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Arocknid
If Cluckles had this many legs, people would shout "Hooray!" and fire up the barbecue. However, an Arocknid's legs seem to make people cautiously reach for a rolled-up newspaper.
- Friendly Neighborhood Spider: As long as you aren't a Raisant, a Taffly, a Buzzlegum, or a Reddhott, the Arocknid won't bother you.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Pretty much any bug species. It will resident upon eating a couple of Tafflies or Raisants, and will romance when eating two Buzzlegums. It also variants when eating a Jack-o-lantern.
Badgesicle
Does the Badgesicle have a certain part of its anatomy that can only be described as rough? Let's put it this way: if Badgesicles sat on trees, the branches would be so smooth, birds would slip off.
- Animal Jingoism: Badgesicles will start fights with Syrupents.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Surprisingly, not Syrupents, despite their natural conflict. They resident when eating a Newtgat and two pumpkins, romance when eating a variant Squazzil and two turnip seeds, and variant when eating a toffee apple.
Barkbark
The Barkbark is man's best friend. His qualities are loyalty, cheery disposition, obedience, and every now and then slobbery overfriendlyness.
- Animal Jingoism: Barkbarks conflict and start fights with Kittyfloss and vice-versa.
- Evil-Detecting Dog: Barkbarks will scare off sours and ruffians.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Bones are required for it to romance.
Bonboon
Dagger-like fangs, a powerful muscled body, and a mean streak as wide as the Congo, it's hard to believe this creature is a member of the cheeky, fun-loving family we call Cinnamonkeys.
This reformed sour pinata still loves to monkey around the garden. It's also one of the highest-level pinatas you'll see, so get ready for a sugar rush!
This reformed sour pinata still loves to monkey around the garden. It's also one of the highest-level pinatas you'll see, so get ready for a sugar rush!
- Animal Jingoism: Gets in fights with Cinnamonkeys. Adverted with Sarsgorilla in the second game, which need a Bonboon resident in order to appear and a baby Bonboon in order to visit.
- Defeat Equals Friendship: The way you tame the sours of this pinata is have it fight and lose against a Syrupant, Twingersnap, or Fourheads.
- Final Boss: For Sours in the first game.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: A Sour Bonboon is more than happy to pick a fight with a Syrupent and a Twingersnap, but the instant it notices a Fourheads approaching, it turns tail and runs away.
- Maniac Monkeys: The last sour to appear in the first game. They cause other piñatas to get in fights with each other. A tamed Bonboon remains this to Cinnamonkeys.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Monkeynuts and Bananas are required for it to resident.
Bunnycomb
Vets call them Bunnycombs, animal lovers call them bunnies, farmers call them vermin. Hungry creatures may even call them dinner.
- Animal Jingoism: Bunnycombs are eaten by the fox-like wild Pretztails.
- Bunnies for Cuteness
- Righteous Rabbit: They're just as friendly as the other piñatas!
- Trademark Favorite Food: They won't even consider going near your garden unless you have at least one carrot in it. And they need to eat three to become a resident.
Buzzenge
Aloof and mean-looking, the Buzzenge will probably be the first bird of prey to visit your garden.
- Animal Jingoism: They need to eat three Candaries to become a resident. On the flipside, they're hunted by wild Eaglairs.
- Trademark Favorite Food: They like snacking on a variety of bird Piñatas, besides the Eaglair that predates them.
Buzzlegum
Why do Buzzlegums make honey? I think it's a bribe so we'll be their friends. I mean, without the delicious, sweet honey, you're left with nothing more than a fat wasp.
- Animal Jingoism: They'll start fights with Raisants. They're also afraid of the Arocknids and Dragumflies that need to eat them to romance.
- Virtuous Bees: Buzzlegums are able to make honey that you can sell or turn into medicine....as long as they don't meet any raisants.
Candary
Not only is the Candary small and yellow, but it can "detect" poison gas in mines. Not only pretty but practical too.
- Animal Jingoism: They're hunted by wild Buzzenges. However, this is inverted with the Chippopotamus. They'll only romance if you have a Candary in your garden, as well as the Master Romancer reward for them.
- Canary in a Coal Mine: A Candary will enter the mines if it is wearing a gasmask.
Chewnicorn
- Unicorn: If the name wasn't a givaway, Chewnicorns are pinatas modeled after unicorns. Just like how unicorns could purify poisons in the original myths, Chewnicorns can heal sick pinatas, and their encyclopedia entry jokes that only innocent maidens can see them.
Chippopotamus
Chippopotami must have the worst glands in the entire Piñata kingdom. I mean, they don't eat a lot, not really, but you never see a slim one.
- Animal Jingoism: Inverted with the Candary. One being in the garden, as well as having the Master Romancer reward for them, are two of the requirements for Chippopotamus romancing.
- Big Eater: The part of their description saying they don't eat a lot is a big fat lie. They need to eat thirty water plants in order to resident in the first game. Thankfully, this got lowered with every entry, with Trouble in Paradise decreasing it to 27, and Pocket Paradise heavily decreasing it to 3.
