Emotions





Emotions are used by both players and villagers in and, but only the villagers could use emotions in the original Animal Crossing. Emotions reappear in Animal Crossing: New Leaf, with more than ever before available to players.

Villagers' Emotions
Aside from expressing emotions when in conversation, villagers may also show an emotion when walking about town.
 * If a dark cloud with a purple swirl appears above a neighbor's head (Sadness), then that means they're sad, but if you enter a villager's house and they're displaying this emotion right off the bat, it means they're sick. This would also be accompanied by shivers (same as the 'Fear' emotion).
 * When an exclamation mark is displayed above a villager's head then that means they're surprised or want to talk to you.
 * When their head is red and when you get close to them you hear a 'pow pow pow' and white smoke comes out of their head, they're angry (Anger).
 * When musical notes are around the villager, it means the villager is happy (Glee). The musical notes likely represent whistling. In New Leaf, the villagers whistle the Town Tune.
 * Villagers may also clap when a Player catches a fish or insect if near them, or sometimes when fireworks go off in City Folk.
 * In New Leaf, if you speak to a villager enough times they still start 'thinking' and will refuse to talk. They might speak aloud about what they're thinking of depending on their personality.

Conversations with NPC villagers and players sometime cause a villager's emotion to change from normal to happy, sad, or angry. You can't start a conversation with villagers when they are angry or sad - they will tell you they don't feel like talking.

If a villager is pushed or hit three times with a net they use either the sad or mad emotion depending on their personality.

In New Leaf, when a player uses an emotion in front of an animal (including special characters), they will also do an emotion as well.

Learning Emotions
In Wild World, the player can get emotions from Dr. Shrunk in a random encounter with him when he is walking around your village. After you learn one, you can access emotions by opening your menu and clicking on the purple speech bubble tab, then click on the faces you want to use as your emotion.

In City Folk, Dr. Shrunk is found in the city's theater, where you can learn emotions for 800 bells. He is sometimes replaced by Frillard, who teaches emotions unknown to Dr. Shrunk. You can store up to four emotions. If you want learn a new emotion and you have 4 you need to delete one. After you get one, to access emotions, you will see faces on the top left of the screen on the menu, then click the faces you want to use as your emotion.

In Animal Crossing: New Leaf, you can get emotions easier than before. After getting Club LOL in your town, visit Dr. Shrunk. When you first visit in the day, he will ask you to drop by with some fruit and he will perform comedy for you. On your next visit bring Fruit with you for this is what he needs to perform. If you tell him you have fruit but later tell him no, he gets angry at you, saying he was excited. Once you give him fruit, he will appear on the stage of Club LOL and perform a random emotion. You can have 2 pages of emotions, each page holding 20 emotions, which totals to 40 emotions in all. This is more emotions than in any of the previous games in the series, and to make it even better, you don't have to throw out any of your old emotions because you can keep them all. You can re-order them so you can categorize them. Shrunk may also accept turnips, and if some are brought to him, he will react shocked as if given a basket of fruit, accepting them "as a snack for later".

-- The "Close" emotion can only be obtained by hacking. The icon looks like the "Anger" emotion, but every time you click the icon, your player shows a different emotion each time in a random pattern. Emotions shown by your character can be any of which, including those taught by Frillard.

Emotion List
†Surprise, in this column, refers to City Folk's version of Surprise.
 * Names in (parentheses) are their names in New Leaf

Emotional Quotes
These are the quotes villagers say when they are angry or upset.

AC (GCN):
Anger:

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!"

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."

AC: City Folk:
Anger:

Sadness:

AC: New Leaf
Anger:

"Durg Durgit! I'm surrounded by a bunch of jokers!"

Sadness:

Thinking:

AC (GCN):
Anger:

"GAH! 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 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:

Sadness:

AC: New Leaf:
In, the game introduces a new villager mood to the game, called "Thinking."

Anger:

"Hey, even I can be mad sometimes, you know?! Humph!"

Sadness:

Thinking:

AC (GCN):
Anger:

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 am usually 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!"

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...) I'm so depressed and I'm hungry. I even can't explain what happened right now. (initial phrase)"

AC: City Folk:
Anger:

Sadness:

AC: New Leaf:
Anger:

Sadness:

Thinking:

AC: New Leaf:
Anger:

Sadness:

Thinking:

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!"

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:

Sadness:

AC: New Leaf:
Anger:

Sadness:

Thinking:

AC (GCN):
Anger:

Sadness:

Trivia

 * In the first emotion you would always get upon meeting Dr. Shrunk was Shyness.
 * When came out the emotion called Shyness was renamed to Bashfulness.
 * In 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