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This characters sheet is about the types of villagers players can find in the Animal Crossing franchise.

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In General

All of them

• All There in the Manual: Many of the villagers are given more depth as individuals, through official descriptions, usually not present in the games. These include, but are not limited to, the e-reader cards, compatible with the GameCube installment, which have long since been discontinued, and their, Pocket Camp descriptions.
• Amazing Technicolor Wildlife: Zig-zagged, most villagers have realistic or at least reasonable body colors, such as Fauna or Beau, but some have more outrageous tones, like Rosie or Stitches.
• American Kirby Is Hardcore: The English localization of the first game spiced up the Japanese script by making villagers more mean-spirited and condescending. This lessened, as the series went on.
• Animal Jingoism: In, New Leaf and New Horizons, villagers have a system, based on species, astral sign, and personality, that determines if they get along. Cats will not get along with mice or hamsters, dogs will not get along with monkeys or apes^note an animal jingoism more based in Japan, and wolves will not get along with sheep.
• Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Because, Wild World, was for a system, far less powerful than the Nintendo GameCube, a lot of villagers from the original games, and all of its Updated Re-releases had to be cut during the transition, while others were replaced with newer villagers. From, City Folk onwards, the series has gradually brought back some of those villagers, and as of, New Horizons, there are around seventy villagers, that have not showed up, since, Doubutsu no Mori e+. This is most blatant with Champ, a jock monkey villager, who was featured, as one of the characters in the movie, but hasn't appeared in-game, since, City Folk, presumably due to looking too similar to Porter, a special non-player character.
• The Dividual: All female kangaroo villagers have a joey in their pouch, at all times. Though it's reflected in the furniture in their house, by the mother kangaroos, owning various baby furniture, the joeys themselves aren't treated in-game as separate characters from their mothers.
  • Baby See, Baby Do: The joeys of the female kangaroo villagers mimic their mother's facial expressions at all times. Official descriptions for some of the kangaroo villagers expand upon this in many ways. For example, Mathilda is apparently a bad example for her daughter, and Kitt is very careful with the language she uses in front of her child.
• Four-Temperament Ensemble:
  • Sanguine: Jock (Male) / Peppy (Female)
  • Choleric: Smug (Male) / Snooty (Female)
  • Melancholic: Cranky (Male) / Sisterly (Female)
  • Phlegmatic: Lazy (Male) / Normal (Female)
• Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: The wardrobe of villagers is very limited, compared to the player character, being limited to shirts in earlier installments. Even in games where villagers can wear robes, dresses and accessories, pants and shoes are still a no-no. Even stranger is that in New Horizons, dress-up items that are essentially full-body outfits, such as the jester costume, or the ninja costume, are depicted as either dress-like in appearance or outright exclude the bottom half when worn by villagers.
• Informed Species: There are some villagers that resemble certain animals, but are classified as another, such as Savannah, who looks like a zebra, and Papi, who looks like an okapi, but are both listed as horses, or Boone, who looks like a mandrill, but is listed as a gorilla. The ostrich villagers are especially notorious for this, as most have the plumage of other fowl species, such as Blanche being a swan, Cranston being a crested ibis, Flora being a flamingo, Gladys being a crane, Julia being a peacock, and Phil being a pheasant. Most male deer villagers are this as well due to their horns, with Bam and Erik^note Erik is actually a moose, but moose are considered deer being the only actual deer, while the rest of the males are based off of antelopes, which are related to bovines, instead of deer.
• Living Statue: Coco the Normal rabbit is all but stated to be a clay gyroid in villager shape: she has the three-holes face and color of Lloid and the generic gyroid icon, her facial expression never changes, and in New Horizons where rabbit have added Jiggle Physics to make their ears bounce, Coco is the sole exception, making her look like rigid pottery.
• Nice Girl: Or Guy. Lazy villagers and normal villagers especially, but pretty much every villager type in later games are friendly and easygoing.
• One-Gender Race: All of the lion villagers are male, with lionesses nowhere to be seen. The kangaroo villagers used to be all female, but two male kangaroos were introduced in New Leaf.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: Everyone! Their big heads, big eyes, bright colors, Super-Deformed proportions, and endearing personalities, are designed to make you fall in love with them.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: Or ridiculously animalistic robots, regardless. Among the villagers, there's Ribbot, the robot frog, Sprocket, the robot ostrich, and Cephalobot, the robot octopus, with the former two being jocks, and the latter one, being smug. Despite their appearances, they can get hungry, drink coffee, and even, get fleas, like the rest of the animals. Others among similar lines include Del, a metallic alligator, Stitches, a patchwork teddy bear, Hopkins, a living pool toy, as evidenced by an air hole on the back of his head), Coco, who appears to be a, haniwa, statue come to life or a walking gyroid, and Tia, who appears similar to a teapot, and in, New Horizons, is textured to look like porcelain.
• Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Depending on their species, personality, and astral sign, villagers can have pretty bad rivalries.
• Sleeves Are for Wimps: They're not really the "tough guy", type per se^note except for jocks, obviously, and maybe cranky and Sisterly villagers, but villagers will always wear their shirts sleeveless, even if the shirt they are wearing, is long-sleeved. Averted in New Horizons, as villagers can finally wear the sleeves that come with their shirt or dress.
• Sweet Tooth: In New Horizons, villagers can be randomly seen walking around eating lollipops or ice cream bars, or drinking soda.
• Theme Naming: They often have punny names referring to their appearance, or species. Examples include Bones, a dog, and Wolfgang, a wolf.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Due to the localization team, feeling the need to spice up the Japanese script, the overseas versions of the original GameCube game had all the villager personalities with sassier dialogue. Even the "nicer", personalities, like lazy villagers, had dialogue ranging from mild snark, to just outright mean-spirited insults directed at the player, such as calling the player fat for no reason, with a denial from the player, just getting a mocking response, from them, and saying no to any of their requests, no matter how selfish or unreasonable they might be, tends to result in getting a good lambasting, from them. This is also the case in, Wild World, although not to the same extent of its predecessor. Games from, City Folk, onwards tone this down, by staying more loyal to the original Japanese script, making the villagers nicer, and more mild mannered, and only showing any sort of meanness, if the player decides to be rude to them, first, and even then, it's pretty tame. This is noticeable with the snooty and cranky villagers, who often need to warm up to the player first, before they act friendly, but are now approachable, on their own.
• Verbal Tic: A staple of the game. Each villager starts with a unique, "catchphrase", that they say, at the end of most sentences. Occasionally, villagers will even give the player opportunities to change their verbal tics, to whatever the player desires.

Female

Normal

Some examples of Normal villagers. Clockwise from top left: Annalisa, Bertha, Chevre, Coco, Dora, Gayle, Goldie, Margie, Marina, Megan, Pekoe, and Skye.

Normal villagers are just that... normal. Unlike the people around them, who tend to be a little... extreme in one way or another, Normal villagers are soft-spoken, pleasant ladies whom it's nice to have on your side. They get along with just about everyone. In Wild World, though, they were known for being a little bit... out there.

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• Adaptation Name Change: Three squirrels of this personality have had their names changed between installments. In the original Animal Crossing, these three squirrels were named Sally, Hazel, and Bliss. However, when the latter 2 returned in Wild World, Bliss's name was changed to "Caroline" (her original Japanese name) and Hazel's name was changed to "Sally". When the original Sally returned in New Leaf, her name was changed to "Cally", while the name "Hazel" was given to a new villager, a squirrel with a Sisterly personality.
• Anime Chinese Girl: Pekoe, a bear cub villager of this type.
• Beary Friendly: New Horizons introduces Megan, a big, friendly, cuddly purple bear.
• Best Friend: Chevre has a photo of Nan in her house, and vice versa. This is a reference to a Japanese children’s song, “Goat Mail” (やぎさんゆうびん Yagi-san Yuubin), about a black goat and a white goat who write letters to each other, but keep eating the letters they receive before they get a chance to read them.
• Beware the Nice Ones: They're some of the nicest villagers in the series, but they can say some surprisingly cutting things if they're angered. Discussed in New Leaf; the reason a Lazy villager will ask you to return an item they forgot they had to a Normal villager is because they're scared of them when they're mad.
  • This is brought up yet again in New Horizons where sometimes a Lazy Villager will remark that despite a Normal Villagers usual demure mannerisms, she seems like someone who could be extremely scary if angered. Even a Cranky Villager will occasionally joke that he is worried that a Normal Villager will chew him out for his inappropriate mannerisms.
• Berserk Button: Lazy villagers calling them a neat freak or telling them to Stay in the Kitchen result in them blowing up at them.
• The Cameo: Lily appears as a costume in the Animal Crossing: Sweet Day minigame from Nintendo Land.
• Cloudcuckoolander: In Wild World, they picked up a bit of a loopy streak, especially with regards to "Moppina." They seem to be back to their old selves in City. They still have a bit of a loopy streak because they stick their heads in dry laundry often. In New Leaf, they might mention that they were writing a poem about a salt shaker or want to bake a cake in the shape of a pocket knife. According to a few time capsule letters, they'll also sleep in seemingly dangerous appliances such as a dryer. Hopefully not with them on.
• Companion Cube: In Wild World, they claim to be "best friends" with, err, a mop named Moppina. According to Word of God, this is meant to reflect on their slightly obsessive natures and their secret fears about germs and being judged for the state of their household. Makes you wonder what their childhoods must have been like...
• Cool Mask: Filly, one of the many superhero villagers, dons one of these.
• Cosmic Motifs: Ione, a squirrel villager introduced in New Horizons 2.0. Her fur is two different shades of blue, with the white spots on her tail meant to represent stars, her default outfit is the Astro Dress (or the Twinkle Tee in Pocket Camp), and her house is decorated with space-themed furniture.
• Cute Bookworm: One of their favorite hobbies is reading. They might get too excited sometimes when they talk about books to other people, which they then get embarrassed over. In Happy Home Designer, your first real client is Goldie, and she naturally wants an interior remodel for a room filled with books.
• Cute Clumsy Girl: Often prone to losing things and a tad scatterbrained. Shown in a letter where they'll sometimes randomly forget what they were about to talk to you about and are the most likely to lose "lost items".
• The Cutie: Sweet tempered, ingenuous, and even tempered these young ladies are very sweet.
  • One of the things they do in New Horizons when packing lunches for themselves draw a funny face on their crackers so they have a treat for both their day and their tummy.
  • Like the Lazy Villagers below, they adore fairy tales, and often cutely talk sweetly about romantic novels with childlike enthusiasm.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Nan is a black goat and the interior of her house has a gothic look, but she is friendly like any other normal villager.
• Developer's Foresight: In New Horizons, Coco is the only rabbit whose ears don't wiggle when she moves her head, because of her solid clay body.
• Distaff Counterpart: To Lazy villagers.
• Edible Theme Naming: Carrot the cow (a Japan-exclusive villager who only appeared in Doubutsu no Mori e+) and Merengue the rhino (whose name and overall appearance are a reference to meringue, a type of dessert).
• Eyes Always Closed: Stella the sheep always has her eyes closed.
• Frozen Face: Coco the gyroid rabbit's face never changes, regardless of her emotions, to emphasize that she is made of pottery.
• Gag Lips: Jambette is infamous for her huge pair of lips.
• The Generic Girl: Their defining personality trait is their lack of crazy. Well, except in Wild World.
• Granola Girl: They think about making the world a better place and talking about the environment. They especially like to talk whenever you see them with a watering can how they want to fill the world with flowers.
• Guest Fighter: Two, actually. There's Medli, a rito girl from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, and Viché, a squirrel who cosplays Marie from Splatoon.
• Hating on Monday: A rare Thursday example. In New Horizons, they explain that they don't like them because that's the day that (depending on which dialogue option you get) either their parents made them vacuum the whole house or their best friend had music lessons, leaving them with no one to play with that afternoon.
• Hypocritical Humor: In New Leaf, they sometimes talk about how silly it is to think wrinkles in clothing are "the end of the world", before saying stains are.
• Jiggle Physics: Almost all rabbits gain bouncy ears in New Horizons, but this is is notably omitted for Coco alone to make her head look like solid pottery.
• Neat Freak: In Wild World, they're so obsessed with cleanliness that their best friend is a mop. They still show signs of this in later games.
• Nervous Wreck: In New Horizons, they tend to do a lot of worrying, like worrying that they spend too much money or that their guests aren't enjoying themselves.
• Nice Girl: They're one of the easiest villagers to befriend, and are also one of the least likely to move out.
• Not So Above It All: In random conversations, they will say how they were pressing flower petals together in books and mistook them for tea leaves which they then served to a Snooty villager. Perhaps they're only "Normal" compared to everyone else?
• "Not So Different" Remark: In a conversation with Jock villagers regarding their respective interests in reading and exercise, they may conclude this about each other. "You prefer to exercise your body, and I prefer to exercise my mind."
• Only Sane Man: Marina's Wild World picture quote ^note I think I'm the only sane one in this town. even references this! Mitzi’s Wild World quote ^note Sometimes I think I'm the only sane one around. similarly does so.
• Pie-Eyed: Merengue, Ellie, Étoile and Poppy are designed this way.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: They're the gentle and level-headed blue onis to the ditzy and energetic Peppy villagers' red.
• Shrinking Violet: Most of the time they're quiet and soft spoken.
• Smurfette Principle: Marina is the only female octopus.
• Stern Teacher: They're this in Happy Home Designer if you visit the school and they're the teacher.
  Normal Teacher: Don't come into my classroom if you're not ready to do some serious schoolwork. / (Sighing) I KNOW I've got a reputation as a really tough taskmaker, but that's only because I care, OK?
• Supreme Chef: If there's a villager who excels in cooking, it's usually them. They often talk with other villagers about the importance of the visuals in food aside from just the taste. Often their favorite recipes are sweets and desserts.
• Sweet Tooth: Megan, a bear introduced in New Horizons. Her Japanese name is Kyandi (Candy), her initial catchphrase is "sundae", she holds a lollipop in her poster, and her Pocket Camp bio notes how much she loves sweets, to the point that she only allows herself to partake in them after she finishes her daily chores so that she doesn't overindulge.
  • Ellie the elephant also qualifies. Her Pocket Camp description states that she has "the ultimate sweet tooth... or, if we're being accurate, a sweet trunk", and the furniture offered in her fortune cookie is a series of donut shop-themed items.
  • Merengue the rhino. Her name refers to meringue, a type of dessert; her appearance is based on a strawberry cake and her catchphrase is "shortcake". Her default outfit is the Chef's Outfit and her house is decorated like a bakery.
• Tsundere: Sweet type. They're really easy to befriend, but they can get quite annoyed at Lazy and Jock villagers. See the below conversation between a Normal and Lazy villager under Innocently Insensitive below.
• Wingding Eyes: Peaches the horse has X-eyes, but they don't appear as such until she blinks.
• Youthful Freckles: Bea, Alice, Megan and Chevre all have them.

