Cephalobot

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Cephalobot
“Take me to your pizza.”
Gender	Male
Personality	Smug
Species	Octopus
Birthday	April 1st (Aries)
Initial phrase	donk donk チュドン (chudon) 발사 (balsa) 发动 / 發動 (fādòng) clonc bip bip clinkclank klink-klonk tink-tonk динь-дон (din'-don)
Initial clothes	Prism Tee PC Retro Sweater (White) NH
Home request	My Other Home HHP
Favorite song	K.K. Robot Synth NH Surfin' K.K. HHP
Appearances	PC, NH

Cephalobot (ギーガー Giga^?) is a smug octopus villager in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 update. He was revealed in the October 15, 2021 Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct. Cephalobot has the play hobby and is the only smug villager with this hobby.

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What is the hobby of Cephalobot in Animal Crossing: New Horizons?

In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Cephalobot, the smug octopus villager, has a unique hobby - play. He was first introduced in the 2.0 update, revealed on October 15, 2021.

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What makes Cephalobot unique among smug villagers in Animal Crossing?

Cephalobot, a smug villager in Animal Crossing, stands out due to his unique personality and play hobby. He is polite and gentleman-like, often boasting about his coolness. He interacts well with most villagers, except for the cranky ones. Introduced in the Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 update in October 2021, he is the only smug villager with a play hobby.

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What is the design inspiration for Cephalobot in ACNH?

Cephalobot, a character in ACNH, is a silver robot octopus. His head comprises four riveted metal plates. The largest plates form the left and right halves of his head, while two plates cover the crown and nape. The crown plate features the stenciled numerical designation '083'. His eyes are yellow and glow, with two filaments inside, framed by metal eyelids.

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When was Cephalobot first introduced in the Animal Crossing series?

Cephalobot, the smug octopus villager, made his debut in the Animal Crossing series in the 2.0 update of New Horizons. He was unveiled during the Animal Crossing: New Horizons Direct on October 15, 2021. He is the fourth robotic villager in New Horizons and ranks fifth in the series if Nindori is counted.

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What are the distinctive features of Cephalobot's appearance in Animal Crossing?

Cephalobot, a silver robot octopus from the Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 update, has glowing yellow eyes with two filaments and metal eyelids. His head, made of four riveted metal plates, has the largest plates forming the left and right halves. Two plates cover the crown and nape, with '083' stenciled on the crown's plate.

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Appearance

Cephalobot is a silver robot octopus with glowing yellow eyes with two filaments inside and metal eyelids. His head is made of four metal plates visibly held together by rivets; the largest meet at the middle and make up most of the left and right halves his head, except for where two plates in the back cover the crown and nape of his head. The crown's plate has the numerical designation "083" stenciled on with a small "four-gilled" vent above it, with similar "three-gilled" vents on either sides of his face under his cheeks. The nape's wider plate has three white power outlets for Type B electrical cables, each having a rectangular orange LED underneath.

Personality

Below is a brief description of the smug personality. For more information, click here.

Smug villagers are very polite, kind, and gentleman-like. As a smug villager, Cephalobot will get along easily with other villagers. Smug villagers get along well with most villagers, their personality appearing to be a mix of the other personality types. Smug villagers will stroke their egos from time to time, going on about how cool they are.

Generally, Cephalobot will get along with lazy, normal, snooty, and peppy villagers, and may conflict with cranky villagers.

House

As with his house design, his house interior is very futuristic and sci-fi. K.K. Robot Synth plays on his throwback skull radio.

New Horizons (interior)	New Horizons (exterior)

Pocket Camp

Cephalobot was added to Pocket Camp in the October 28, 2021 update.

Cephalobot's preferred theme is hip, and he primarily gives paper as a reward. His profile reads:

❝ With his metallic body and sci-fi flair, Cephalobot looks like he can shoot laser beams out of his eyes. Wait... He can't actually do that, right?❞

Campsite Invitation Requirements

Friendship Level: 0

Friendship Rewards

• At level 7 friendship, he will reward the player with a prism tee and sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 9, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 15, he will request that the player crafts a space console.
• At level 20, he will reward the player with a pic of Cephalobot and sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 25, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 30, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 35, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 40, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 45, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 50, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 55, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 60, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 65, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).
• At level 70, he will reward the player with sparkle stones (x1).

amiibo Card

amiibo Card
Back	#439 Cephalobot Type Octopus Star sign Aries Birthday 4/1 Roll value N/A Hand sign N/A Request My Other Home
← 438 Petri #439 Cephalobot 440 Quinn →

