Dr. Shrunk is a character in the Animal Crossing series who can give the player special emotions to use while playing with other characters online. He first debuted in the Nintendo DS video game Animal Crossing: Wild World, though would later appear in Animal Crossing: City Folk, where he would arguably play a larger role. The character is a type of salamander called an axolotl with glasses that, in Wild World, appears randomly on any of the week days starting at 6:00 in the morning. In City Folk for the Wii, Dr. Shrunk would appear in the theater where he would have a show for the audience that would teach the player emotions to use online.