Peppy

Some examples of Peppy villagers. Clockwise from top left: Audie, Bella, Bianca, Bluebear, Chrissy, Flora, Ketchup, Peanut, Peggy, Rosie, Sprinkle, and Twiggy.

Like, ohmigosh! Peppy villagers are, like, those one girls, you know, like, the ones who live in California? I forget what they call them, but, like, they're always energetic and interested in fashion and stuff! And they, like, use "Like" a lot? Whatever — they're always, like, full of energy, so, like, they really love doing stuff!

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• Big Fun: The larger examples, such as Pinky and Tutu, come off as this.
• Blue Is Heroic: Agent S, one of the five superhero villagers, has blue as her primary color.
• Breakout Character: Of all the villagers, Rosie is the most prominent in media. She has received a starring role in the movie, appears in Villager's reveal trailer, received several pieces of merchandise, has a space in Nintendo Monopoly and a sticker in Super Smash Bros. Brawl (the latter two no other villager does).
• Buffy Speak: If you get their coffee order perfect in New Leaf, they may respond with "OMG! This smells, like, supremely nommy!"
• The Cameo: Tangy and Peanut appear as costumes in the Animal Crossing: Sweet Day minigame from Nintendo Land.
• The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: They're one of the two villager types in New Horizons who know the reason that you're burying Bells is because they'll grow into a Bell tree (rather than the other types who are concerned that something's wrong).
• Cool Helmet: Agent S, one of the five superhero villagers, dons one of these.
• Cool Shades: Audie, a peppy wolf introduced in New Horizons, has these.
• Cosmic Motifs: Ruby, whose name is Luna in Japan, has this motif in her house in New Horizons, befitting the Moon Rabbit theme. Another rabbit villager, Carmen, has this motif in her house in City Folk.
• Cute and Psycho: Some of their dialogue in New Horizons implies this, such as saying that basements are great for screaming because nobody will hear you, freaking out when they see the player with a shovel because of what they might find, which are definitely NOT pitfall traps, and telling the player they will "climb inside their head and listen to all their thoughts."
• Distaff Counterpart: To the equally energetic Jock villagers.
• The Ditz: When you talk to them in their house, they may tell you about how they lost all of their socks, only to find them in the freezer. And now their feet are cold.
• Edible Theme Naming: Ketchup (the tomato duck) and Tangy (the tangerine cat).
  • Cheri and Bluebear, bear cubs named for the colors of their fur (cherry red and blueberry blue, respectively).
  • There's also Anicotti the mouse^note whose name refers to manicotti, Apple the hamster, Cookie the dog, Peanut the squirrel, Sprinkle the penguin^note whose name refers to sprinkles on ice cream, since her catchphrase is "frappe" and Truffles the pig.
  • Candi the mouse may also be an example, with her name referring to her sweet-as-candy personality.
• Epic Fail: Within their house, they may remark that they've been known to burn water. How do you burn water?!
• Eyes Always Closed: Wendy the sheep always has her eyes closed.
• Genius Ditz: They generally come across as excitable Brainless Beauties, but in New Horizons, they're shown to be good at crafting and giving DIY recipes to the player.
• Genki Girl: Oh, so much. Peppy villagers are one of the most energetic and hyperactive characters, who have an air of confidence in their dreams to be a pop star. This is even more pronounced if they have the "Play" hobby in New Horizons where you might see them run around childishly.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Gained a bit of a geek streak in New Horizons, as they occasionally talk about comic books and even play video games. They also love heavy metal and love listening to it, though they admit that they themselves wouldn't fit in the metal scene very much.
  • Bella, in particular, is an example (see Perky Goth below).
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Many of their pictures have Unusual Euphemisms of this sort written on them, like "SHRIEKING SUGARCUBES!"
• Gratuitous French: They usually put French prefixes in front of every word, even if it makes no sense.
• Guest Fighter: Epona, Link's horse that debuted in The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, and Cece, a squirrel who cosplays Callie from Splatoon.
• Hidden Depths: In New Horizons, they have a rather mature view on romance, as they don't look for the conventional Prince Charming as a love interest. Instead, they seek the one that will cheer them on the loudest in their pursuits of fame, or in other words, their biggest supporter. It even surprises the Snooty villagers.
• It's All About Me: A friendly version of this. New Leaf makes their behavior more narcissistic, with them loving attention and thinking of themselves as having lots of fans. New Horizons tones down the narcissistic side, even if it shows up from time to time. Peppy villagers see themselves as up-and-coming superstars and try their best to make this dream come true.
• Kawaiiko: Chrissy is designed with this in mind.
• Lethal Chef: They've been known to burn juice. How do you burn juice?
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: 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.
• Moon Rabbit: Ruby, a rabbit villager of this personality type, seems to be a reference to this — her Japanese name is Luna, and her house has a moon/space theme.
• Ocular Gushers: In New Horizons, they have a short crying animation when talking about a villager who's going to move the next day.
• Perky Goth: Bella has a hint of this; she's a normal Peppy villager, but her default shirt has a flaming skull on it and she plays K.K. Metal in her home if she has a stereo.
• Perpetual Smiler: Merry grins even when she is unhappy, unless she does the intense emotion.
• Pie-Eyed: Twiggy and Rosie are designed this way.
• A Pig Named "Porkchop": Patty the cow, whose name references a hamburger patty; and Pate the duck, whose name references a meat spread usually made from the liver of a duck or goose.
• Pink Means Feminine: Appropriately for the girliest villager type, many Peppy villagers wear pink outfits or are pink, but special mention goes to Flora the flamingo^note officially, she's an ostrich, but she's colored like a flamingo whose favorite color is pink, her default catchphrase being "pinky", and her picture quote being "Pink is the new black." Her home requests in Happy Home Designer and Happy Home Paradise have her wanting a house that's entirely pink.
  Flora: (thought bubble) If it's in my home, then it better be pink! Oh yeah!
• The Pollyanna: They definitely are the most upbeat out of all the personalities. You might catch them wanting to throw a "rainy day party" to lift the town's spirits up if it's raining outside. They're also extremely optimistic about their chance to become a pop star and even want to make a love song that helps people fall in love.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: They're the ditzy and energetic red onis to the gentle and level-headed Normal villagers' blue.
• The Smurfette Principle: Prior to New Leaf, Bangle was the only female tiger in the series.
• Stepford Smiler: Merry. She goes beyond being Peppy to the point of smiling at all times, even during her "angry" and "sad" animations and dialogue.
• Sweet Tooth: Carmen the rabbit has chocolaty-brown fur and her catchphrase is "nougat". In Happy Home Designer, she'll ask you to fill her house with chocolate-themed items.
• Tsundere: Sweet is their default behavior, and like Normal villagers, they get bothered by Lazy villagers who often argue with them. Can also be this to Jock villagers, who are often hanging around with them.
• Valley Girl: Their interests plus the way they speak show them this way.
• Vibrant Orange: Anabelle, Audie, Bubbles, Bunnie, Elina, Flossie, Koharu, Leigh, Tabby, Tangy and, if you count Welcome amiibo, Epona are all various shades of orange and all Genki Girls. Meanwhile, Patty is brown but her default clothes is the Orange Shirt in every game.
• Youthful Freckles: Freckles has them, (obviously), as do Nibbles, Pippy, Ruby and Gabi.

Snooty

Some examples of Snooty villagers. Clockwise from top left: Ankha, Becky, Cleo, Diana, Francine, Judy, Mathilda, Naomi, Portia, Whitney, Willow, and Yuka.

My, oh my! Snooty characters aren't nasty, exactly, but they definitely have a highfalutin' attitude. They have a tendency to rub others the wrong way. That said, they're not totally heartless — in fact, if befriended, they can be quite nice. They have a taste for the finer things in life and high standards, though. In New Leaf especially they're not as mean as they used to be and are actually quite friendly to other villagers and especially the player.

