Starting villager
Starting villagers are villagers that appear when the first player moves into their town (island in New Horizons). The starting villagers roster varies between different Animal Crossing games.
Appearances
In Animal Crossing
In Animal Crossing, the game starts with six villager on the town. An initial town will always have a jock, lazy, cranky, normal, peppy, and snooty villager, with further villagers being added to a maximum of 15 villagers.
The following villagers cannot be starters in Animal Crossing:
In Doubutsu no Mori e+
In Doubutsu no Mori e+, all of the previous non-starter villagers return, and are joined by the following villagers that can only be obtained by scanning e-Reader cards:
- Agent S
- Aisle
- Alice
- Analog
- Angus
- Antonio
- Avery
- Azalea
- Becky
- Bella
- Benedict
- Big Top
- Bow
- Boyd
- Bree
- Broccolo
- Carrot
- Chabwick
- Chrissy
- Clara
- Curt
- Del
- Felicity
- Francine
- Frett
- Frobert
- Gen
- Gladys
- Hopkins
- Ike
- Jacob
- Joe
- Jūbei
- Ketchup
- Kid Cat
- Kit
- Leonardo
- Lolly
- Maggie
- Margie
- Megumi
- Meow
- Merry
- Miranda
- Moe
- Nan
- Nindori
- Paula
- Peggy
- Pierre
- Poko
- Rod
- Roscoe
- Shinabiru
- Shoukichi
- Sunny
- Sylvana
- Sylvia
- Tarou
- Tasha
- Tiffany
- Victoria
- Vivian
- Wade
- Walker
- Willow
In Wild World
In Animal Crossing: Wild World, the game starts with three villagers. The player's town will continue to have new villagers come in until there are 8 villagers.
The following villagers cannot be starting villagers:
In City Folk
In Animal Crossing: City Folk, the game starts with six villagers. The player's town will continue to have new villagers come in until there are 10 villagers.
The following villagers cannot be starting villagers, nor do they appear in the city:
In New Leaf
In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, the game starts with five villagers. The player's town will continue to have new villagers come in until there are 10 villagers. The town cannot start with smug and big sister villagers.
The following villagers have either a smug or big sister personality, and cannot be a starting villager in the player's town.
- 20px Agnes
- 20px Beardo
- 20px Canberra
- 20px Chadder
- 20px Charlise
- 20px Cherry
- 20px Chops
- 20px Colton
- 20px Curlos
- 20px Deirdre
- 20px Diva
- 20px Ed
- 20px Eugene
- 20px Flo
- 20px Frita
- 20px Fuchsia
- 20px Graham
- 20px Hans
- 20px Hazel
- 20px Henry
- 20px Hippeux
- 20px Jacques
- 20px Julian
- 20px Katt
- 20px Keaton
- 20px Ken
- 20px Kidd
- 20px Klaus
- 20px Kyle
- 20px Lionel
- 20px Lopez
- 20px Lucha
- 20px Marshal
- 20px Mira
- 20px Muffy
- 20px O'Hare
- 20px Olaf
- 20px Pashmina
- 20px Paula
- 20px Phil
- 20px Phoebe
- 20px Pietro
- 20px Quillson
- 20px Renée
- 20px Rocket
- 20px Rodney
- 20px Shari
- 20px Shep
- 20px Sylvia
- 20px Tammy
- 20px Tex
- 20px Zell
In New Horizons
In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the game starts with two villagers on the island: one with a jock personality and one with a big sister personality. The next three villagers that move onto the island will be of the peppy, normal, and lazy personalities respectively.
The following villagers have either a jock or big sister personality, and therefore can go to the island with the player on the initial plane flight.
- Ace
- Agnes
- Antonio
- Axel
- Bam
- Biff
- Bill
- Billy
- Boone
- Boots
- Buck
- Bud
- Canberra
- Charlise
- Cherry
- Coach
- Cobb
- Cousteau
- Curly
- Deirdre
- Diva
- Dom
- Drift
- Faith
- Flip
- Flo
- Frita
- Frobert
- Fuchsia
- Genji
- Goose
- Hamlet
- Hazel
- Iggly
- Jay
- Jitters
- Katt
- Kevin
- Kid Cat
- Kody
- Leonardo
- Louie
- Lyman
- Mac
- Mira
- Moose
- Mott
- Muffy
- Pashmina
- Paula
- Peck
- Phoebe
- Pierce
- Plucky
- Poncho
- Quinn
- Renée
- Reneigh
- Ribbot
- Roald
- Rocket
- Rod
- Rory
- Rowan
- Rudy
- Samson
- Scoot
- Shari
- Sheldon
- Sly
- Snake
- Sparro
- Sprocket
- Sterling
- Stinky
- Sylvia
- Tad
- Tammy
- Tank
- Teddy
- Tiansheng
- Tybalt
- Ursala