History Fanfic / MaroonedInMadagascar

* 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]]), 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/incriminate 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.

* LockedOutOfTheLoop: Mort being the [[OlderThanTheyLook Older Than He Looks]] ([[EldritchAbomination and also not a regular lemur]]) [[UnusuallyUninterestingSight is a fairly open secret among the denizens of Madagascar]], but the penguins don’t know it, and Kowalski and Private believe that the mouse lemur is a child, [[CassandraTruth even when he angrily argues to the contrary]].

* CutenessProximity: Keke is a [[DeliberatelyCuteChild child]] [[RidiculouslyCuteCritter kinkajou]], so naturally, she has that effect on people. [[BrattyHalfPint Though it wears off with many of them]] [[BrattyHalfPint once they get to know her character]].

* VillainousRescue: Accidental example. [[spoiler: Savio eating Mort ends ups inadvertently saving Kowalski and Private’s lives, since the mouse lemur was planning to poison them by offering them smoothies containing mamba venom, under the pretense of thanking them for “saving his life” earlier]].

* BrattyHalfPint: [[EstablishingCharacterMoment Keke establishes herself as one the moment she arrives on the island]], being a cheeky {{Tomboy}} who mouths off to any adult that opposes or annoys her (or she just deems lame) and has a penchant for pranks.

* ImagineSpot: In chapter 11, when Tammy insinuates that [[MistakenForCheating Mary Ann’s night together with Karl involved]] [[SexWithTheEx more than just searching for King Julien and Keke]], [[RageBreakingPoint the fossa attacks and mauls her]], [[MoodWhiplash squirting blood on everyone in the vicinity]]. Except that it was all Mary Ann’s imagination as a coping mechanism in order to keep herself from losing her shit for real.

* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Mort figures that the best gift he could give King Julien for the latter’s birthday is to murder the penguins so they won’t find out the lemurs’ DarkSecret. His first attempt to off the duo involves making them run through an elaborate series of death traps. Of course, being the ridiculously skilled commandos they are, Kowalski and Private navigate through it without a hitch, while Mort’s traps keep backfiring on him and he suffers AmusingInjuries.

** Mary Ann's ImagineSpot where brutally kills Tammy.

* HiddenVillain: The antagonist is another Guatemalan animal that escapes from the same ship as Keke, but this one is a large predator and [[VillainousGlutton he starts picking off lemurs one by one]], while keeping to the shadows.

* AccidentalHero: Alex saves Julien from Bone-Fossa by unknowingly grabbing the latter instead of a dummy during a press conference, and [[CallBack uses the fossa ruler like a pair of nunchucks]] before tossing him into the river. [[SubvertedTrope He does a more genuinely heroic moment immediately after though]], when he talks down the angry mob from trying to lynch the accused Mary Ann.

* AccidentalHero: Alex saves Julien from Bone-Fossa by unknowingly grabbing the latter instead of a dummy during a press conference, and [[CallBack uses the fossa ruler like a pair of nunchucks]] before tossing him into the river.

* CerebusRetcon:

* PiranhaProblem: They are one of the Latin American animals that escaped from the poaching ship, [[ExplosiveBreeder and they infest Madagascar’s rivers literally overnight]]. Julien enlists Gloria and the crocodiles to keep their numbers under control, which the hippo takes in stride while the reptiles are utterly terrified ([[PatheticallyWeak despite their cousins from the west regularly eating piranhas, as Keke points out]]).

* OriginalFlavor: Sans the occasional mild swear word and some of the darker themes the show exploited being more explicit, the stories very much follow the high-octane comical tone of the original.

* AmusinglyAwfulAim: Karl is shown to have this whenever he uses his plasma gun, [[StoryBreakerPower preventing him from easily scoring a victory for the protagonists whenever he uses it]], and he fails to assassinate [[BigBad Bone-Fossa]] ''twice'' because of it.

** When [[HateSink Rebecca]] and her son get [[SwallowedWhole eaten]] by the mystery predator, her husband arrives on the scene and realizes what has happened…and promptly cheers and thanks Frank for “[[AwfulWeddedLife giving him back his freedom]]” before running off to the bars.

* KidnappingBirdOfPrey: After his pranking spree, Julien gets caught and carried off by a giant crowned eagle, with Keke hitching a ride in a [[DidntThinkThisThrough poorly thought-out attempt to rescue him]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: In the first ''Madagascar'' movie, the ending showed Mason and Phill still in their cage, implying they were stuck there unattended while the penguins sailed to Antarctica and back again. Here, they are shown to have almost died from hypothermia and are [[SomethingWeForgot accidentally rescued]] when Alex and Gloria went back to make sure there were no humans left on the ship. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Julien assumes they must be huge wimps for being unable to handle frigid weather because he thinks chimps are native to Russia]] ([[CallBack due to his experience with Stanislav and his cosmonaut chimps]]).

* EarlyInstalmentWeirdness: There is one reference to how all the lemurs who aren’t part of the main or supporting cast [[OnlySixFaces all look the same]], which is how Maurice noticed Horst’s absence during the lemur’s meeting discussing the Zoosters’ arrival. This gets dropped in the other stories, [[ShownTheirWork where random extras are usually described as distinct species of lemur]].

* AmusinglyAwfulAim: Karl is shown to have this whenever he uses his plasma gun, [[StoryBreakerPower preventing him from easily scoring a victory for the protagonists whenever he uses it]].