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• Ancient Egypt: Ankha the cat, who looks like a typical pharaoh and has an Egyptian-themed house.
• Animal Gender-Bender: Julia, a female peafowl whith the colorful plumage of a male one.
• A Wizard Did It: Happy Home Designer shows that they can't stand this being used in media. Should they be watching TV, they may call out a plot hole in the film that's on and then reject this trope as an excuse.
• Big Beautiful Woman: Naomi and Pancetti try to invoke this on their amiibo card.
• Cloud Cuckoolander: In New Leaf they may sometimes talk about UFOs. And no, it's not what you think it is... They're "Unidentified Floor Oranges".
• Cool Big Sis:
  • Believe it or not, Lazy villagers may comment on how a Snooty villager would be nice to have as a sister. They also act as a surrogate big sister to the player character if you befriend them. Or even a Mama Bear or possible Love Interest to Male PCs.
  • Francine the rabbit seems to be this to Chrissy the peppy rabbit, particularly in Happy Home Designer where her room request is "something Chrissy would like." The Japanese City Folk website even says she's Chrissy's older sister. According to their Pocket Camp bios, Francine is very mindful of Chrissy's behavior despite how aloof she is of her own; her own further suggests that his is a testament to just how much she cares for her.
• Deadpan Snarker: In the GameCube installments, the snooty villagers are more snarky compared to their later appearances.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: They can be standoffish at first, but will quickly warm up to the player if you make the effort to befriend them.
• Distaff Counterpart: They are this to Smug villagers, who are similarly vain but willing to befriend you. Until New Leaf, however, they were compared to Cranky villagers, due to sharing their "initially stand-offish until you get closer to them" character trait as well as possibly the same age range.
• Edible Theme Naming: Cupcake the bear cub (who hasn't been seen since the first game) and Pecan the squirrel.
• Exactly What It Says on the Tin: One snooty villager is an anteater... named Snooty.
• Exotic Eye Designs: Judy has become one of the most sought-after villagers for her unique design, including pink-and-blue pastel fur and star-shaped reflections in her eyes.
• Eyes Always Closed: Baabra the sheep always has her eyes closed.
• Fish Eyes: Due to Eloise's default expression having her eyes looking to her side, when looked from the front, she appears to have these.
• Former Child Star: New Leaf says they used to be in a show called "<Town Name> Kids Sing and Shout Hour" or something to that effect and signed autographs everywhere. They gave it up for the quiet life in your town and aren't even recognized by any animal celebrities like K.K. Slider and Gracie.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: While the snooty villagers are usually feminine and fashionable, Petri is dressed like a scientist and her house looks like a laboratory.
• Gossipy Hens: The primary source of gossip in town are usually these villagers. Of course, they try to deny it. A few snooty villagers are literally hens (namely, Becky and Broffina). Note that if you should befriend one, they'll say they'd never say anything but good things about the PC and state that he/she is so much better than anyone else.
• Gyaru Girl: Soleil looks a lot like one, with eye makeup, Blush Stickers, bleached blonde hair, and orange fur that evokes the appearance of having tanned skin.
• Invented Individual: They claim to have a boyfriend in the GCN game. But he is never referred to in any other game, meaning they were likely doing it to make the male PC jealous.
• It's All About Me: Very much so in the GCN game; toned down in later games, to the point that they're actually less self-centered than the Peppy villagers in New Leaf.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: They can be this on their good days, talking about how the player is one of their best friends and often compliment the player's house in New Leaf.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Dark Feminine to the Peppy villagers' Light Feminine. See entry on Peppy Villagers.
• Lovable Alpha Bitch: They started out as pure Alpha Bitch, but warmed up considerably after the GCN game, to the point they don't really gossip as much in New Horizons. And in New Leaf when you confront one about spreading rumors about you, they simply say "I would never say anything mean about you, <Player>. I'm just spreading the good word." Also in New Leaf, in they're much nicer (and loopier) than before. Noticeably, when returning left-behind items to other villagers (which the player delivers), the recipient may comment about how nice it's wrapped. When you return the news to the Snooty villager, they'll reply, "Well, of course I wrapped it up! What kind of savage doesn't return an item wrapped up nicely?"
• Meaningful Name: There's an anteater villager whose name actually is Snooty.
• Mother Goose: Willow the sheep has two nursery rhyme references related to sheep. Her catchphrase is "bo peep" and her Japanese name is Mari (Mary).
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: Monique is a cat parody of Marilyn Monroe, up to including the makeup. Tiffany is a rabbit version of Audrey Hepburn.
• The Ojou: They've got the princess (or depending on how old they actually are) queen-like personality down and even have well-refined tastes as shown by their houses, so should you cater to their tastes, they'll greatly reward you for it.
• Opaque Nerd Glasses: Petri dons a pair of these by default.
• Peacock Girl: The ostrich Julia is designed to look like a peacock.
• Perpetual Frowner: Ankha is never seen smiling, even when she's happy.
• A Pig Named "Porkchop": Pancetti the pig, whose name refers to an Italian dish made from salt-cured pork bellies.
• Really 700 Years Old: Ankha's e-reader card description states that she claims to have been a cat in Cleopatra's court, and "That would make her 3,000 years old!"... even though Cleopatra lived only about 2,000 years ago. Her Pocket Camp bio also pushes the 3,000 years old claim.
• Self-Deprecation: In New Leaf, they occasionally acknowledge that they can be hard to deal with.
• Shipper on Deck: Played for Laughs; in New Leaf they may sometimes ask the player if two other villagers in town make a cute couple, only to admit they're not actually a couple, "...yet."
• Ship Tease: In New Leaf, if you're a male and you constantly send them letters they'll usually end their letters with "Love and Yours" and begin their letters with My dear X, showing they can really have a crush on the protagonist if given the chance. Could be May–December Romance depending on just how much older they are than the protagonist.
• Shout-Out: Velma looks an awful lot like another character named Velma... In New Leaf she was even given a new outfit that looks more like her.
• The Smurfette Principle: Prior to New Leaf, Amelia was the only female eagle in the series.
• Snobs Vs Slobs: They may not get along with lazy villagers due to their difference in standards; snooty villagers are posh and sometimes arrogant, preferring the finer things in life whereas lazy villagers are more than content to have a nice time anywhere, and are often slobbish at times.
• So Proud of You: After sending them enough letters, if you send them one during the holiday season they state how much you've grown up and that they are proud of who you've become, regardless of gender. They also state they must have learned that from them.
• Squee: In New Leaf, if you give them the right present on their birthday, they'll squeal in delight.
• Stealth Pun: Petri is a mouse dressed like a scientist and her default furniture in her house is a laboratory, making her a literal lab mouse.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Much like Cranky villagers, they've gotten considerably less acerbic with each installment. By the time of New Leaf, they're hardly mean. Just very high-maintenance. In New Horizons, they affectionately call anyone they talk to "darling" or "dear". Their elitist attitude is gone and they're prone to playing games with other villagers as well as giving them fashion advice when asked.
• Tsundere: Harsh type. They tend to go from aloof to nice in a short time span.
• Vague Age: Like Cranky below, they are extremely hard to tell how old they are. Some say they're as old as the Cranky villagers through subtle hints like "having an arsenal of skin care products to deal with wrinkles" which would put them in the late 30s early 40s or possibly even 50s range. Though they don't appear to have signs of aging unlike the Cranky villager, and could technically go anywhere from late 20s to early 40s; in Wild World, one of the conversations with them may even suggest that they may be in their early or mid 20s assuming they're telling the truth; they may ask you how old the player thinks they are using a slider ranging from 20 to 30, and will be offended at either extreme but be fine with roughly the 23-27 range.
• Youthful Freckles: Velma has them, just like her namesake.

Sisterly

Some examples of Sisterly villagers. Clockwise from top left: Agnes, Charlise, Cherry, Frita, Fuchsia, Hazel, Katt, Pashmina, Renée, Reneigh, Shari, and Tammy.

Who're you lookin' at? One of the personalities introduced in New Leaf, villagers with this personality are big sister types. They are a bunch of tough cookies, but they are very outgoing and friendly. They're very protective of their friends.

