History Fanfic / MaroonedInMadagascar

* Foreshadowing: After Melman spots Karl [[MistakenForGay snuggling with Julien in the latter's bed]] and shares the news with his zoo mates, Phil is conspicuously absent. It's later revealed in the story that he got bribed with bananas by Xixi so she can share this scandalous news with the entire kingdom.

** The fabled animosity between [[SnakeVersusMongoose mongooses and snakes]] is so strong, that even [[spoiler: Savio]] ([[spoiler: a New World serpent]]) intuitively knows what mongooses are and that they pose a threat to him after mistaking Mary Ann for one in ''The Odd Family''.

** The fabled animosity between [[SnakeVersusMongoose mongooses and snakes]] is so strong, that even [[spoiler: Savio]] - [[spoiler: a New World serpent]] - intuitively knows what mongooses are and that they pose a threat to him after mistaking Mary Ann for one in ''The Odd Family''.

** The crocodiles, and especially the panicky Crocodile Ambassador, are absolutely terrified of [[NiceGuy Gloria]] (a hippopotamus), [[AngryAngryHippos due to the hippos' reputation for savagely killing crocodiles]].

* TheCameo: Various characters make brief appearances, such as [[WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar Marleen, Darla, Roy, Bada and Bing]], [[WesternAnimation/Madagascar3EuropesMostWanted Sonya]], and the [[WesternAnimation/MadagascarEscape2Africa land shark that hounded Mort]].

* ObnoxiousEntitledHousewife: [[FatBastard Tammy]] serves this role, along with Rebecca and the rest of their small group of GossipyHens, who act catty and discriminatively towards Mary Ann ([[FantasticRacism and carnivores in general]]), [[MoralGuardians pressure King Julien into putting her and Horst on a week-long trial to prove themselves as capable guardians]], and Tammy does everything she can to discredit and slander Mary Ann and get Keke taken away from her. Also, several [[FreudianSlip Freudian Slips]] make it clear Tammy doesn't care about Keke's well-being so much as she's just looking for an excuse to run Mary Ann out of the kingdom, including constantly getting Keke's name wrong.

* LesserOfTwoEvils: Uncle King Julien actually utilized this trope to maintain a respectable (ish) image as the new king after he staged a coup against and dethroned the previous king, his own uncle. As he himself puts it, no matter how bad of a king he is, [[ EvilerThanThou will look like a saint]] to his subjects compared to ''King Julien the Terrible''.

* EvilerThanThou: Uncle King Julien actually utilized this trope to maintain a respectable (ish) image as the new king after he staged a coup against and dethroned the previous king, his own uncle. As he himself puts it, no matter how bad of a king he is, [[LesserOfTwoEvils he will look like a saint]] to his subjects compared to ''King Julien the Terrible''.

---> '''Pineapple''': Perhaps some of their stunts were in poor taste…but I must consent that they were pretty darn funny.

* WhamEpisode: Chapter 14 reveals that King Julien hasn't simply been willfully ignorant about his parents' apathy towards him in the present [[spoler: but that he has always known that they abandoned him of their own volition to live on an island condo (instead of getting eaten by the fossa or [[DogGotSentToAFarm going to a farm]]), due eavesdropping on them conversing about their plans as a child on the day they left, and Julien has been [[RepressedMemories repressing that memory]] ever since then]].

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers: When an angry mob confronts Maurice over Julien and Keke’s actions, all of them are upset over being pranked, except for the [[DirtyCoward Crocodile Ambassador]], [[ItsAllAboutMe who instead weeps about being forced by Julien to face his fears]] (working with Gloria and eating up the invading piranhas).

* HardTruthAesop: The B-plot with Princess Julienne and Prince Barty regarding their [[ParentalNeglect relationship]] with King Julien. Though people can change, not everyone does and might instead relapse into their old habits. This is evident with Julienne and Barty, as although they initially seemed to grow fonder of their estranged son and do show some affection for him now and then, they are still careless [[UpperClassTwit Upper Class Twits]] who mostly visit their son when they need someone to pamper to their needs and never showed remorse over abandoning him as a child.

* GentleTouchVsFirmHand: Maurice and Karl have this argument over how to handle King Julien's [[{{Understatement}} troubled]] relationship with his parents. Though Maurice initially tries to make Julien understand how toxic his relationship with his parents is, after being greeted with anger and accusations from the heartbroken ringtail, he then tries to slip a note to Julienne and Barty to remind them to stay for their son's birthday. Karl, however, steals the note and destroys it, telling Maurice that they need to force Julien to confront the cold, hard truth in order to break him out of his delusion, citing his own experience in ''A Foe In Need'' as proof of its effectiveness. After being told by the fanaloka that he's only hurting Julien more by enabling the latter's delusions, Maurice reluctantly agrees that Karl is right.

** Coupled with FurryReminder with Hector, who, after Julien and Keke shave him with his own razor blade (which he had since his days in the army) and then throw it away, grows a large white beard that extends all the way to his ears. This makes him look even more like a GrumpyOldMan, but it's also a reminder that he's a black-and-white ruffed lemur (but one that likes to stay clean-shaven).

** Coupled with FurryReminder with Hector, who, after Julien and Keke shave him with his own razor blade (which he had since his days in the army) and then throw it away, grows a large white beard that extends all the way to his ears. This makes him look even more like a GrumpyOldMan, but it's also a reminder that he's a black-and-white ruffed lemur.

* AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance: Why the author made Keke a kinkajou, since they are tawny-furred carnivorans with claws and fangs (like a fossa), while also being fruit-eaters that act like and physically resemble lemurs. When Bone-Fossa first learns who Keke is, he pauses and wonders if Mary Ann and Horst “broke some laws of nature”.