Digby, Fuchsia, Eugene, and Punchy copying a players emotion
The Player and Portia performing the Sunniness emotion in New Leaf
Emotions are effects used by both players and villagers in Wild World and City Folk. In Animal Crossing, only villagers could perform emotions. Emotions reappear in New Leaf, with more than ever before available for players to perform.
In all games, aside from expressing emotions when in conversation, villagers may also show an emotion when walking about town. Villagers may express up to seven different emotions outside of conversation.
- Sadness
- Expressed by a dark purple cloud over the villager's head, with a faint rumbling noise, as well as a change in posture while walking. May be induced by the player or other villagers.
- Sickness
- Expressed by a dark purple cloud over the villager's head, with a faint rumbling noise as well as shivering and sneezing. Sick villagers will always be found inside their own homes.
- Anger
- Expressed by a villager's head turning red and releasing white puffs of smoke, as well as a change in posture while walking. May be induced by the player or other villagers.
- Glee
- Realization
- Expressed by an exclamation mark appearing over the villagers head, and by the villager approaching the player eagerly. In this case the villager would like to speak with the player.
- Delight
- Shock
- Thought
- Expressed by villagers reading the Bulletin Board, planting flowers, after having a conversation with another villager, or when villagers have been talked to repeatedly. While expressing this emotion, villagers tilt their head and put their hand to their chin. In some cases, a thought bubble with three dots ("...") may also appear above the villager's head. Villagers in thought cannot be talked to without a delay.
The degree and frequency of the emotions expressed often depends on the villager's personality type. Sad villagers usually sob, especially Lazy villagers. Cranky villagers rarely get sad, as well as Snooty villagers. When Cranky villagers get sad, they think that they live in a cold world. Angry villagers often yell at the villager or even the player. Jock villagers would often call the player 'scrawny' if they get mad. Cranky villagers are said to yell the loudest, even louder than Resetti. Lazy villagers rarely get angry.
If a villager is pushed or hit three times with a net they express either the sad or mad emotion depending on their personality.
In New Leaf, when a player performs an emotion in front of a villager or special character, they will also do an emotion as well. Exceptions to this include Sable, Grams and K.K..
Learning Emotions
In Wild World , the player can get emotions from Dr. Shrunk in a random encounter with him when he is walking around the village. After the player learns an emotion for the first time, the emotions menu can be accessed by clicking on the purple shadow Rover speech bubble tab.
In City Folk, Dr. Shrunk is found in the city's theater, where emotions can be learned for 800 bells. He is sometimes replaced by Frillard, who teaches emotions unknown to Dr. Shrunk. The player can store up to four emotions at any time. Emotions can be deleted to obtain different ones. After receiving an emotion for the first time, that emotion as well as others learned afterwards will be available at the top left of the screen.
In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, players can get emotions easier than before. After Club LOL is build in the town, the player can start to learn emotions from Dr. Shrunk. By bringing fruit to Dr. Shrunk in Club LOL before 8pm, while K.K. Slider is not doing his party, Shrunk will perform emotions on stage for the player to learn. There are a total of 40 emotions in New Leaf, which can be accessed via the menu at the bottom of the screen. Unlike previous games, all 40 emotions may be acquired and stored without having to delete any.
-- The "Close" emotion from Wild World and City Folk can only be obtained by hacking. The icon looks like the "Anger" emotion, but every time the icon is clicked, the player shows a different emotion each time in a random pattern. Emotions shown by the player can be any of which, including those taught by Frillard.
Emotion List
*Names in (parentheses) are their names in New Leaf
†Surprise, in this column, refers to City Folk's version of Surprise.
New Emotions in New Leaf
| Icon | Emotion | Animal Reaction† |
|---|---|---|
| File:Acnlunknownemote2.png | Daydreaming | Nothing |
| File:Acnlunknownemote1.png | Disagreement | Disagreement |
| File:Acnlflourish.png | Flourish | Flourish/Delight |
| File:ACNL - Greetings.png | Greetings | Greetings |
| File:Acnlmistaken.png | Mistaken | Sheepishness |
| File:Pride edited-1.png | Pride | Pride/Delight |
| File:ACNL - Sheepishness.png | Sheepishness | Sheepishness |
| File:Acnlshrunkfunkshuffle.png | Shrunk Funk Shuffle | Shrunk Funk Shuffle |
| File:Showman.png | Showmanship | Showmanship/Delight |
| File:ACNL - Shyness.png | Shyness | Shyness/Happiness |
| File:Acnlsneeze.png | Sneezing | Surprise |
| File:Acnlsunniness.png | Sunniness | Sunniness/Happiness |
Emotional Quotes
These are the quotes villagers say when they are angry or upset.
Cranky:
AC (GCN):
Anger: "You keep this up and you're gonna be cruisin' for a bruisin'!"