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• Acrofatic: Some of them are burly hens or bears which are often considered the "fatter" villager species, and are considered the strongest ladies in your town to the point even Jock villagers fear them sometimes.
• Bifauxnen: Quinn the eagle has the looks, voice and occasionally dialogue that could allow her to pass off as a Smug villager. However, she's as sisterly to the player as ever.
• Big Ol' Unibrow: Hazel the squirrel has one. Her catchphrase is even "uni-wow".
• Beary Friendly: Some of them are bear villagers, such as Charlise and Paula.
• Boobs-and-Butt Pose: Diva does a variation of this pose in the cover of K.K. Milonga.
• Bully Hunter: These spunky ladies do not tolerate bullies, and tell you to know when to give up and never pick on anyone for no reason. They'll even want to know if you're pestered by anyone in town so they can beat them up. This shows after you talk to them JUST AFTER you get stung by wasps.
• Cloudcuckoolander: They seem to think that a "turf war" is literally just people throwing turf at each other. Also they have a stash of... well, everything. Especially humorous if one says they gave you a traffic cone from their stash of construction equipment. Also, they think doppelgänger is spelled "waffle hanger". Also they have bizarre dreams and salute potatoes. One of the dreams in question in New Horizons is about a dinosaur who couldn't pay off their mortgage in a million years if they hear you've been digging up fossils. Another dream that's exclusive to New Leaf is one where they have dreams about giant fruits, and even dreams about being a superheroine. Back off, evildoer.
• Cool Big Sis: As rough as they can be, they're extremely protective of the Player Character, and will even give you medicine for free if you talk to them after being stung by a bee. Even if they're sick themselves. In New Horizons they instead provide you with the crafting recipe for medicine, but it's not really any less generous.
• Cool Helmet: Rocket, one of the five superhero villagers, dons one of these.
• Cool Mask: Mira wears an orange superhero mask.
• Cordon Bleugh Chef: They love cooking in New Horizons but also love experimenting with their food, with less than desirable results. A conversation between one and a lazy villager has the sisterly offer to cook a dish with outlandish ingredients in it, which gives the lazy villager doubts. The conversation goes from Lazy wanting the Sisterly villager to cook for them, to him saying that he'll be busy hiding from them on the day the Sisterly offers. If the player finds them cooking in their house, they'll give the recipe for what they're cooking to the player... because they're not even using it and are just making it up as they go along.
• Cosmic Motifs: Like the aforementioned Ruby and Carmen, Mira is based on the Moon Rabbit and her New Leaf house is decorated with space-themed furniture. She'll also ask you to design a space-themed house for her in Happy Home Designer and Happy Home Paradise.
• Cute Bruiser: They're all cute but one of the things they like to talk about openly is beating other people up. If they're a student in the school in Happy Home Paradise, they like to boast that they're the toughest in the school and could take on all the other students at once in a fight and still win.
• Dark and Troubled Past: Some of their dialogue implies a criminal history behind them (see Last-Second Word Swap below), though given the setting of the game it's Played for Laughs whenever it's brought up. They do say earnestly though that they had an "eventful" life and offers the player to go to them for advice if they need it.
• Decomposite Character: They're this to Peppy islanders from the GameCube game. Compared to their regular Peppy counterparts, Peppy islanders were rambunctious and rowdy young women similar to the modern Sisterly personality, to which they eventually developed into. Charlise and Plucky, former Peppy islanders, were given the Sisterly personality as a result when they made their return as regular villagers in New Leaf.
• Distaff Counterpart: To Cranky villagers, as both come across as Innocently Insensitive, but are caring and empathetic deep down. Both personality types wake up and go to bed at later times than other villagers. Sisterly villagers also share many traits with Jock villagers, such as their love of sports.
• Edible Theme Naming: Cherry (the red dog) and Frita (the hamburger sheep).
  • Hazel might also be an example, as her name is a reference to the hazelnut.
• Elegant Gothic Lolita: Muffy the sheep's design resembles this, with black wool, purple horns, makeup, and a pink scarf (Purple dress in New Horizons). Her home also has a bunch of rococo furniture and other fancy items.
• Face of a Thug: They might reminisce about a time they accidentally made a kid cry because of their looks. They also inadvertently make a Lazy villager cry when they try to teach them about giving others the stink eye.
• Fanservice: The cover of K.K. Disco features Fuschia in a crop top and short skirt. No, really.
• Friend to All Children: In New Horizons, they reveal that they used to be their community's go-to babysitter, and they adore kids. They even explain that they're motivated to go and learn new things so that they can answer the questions that kids ask them. They will, however, also mention that they really don't seem like the type who would like kids at all, which is a bit odd coming from Sylvia the kangaroo. They also bring up how they are good friends with their neighbour's kid and that they find him adorable, sharing many stories with the player about their interactions with him.
• Genki Girl: More subdued than Peppy, but very energetic. Just don't get on their bad side.
• Gyaru Girl: Deirdre looks like one.
• Hot-Blooded: It doesn't take much to anger them, and once they do, watch out!
• Innocently Insensitive: Similar to the Lazy villagers above, they can sometimes make other villagers cry by saying certain rude things that rub them the wrong way. Like saying a Lazy villager's catchphrase is "lame" for instance. They don't really mean what they say, however.
• The Lad-ette: Their favorite topics of conversation include getting into fights, playing sports, and getting into more fights.
• Lady Looks Like a Dude: Several sisterly villagers have a more masculine appearance compared to the other three female personality types.
• Last-Second Word Swap: Place a cool tent at your campsite in Pocket Camp, and they'll note how the motorcycle reminds them of when they were living on the road and running away from the law-I mean, the LOBSTERS.
• Magical Girl: Mira, with her color motif and English and Japanese names (Mirako) being a Shout-Out to Sailor Venus.
• Mama Bear: They're very protective of their friends. Befriend them and they'll tell you that they'll gladly beat up anyone for you that's giving you trouble... even if you get stung by wasps.
• Neat Freak: When visiting their houses or visiting yours, they often talk about cleaning methods.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Sorta justified for her being a phoenix, but Phoebe wishes to live in a house surrounded by fire in Happy Home Designer, giving you campfires, torches, and even gas pumps and gas cans... Making her seeming to be an arsonist...
• Not a Morning Person: They wake up later than any other villager (11 AM by default in New Leaf, 9:30 AM in New Horizons), and are still a little sleepy when they get up.
• Passionate Sports Girl: May randomly ask the Player Character how they would rate themselves at some sort of sport, saying that she's going to try to organize a town tournament.
• Perky Goth:
  • Muffy the sheep evokes this with her appearance contrasting with her personality. Her birthday is also Valentine's Day and her default catchphrase is "nightshade".
  • Cherry the dog with her additional punk influences is basically a perky Emo Punk girl.
  • Quinn the eagle, with black clothing, purple feathers, and noticeable eyeshadow.
• The Phoenix: While Phoebe is technically an ostrich, her name, catchphrase, red-and-yellow feathers and heavily fire-themed house make it quite clear that she's actually a phoenix.
• Pink Means Feminine: Rocket, the fourth member of the team of hero villagers wears a pink suit, but is a big tomboyish gorilla.
• Retcon: Alongside the Smug villagers, some such as Charlise and Sylvia (originally Peppy and Snooty respectively) were changed into this personality in New Leaf. Similarly, Faith originally had the Normal personality, but it was changed to Sisterly for her return to the series in New Horizons.
• School Uniforms are the New Black: Renée's starting outfit is a Sailor Fuku.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: They may like beating people up, but they are mainly violently protective of the Player Character because they see them as a younger sibling. They even admit in letters "deep emotional stuff isn't usually their thing". Suuuure.
• Sweet Sheep: Muffy is a pretty looking sheep villager, and just as friendly as any sisterly villager.
• Tank-Top Tomboy: Canberra the koala wears a green-and-white-striped tank top as her default outfit.
• 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 a Sisterly villager may ask you to gather signatures for is called "Tomboys Are People Too."
• Tomboy with a Girly Streak: Their boyish personality is at the forefront, but there some that do look girlier than the standard tomboy fare.
  • Muffy. She's an Elegant Gothic Lolita who wears a headband with ribbons on it, a pink scarf (replaced with a fancy purple dress in New Horizons), and makeup, and her house's furnishings are very ornate, with a lot of furniture from the rococo series. However, she has the same tomboyish personality as other Sisterly villagers.
  • Diva, Fuchsia, Pashmina and Reneigh's designs are more in line with snooty villagers, and yet, are sporty tomboys.
  • In New Horizons, one conversation with Normal villagers will have them talk about how much they love flowers, and how they're annoyed that other people are surprised to find this out (for extra points, one of your response choices is reacting with shock).
• Trademark Favorite Food: They sometimes mention that they absolutely love potatoes and can eat them in any format.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: With Cranky villagers. In New Horizons, you might come across them arguing and insulting each other about a time one of them accidentally made a kid cry when they were hanging out together. Turns out their insults are just them goofing around and they really do appreciate each other as a good friend.
  Dialogue Choice: You two... hang out?
  Cranky: All the time. Why? Oh! Is it the insults? Ha! No, <Sisterly> and I are just joshin'.
  Sisterly: Yeah, just cause he smells like rotting peaches and airplane exhaust doesn't mean we aren't friends!
  Cranky: Gahaha! You're just as charming as a mortgage payment, and twice as draining to be around.
• Walking Tech Bane: They may claim to be this if they visit the player's house and see a computer in it.
• Youthful Freckles: Ursala and Frita both have them.

Male

Lazy

Some examples of Lazy villagers. Clockwise from top left: Al, Beau, Bob, Doc, Filbert, Hornsby, Lucky, Papi, Raddle, Sherb, Stitches, and Zucker.

Relax, man! Lazy villagers are just in it to have a good time. They love long naps, good food, and a party every once in a while. They may subtly flirt with the female players. They're easygoing and tend to be agreeable. Some of the more Hot-Blooded types may be annoyed by their slow pace, but relax... they're just doing what they do best. Chill.

