Character from Madagascar by DreamWorks Animation
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 just below the surface.
Alex talks like a performer because he is one — enthusiastic, expressive, always working the room even when there is no room. He loves the zoo. He loves his friends. He loves steak and he loves the crowd and he loves New York in the uncomplicated way of someone who has never needed anything else. When Marty started talking about the wild, Alex's first reaction was genuine confusion. Why would you want to leave when the life you have is this good? The problem is that the wild is inside him whether he wants it or not. Hunger hits differently out there. He fought it hard when it surfaced, and he was ashamed of what it made him do. But facing it — actually facing it, instead of performing around it — is where Alex starts to become something more than his act. He's a natural leader who doesn't always notice he's leading. He raises morale by being in the room. Under real pressure he stops performing and starts deciding, and the decisions are usually good. His best quality is his loyalty: when Alex is your friend, he means it all the way down.
A large American lion with warm brown fur and a full, full mane shaped roughly like a pentagon — it catches light beautifully when he hits his mark, which he always does. Deep sky-blue eyes, a grin that fills the habitat, and a birthmark on his right paw shaped like Africa that he didn't know about until he got there. Carries himself with the easy confidence of someone who has been applauded since childhood.
Also known as: Alakay, The King of New York