dumb to Live: He ate toxic waste after mistaking it for water.
Sunshine Inc.
Mr. Sunshine
The Big Bad, a Corrupt Corporate Executive who wants to get rid of the island's natural resources so he can make a new society.
- Big Bad: The main cause of everything going wrong in the game's world.
- Big Brother Is Watching: It doesn't take long to start noticing the "hidden" surveillance cameras popping out of the scenery to watch your every move. Turns out to be a Chekhov's Gun, when Mr. Sunshine gets fed up after watching you destroy several of his robots, and abruptly flies in to take care of the problem himself.
- Faux Affably Evil: Mr. Sunshine presents an affable front, offering money for "junk" and offering a tour at some point. Late in the game, however, the villagers slowly start catching on as to how he's destroying them, at which point Sunshine doesn't even try to hide his insanity anymore.
- Greenwashed Villainy: He markets himself as a businessman who sends flying robots who pick up trash and even gives money to the residents of the town. He actually wants to destroy the island with his volcano to build a perfect city in his image.
- Tragic Villain: It's implied his hometown being wiped out in a volcanic eruption has driven him to try and recreate it at the cost of the entire rest of the island.
Sunshine Robots
Mr. Sunshine's robots, who work in his headquarters and assist him with collecting the "junk" in each town.
- Advancing Boss of Doom: The second robot you fight requires you to cross the entire valley without getting caught while it chases you.
- All Caps: Unlike most other characters, the robots only speak in capital letters.
- Dance-Off: A particular robot suffers a feedback loop and explodes if you beat it in a dance-off. You have to do this to prove to the rebels that you're against Mr. Sunshine.
- Heel–Face Turn: They take up more honest jobs repairing the village after Mr. Sunshine is defeated.
- Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Two robots working in the volcano refuse to continue fighting Piku when they find out that one of them isn't being paid, while the other admits they're only paid enough to barely scrape by.
- "WOW. OK. IM NOT DOING ANYTHING UNTIL I GET PAID".