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• Adorably Precocious Child: Although "child" maybe an overstatement here due to their vague age, but they're implied to be the youngest out of all the villager personalities and they tend to act like prepubescent children trying to act all grown up.
• Ambiguously Bi: The fact they want to sleep in the same bed as you regardless of gender, think you're stealthy like a ninja, and admit you have hands perfect for shaking trees while the "dreamy" heart appears over their head during both leaves very little to the imagination. But given the No Hugging, No Kissing rules of Animal Crossing they don't go much farther.
• Animate Inanimate Object: Stitches is a living teddy bear.
• Anthropomorphic Food: Zucker looks like a takoyaki (better known in the west as "octopus balls"), a fried Japanese snack food made of octopus. He even has sauce on his head and seasoning on his face (acting as his "hair" and "freckles", respectively).
• Bambification: Beau and Erik, the lazy deer villagers.
• Bandage Mummy: Lucky, who at first looks like an actual Mummy due to his wrappings and the Ancient Egypt theme in his house prior to New Horizons, but as per his bios and his written quote in Wild World, is actually wrapped up due to a rather spectacular injury he sustained. (see Noodle Incident below)
• Big Eater: Half the time they talk about eating. If they are present at someone's birthday, they'll remark about wanting to eat the cake.
• Born Unlucky: Lucky, as per his bios highlighting his Amusing Injuries and the reason why he's all wrapped in bandages. In Happy Home Designer, he wants a house filled with good luck charms to counteract all the bad luck he has.
  Pocket Camp description: It's rare to meet someone who fails to live up to his name so spectacularly, but Lucky doesn't seem to mind. So, maybe he's pretty lucky after all.
• Breakout Character: Stitches is the male villager that's most seen in official media, being the only male of the three villagers featured as special amiibo cards for the amiibo Festival, and having official merchandise based on his likeness.
• Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Doc is a sort of literal example. He has a skill in typing and a dream of becoming a programmer in New Leaf and is the only Lazy villager with the education hobby in New Horizons. But of course, he's still every bit the cloudcuckoolander the rest of the Lazy villagers are.
• The Cameo: Dizzy appears as a costume in the Animal Crossing: Sweet Day minigame from Nintendo Land.
• Camp: Papi's catchphrase is "haaay". Granted, he's a horse, but there's no way the English localization team didn't have the Camp Gay stereotype in mind when they decided on that one.
• Cats Are Lazy: There are four lazy cat villagers (Bob, Felyne, Moe, and Punchy), and one lazy lion villager (Rex).
  Pocket Camp description: Sunday is Rex's favorite day of the week. Why wouldn't it be? It's the day of rest! Of course, that's pretty much what he does Monday through Saturday too.
• Characterization Marches On: In earlier versions of the series (at least in the English localizations) the character archetype was loosely implied to be a collection of cool and wacky old guys, with their silliness being explained by their age and their laziness implying the Senior Sleep-Cycle. Later editions re-imagined their childish personalities as being literal childishness, now re-framed to be the youngest villager type. Minor details were changed on certain villagers along with this (such as altering the shading of Doc's mouth so it doesn't resemble a mustache as much) to make their age vague on the other end of the spectrum. Dobie and T-Bone are cases of villagers changing personality type because of this. They were both lazy in their first appearance, Dobie looks like a true elder, while T-Bone just looks like a cool older brother kind of guy, respectively, meant they had to switch to cranky villagers, upon their return in, New Leaf.
• Cloudcuckoolander: If it doesn't involve eating or sleeping, it probably doesn't reach Planet Lazy. Sometimes they can say outright weird things like how they had a dream about rock climbing in a sauna and the player character saved them. They aren't dumb, just childishly naive.
• The Cloudcuckoolander Was Right: They're one of the two villager types in New Horizons who know the reason that you're burying Bells is because they'll grow into a Bell tree (rather than the other types who are concerned that something's wrong). They also lean very hard on the fourth wall when a late night chips-and-TV-binge reveals the true nature of the world they live in. Additionally, the recipes they claim they learned from the bugs nesting in their house work perfectly, as do the bugs' advice about visitors to your island.
• Cool Helmet:
  • Big Top, one of the five superhero villagers, dons one with a transparent visor.
  • Puck, a penguin who wears a blue hockey helmet, and in New Horizons, he gets a jersey to go with it.
• Conspiracy Theorist: Benedict in Pocket Camp, although his bio claims he's just forgetful.
• Cosmic Motifs: Filbert, who starting from City Folk onwards keeps space themed furniture in his house. In Pocket Camp his Level 15 request is a spaceship model and the furniture offered in his fortune cookie gave space-shuttle themed items.
  • Sasha will ask you to build him a space-themed house in, Happy Home Paradise, referring to the Japanese legend of the Moon Rabbit.
• The Cutie: And how! These guys will cry at the drop of a hat, are nothing but nice to everyone, with occasional moments of being insensitive, and are downright adorable. Plus they act like little kids which only adds to the cuteness. Beau's description in Pocket Camp even references this.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Rodeo, a bull introduced in, Wild World, has a dark grey coat and red eyes, and in New Horizons has the graduation gown, which resembles a black robe, as his default outfit; however, he's just as sweet and childlike, as the rest of the lazy villagers.
• Dream Walker: Played for Laughs in, New Horizons; when talked to, they may claim that they spoke with you earlier in your dreams, then apologizing for accidentally wandering in.
• Drives Like Crazy: When they describe the experience of riding in a car, they take on the persona of the stereotypical maniac driver. Afterward, they reveal they're not allowed to drive anymore, suggesting that's how they actually drove.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady:
  • Bob, a male Lazy purple cat, whose default shirt looked like a dress up until New Leaf and has a strange knowledge of fashion.
  • Filbert, a male Lazy blue squirrel, who not only looks rather effeminate, but also wears a white and pink floral dress as his default shirt in every game he appears in, up until New Leaf (where it was changed to a black and white checkerboard patterned shirt).
  • Sasha, a male rabbit villager, looks very feminine compared to the other lazy villagers. His name (in the English translation) and cute looks may lead some players to mistake him for a girl at first.
• Edible Theme Naming: Filbert is named after the filbert nut, which is another name for the hazelnut.
• Even the Guys Want Him: Beau's description in Pocket Camp mentions how everyone can't help but fawn over him, due to his status as The Cutie.
• Extreme Omnivore: In New Horizons, a DIY recipe in a message bottle from a lazy villager might have a comment about how they almost ate the paper they wrote it on because they were sleepy and hungry.
• Face of a Thug: Rodeo is a black bull with red eyes, giving him an extremely intimidating appearance. But being a Lazy villager, he's a big softie.
• Fanboy: Alfonso the alligator wears a Mario shirt and has "it'sa me" as catchphrase.
• The Fashionista:
  • Sasha, the only male villager to have the fashion hobby in New Horizons. Though his dialogue doesn't often address his interest in fashion, he can be seen walking around with a brown leather bag, glasses, and a hat to match, as well as reading magazines with models on the pages.
  • Jacob's Pocket Camp bio claims he's this.
• Fourth-Wall Observer: Downplayed. They accidentally perceive the nature of the world after a late-night binge of chips and TV, though they shrug it off as indigestion. Also, if they teach you the "Mistaken" reaction^note The character smacks themself in the face, and a star falls on top of the character's head, they'll wonder aloud where the star that falls on your head even comes from.
• Friend to Bugs: Lazy villagers grew an affinity to bugs in New Horizons, and sometimes talk about the bugs that wander around their house. There's a bug nest under their floorboards that they keep feeding snacks, and they claim the bugs speak to them notifying them of crafting recipes and town visitors.
• Funny Octopus: Zucker, one of only 5 octopus villagers.
• Genius Ditz: They're not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed, regularly misunderstanding certain words and concepts, but in New Horizons they can still give you DIY recipes, implying they're at the very least competent when it comes to crafting.
• Gentle Giant: Any lazy villager from a "big" species such as gorillas and bears is this by design.
• Guest Fighter: Felyne is based on the sentient cats from Monster Hunter.
• Heavy Sleeper: The other half they talk about napping. They also wake up at 8:00 AM and go to sleep at 11:00 PM, which is longer than other villager types.
• Hidden Depths: Lazy as they are, they're good cooks and still willing to put in an effort to the food prep in their meals, calling themselves "food motivated" if you find them cooking in Pocket Camp. And as shown in Beau and Punchy's respective scrapbook memories, they both open up successful restaurants in the campsite. Beau in particular is shown to be very analytic and is able to give helpful suggestions to Egbert and Fang on what to get on his bakery's menu, which surprises Fang.
• Identical Stranger: Rex the lazy lion looks nearly identical to Elvis the cranky lion, aside from their clothing and the fact that Rex has Youthful Freckles while Elvis has scars on his cheeks.
• Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain: Big Top, an elephant of this type, seems to be one of these.
• Innocently Insensitive: They're so carefree that they sometimes don't realize the implications of what they're saying. Take this conversation in Wild World for example:
  Lazy: Yesterday, I had the most amazing dream. I was this HUGE movie star! And I got invited to all these parties! There were all these famous actresses, and we all ate sponge cake together! By the way, you were in my dream, too.
  Normal: Goodness! Really? Was I a famous actress, too?
  Lazy: Actually, you were in the kitchen cooking the sponge cake. Yeah, you were really sweating up a storm! Yep. As usual, you were the star of the party!
  Normal: I guess I could take that as a compliment... Yeah, if I were a total idiot! You're a stupid, sexist jerk! And I thought we were friends!
  • And this exchange from New Leaf:
    Normal: What did you want to talk about, <Lazy>?
    Lazy: You're a neat freak, aren't you, <Normal>? Sorry my place is such a mess. I bet just being here is giving you the urge to start cleaning, huh?
    Normal: Excuse me?! You invited me here to clean your house?! Um, RUDE! Wait a sec. Your place is actually pretty clean. It looks like you're the one who's a neat freak!
  • Filbert, specifically, is noted to be this in his Pocket Camp bio.
• Jabba Table Manners: Their hygiene is a bit suspect, what with their comments about getting food stains on their shirts. In New Horizons, they'll apologize for accidentally smudging cookie grease on a DIY recipe when they give it to you.
  • Rollo, a hippo from the Game Cube game, is noted to be this according to the profile on his e-Reader card.
    e-Reader card description: Rollo the hippo isn't known for his manners. Sweet as he is, this big oaf chews with his mouth open and loses half his food in the process! It's best to play with him after mealtime.
• Keet: Excitable, cute, and always looking for fun as long as it doesn't interrupt with their sleep schedule. They'll also talk about how much they love eating with a smile on their face.
• Kindhearted Simpleton: If there's one trope to describe them, it's this one.
• King of Beasts: Rex, a lazy lion villager, has a name that means "king" in Latin.
• Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics: Played for Laughs in New Leaf in one of the possible ways a Lazy villager may propose a Public Works Project. Their opening statement, in this case, is that studies show that the desired project could up their town's "coolness factor" by an absurdly large percentage. And then they admit they just made the number up.
• Living Toys: Stitches, who looks like an old worn-out teddy bear that came to life. There's also Hopkins, a rabbit who has an air hole sticking out of the back of his head which suggests that he's an inflatable pool toy of some sort.
• Malaproper: They do it a lot in their dialogue in New Horizons, possibly to highlight their child-like personalities. The game even gives small pauses when the mispronounced words scroll normally in their dialogue to make it look as if they're struggling to pronounce the words.
  Lazy: I like riding in cars! Didja know they got "international combobulation engines"?
• Manchild: They may be adults, but they are mentally prepubescent children. Cranky villagers outright comment that they're still kids. But then again that may have been figurative ^note  possibly implying that they're kids compared to their own age. Or the fact much older people tend to see even 20-year-olds as "still kids"
• Meta Guy: Amusingly, they have the most Medium Awareness of all the villager types in New Horizons despite their childish nature. They take note of how the economy of your island makes no sense, the odd ecology in which trees grow in just a few days, among other things. They also question the merits of Jock villagers' muscles given they look no different from other villagers of the same species in terms of build. One conversation they have with another Lazy villager has them guffawing about the fact that they're "basically the same guy" and seal the deal by making their respective catchphrases the same. Their "joke" about the world of Animal Crossing being just a video game is one of the few villager conversations in the game to illicit a reaction from the normally stoic player character.
• Momma's Boy: If you write them letters frequently, they'll say they got one letter from you and nine from their mother. One must wonder how overprotective their mother is to send them a total of 9 letters each day.
• Nerd Glasses: Derwin the bespectacled duck.
• Nice Guy: They're the nicest and easiest villagers to befriend. They're also the least likely villagers to move out of your town. In New Horizons they claim that Sable will talk their ears off whenever they visit her. Given Sable's personality, this implies that Lazy villagers actually put in the time to get to know her.
• Noodle Incident: Nobody knows why Lucky is completely covered in bandages, but one possible explanation states that it had to do with "a bizarre fishing accident involving a hook and two bass."
• Obsessed with Food: They love talking about and eating food.
  • In New Horizons, you can get a letter from them in the mail that smells like gravy because they dipped it in gravy, licked it off and sent it to you.
  • One of the lost items that can belong to a lazy villager is a pouch filled with "something that smells delicious and is probably full of sugar."
  • One particular example is Broccolo the mouse: his catchphrase is "eat it", referring to both his name and the fact that lazy villagers love to eat.
• Or Was It a Dream?: In New Horizons, they might talk about how they had a dream that the island ran out of its native fruit and everyone blamed them for eating all of it. They got upset, and then woke up to find out their bed was full of fruit.
• Our Dragons Are Different: Drago, while technically an alligator, is very clearly meant to be a dragon based on his name, appearance, and catchphrase.
• A Pig Named "Porkchop": Stu the bull, whose name most likely refers to beef stew.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: They're the relaxed and easygoing blue onis to the upbeat and sporty Jock villagers' red.
• Selfie Fiend: Sasha is described as such in his bio in Pocket Camp, where he apparently takes a hundred selfies a day.
• Signature Laugh: "A huh huh huh!"
• Simpleton Voice: Implied by their "A huh huh huh!" laugh, which is probably meant to sound like a dopey guffaw.
• The Slacker: A defining trait of theirs. They aren't called "Lazy" villagers for nothing. They even lampshade it themselves in Pocket Camp that they are so lazy that it always impresses them when people around them actually manage to accomplish things.
• Sleepyhead: Though Lazy villagers are known for how much they sleep, Sherb, a goat introduced in New Horizons, has his poster depicting him sleeping in his pajamas, and his Pocket Camp bio stating that he believes that nothing's quite like a good night's sleep, adding that though he's very particular about his bedtime gear, he can doze off just about anywhere.
  • Dozer, a bear villager who hasn't appeared since the Gamecube game. He has Eyes Always Shut that makes him look like he's asleep and his initial catchphrase is "zzzzzz". His Japanese name is even "Sleep"!
• Slobs vs. Snobs: The snobbish, often pretentious snooty villagers are far cry from the easygoing, fun-loving lazy villagers, who tend to fall into the more slobbish side of the spectrum at times. Needless to say, they are predictably looked down upon by snooty villagers at times.
• Spear Counterpart: To Normal villagers.
• Stalker with a Crush: Depending on the game, they can get a little obsessive towards the player if befriended. In Wild World, they'll admit to sneaking into the player's house and sleeping on their floor. Inviting them to your house in New Leaf may have them remark about wanting to sleep in the same bed with you, with all that that would imply.
• Stay in the Kitchen: When a Normal Villager comes over, they'll imply they want them to clean their house, and in Wild World, when telling a Normal Villager about a dream they had, they'll say the Normal Villager was cooking sponge cake for them. In fairness, they do hint that the reason for the former is more due to the Normal villagers' known reputations as Neat Freaks.
• Sweet Baker: Beau in Pocket Camp had the "Beau's Artisanal Cookie" which gave bakery themed furniture. In his scrapbook memory, he starts up a bakery in the camp by himself.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: Boomer's Pocket Camp description states that he has one.
• Token Evil Teammate: It's hinted that the elephant villager Big Top is this to the five superhero villagers, as his catchphrase is "villain" and his Wild World picture quote is "World domination!" However, "villain" could simply reference his superhero charm, and he is just as nice to the player as any other lazy villager is. If one chooses to interpret the superhero villagers as playing superheroes, Big Top could be seen more as an in-universe example of Mean Character, Nice Actor.
• Trash of the Titans: While they've always been the messiest of the villager personalities through the series, in New Horizons they'll reveal that the "pet" bugs that they have living in their house are actually from a nest of bugs under their floorboards that they let grow into gigantic proportions by leaving snacks for them. Needless to say, every weekend the Happy Home Academy are always horrified when they visit their house. But due to how the game works, players never actually see the mess in their house — with some exceptions.
  • Jacob the bird plays this straight in New Horizons with the inside of his house being a literal garbage dump that uses the garbage-heap wallpaper and flooring which the player can replicate with a DIY recipe. His house and RV in New Leaf is like this, too, albeit to a lesser extent.
  • Hornsby's house, while nowhere as bad, is filled with discarded moving boxes crafted into furniture, and has a pair of filled garbage backs shoved in a corner.
• Vague Age: Probably the hardest villagers to tell what age they are. They act like prepubescent children, but live on their own, presumably make money, etc. Possible dialogue you may hear from one while shopping in Happy Home Designer has him identifying himself as "an adult" (and hating it). Earliest editions of the series hinted that they may have actually been conceived as a friendly elderly and retired group of villagers (See Characterization Marches On above). New Horizons seems to favor them being children, but there's still evidence to suggest they're on the older side of their childhood. They have the softest and highest pitched voice of the male villagers, they frequently mispronounce simple worlds in childish ways (such as calling spaghetti "pasghetti" or psychologist "psycomumlocologist"), their letters are filled with grammatical errors, Cranky villagers say that they're not grown up yet, and sometimes when they're scared they exclaim they "need an adult!". However, whenever they see you doing something they remember having to work (and hating it), and they also describe the experience of driving a car (and that they're no longer allowed to), an activity that most don't do for the first time until their teenage years. They also reveal that they once wrote a well written college thesis on toy furniture, which ended up getting a good grade.
• Wingding Eyes:
  • Stitches has X-shaped eyes that look like they were...well, stitched onto his face.
  • Cube has X-eyes resembling screws (or perhaps the directional buttons of a Nintendo controller, as his default outfit in the first game featured the GameCube logo).
  • Papi's eyes are unique in that they change to X-shaped eyes whenever he squints hard, such as when he's crying or exerting himself when exercising.
• Youthful Freckles: Rex, Zucker, Hopkins, Derwin and Nate all have them.