Trivia

• Cephalobot is one of the eight new villagers that came with New Horizons's 2.0 update, along with Ione, Shino, Quinn, Petri, Marlo, Sasha, and Tiansheng.
  • He, along with the other New Horizons newcomers, was added to Pocket Camp in an update that was released at the same time as the release of New Horizons's 2.0 update.
• Cephalobot is the fourth robotic villager present in New Horizons, along with Sprocket, Ribbot, and Del.
  • He is the fifth robot villager overall if Nindori is included.
• Since Cephalobot's birthday is April 1^st, it coincides with Tammi's original birthday and the April Fool's Day events from New Leaf. Due to differences between New Leaf and his debut game, New Horizons, there are no April Fool's Days he or any villager would have previously had to participate in, but he can potentially attend Tammi's party as her birthday was moved to April 2^nd.
• Different meanings can be found in Cephalobot's international names:
  • His English and Dutch name, Cephalobot, is a portmanteau of cephalopod (a member the octopus' taxonomic class, Cephalopoda; from Ancient Greek κεφαλή (kephalḗ "head") and ποδός (podós "foot")) and robot (Czech for "slave" or "worker", coined in 1929). The suffix "-bot" is commonly used in the fond naming of machines of select appearances or purposes.
    • His Russian name, Цефалобот (Tsefalobot), is a direct transliteration of his English/Dutch name. It is not a portmanteau between the Russian translation головоно́гий (golovonógij "cephalopod") with the cognate ро́бот (róbot).
  • His Japanese and Korean name, Gīgā (ギーガー;기가), references both:
    • The Swiss surname of Hans Reudi Giger (1940-2014), a special-effects artist best known for his work on the sci-fi horror film Alien (1979).
    • The English prefix giga- (from A.Gk. γίγας (gígas "giant")) that is used to denote "billion" in metric measurements, especially in relation to computers, such as with gigabytes, gigahertz, and gigawatts. In Japanese, (ギガ giga^?) is commonly used as short hand for (ギガバイト gigabaito^?).
  • His French name, Octoborg, is a portmanteau between the words octopus and cyborg (an English blend of cybernetic and organism coined in 1960.)
  • His Spanish name, Octoberto, is a portmanteau of the word octopus and the masculine name Roberto or similar.
    • Both his French and Spanish names use the orginal Latin root word inplace of their languages' respective words for octopodes (French pieuvre/poulpe; Spanish pulpo) or the number eight (French huit; Spanish ocho). Unlike the other Romantic translations, his Italian name does not use this borrowing from Latin.
  • His German name, Tentatron, is a portmanteau of the word Tentakel "tentacle" and the suffix -tron (from A.Gk. -τρον; used to denote a mechanical instrument.)
  • His Italian name, Polpobot, is a portmanteau of the words polpo "octopus" and robot.
  • His Chinese name, Jígéěr (吉格尔/吉格爾), comes from the transcription of his Japanese name, and ultimately from H.R. Giger.
    • The Han characters also have meaning by themselves.
      • 吉 jí can mean "good", "lucky", or "vacant". It is also a surname.
      • 格 gé can mean "pattern", "lattice", "form", or as it is the 22nd tetragram of the Tài Xuán Jīng; "resistance". It is also a surname.
      • 爾 ěr (simplified as 尔) can mean "you", "your", or "that". When refering to flowers, it may mean "exuberant".
• Cephalobot's catchphrase, "donk donk", is a reference to the Star Wars franchise, specifically GNK-series power droids. Nicknamed "gonk droids", they regularly make the low honking sound "gonk gonk".
• Cephalobot greatly resembles the Octobot enemies from the EarthBound series.
• The numbers on the back of his head, 083, in Japanese can be read collectively as hachijūsan (八十三^?), or individually as hachi san (八三^?). The latter reading is pronounced the same as Hachi-san (八さん^?), which can be interpreted loosely as "Mr. Eight".
• Cephalobot is the second villager and third character overall to appear naked. Both him and Clay appear naked in their respective posters, and K.K. Slider appears naked both in his poster and in person.
• He, along with Raymond, Kidd, Ed, O'Hare, and Curlos are the only smug villagers that wave with both hands.
• In New Horizons, Cephalobot's preferred styles are Active/Simple, and his preferred colors are Black/White.

In other languages

Cephalobot
Language Name Translation Japanese ギーガー (Giga) - French Octoborg - Spanish Octoberto - German Tentatron - Italian Polpobot - Dutch Cephalobot - Russian Цефалобот Tsefalobot () - Chinese 吉格尔 / 吉格爾 (Jí gé ěr) - Korean 기가 (Giga) -