Starting villager

Starting villagers are villagers that appear when the first player moves into their town (island in ). The starting villagers roster varies between different Animal Crossing games.

In
In, the game starts with 6 villagers. 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 starting villagers:

In
In, 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:

In
In, the game starts with 3 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
In, the game starts with 6 villagers. The player's town will continue to have new villagers come in until there are 10 villagers.

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In
In, the game starts with 5 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:

In
In, the game starts with 2 villagers: 1 jock and 1 big sister villager. The next 3 villagers that move onto the island will be peppy, normal, and lazy respectively. Additional villagers can be invited by the player until there are 10 villagers.

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:

The following villagers have either a peppy, normal, or lazy personality, and therefore can go to the island after the villager house development quest: