Wendell
- "Anything is delicious to a hungry belly."
- — Wendell, Animal Crossing: Happy Home Designer and Welcome amiibo
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| Walrus |  Male
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| Birthday | February 25th | 
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| Role | Traveling artist | |||||||
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Name in other languages
セイイチ
고파유 Van Trik Winci
海项
Morsicus Da Morsi Wendell
海項 Morsicus Da Morsi Уэнделл | ||||||||
Wendell is a wallpaper salesman and traveling artist in the Animal Crossing series. He has slightly different roles in each game appearance, but they all revolve around his artistic ability and design skills. He is a blue walrus with two large, white tusks. He wears a sleeveless shirt which does not cover his large, round stomach, which has a small cross for a belly button. He always carries a canvas and a traveler's backpack with him. His extreme hunger may be a reference to the phrase "starving artist."
Appearances
In Animal Crossing
Wendell has a wallpaper selling role in Animal Crossing. He will show up in the player's town on Saturday or Sunday, but has been known to show up on other days, too. He appears at a random time of day. He will tell the player he is hungry upon talking to him, and will ask for food. He will eat anything, including fruit, fish, and turnips. He will give some wallpaper to the player for free as a reward during the weekend and will sell it to the player during weekdays. He disappears after a while. In the original Doubutsu no Mori, Wendell only eats fish.
In Wild World
Wendell's role in Wild World is different than it is in the previous installments. This time, he gives out unique designs. Upon giving him something to eat when he visits the town, he gives a pattern that is unobtainable anywhere else. He will eat fruit and turnips as well as fish. Giving him any type of fruit will yield a pattern already obtained, with the exception of coconuts, which yield a different pattern. He does not appear on Sunday or Saturday anymore. Instead, he appears from 6 AM to midnight on a random weekday (excluding the day Redd comes). In Wild World, Wendell comes from Tuskany. When one of his designs is displayed at Able Sisters, it will say Wendell from Tuskany. Tuskany is a pun involving the region of Tuscany, Italy and tusks, which are a predominant feature on walruses. Wendell is the first step in the Golden Axe Trading Event.
In City Folk
Wendell has the same role in City Folk as he did in Wild World, excluding the Golden Axe Trade Event and Redd (who now has a store in the city). If the player puts Wendell's designs on display at Able Sisters and asks to receive one of them, Mabel says: "That design is made by Wendell from Sumware," which is a pun on "somewhere."
A full list of his designs in City Folk can be found here.
With WiiConnect24 enabled, he may give out designs on behalf of Nintendo as distributed designs, saying something along the lines of "I made this new design, and wondered what you would think..."
In New Leaf
In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Wendell appears in Dream Towns distributing the custom designs from the town residents. His appearance is changed; he now wears a nightcap and pajamas. Owners of the town can choose not to let him appear, if they wish.
In New Horizons
Although initially absent, Wendell was added in the 2.0 update of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, as one of the many visitors to the Roost should the player invite him by using his amiibo card. In addition, Wendell's Poster can be obtained from Nook Shopping after attempting to invite him to Photopia via his amiibo.
In Gekijōban Doubutsu no Mori
Wendell briefly appears in 🎬 Gekijōban Doubutsu no Mori. Ai finds him on the beach, exhausted from hunger. She takes him to his house to eat. After he is finished, he disappears without warning.
Other appearances
In Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Wendell appears as a trophy and can be seen in the Smashville stage.
Wendell
| Description | A famous painter who wanders about with a large rucksack on his back. When he arrives in town, he's so hungry he can barely stand. While you think it's probably a good idea to give him something to eat, it's hard to figure out what that should be. That being said, he looks really hungry and would likely devour anything given to him. | |
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| Acquisition | Random | |
In Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
Wendell appears as a trophy and can be seen in the Smashville stage again. He now also appears in the Town and City stage.
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Wendell
| Description | NTSC-U: Wendell is a wandering artist with a healthy appetite. He may be a walrus, but his tastes extend well beyond fish! In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, he only appears in dreams when the player uses the Dream Suite. He doesn't seem to be too hungry, but it is a dream—he's probably happily eating in the waking world! PAL: A travelling artist with a big appetite. Since he's a walrus, you might think he'd only eat fish, but he'll also gobble up fruit, nuts and...pretty much anything. You could say he's a fan of the "sea food diet". In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, he only appears in dreams, when you visit the Dream Suite. At least then he's not too hungry! | |
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| Acquisition | Random | |
Villager information
In Happy Home Designer
| Wendell | ||
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| Birthday | Personality | Catchphrase |
| No results [[File:Starsign No results NH Icon.png|32px|No results|link=No results]] | [[No results]] | No results |
| Default clothing | [[File:No Results HHD Icon.png|30px|link=]] No results | |
| Umbrella | [[File:No Results HHD Icon.png|30px|link=]] No results | |
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| Client's vision | I'll leave it up to you! | |
| Favorite song |  Hypno K.K.
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| Furniture: |  Rice Balls Hypno K.K. Wendell's Pic |
| Clothing: |  Paper Parasol |
| Starting house: | 
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RV in Welcome amiibo
| Description: | With advances in camper-van technology, Wendell can finally feel at home while "roughing it" with a fully stocked fridge and chef's kitchen. |
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| Wall: |  Concrete Wall
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| Floor: |  Paintball Floor
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| Music: |  Wandering
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Card profiles
Animal Crossing e-Reader card
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Card back
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121 Booker | e-Reader card #122 Wendell |
123 Katrina |
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amiibo card
Card back
| #209 Wendell - Series 3 | ||||||||
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208 Leif | List of amiibo cards #209 Wendell |
210 Cyrus |
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Gallery
Names in other languages
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セイイチ Seiichi |
From セイウチ seiuchi (walrus). |
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고파유 Gopayu |
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海项 Hǎi Xiàng |
Homophony with 海象 hǎixiàng (walrus). |
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海項 Unknown |
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Winci | From da Vinci. |
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Da Morsi | From morsa (walrus) and "da Vinci." |
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Morsicus | From morse and "walrus." |
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Van Trik | From tricheco and van Gogh. |
References
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