Madagascar

by DreamWorks Animation

Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Gloria the Hippo, and Melman the Giraffe have had everything provided for them their entire lives. Then they end up on an island with predators and no room service, and the Penguins are already gone. The Madagascar trilogy (2005–2012) and its Penguins of Madagascar spin-off are DreamWorks Animation at its funniest and most surprisingly earnest.

39 characters, locations, and items in this world codex.

Characters

• Alex — The star of the Central Park Zoo — a lion who performs like a celebrity, loves like a friend, and has no idea that his natural instincts are waiting j
• Alice — The Central Park Zoo's lead zookeeper — chronically inattentive, consistently unhelpful, and somehow unaware that her animals are running covert opera
• Bada — One half of the zoo's gorilla pair — larger, stronger, and slightly smarter than his partner Bing, with a strong opinion about bananas and shared airs
• Bing — Bada's gorilla partner — less sharp, equally committed to not sharing, and a devoted fan of The Lunacorns.
• Chantel DuBois — Monaco's animal control captain — a woman of superhuman persistence, zero legal restraint, and a single-minded obsession with mounting a lion head on
• Dr. Blowhole — Skipper's arch-nemesis — an evil cyborg dolphin genius who was once 'Flippy' the performing dolphin until humiliation at the Ring of Fire turned him i
• DuBois's Henchmen — The four animal control officers who follow DuBois everywhere — wordless, perpetually injured, and healed back to operational status by her singing.
• Florrie — Alex's mother and the alpha lioness — the one who recognized her son first, accepted him completely, and spent the film being right about him while Zu
• Gia — An Italian jaguar and trapeze artist who is Alex's love interest and the circus's moral compass — passionate about her family, elegant in her act, and
• Gloria — The most grounded of the four zoo friends — a hippo who has her head on straight, her opinions in order, and no patience for anyone pretending otherwi
• King Julien XIII — The self-declared king of the lemurs — loud, vain, wrong about everything, right about some things, and genuinely difficult to dislike despite his bes
• Kowalski — The team's intelligence officer — a penguin of enormous scientific confidence, perpetual miscalculation, and the kind of narcissism that makes him tes
• Makunga — The scheming lion who manipulates his way into the alpha position at the African reserve — vain, politically savvy, and deeply undone by a small old w
• Marlene — The Central Park Zoo's resident otter — sensible, independent, and the one character who remains neutral between the penguins and the lemurs while som
• Marty — A zebra who romanticized freedom his entire zoo life — and then got there, and had to decide what the dream was actually worth when it was real.
• Mason — A sophisticated English-accented chimpanzee who speaks eloquently, throws poop at people, cannot read a single word of English, and serves as interpre
• Maurice — King Julien's long-suffering royal advisor — the most grounded lemur in the kingdom and the only reason half of Julien's schemes don't end in disaster
• Melman — A hypochondriac giraffe who has been convinced he's dying for years — and the one time he believed it was true turned out to be when he found the cour
• Mort — A tiny mouse lemur who loves King Julien's feet with the intensity of a religious calling — apparently harmless, surprisingly unkillable, and accordin
• Nana — An elderly woman who has beaten Alex the Lion twice in unarmed combat and reduced Makunga to a man in a kitty cage — the most consistently victorious
• Phil — Mason's mute chimpanzee partner — the reader, the signer, the lighter-colored and more temperamental of the two, communicating entirely through ASL an
• Private — The youngest and most genuinely kind of the four penguins — the one who actually talks to the other animals, keeps the squad's humanity intact, and is
• Rico — The squad's demolitions expert, weapons cache, and least predictable member — a penguin who communicates in grunts, swallows anything, and would follo
• Skipper — The leader of the penguin commando unit — paranoid, decisive, shockingly competent, and running an unauthorized covert operation out of the Central Pa
• Sonya — A large black bear at Circus Zaragoza who communicates only in grunts, rides a motorcycle, and is the only character to inspire King Julien to genuine
• Stefano — An Italian sea lion whose every emotion is visible on his face, whose circus career has involved more catastrophic failures than successes, and whose
• Teetsi — Makunga's enforcer — an enormous lion who falls asleep at random intervals and becomes terrifyingly dangerous the moment a fight is on.
• Vitaly — A Russian tiger who was once the greatest circus performer in the world, lost everything in a single flaming miscalculation, and had to be talked back
• Zuba — Alex's father and the alpha lion of the African reserve — a proud, strong warrior who spent years believing his son was dead and had to learn to accep

Locations

• African Wildlife Reserve — The mainland African wildlife reserve where Alex was born — the pride's territory, Zuba and Florrie's home, and the site of Alex's belated rite of pas
• Central Park Zoo — A zoo in the middle of Manhattan that is simultaneously a comfortable home for its animals and the most poorly supervised covert operations hub in Nor
• Circus Zaragoza — A traveling European all-animal circus that was once the greatest show in the world, declined into irrelevance, and was rebuilt by zoo animals who had
• Fossa Territory — The predator territory adjacent to the lemur kingdom — where the Fossa wait, hunt, and represent the primary existential threat to Julien's reign and
• Island of Madagascar — The island off the coast of Africa where the zoo animals are stranded in the first film — wild, beautiful, and home to lemurs, Fossa, and a political
• Kingdom of Madagascar — The sovereign lemur kingdom on the island of Madagascar — home of King Julien's throne, his dancing ceremonies, his sky spirit rituals, and his subjec
• Penguin Habitat — Officially a penguin enclosure. Actually a multi-level covert operations base with 13 classified sub-levels, a periscope, weapons, and a secret elevat

Items

• DuBois's Dart Gun — Captain DuBois's primary weapon — a tranquilizer dart gun loaded with a poison intended for Alex, ultimately used against DuBois herself by Mort.
• King Julien's Crown — The symbol of King Julien's authority — he has several versions, loses them occasionally, and their presence or absence tracks the franchise's dramati
• Penguin Submarine — The penguins' primary long-range transport — a functional submarine built from zoo resources that they use when the penguin habitat's covert exit tunn

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