Wendell

"Anything is delicious to a hungry belly."

- Wendell

Wendell is a wallpaper salesman and traveling artist in the. 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 canvas and a traveler's backpack with him. His extreme hunger may be a reference to the phrase "starving artist."

Wendell has a wallpaper selling role in. 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, Wendell only eats fish.

Wendell's role in 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, 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.

Wendell has the same role in as he did in, 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, 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.

Wendell briefly appears in. Ai finds him on the beach, exhausted from hunger. She takes him to his house to eat.

Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Wendell appears as a trophy and can be seen in the Smashville stage.

Super Smash Bros. for Wii U
As mentioned before, Wendell appears as a trophy and can be seen in the Smashville stage. He now also appears in the Town and City stage.

Trivia

 * Despite being physically absent from, placeholder data for Wendell's NookPhone exists and uses the "FtrCmnFabricKamawanu01" fabric pattern. The design is based on the logo of the Japanese company, Kamawanu, a company that produces miscellaneous Japanese housewares. Their logo combines a sickle ("kama"), a circle ("wa"), and the Japanese character "nu," a pictorial puzzle that represents their brand name.