Jock

Some examples of Jock villagers. Clockwise from top left: Bam, Buck, Dom, Kid Cat, Lyman, Poncho, Ribbot, Snake, Sterling, Tank, Teddy, and Tybalt.

Do you feel the burn, baby? Jock villagers are always looking for ways to buff their manly bod. They're always looking for the next big event, and if there isn't one coming up, they'll create one! They love to get people pumped up. Note that, unlike Jerk Jocks, these guys are nice and liked by most.

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• Academic Athlete:
  • Cobb. He's a Jock villager, yes, but he also has the education hobby (specifically the only jock villager to have this), is interested in archaeology (according to his e-Reader card), wears Opaque Nerd Glasses, his house resembles a library (with his house in New Leaf also resembling a Mad Scientist Laboratory), his life goal is to become a teacher, and his Japanese name, Hakase, literally means "doctor".
  • Leopold was also one prior to New Leaf, when he was retconned into a smug villager. His Japanese name, "Teicha", derives from the English word "teacher", he wears round glasses, his house resembles a school classroom, and his e-Reader card states that his "athleticism is balanced by an intelligent mind".
• Acrofatic: Some species in the game, such as elephants and pigs, are designed with a noticeably chubby frame. So ones assigned the athletic Jock personality are essentially this.
• Ambiguously Gay: They say questionable things from time to time like swooning at the thought of buff construction workers or complimenting a Lazy villager's midriff showing. They also start swooning at the thought of Cyrus.
• And Then What?: In New Horizons, they briefly go into an existential crisis when a Sisterly villager asks them what they're going to do with their lives after they get buff.
• Beneath the Mask: Some of their conversations imply that their fitness-obsessed persona is a façade to make themselves look cool and that they actually aren't that obsessed with working out as they like to make themselves out to be. They even say at one point if they're the "newbie" in the town in New Leaf that they are generally very shy, giving them some introverted jock traits. Jocks also imply that they're having trouble keeping up appearances with their lofty fitness goals, resorting to making lame excuses to talk their way out of showing off their muscles when a Lazy villager confronts them about it.
• Big Brother Mentor: They tend to act like this towards the player when befriended.
• Book Dumb: Jock villagers aren't exactly the brightest of the bunch. Some conversations they have with Normal villagers even show they can't even get basic math questions right. But in their hobbies they can show surprising knowledge regarding fitness and physiology, and can even write some pretty well thought letters to the player.
• Casanova Wannabe: They had shades of this in the Gamecube version, but this is no longer the case in the sequels.
• Charles Atlas Superpower: In New Horizons, they claim to be able to pull a semi with their teeth.
• Cool Helmet:
  • Kid Cat, one of the five superhero villagers, dons one of these.
  • Sterling, an eagle who wears a silver knight's helmet with matching greaves.
  • Scoot, a duck who wears a white hockey helmet.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Dom, the new Jock villager from New Horizons, is a pastel pink sheep with a feminine face who wears a rainbow tie-dye shirt. Many fans mistook him for a girl when his render was first released.
• Epic Fail
  • In New Leaf, during a conversation with Normal villagers, they can't even get simple math problems correct without the player's help.
  • Another conversation with Normal villagers, this time in New Horizons, reveals that they end up a complete wreck for three days after yoga, to which the Normal villager asks if they’re actually doing it right.
• Flanderization: After the GameCube game, they become a lot more sport obsessed. In New Horizons, nearly every single conversation involves sports, muscles, or fitness.
• Friendless Background: Implied in a conversation with them, once you really get to know them, they'll say they're lucky to have friends at all.
• Guest Fighter: Inkwell, an octopus who loves anything Splatoon-related.
• Hidden Depths: See the entry for Beneath the Mask above. Also, some of them have an interest in dinosaurs. There's also the fact they watch Soap Operas.
• Highly-Visible Ninja: Snake's bio in Pocket Camp says he would be a very good ninja due to his athleticism... if it weren't for the fact that his neon-pink rabbit ears kept giving away his position every time.
• Hot-Blooded: Be careful how you answer some of their questions (especially in the GCN version). They can be rather testy, from time to time.
• Informed Ability: All they talk about is how swole they are and how seriously they take their health, yet they look the same as other villagers of their species in terms of build. Plus, you can find them eating donuts, lollipops, and drinking soda same as any other villager. Of course, all of this is subject to heavy amounts of Lampshade Hanging.
• Innocently Insensitive: A conversation in New Leaf involves a Jock villager accidentally making a Normal villager cry when he runs out of things to talk to her about and asks the Player Character for help, and she thinks that means that he thinks she's boring. The Jock villager tries to comfort her by saying that he was just nervous and the Normal villager instantly cheers up. They may also upset Lazy villagers when they try to get them to be more active.
• Keet: They're very excitable and fun, which just makes them even more adorable. New Leaf turns it up a notch by giving Jocks the highest pitched voice out of all the male villagers and really fleshing out their excitable nature a lot more.
• Lovable Jock: Refreshingly, these jocks are very friendly and have a good heart.
• Masked Luchador: Stinky definitely has this aesthetic, wearing a brightly colored luchador mask on his head, combined with a house furnished to look like a wrestling arena, which is taken even further in New Horizons where he always wears a championship belt around his waist and has the very fitting K.K. Flamenco playing in his home.
• Momma's Boy: Not nearly to the extent of the Lazy Villagers, but if you wake them up early, they might say "Five more minutes... Pleaaaaase Mommy!".
• Monkey King Lite: Tiansheng, a new jock monkey villager added in New Horizons as a free update, is very clearly based on Sun Wukong, and his name is even derived from the Chinese form of "Great Sage Equal to Heaven", a self-appointed title Wukong had in Journey to the West. Happy Home Paradise takes this even further, with his request having a "Peach Paradise" theme (referencing Wukong's Trademark Favorite Food), and including items such as a sky wall and cloud flooring (referencing Wukong's time in Heaven), a cloud-shaped fluffy rug (a reference to Wukong's cloud-riding ability), and a vaulting pole (referencing the size-changing Ruyi Jingu Bang).
• Nightmare Fetishist: Genji, who wants to live in a house perfect to tell ghost stories in if you take his request in Happy Home Designer. It includes skeletons and many of the things you'd need to make a horror place.
• Ninja: Snake, a rabbit who wears a ninja hood, and whose Pocket Camp bio calls him this. Pocket Camp and New Horizons give him a matching ninja costume. In the latter game, he also has a house with a traditional Japanese-style exterior.
• No Indoor Voice: Chances are a conversation with a Jock villager will lead to them yelling loudly for whatever reason. One of their greetings in New Leaf just has them yelling "Hi!" directly at the player character's face. Lazy villagers call them out on it and complain they're too loud even while they try to talk normally.
  "MUSCLE MADNESS!"
• Non-Indicative Name:
  • Leonardo, whose name contains the Latin root "leo" meaning lion, is in fact a leopard.
  • Snake is not a snake, but a bunny. His name is a reference to the bunyip (which is also his catchphrase), a monster sometimes depicted with snake-like characteristics in Australian Aboriginal mythology.
  • Despite what his name might suggest, Goose is actually a different kind of bird — a chicken.
• Occidental Otaku: Genji. Prior to New Horizons, his catchphrase was even "otaku".
• One Note Chef: Protein shakes. In New Horizons 2.0, they can be found cooking something else, but they regularly imply that protein shakes are the only things they're good at cooking. It's possible to find oneself in a conversation between a jock and normal villager, where the normal villager is looking for cooking ideas to get out of a rut. At least one conversation path implies that protein shakes are about the only food type the jock specializes in:
  Jock: Soooooo... if you didn't wanna make a protein shake, why am I here?
• Panthera Awesome: Leonardo, despite his name meaning "lion," actually combines the physical appearances of leopards and tigers.
• Real Men Wear Pink: In Wild World, they can have clothes shopping or gardening as hobbies just like any other villager (Pierce, Goose and Frobert start with the former, while Bill and Champ start with the latter). But this is also discussed: when they ask you for a new shirt, they say "it's kinda unmanly to go clothes shopping".
• Red Is Heroic: Kid Cat, one of the five superhero villagers, whose outfit is primarily red.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: They're upbeat and sporty red onis to the relaxed and easygoing Lazy villagers' blue.
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: In New Leaf, they sometimes report asking a male and female villager who are close "How are the lovebirds doing?", resulting in this.
• Shipper on Deck: Think Peppy and Cranky villagers would make a good couple.
  • They may also mention instances where they've seen two villagers getting along closely and asked, "How are the two lovebirds doing?" Apparently, they just laugh, leading to the Jock villager's embarrassment.
• Spear Counterpart: Most comparable to Peppy villagers, both being energetic and, as of New Leaf, having the highest pitched voice of their respective genders. Sisterly villagers also share their love of sports.
• Stealth Pun:
  • Moose, Samson, and Rod are gym rats in every sense of the word — except they're mice.
  • There is a pig villager named Kevin. Get it?
• Stout Strength: As noted in Acrofatic above, some species types are notably chubby, and the Jock lineup includes villagers of these species. Roald's bio in Pocket Camp lampshades this, saying he "packs a lot of muscle into that tiny, round body."
• Super Drowning Skills: In New Horizons, they claim the only way they can swim in any body of water is with floaties. Because they sink due to their muscle mass! And if a Peppy or Normal Villager talks to them about it, the young lady will offer to help them learn to swim.
• Surfer Dude: Jock islanders in the GameCube game embodied this trope. Unlike regular Jock villagers, Jock islanders were more mellow, lacked the hot bloodedness jocks were known for and only talk about surfing purely as a hobby. Bud the lion, formerly a Jock islander himself, was designed with this theme and kept it as he got carried over in later games as a regular Jock villager, though sadly he didn't keep the personality.
• Thousand-Yard Stare: Roald the penguin has a perpetual wide-eyed, blown-pupiled stare as his default expression.
• Three Stooges Shout-Out: Curly the Pig, with Curly's name and his catchphrase similar to Curly Howard's own, nyoink!
• Took a Level in Kindness: They weren't exactly mean in the original game, but later installments would give them more depth, and they'd be a lot less rude at times. They still laugh at your misfortune should the player get stung by a bee, but it's a far cry from what they used to be like. In New Horizons, they are always warm and friendly when it comes to the player, as well as looking out for them and giving them advice for a healthy lifestyle. Even before being friends, they will sometimes regard the player as their favorite rival.
• Toilet Humor: They sneeze often and remark about how something may have gone flying towards you.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Protein shakes. They like to get other villagers to appreciate protein shakes too, though the other villagers usually just think of it as Stock "Yuck!".
• Unusual Euphemism:
  • When they lose a game of hide-and-seek: "Aw, barbells!"
  • When giving them perfect fruit to eat: "YUMMAHUMMA!"
• Verbal Tic: Dude, whenever they use it. Also "bro" and other "hip" variants such as brozinsky, brosky and so on.
• Vibrant Orange: Billy, Boone, Drift, Flip, Inkwell, Kevin, Kit, Nindori, Rory, Rowan, Sheldon, Teddy and Tiansheng are all shades of orange and just as energetic as any other Jock villagers.
• Youthful Freckles: Bam, Sheldon, Kevin and Mott all have them.