Sadness:
AC: Wild World:
Anger:
"AUGH! Just leave me alone, OK (intial phrase)?!"
"I'm warning you to stay away from me! Nothing personal, but I am about to explode and you don't want to be around for that!"
"I told you to keep away from me! I don't want to gnaw your ankle, but at this rate, I just might (initial phrase)!"
"Hey, looking for a fight?! Eh? Keep this up and you'll find one!"
"Do you want me to despise you? Well congratulations, mission accomplished!"
"Shut up! I'm in a really, really bad mood right now!"
Sadness:
"Meh, the whole world has become a cold place, (initial phrase)"
"Cut me some slack, will ya? I mean (inital phrase)!!! I'm having the kind of day you wouldn't wish on a fruit thief."
"I guess it's time I stopped living a lie, (initial phrase)."
AC: City Folk:
Anger:
"Grrr! Why does everyone around here have to act like such a chump, (initial phrase)?"
Sadness:
"It's a cold, hard world we live in, kiddo. I envy you for not knowing that yet, (initial phrase)."
AC: New Leaf
Anger:
"Durg Durgit! I'm surrounded by a bunch of jokers!"
"Leave me alone! I want to be with myself for a little while!"
Sadness:
Thinking:
"Hmmmm... No, if I did that, then it'd turn out all... Ah, sorry. I'm thinking about something kinda important, so we'll have to talk later!"
"Awww... Hmmmm... What was I thinking about...? Ah, that's right! Hmmm... I'm sorta lost in thought, so can we talk some other time?"
Jock:
AC (GCN):
Anger:
"AHHH! I am so ticked off!"
Sadness:
AC: Wild World:
Anger:
"Shut your yap, talkie! Make like a tree and leave, (initial phrase)!"
"I'm so mad, my muscles are gonna pop off my dang body!"
"NO WAY! NO WAY! NO WAY! I'm so mad, I'm gonna explode! YAAAAARGH!!!"
"AAARGH! NOOOO!!! I can't do this anymore!"
"Ugh, what?! Go climb a cliff or something!"
"If I give you a protein shake, would you go bug someone else?!"
"Leave me alone. I gotta tend to this wicked bod of mine!"
"You should spend less time bugging me and more time at the gym!"
Sadness:
"Hurmph, I hardly have any tears left!"
"I don't know why but I'm feeling blue. Maybe I need more vitamins."
AC: City Folk:
Anger:
"Do NOT talk to me today, (initial phrase)!"
"NO! NO! NO! I just don't get this puny, wimp-faced, extremeless world, (initial phrase)!"
Sadness:
"Crying? I don't even know how to cry. My eyes only sweat."
AC: New Leaf:
Anger:
"Hey, even I can be mad sometimes, you know?! Humph!"
Sadness:
Thinking:
"Just hang on! I'm calculating the amount of calories I burned today! I gotta do this, so can you just leave me alone for awhile?"
Lazy:
AC (GCN):
Anger:
"I'm so angry, and you talking to me is like dangling a red scarf in front of a bull, you know?! Stay away from me, unless you want me to charge into you and poke you right in your nose!"
Sadness:
AC: Wild World:
Anger:
"Grrrrrrr, (initial phrase)! I'm really really mad! I'm warning you! Stay away! It's a danger zone here!"
"I'm usually pretty mellow, but my fuse has been lit! This isn't gonna be pretty, so you should stay away from me for a while!"
"Grrrrrrrrr!!! Reaching maximum overload in ten seconds... Apologise all you want, but it makes no difference because I am already MAD!"
"Aw, you got me all worked up. Grrr, (initial phrase)!"
Sadness:
"(player's name) I am begging to stay away from me. See, sadness is contagious. If you come close to me, you'll catch it and it will be a real downer!"
"(Phew...) It's so depressing and I'm hungry. I even can't explain what happened right now. (initial phrase)"
"I'm sorry, but seeing you right now isn't cheering me up at all."
AC: City Folk:
Anger:
"Please, I'm just too mad to talk right now!"
"Everyone gets mad sometimes. EVEN ME!"
Sadness:
"I feel like cotton candy that someone sat on..."
"I'm so down in the dumps. I really don't want to talk right now, (initial phrase)."
AC: New Leaf:
Anger:
"Grrrr! Everyone better stay outta my way!"
Sadness: " Don't come near me. My sadness is contagious."
Thinking:
Smug:
AC: New Leaf:
Anger:
Sadness:
"Hey, can you just leave me alone? I'm having a moment of melancholy."
"Right now I feel that my heart is broken and will never be fixed again..."
Thinking:
"I think it's (Female villager)... No, maybe (Female villager)... Actually, it might be (Female villager)... ...Whoa! Heeeyy! Uhh, I'm, uhhh, kinda busy right now! Incidentally, some friendly advice: when you send flowers to a girl, remember which one it was..."
