Alfonso

"I feel like cotton candy that someone sat on..."

- Alfonso

Alfonso (アルベルト, Alberto) is a lazy alligator villager from the. He also appeared in as a major character, and Yū's best friend. His catchphrase, "it'sa me" is a reference to the famous Nintendo character, Mario. Furthermore, Alfonso and Mario are both Italian names. Also, Alfonso wears the Big Bro Shirt, which is also a reference to Mario.

Etymology
Alfonso is a typical name in Spanish and his name in Japanese (Alberto) also.

Appearance
Alfonso's design is loosely based on Nintendo's famous mascot Mario from the Super Mario Bros. series. The alligator not only mimics Mario's famous "it's a me" quote as his initial phrase, but he also wears the Big Bro Shirt, which features the "M" emblem featured on Mario's cap; the rest is red. Alfonso's external appearance is a subtle reference to Yoshi, Mario's faithful dinosaur companion. He is a burnt-amber orange with darker circles on his face. Both his cheeks and belly are white and his eyes are similarly formed although his eyelids are blue. He has an alligator mouth with sharp fangs. When it is raining, he carries a leaf umbrella.

Personality
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As a lazy villager, Alfonso will be friendly and easy to get along with due to his laid back lifestyle. Like all lazy villagers, he shares a love of food and relaxing. In, he will mention his dream of diving in, for example, a pool of chocolate. He will enjoy partaking in the usual hobbies, usually for relaxing reasons or for food, when fishing, Alfonso enjoys fishing a lot and will regularly challenge you to find certain fish. He will get along well with other villagers, but may offend or confuse jock villagers, who have a conflicting lifestyle of exercise and fitness, compared to the lazy lifestyle of relaxing and food. He will get along with other lazy villagers with whom he will talk about food, comics or superheroes. He will also get along well with normal and peppy villagers, but may from time to time annoy snooty and cranky villagers, who disagree with the lazy lifestyle.

House
In all the Animal Crossing games his house is decorated with a few items from the Exotic Series and his walls are covered with the imperial wallpaper.

Animal Crossing: four mini rhythmoids, two house plants, a toilet and a white boom box. His stereo plays Imperial K.K. and owns a basement floor.


 * three mini rhythmoids, a men's toilet, a house plant and a retro stereo which plays Forest Life and a charcoal floor.


 * Is nearly the same as but the only difference is a missing rhytmoid.

Role in the Animal Crossing Movie
Alfonso was also a major character in. He caught bugs and dug up fossils with Yu, a human character in the movie. His name in the movie is Albert. Alfonso (Albert) is first seen when Ai delivers the 500 pies. Soon after they meet, Yu, the kid ninja that sometimes comes to the Animal Village, chasing a butterfly with his net. He is Albert's friend. Albert runs back into his house to get his net to chase after the insect with him. Later on in the movie you see them digging holes all over the place by the beach to find an ammonite. Then Bouquet, another character, says she's seen many more of them somewhere else. Albert, Yu, Bouquet, Ai, and another character, Sally, go find the ammonite cluster in a boat in the giant cave. While going into the cave, Bouquet points them into the wrong direction, for she's the one who knew about the ammonite in the first place and said right. As they head down a huge waterfall, Bouquet yells, "Sorry, it was left!" (Next is the scene where Pascal comes in). Back to the cave, their boat has crashed onto a giant rock. They find the giant ammonite while Ai spaces out, looking at a full Seismosaurus stuck inside of a hole atop the cave.

Other Appearances
Alfonso was the subject of e-Card 270 in Animal Crossing-e Series 4. If a player scanned the card, he or she would receive a letter from the villager with a Present attached.

Trivia

 * Alfonso's name in the Animal Crossing Movie, is often romanized incorrectly as Halberd (ハルベルド) as opposed to Alberto　（アルベルト）in subtitled versions.


 * His birthday is on the day when Animal Crossing: New Leaf comes out in North America.