Cranky

Some examples of Cranky villagers. Clockwise from top left: Apollo, Bruce, Camofrog, Cyd, Elvis, Gonzo, Octavian, Peewee, Rooney, Static, Tom, and Wolfgang.

Get off my lawn! Implied to be the oldest of the townsfolk, the Cranky villagers are hard to warm up to, sarcastic, and snarky. However, it might be that they just don't connect with the other townspeople due to being somewhat older. Befriend them, and they reveal their Hidden Heart of Gold. Surprisingly, they get along well with some of the other villagers — but not all.

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• Adaptational Heroism: Ganon appears thanks to amiibo support. He may be Cranky, but he's still certainly nicer than his version from the original games.
• American Eagle: Apollo is a bald eagle whose birthday is on July 4.
• Big Ol' Unibrow: Admiral and Ricky each have one.
• Bishōnen: Chief, Fang, and Wolfgang have the effeminate face and poses down pat, and Rooney looks like a character from a sports anime.
• Blatant Burglar: Rizzo the mouse has the Japanese version of this look, wearing a purple handkerchief tied around his head. On top of that, his Happy Home Designer request is "a hideout".
• Boxing Kangaroo: Both Cranky kangaroos (and the only male kangaroos in the series as-of New Horizons) evoke this imagery to some extent — Rooney is a more overt example, wearing boxing gloves and having a house filled with training equipment and a boxing ring, while Walt has no such theme to his design but boasts Handwraps of Awesome.
• Chess Motifs: Roscoe is a black horse who has a checkerboard shirt. His house contains the Modern series of furniture, which also has a checked pattern. In New Horizons, he largely drops the checkerboard motif for all-black, but his house request in the Happy Home Paradise DLC is a house filled with black and white, just like in Happy Home Designer.
• Cool Helmet:
  • Knox, a chicken who wears a golden knight's helmet with matching greaves.
  • Vic, a bull who wears a viking helmet.
• Cool Old Guy: Not as old as most examples, but they're implied to be older than the other villagers and the player character.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Roscoe's appearance gives off this vibe with his all-black fur and red eyes, of which the sclera turns yellow when he's indignant, though he's just as friendly as any other Cranky villager. New Horizons takes this further by dropping the chess theme and having him wear a black biker jacket and decorating his entire house in black and certain furniture with skull imagery.
• Deadpan Snarker: Especially in City Folk. These guys love their dry humor and are by far the most sarcastic out of the personality types.
• The Don: Marlo the hamster is based on Don Vito Corleone.
• Eagle Land: Apollo the eagle, who is named after the Apollo 11 spacecraft and has his birthday on July 4.
• Evil Sounds Deep: More of a case of Less Friendly Sounds Deep but they always have the deepest voice out of all the villagers in any of the games.
• Face of a Thug: They give out an intimidating mien and often have rough appearances that cause other people to get frightened of them, which they lament over. Although it becomes an Informed Flaw when someone cute looking like Camofrog or Tom says this.
• Friendless Background: Implied to not have very many friends outside of the villagers in your town and the Player Character. Probably because of their gruff disposition.
• The Gadfly: They've had a penchant for screwing with people throughout their lives and gleefully recalling both their shenanigans and those their friends got up to, and occasionally they'll be back to their old tricks when you eavesdrop on a conversation.
• Go-Karting with Bowser: Ganon may have tried to destroy Hyrule multiple times, but in New Leaf, you can convince him to move into your town, befriend him, and give him fruit and butterflies, if you so choose.
• Grumpy Old Man: The personality, although they don't seem to be drastically older than the other characters. New Leaf gives us this gem of dialogue: "The night is still young, though I am definitely not, (catchphrase)!"
• Guest Fighter: Ganon, the king of evil and recurring Big Bad from The Legend of Zelda series.
• Handwraps of Awesome: Walt has these, fitting with his rugged appearance and his species' reputation.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: True to their name, Cranky villagers tend to be easy to anger - especially in the earlier games and even moreso in the original Animal Crossing - and said bouts of rage tend to be much more volatile than the ones seen in other villagers.
• Hopeless with Tech: In New Horizons, they may bring up that they used their first computer the other day while visiting a friend, proceeding to be completely baffled by it and/or taking instructions too literally and accidentally destroying various pieces of hardware.
• Identical Stranger: Elvis the cranky lion looks nearly identical to Rex the lazy lion, aside from their clothing and the fact that Elvis has scars on his cheeks while Rex has Youthful Freckles.
• Japanese Delinquent: Groucho gives off this impression with his ''sanpaku'' eyes, sukajan jacket, and hunched pose on his character card.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite their grump and snark, they do warm up to you. Croque takes this further for having his default Catchphrase say "as if". Also, they do remember pranking a girl and feeling bad for her back when they were a young lad. In one game they'll often mention their niece and that they're prone to spoiling her when she visits.
• King of Beasts: Elvis the lion. His Japanese name is literally "King", he wears the Royal Shirt as his default outfit, and his house is designed to look like a royal palace (complete with a throne). In addition, his English name and catchphrase ("unh-hunh") are references to Elvis Presley, the "King of Rock and Roll".
• Like a Son to Me: Befriended Cranky villagers give off a fatherly personality towards the player characters in later installments - they may even refer to themselves as papa when talking to the player. New Horizons gives them this dynamic with Lazy villagers, with Cranky villagers acting as a stern but caring father to the Lazy villagers odd but excitable childish nature (think Hank and Bobby Hill). Highlights include trying to help the Lazy villagers sort out a career path (to no avail), struggling to comfort a Lazy villager when they accidentally cause them to cry, and resisting as hard as they can to sing a song at the behest of the Lazy.
• Loony Fan: Chief is implied to be this, as he states that he’s a huge fan of K.K. Slider and even has a shrine dedicated to him in the middle of his house, with an engagement ring next to it.. and all that that implies.
• The Mafia: Marlo, a new hamster villager in New Horizons 2.0, gets his English name from Marlon Brando and his catchphrase is "gabeesh". His Japanese name is even "Don-chan". His Pocket Camp bio says it's rumored he runs an underground organization, but everyone is too afraid to ask.
• May–December Romance: Sometimes they'll hang out with a Peppy villager to the point of Jock villagers shipping them. If it's truly love and they actually are as old as they seem to imply, then this is probably the trope to use.
• Morality Pet: The aforementioned Peppy villagers, Lazy villagers, and even Normal villagers all get along with them. They also mention in their dialogue sometimes about a niece or other younger relative of theirs who they enjoy spending time with when they come to visit and spoil them with gifts.
• Mumbling Brando: Marlo, a hamster villager introduced in the New Horizons 2.0 update, is based on Marlon Brando and his most famous role as Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather, as he is meant to look like a typical mafia boss.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In New Leaf, like Snooty villagers, they sometimes get sad if they make another villager angry in conversation.
• The Napoleon: Any villager with this personality who belongs to a small species (e.g. squirrels and mice) is this by design.
• The Night Owl: They go to sleep later than other villagers and also wake up later.
• Not a Morning Person: Cranky villagers wake up at 10 AM (9 AM in New Horizons) by default, later than all the other types of villagers except Sisterly from New Leaf onwards, and are often the last to go to bed at night.
• Older Than They Look: Vladimir is a pink bear cub who's apparently the oldest person in town.
• Pet the Dog: They surprisingly get along well with Lazy villagers, who look up to them. Not to mention Ganon, the remorseless King of Evil, can be one of these guys which makes it all the more hilarious if he's nice to a lazy villager. Or nice to Wolf Link or Medli.
• Perpetual Frowner: The majority of them have expression that convey anger, frustration or malice by default to emphazise their cranky personality.
• Pungeon Master: Rocco, according to his New Leaf April Fool's stats and Pocket Camp in-game bio.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Vladimir, who's a pink cub.
• Rugged Scar: Walt has a scar under his left eye, Rasher has one above his right eye, Elvis has one on his left cheek and Spike has one to the left of his horn.
• Russian Bear: The bear cub Vladimir has a stereotypically Russian name and his catchphrase, "nyet", is the Russian word for "no".
• Savage Wolves: Downplayed. The most common personality type among the wolves is Cranky, making them come across as one of the more abrasive species of animal in the game, but they're generally harmless and are even capable of being pretty friendly at times.
• Scatterbrained Senior: They may act a bit loopy at times. In New Horizons, some of their moments include informing the player that all snowcone syrup colors taste like banana and then bringing up the supposedly-unrelated fact that their doctor has advised that they get their sense of taste checked at some point, giving the player very incorrect advice about certain subjects or mistaking them as being a member of their own species.
• Signature Laugh: "Gahaha!" In one of their conversations with Lazy villagers, they even try to convince the Lazy villager to change their Signature Laugh into their own. Ganon's catchphrase is "heh heh".
• Significant Birth Date: Apollo the bald eagle's birthday is on the Fourth of July.
• Spear Counterpart: In New Leaf, with their rough exterior, yet caring hidden side, they are now considered the male equivalent to Sisterly villagers, and both are also stubborn and opinionated. Before this, they were compared to Snooty villagers.
• Team Dad: Particularly in New Leaf and New Horizons, they've got stern attitudes and attempt to discipline the immature Lazy and Peppy villagers. One villager (Ike the bear) is literally a dad (has a son named Poko, a jock bear cub who only appeared in Doubutsu no Mori e+).
• Tentacled Terror: Downplayed. As a Cranky villager, Octavian the octopus isn't quite evil, but still grouchy and jerky. He has a rather sinister look, with his bright red skin and very angry expression. With a design like that, in most video games, he would be an enemy species.
• Took a Level in Kindness: As with all villagers throughout the series, they've become less antagonistic over time but much moreso than the other types, though it has been zigzagged in between installments. They became less grouchy in Wild World, but then they were made more snarky in City Folk. Come New Leaf, they're significantly less grumpy and more approachable, albeit a little rough at first. In New Horizons, they even outright mention that they may seem scary, but they'll always be welcoming to those that they've taken a liking to when first introducing themselves.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Gonzo's descriptions in Welcome amiibo and Pocket Camp mention that he loves gorgonzola cheese.
• "Uh-Oh" Eyes: A few of them sport these, notably Roscoe (who has Red Eyes, Take Warning as a default, and switches to having glowing yellow sclera when indignant) and Grizzly (who always has yellow sclera, and whose eyes become bloodshot and bulge when he's indignant).
• Vague Age: Act like old men, but could be anywhere from their early thirties to late sixties. This is especially weird with Murphy and Vladimir, who are both apparently middle-aged bear cubs (i.e., baby bears).