"I should probably give (Female villager) some (Flower)... Or maybe a (Town Fruit)... ...Waah! Hi there! Startled me! Sorry, but I'm thinking about something right now, (Catchphrase)."
Peppy:
AC (GCN):
Anger:
Sadness:
AC: Wild World:
Anger:
"Ooh. Do you know what I hate the most? Insensitive JERKS!"
"I'm so mad I can't hear a word you're saying!"
"If have one word to describe you, it would "VERYVERYANNOYING!!!!""
"Can't you see I'm like angry, ANGRY?! SO VERY ANGRY?! Leave me alone!"
"Beat it lame-o! I don't want to talk to you ever ever again!"
"You know, some folks like persistence. BUT NOT ME! SCRAM!!!!"
Sadness:
"Even the peppiest of the people feel blue sometimes. It's a sad fact of life."
"I am usually feeling quite chipper, but now I'm overworked."
"I feel terrible. It felt like someone hit my heart with a net."
AC: City Folk:
Anger:
"Enough, (initial phrase)! Enough, enough, enough, enough! ENOUGH!!!"
"I am SO MAD! I mean, can't you like TELL?! (initial phrase)"
Sadness:
"So sad... Soooooooooo sad."
"I'm sad, (initial phrase). Like, to the max..."
AC: New Leaf:
Anger:
Sadness:
Thinking:
Normal:
AC (GCN):
Anger:
Sadness:
AC: Wild World:
Anger:
"When my mother gets angry, she breaks dishes. Well I broke 10 dishes, so back off!"
"Grrrrrrrr!!! Man! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!"
"Would please leave me alone? I got good (villager's name) one shoulder and evil (villager's name) on the other. And the two are duking it out in my brain so back off (initial phrase)!"
"I'm sorry, but you should probably keep your distance. I'm in a mean mood, and I don't want to take it out on you."
Sadness:
"Right now is not a good time (initial phrase)"
"Oooh... I'm so sad (initial phrase)"
"(player's name). Have you ever eaten something that makes your stomach feels queasy? Well haven't actually eaten anything. I think I'm just sad."
AC: City Folk:
Anger:
"Augh! I have nothing to say right now!"
"You want to talk? You know that right now is NOT a good time, you got that?"
Sadness:
AC: New Leaf:
Anger: "What is your problem?! Leave me alone, (initial phrase)!"
"I don't feel like talking to you right now!"
"Just leave me alone already, (initial phrase)!"
Sadness:
Thinking:
Snooty:
AC (GCN):
Anger:
Shut up! You don't know me!! Don't try to judge me!!
You filthy ogre! I hope you get stung by a thousand bees!!
Sadness:
AC: Wild World:
Anger:
"Gosh! I feel so irritated! It felt like a million mosquitoes just bit me! I know what your problem is?! You're so stuffy! You're like my grandma's basement!"
"Ugh! Get away from me! You're a real jerk! I don't want people thinking we're together!
"Like I said, I can't stand looking at your face right now!"
"Exactly what part of "LEAVE ME ALONE" do you not get?"
Sadness:
"Aw... Why did I have to be the star of this tragedy?"
AC: City Folk:
Anger:
"ARGH! What is WRONG with everyone in this town?"
"I've had ENOUGH! Just leave me alone!"
AC: New Leaf:
Thinking:
"I hate to do this to you, (player's name), but could you come back and talk to me later? I just remembered something really important I need to take care of right now!"
"(catchphrase), I'm not sure what to get (villager name) for (his/her) birthday. Maybe a tambourine! Hey! Did you overhear that? Keep it to yourself, OK, (player's name)?"
Anger:
"The hot rage, it burns! Grrrrrrrrrr!!
Uchi:
AC: New Leaf:
Anger:
Man, if it's not one thing, it must be something else! I'm mad at myself for letting myself get mad, <catchphrase>!
Gallery
Wild World
Trivia
- In Wild World the first emotion the player would always get upon meeting Dr. Shrunk was Shyness.
- When City Folk came out the emotion called Shyness was renamed to Bashfulness.
- In New Leaf Shyness and Bashfulness are two different emotions.
- Because the emotion Sneezing was not available until New Leaf, past games compensated by using the emotion that looked the most like a sneeze, which was Anger, and the "Achoo" vocalization was thrown overtop of that to make it sound like one.
- Realization was changed to Surprise in New Leaf
- Once learning all of the Jokes from Dr. Shrunk, the player's last learned emotion will be the Shrunk Funk Shuffle, and at the end of his preformance, the Player will recieve his old uniform towards the end, it will say: "Ha! I've filled all the pages of my joke book. Now I'm a certifiable emotion comedian at last!"
- Some characters such as Luna or Gracie will sometimes smile, and not repeat any emotion like Flourish, or Pride