History Characters / AnimalCrossing

** In Spanish, he's solely referred to as "Totakeke", because the individual letter "K" is pronounced with a short "a" sound in Spanish, and "K.K." would then sound like "caca," which is the Spanish word for... [[NobodyPoops something rather crass]]. To this end, all of his songs that normally use the "K.K." prefix instead use "Tota-" in the Spanish version (for example, "Tota-ska" instead of "K.K. Ska").

* SoProudOfYou: Expresses pride in the player's acocmplishments fairly often in ''New Horizons'', especially when they pay off loans or complete a major development project.

** Again in ''New Horizons''. Here he lampshades that he doesn't have deadlines or interest on his loans, admits he'll let Timmy and Tommy buy trash and weeds off the player even though it's not very profitable to the company, and expresses pride in the player when they reach milestones in helping build up the island.

[[WMG: Rover (Stranger Cat)]]

* NiceGuy: The very first animal you meet in every game but ''Wild World'' and he's quite friendly.

* TechnologicallyBlindElders: According to Resetti, Don tends to mistake cell phones as something you wrap sandwiches in.

* IronicFear: Mentions he’s afraid of ghosts in ''City Folk''.

--> '''Orville:''' "[[LampshadeHanging We may be flightless...but that doesn't mean YOU have to be!]]

* DemotedtoExtra: Due to the characters in NewHorizons using customization with a mirror whenever they want, her role has been reduced to being featured as a poster of herself if you read her amiibo card on Harvey's island.

* BenevolentBoss: In ''New Leaf,'' there's some optional dialogue choices that allow them to express appreciattion for Isabelle's help and they can try to encourage Isabelle to relax and even suggest giving herself some time off for herself. Isabelle tends to either politely turn down the offer or at least say that she'll consider it.
* EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep: In practically everything but the official games themselves, the player is always given the name of "The Villager," "The Mayor," or even just "The Player."
* FingerlessHands: Despite the ability to pick up and store whatever you can in the game, the player characters have no visible fingers. ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' does give them thumbs, making them into mitten-like hands. Oddly enough, their toes are visible, or at least their big toes are.
* TheGhost: Their role as the mayor is treated as this in ''Happy Home Designer'' and ''amiibo Festival'', since the player works for Nook's Homes in the former, and the main animal characters are the starring characters of the latter (the E3 trailer for the latter shows a scene where Isabelle is at the mayor's office greeting Tortimer, who's still in retirement, while the mayor themselves is not shown). Interestingly, with the Mayor it makes sense that in ''VideoGame/SuperSmashBros'' and ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'' they're too busy to do their duty.
* {{Hammerspace}}: The villager's main "power" so to speak. The player has the ability to pick up and store safely away whatever the game allows, as long as he or she has enough pocket space. From things as small as fleas to enormous as whale sharks.
* HelloInsertNameHere: The player normally names him/her, so they invoke this by nature.
* HeroicMime: Apart from dialogue options, the player character is fairly quiet. Some characters imply the player is chatty and loud while others find you quiet. Although, the copies of players that show up in the Happy Home Academy are able to talk and they speak in a pitch unique to them.
* AnInteriorDesignerIsYou: The bulk of the game allows you to collect and place furniture in your house. You can decorate the inside and outside of your house with whatever you have. Taken to it's logical extreme in ''Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer'', where your job is to decorate the inside of other villager homes.
* MistakenForSpecialGuest: In ''New Leaf'' the player doesn't do anything beforehand to become mayor aside from just moving into town and being mistaken for the actual inheritor. You get a letter later on saying that he's okay with it.

* PurelyAestheticGender: Whether a boy or a girl, the gender of the player character makes little difference gameplay-wise (in most games at least: the boy and girl have different stats in ''VideoGame/MarioKart8'').

* VagueAge: The player characters resemble children, but given the art-style of the game, and the fact that they've moved away from home and live on their own, it's hard to tell how old they actually are.
* VirtualPaperDoll: The player can choose what gender the player character is and has a limited control over what facial features the player has (Which depends on what your answers you give when asked some questions at the beginning of the game). The clothing is also up to the player. In ''Happy Home Designer'', the player has complete control over what the player character looks like (you can pick and chose hair and eye color and even options for darker skin tones).
* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Getting a haircut at Shampoodle lets you dye your hair to some non-natural hair color such as blue, green, or purple.
* YouHaveResearchedBreathing: The player needs to learn basic emotions from Dr. Shrunk.

* UsefulNotes/{{Punk}}: Flick seems to invoke this aesthetic. They even have a black bug net with [[SpikesOfVillainy spikes]] on it.

* UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns: "Watashi". (わたし)

* UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns: "Atai". (アタイ)
* {{Kawaiiko}}
* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The Light Feminine to the Snooty characters' Dark Feminine. While the peppy villagers are bubbly, nice and energetic, the Snooty characters are vainer and do not get along as easily with other characters.
** Further exemplified with the rabbits Chrissy (peppy) and Francine (snooty), who wear the Lite Polka Tee and Dark Polka Tee respectively.

* UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns: "Atashi". (あたし)

* UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns: "Uchi". (ウチ) Yes, the Japanese names for the villager types were their personal pronouns. Sisterly was a case of TooLongDidntDub on the part of the fanbase before the name was fully translated.

* UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns: "Boku". (ぼく)

* UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns: "Oira". (オイラ)

* UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns: "Ore". (オレ)

* UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns: "Boku", in katakana rather than hiragana. (ボク)

** Melancholic: Smug (Male)/Uchi (Female)

[[folder: Uchi]]
[[WMG: Uchi]]

[[caption-width-right:241:Some examples of Uchi villagers. Clockwise from top left: Canberra, Fuchsia, Sylvia, Muffy, Pashmina, Renée, Agnes, Tammy, and Cherry]]

* DistaffCounterpart: To Cranky villagers, as both come across as InnocentlyInsensitive, but are caring and empathetic deep down. Both personality types wake up and go to bed at later times than other villagers. Uchi villagers also share many traits with Jock villagers, such as their love of sports.

* UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns: "Uchi". (ウチ) Yes, the Japanese names for the villager types are their personal pronouns. Uchi is a case of TooLongDidntDub on the part of the fanbase.

* {{Tomboy}}: They tend to have more "out there" designs than other female villagers, are interested in sports, and are generally fairly rough-and-tumble. One of the petitions an Uchi villager may ask you to gather signatures for is called "Tomboys Are People Too."

* SpearCounterpart: Most comparable to Peppy villagers, both being energetic and, as of New Leaf, having the highest pitched voice of their respective genders. Uchi villagers also share their love of sports.

* NotAMorningPerson: Cranky villagers wake up at 10 AM by default, later than all the other types of villagers except Uchi in ''New Leaf''.

* SpearCounterpart: In ''New Leaf'', with their rough exterior, yet caring hidden side , they are now considered the male equivalent to Uchi villagers, and both are also stubborn and opinionated. Before this, they were compared to Snooty villagers.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He comes off as an unpleasant character, but he's actually a well meaning guy. He can't help it if his temper gets in the way. [[spoiler:He also thanks the Mayor after the Reset Center has been re-established in the town.]] If the Reset Center is re-build, he is considerably nicer, calmly asking why the player didn't save and then giving some gentle advice on how to deal with it in the future (such as keeping the battery loaded or saving more often).

* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: In ''New Horizons'' [[TechnologyMarchesOn autosave has rendered the reset center obsolete]], and given you cannot reset, Mr. Resetti has changed occupations to working for the Rescue Service, if not running it.

* AdaptationalSexuality: The English localization alludes to him having a same-sex partner, while the Japanese version says he just as a [[HeterosexualLifePartners "friend"]].

* ButThouMust: ...upgrade your house. Until ''New Leaf'', at which point he sells upgrades in his shop much like any of the other remodeling jobs he has on hand. You still need to finish paying off your current upgrade before you can buy another, but you ''can'' decide to keep your current size after paying it off.
** Similar to New Leaf, New Horizons has him not forcing you to upgrade, though at least the first upgrade (from tent to house) is required to progress the island.

* CynicismCatalyst: Going to the city and having his dreams crushed turned him from a young WideEyedIdealist into the untrusting businessman he is now. His episode gives several of the details: First, he was denied a loan at the bank, was betrayed by people who allegedly tried to help him but instead stole his assets, then let a friend borrow money but he ran off and never paid back. Despite all that, he admits that his dream still exists, but he suppresses it nowadays.

* HiddenDepths: Lyle reveals that Nook is actually a huge {{Fanboy}} of KK Slider.

* LonelyAtTheTop: He is revealed to have been best friends with [[WeUsedToBeFriends Sable]] in the past, but he lost their friendship in favor of running his Cranny (later "Nookington's").
** Averted in ''New Horizons'' thus far, with Blathers explicitly being a friend of his and more positive relationships with the player and other residents.

* GirlsWithMoustaches: Sports a shih-tzu beard in all of her appearances.

* StealthPun: Her English name contains "bell" - bells are the name of the source of currency in the game. Her head is shaped like a bag of bells. When she walks/runs, a tinkling sound (much like a bell) can be heard. She's also the primary gold sink in the game, requiring you to earn a lot of bells in order to upgrade your town.

Twin young tanuki that work in the upper levels of Nookington's. In ''New Leaf'' they run the general stores while Tom runs a home store.

* AscendedExtra: Formerly assistants to Nookington's, they now run the main shop in ''New Leaf''.

* SingleMindedTwins: Their dialogue makes it seem that they SpeakInUnison, though one always lags behind the other. One of Katrina's negative fortunes indicates they [[DownplayedTrope don't always get along]].
** In ''Pocket Camp'' Timmy admits the reason they always dress alike is not because of this trope, but Timmy intentionally copying Tommy, whose fashion sense he envies.

* VerbalTic: Whichever Nookling isn't currently speaking will often quietly reinforce what his brother just said. [-...what he said-].
* VagueAge: Are far smaller than most villagers, especially Nook, whose species they share. This and their "assistant" role led fans to assume they were young children, but then by ''New Leaf'' they were running stores on their own, something not often done by kids.
** In addition, they're young enough for in-game villagers to assume Nook adopted them, which at least indicates they're meant to be seen as minors, though teenagers can still be adopted.

[[WMG: C.J. (Jasutin)]]

[[WMG: Flick (Rekkusu)]]