Smug

Some examples of Smug villagers. Clockwise from top left: Beardo, Chadder, Colton, Eugene, Hippeux, Kidd, Marshal, Olaf, Pietro, Raymond, Rodney, and Tex.

How elegant! One of the personalities introduced in New Leaf, villagers with this personality act gentlemanly and are easy to get along with, but as their name suggests, can get insufferable at times. Considered to be the most “developed” of the villager types, as they seem to combine the personality traits of all the other villagers types into one type.

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• Beneath the Mask: Like the Jocks, their outward persona isn't genuine and they'll admit that their pretentiousness is just them overcompensating to make themselves look cooler. On the rare times when they open up to the player character and show their hidden side, they're actually very shy and can be quite humble about themselves.
• Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Hans is a gorilla with white fur and a winter-themed house which suggest that he's a well-dressed yeti.
• Bishōnen: Some of them were designed with this in mind, such as Marshal, Julian, and Colton. Ken is also rather pretty for a rooster, given he wears what appears to be mascara around his eyes and has a Bishie Ninja look to him, while Olaf looks like a love interest from a 70's shojo manga. Then there's Leopold and Ed who were originally jocks.
• Black Bead Eyes: Eugene has these, though they're usually hidden behind his shades. You can see them if you get him to wear a different pair of glasses.
• Blank White Eyes: The villager Julian, who’s eyes are usually always shut, has this whenever he opens them if surprised.
• Camp Bi: Suffice to say they like to flaunt their flamboyancy including flirting with the player, talking about how certain pleasurable activities such as watching fish is "romantic" and so on.
• Cartoon Cheese: Chadder, a mouse who looks like he's made of it.
• Casanova Wannabe: Flirts with the Player Character (and sometimes other villagers), but it never goes anywhere and they've been known to be hopeless with it in the past.
• Cloud Cuckoo Lander: Most of the smug villagers are this on a mild level. Among them, Julian's Pocket Camp bio in particular makes note of his eccentricities.
  Julian's always been a little wild and free-spirited. Hey, if you were born with a horn on your head for some inexplicable reason, you'd be an oddball too.
• Con Man: On days when Redd is in town, they will try to sell you a painting that is almost always fake for a ridiculous amount of bells. However, sometimes if you agree to the trade, they might end up feeling so bad that they charged such a high price that they just give the painting to you for free.
• Cool Old Guy: A few of them sport facial hair and designs which lend them a certain older gentlemanly flair, most notably Lionel, a lion with a white mustache and mane.
• Cosmic Motifs:
  • Julian since his debut in New Leaf has consistently had this motif with his outfits and houses. In New Horizons, his house is entirely decorated with craftable zodiac-themed items, a moon-shaped chair, a moving cloud-like fog on his floor, and stars lined across his walls. In Happy Home Designer, his thought bubble says, "I'm obviously a gift from the skies above, so my living quarters should reflect that."
  • Roswell has circles around his bodies reminiscent of Crop Circles, has "spaaace" as his catchphrase, and is named after the Roswell incident.
• The Dandy: Care much more about their appearance than the other male villager types.
• Decomposite Character: They're this to Cranky islanders from the GameCube game. Compared to their regular Cranky counterparts, Cranky islanders acted romantic and gentlemanly similarly to the modern Smug personality, to which they eventually developed into. Curlos and O'Hare, former Cranky islanders, were given the Smug personality as a result when they made their return as regular villagers in New Leaf.
• Dirty Coward: Justified Trope, as they're just as helpless against the wasps as the player is when they aren't carrying a net (and sometimes even if they are), but unlike the other villagers that at least encourage them to run from wasps and question why you stopped to talk to them, in New Horizons the Smug villagers straight up abandon the player to deal with the wasps on their own.
  Smug Villager: Sorry, I don't want any part of this. Good luck! [runs away]
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Julian is often mistaken for a female horse due to his feminine appearance. It doesn't help that his name in Japanese is the feminine name "Juli".
• El Spanish "-o": In New Horizons, one of the lost items that can belong to a smug villager is a book labeled "Mi Diario Secreto."
• The Fashionista: In New Horizons, smug villagers have developed a prominent interest in fashion, with it being a recurring part of their dialogue. Ironically, there are no smug villagers with the actual in-game fashion hobby.
• Flanderization: In New Horizons, Smug villagers are notably more full of themselves than in New Leaf. It also plays up their Know-Nothing Know-It-All trait that wasn’t as prevalent in the previous game.
• Gonk: As one can tell from looking at the image, if a smug villager is not a Bishōnen, he is this. There is little in between.
• Greaser Delinquent: Eugene the koala is designed to look like one of these, with black fur that looks like sideburns, Cool Shades that he wears at all times, his default shirt being a leather jacket, and his default catchphrase being "yeah buddy". All he lacks is the actual attitude.
• Guest Fighter: Wolf Link, Link's wolf form from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. It's highly amusing that someone famous for being portrayed as a stoic Heroic Mime is given this personality.
• Go Through Me: Some smug villagers will have dialogue like this if you talk to them while being chased by a scorpion or a tarantula, telling you to hide behind them. They also tell you to leap into their arms if you feel scared of any of the bugs on display. This is humorously subverted should your character be chased by wasps, however...
  Smug: Leap into my arms and I will spirit you to safety...is what I’d say if you weren’t being chased by wasps.
• Gratuitous Foreign Language: They say random greetings from different languages often, though they often use them in the wrong context, inaccurately translate them or mix up languages completely.
• Hidden Depths: New Horizons plays up their vanity, and they come across as more superficial than before. They also don't seem like the sharpest knives in the drawer, thinking that people in medieval times used smartphones for light...But befriend them, and they'll launch a surprisingly passionate defense of weeds, saying that their tenacity and ability to survive should be respected, rather than hated. Given the Smug's focus on appearances, this can come as a bit of a surprise.
  • They also apparently play up their big egos to mask the fact that they’re shy, according to their fireworks festival dialogue in New Horizons.
• Hipster: They're always trying out obscure trends and trying to stay out of the norm, which some of the other villagers find irritating. Some of their dialogue can be considered a Take That! at hipsters.
• The Hyena: In Japanese, Pietro's initial catchphrase is gufufu, an onomatopoeia for laughter. Well, he is a clown.
• Identical Stranger: Or "near identical strangers"; Julian and Ed look like they could be brothers, as they're both feminine-looking blue horses with purple eyeshadow. The main differences that distinguish them are Ed's blond hair, Julian being a Unicorn with his Eyes Always Shut, their snout designs, and their hoove colors. However, they are easy to mistaken for each other from a distance if one isn't paying attention. Along with the fact that Ed predated Julian by several games in the series, their Japanese profiles which describe their family structures confirm that the two have no familial ties, as Julian is listed as having a twin brother while Ed is the third youngest of four brothers.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: Their fireworks festival dialogue has them reveal that they’re shy and overcompensate by faking a huge ego.
• In Love with Love: Their dialogue at The Roost implies this.
• Innocently Insensitive: They have dialogue that leans on them being this at times, especially in New Horizons.
• Insistent Terminology: They insist that they're enthusiasts, not geeks. Because geeks aren't cool.
• It's All About Me: Though Smug villagers aren't mean, really, just madly in love with themselves.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: One potential conversation a Smug villager may have with a Lazy villager has the former offering the latter a lesson in cooking pasta. As the conversation goes on, however, it becomes clear that the Lazy villager is far more knowledgeable on the matter while the Smug villager remains confident in what he's saying. They also use Gratuitous Foreign Language in their dialogue sometimes and then give a confident "translation" to what they're saying, which is often blatantly and humorously incorrect. In New Horizons, they're one of the villager types that can send you artwork, but artwork from Smug villagers will always be a forgery; artwork from other villager types has a chance of being either genuine or forged.
  Smug: As the French like to say, "Aloha!" That means "Thank you!" in their language.
• Large Ham: Absolutely this, most notably when they describe a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to a Lazy villager in the most unnecessarily drawn out and descriptive way possible. They tend to be quite theatrical with their dialogue in general.
• Latin Lover: Olaf the anteater was designed with this concept in mind, his name in the Japanese version is Antonio to emphasize it.
• Mr. Vice Guy: They are not rude at all, just show offs who love themselves a bit too much. They are otherwise polite gentlemen.
• Nerd Glasses: Graham the hamster, Leopold the lion, and Raymond the cat sport these, though they suit them fairly well.
• Nice Guy: Despite being called "smug", they're actually one of the friendliest villager types and rarely have anything mean to say. They can be quite full of themselves, however.
• Non-Indicative Name: Beardo the bear villager has a bushy mustache and sideburns, but he has no chin hair to speak of.
• Non-Ironic Clown: Pietro is a clown sheep, but he has a jolly appearance and is as friendly as any other villager of his type.
• Occidental Otaku: They also show interest to anime, such as when they start complaining about the fact that anime songs aren't played in your town's club. In Happy Home Designer they talk about marathoning anime and say that manga is superior to western comics. Then we come to Ken, who's basically either a rooster of Japanese descent or this. His name is potentially even a reference to Shuriken, a type of Japanese throwing star.
• Obsessively Organized: Raymond's description in Pocket Camp has him described as "very precise" to the point of requiring his glasses to be at a specific angle on his nose at all times, as otherwise he won't be able to get any work done that day.
• Playful Hacker: In New Horizons, Graham's house is filled with computer towers, equipment, and a laptop open to several lines of code being run.
• Princely Young Man: Colton seems to invoke this with a snobby manedo and royal attire. He even bows on his amiibo card!
• Rail Enthusiast: They may sometimes go on a tangent about the previous models of trains used in the town train station... much to their own embarrassment once they realize it.
• Retcon: Some villagers such as Ed, Kidd and O'Hare (originally a Jock, Lazy and Cranky respectively) were changed into this personality on the transition to New Leaf.
• Rich Kids: Several conversations with other villagers suggest an affluent upbringing. Few can afford to have cave-aged cheese soufflé as a regular lunch growing up.
• Small Name, Big Ego: Some take to calling themselves "geniuses" and call themselves names like "Beardo of the Red Rose" to show how suave they think they are.
• Spear Counterpart: To Snooty villagers, as both are a little vain.
• Unicorn: Julian, supposedly a horse, has a horn.
• Uniqueness Value: Julian is currently the only unicorn in the series, which made him highly coveted by players.
• Waistcoat of Style: Raymond’s default outfit. Kidd also had this before New Horizons.
• White Collar Worker: Raymond, a cat resembling a stereotypical office worker (with glasses, a waistcoat, and a tie) whose home resembles an office.
• Youthful Freckles: Quillson and Rodney both have them.

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