- Big Fun: They're one of the biggest piñatas in the series, but they're fun loving and love to roll around when they're happy! They're one of the few Piñatas who don't get upset if you water them, and in fact, like it. This is also shown with the cartoon character Chortles, a happy-go-lucky Pungeon Master.
Cinnamonkey
Everyone loves Cinnamonkeys with their cheeky faces and mischievous tricks. The more Cinnamonkeys the better, and the very best thing is to take a barrel and quite literally stuff it with the little tricksters. Great.
- Animal Jingoism: With fellow monkey piñata the Bonboon.
- Maniac Monkeys: Downplayed. They're rivals with Bonboons, but ambivalent to other piñatas.
- Silly Simian: As stated in their description. As long as you don't have one share a garden with a Bonboon, everything will be fine.
Cluckles
Right from the beginning, scrambled, boiled, or fried; then there's the cute fluffy bit (ahhh); then we dive right back into roast, boiled or fried. How can there be any left? A Cluckles also knows how to hatch your fragile egg in next to no time.
Cocoadile
- Crocodile Tears: It can cry on plants, which is the best fertilizer in the console games.
- Never Smile at a Crocodile: Cocoadiles are one of the pinatas that you will encounter as a sour. If you can tame one, however, it can be of use to you.
Crowla
- Creepy Crows: The first Crowla to appear in your garden is a sour that feeds off of your sick pinatas.
Doenut
- Animal Gender-Bender: They're named after female deer, but they have antlers.
Dragonache
- Single Specimen Species: A garden only has one Dragonache egg, and can only have one Dragonache in it (as such, it's one of the few species in the franchise without a romance dance).
- Sleep-Mode Size: You can return the Dragonache to an egg at any time, turning it back into its more small and cuddly baby form.
Dragumfly
- Dreadful Dragonfly: Well, dreadful to other insect piñatas, because it eats most of them.
Eaglair
Elephanilla
- Honorable Elephant: These piñatas are modelled after elephants, and they are very friendly. However, because of their size, they are very likely to unknowingly trample over your smaller piñatas, which will tick them off.
Fizzlybear
- Beary Friendly: They are bears, and they don't have any hostilities toward most other piñatas. To a Raisant, however, they are most certainly bad news.
Flutterscotch
- Butterfly of Transformation: The only Flutterscotch that appears in the wild is the White Flutterscotch. In order to get any of the other kinds of Flutterscotches, you have to feed a White Flutterscotch the item that correlates to the color you desire. The change of color also changes the design of their wings and antennae.
- Palette Swap: While the Flutterscotch variants are still considered separate species in Pocket Paradise, they all have the same base model, likely due to technical limitations.
- Pretty Butterflies: There is a total of 10 different colors of Flutterscotch that can be acquired.
Fourheads
- Multiple Head Case: This type of Syrupent goes one better than its two-headed Twingersnap relatives by having four heads.
Fudgehog
- Informed Species: It's named after the hedgehog, but it barely resembles one due to its lack of spikes.
Galagoogoo
Goobaa
- Super Wool Growth: They regrow their wool whenever they eat a certain flower in the original game and Pocket Paradise.
- Sweet Sheep: Goobaa are adorable and fluffy sheep pinatas. You can even shear their wool and make use of it.
Horstachio
- Animal Jingoism: It's rivals with fellow equine piñatas Ponocky and Zumbug. Ironically, you need one of the former to attract a Horstachio to your garden (except in Trouble in Paradise's standard mode), and it evolves into the latter.
- Series Mascot: It's often front and centre in advertising and the box art, and has a starring role in the cartoon.
Jameleon
- Hollywood Chameleon: While it can't change colour at will, this trope is reference in its description, which calls it a master of disguise.
Juicygoose
- Animal Jingoism: It's rivals with fellow waterfowl piñatas Quackberry and Swanana, despite evolving from the former.
Kittyfloss
- Cats Are Mean: Only if you have a Barkbark in your garden will they show any hostility. Although, Sparrowmints, Candaries, and Mousemallows aren't very fond of them either.
Lackatoad
- Video Game Cruelty Potential: The only way to get one is to feed a Lickatoad a nightshade berry, then smack it with a shovel.
Lickatoad
- Animal Jingoism: They're rivals with the other amphibian piñatas, Newtgat and Salamango, as well as Cherrapin.
Macaracoon
Mallowolf
- Noble Wolf: Taming a Mallowolf to your side will make it keep Ruffians from invading your garden.
- Savage Wolves: The sour versions of these pinatas scare away any potential visitors.
Moozipan
- Constantly Lactating Cow: If a Moozipan is wearing a bell, it'll get ready to be milked every so often. It also compels it to go to a Milking Shed by itself.
Mothdrop
Mousemallow
- Shout-Out: The Mousemallow house is a grandfather clock, a reference to the nursery rhyme "Hickory Dickory Dock". Their encyclopedia description also mentions that they pretend to be blind, a reference to the "Three Blind Mice".
Newtgat
- Informed Species: Is named after a newt, but appears more like an axolotl.
Parrybo
- Troll: According to Leafos, one of their favourite pastimes is mimicking their owner to order pizza, then watching said owner argue with the delivery man.
Pigxie
- Antagonistic Offspring: On a species-wide scale. Despite being hybrids of Swanana and Rashberry, Pigxies will fight with both of their parent species.
- Cue the Flying Pigs: These are pigs with wings.
- Interspecies Romance: They're the result of one — to get a Pigxie, you need to breed a Swanana and a Rashberry.
- True-Breeding Hybrid: Your first two Pigxies will be the product of Swanana/Rashberry pairings, but after that they can simply romance each other and produce baby Pigxies on their own.
Ponocky
- Animal Jingoism: It's rivals with Horstachio and Zumbug.
- Cultural Cross-Reference: The Ponocky gets its Punny Name from the popular Japanese snack food Pocky (the series is British, by the way.)
Pretztail
- Animal Jingoism: In Trouble in Paradise, it's rivals with Chocstrich and Lemmoning.
Profitamole
- Mole Miner: In Pocket Paradise, Profitamoles can enter the mine to dig up items such as coins or even a Dragonache egg.
Pudgeon
All Pudgeons are filled with state-of-the-art GPS tracking systems. So, like a feathery boomerang, they always come back. Take them on holiday, load them up with duty-free and avoid hassle with the customs.
- Instant Messenger Pigeon: Their bio states that they are capable of their navigation and are suggested for mail delivery.
Quackberry
- Semiaquatic Species Sailor: Discussed. The Quackberry house is a shipwreck, and its description asks why pirates kept Parrybos as pets if Parrybos can't swim.
- Stock Animal Diet: In order to make it a resident of your garden, you'll need to feed it bread.
Raisant
Rashberry
- Interspecies Romance: Is capable of one with a Swanana, producing a Pigxie. It's one of only two Pinatas that can mate outside its species.
- Messy Pig: The Rashberry's diet consists of rotten fruit.
Reddhott
- Pun-Based Creature: You obtain it by setting a Taffly on fire. In other words, it's a firefly.
Roario
- King of Beasts: It's a lion and the strongest and most valuable piñata after the Dragonache.
Salamango
- Fiery Salamander: Salamangos are associated with fire - or better, chili. You get them by feeding a chili pepper to a Newtgat.
Shellybean
- The Goomba: The first Sour you will find yourself encountering. As such, they're the easiest to tame, only needing to eat an Apple Seed before it turns friendly in the first game. In Trouble in Paradise, they need a radish seed and a blackberry seed to be tamed, but still nothing too complex.
Sherbat
- Bat Out of Hell: While sour, it looks like a horror movie bat and makes other pinatas sick with its bite. Once you cure it (with garlic) it becomes... a rabbit-like thing with hilariously tiny wings.
Sparrowmint
- Com Mons: Sparrowmints are extremely easy to attract to a garden: all they required in the first game was for there to be two Whirlms in the garden — and since Whirlms only require soil, this condition will likely be met automatically at the beginning of the game.
- Retcon: In the original game, Sparrowmints evolved into Candaries by eating buttercup heads. Trouble in Paradise changed the method to require a dandelion flower instead, despite said flower already existing in the first game. Pocket Paradise changed it back to buttercups.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Whirlms, which are required to romance them. They also variant when they eat Waterlily flowers.
Squazzil
- Trademark Favorite Food: In every game, it needs to eat hazelnuts to become a resident of your garden.
Swanana
- Interspecies Romance: Is capable of one with a Rashberry, producing a Pigxie. It's one of only two Pinatas that can mate outside its species.
Sweetooth
Syrupent
The only thing the Syrupent has in common with the less reputable members of its family is its shape. "What kind of snake is that" you may say? The best kind.
- Bird vs. Serpent: Robeans and Sparrowmints are a part of the Syrupent's diet. A Robean is even required for a Syrupent to romance in Trouble in Paradise.
Taffly
- Swallowed Whole: Played for laughs during the romance dance
- The Taffly being bounced against the wall bounces just a little TOO forcefully, and goes straight into the other Taffly.
Twingersnap
- A Head at Each End: Like the mythical amphisbaena, the Twingersnap has a head where a head would be expected and another where a tail would be.
- Multiple Head Case: This type of Syrupent has two heads.
Whirlm
- Com Mons: All a Whirlm needs to become a resident is a small patch of soil, which means they're incredibly likely to become residents as soon as you start clearing dry soil at the start of the game. The journal even points out how common they are.Every garden has to start somewhere, and it's harder to keep Whirlms out than it is to keep them in.
- Trademark Favorite Food: They variant when eating a Turnip.
Zumbug
- Zebras Are Just Striped Horses: In order to get a Zumbug, you need a Horstachio and some blackberries and daisies. Feed the blackberries and daisies to the Horstachio and it will turn into a Zumbug.
