Starting villager
Starting villagers are villagers that appear when the player moves into their town (island in New Horizons). The starting villagers roster varies between different Animal Crossing games.
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 Animal Crossing: 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's 8 villagers.
The following villagers cannot be starting villagers:
In Animal Crossing: 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's 10 villagers.
The following villagers cannot be starting villagers, nor do they appear in the city:
In Animal Crossing: 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's 10 villagers.
The town cannot start with smug, big sister, and normal villagers.
In Animal Crossing: 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