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* ShoutOut: Alex being frightened when he sees Mort outside the plane wing and then momentarily [[Series/TheTwilightZone mistaking him for a gremlin]].

* GossipEvolution: The monkeys' relaying of Alex's message changed "She's got a gun, let's get out while we can" to "Let's have fun and take out the dam" and "No, pull up. They'll kill us. There's gottta be another way." to "No pull up. Kill us. There's no other way." And both times, "pass it on" gets turned into "basset hound".

** And in the beginning, King Julien comes out of the cake and says, "[[{{Transgender}} I'm a woman]]! [[AmbiguouslyGay Which one of you is attracted to me]]?"

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:After he succeeds in usurping Zuba's position as Alpha Lion, Makunga faces his first challenge as leader when the watering hole dries up the next day. He responds to the challenge as well as you'd expect: his only suggestion is that the animals fight for what little water is left, knowing full well that as Alpha Lion he would win. He then proceeds to [[KickTheDog kick one dog]] after another, including literally kicking away a Dik-Dik who protested his leadership, cruelly patronising a young giraffe with a broken leg, and mercilessly mocking Alex when he offers a more effective solution to the problem. In a satisfying aversion of ApatheticCitizens, the other animals are so appalled by his behaviour that they unanimously demand that [[TheGoodKing Zuba]] be brought back to deal with the situation himself. A furious and humiliated Makunga is forced to falsely promise to consult with Zuba in order to pacify his subjects.]]

* RealityEnsues: [[spoiler:After he succeeds in usurping Zuba's position as Alpha Lion, Makunga faces his first challenge as leader when the watering hole dries up the next day. He responds to the challenge as well as you'd expect: his only suggestion is that the animals fight for what little water is left, knowing full well that as Alpha Lion he would win. He then proceeds to [[KickTheDog kick one dog]] after another, including literally kicking away a small animal who protested his leadership, cruelly patronising a young giraffe with a broken leg, and mercilessly mocking Alex when he offers a more effective solution to the problem. In a satisfying aversion of ApatheticCitizens, the other animals are so appalled by his behaviour that they unanimously demand that [[TheGoodKing Zuba]] be brought back to deal with the situation himself. A furious and humiliated Makunga is forced to falsely promise to consult with Zuba in order to pacify his subjects.]]

* AnachronismScrew: As detailed below, a newspaper implies that the films take place sometime in the 80s. However, at one point in this film, Alex admits to breaking Marty's iPod, something that wasn't released until 2001.

* CruelAndUnusualPunishment: During her fight with Alex, Nana gives him a ''titty twister''.
-->'''Nana:''' Come in, Tokyo!

** And in the beginning, King Julien comes out of the cake and says, "[[Transgender I'm a woman]]! [[AmbiguouslyGay Which one of you is attracted to me]]?"

!! ''Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa'' provides examples of the following tropes:

** [[spoiler:We never get to find out what happened to Nana and Makunga after the former delivers a beat-down on the latter and takes him off-screen. WordOfGod says she took him home as a pet, implying the other tourists, who were last seen a couple minutes ago, returned home, as well.]]

* WeddingBellsForSomeoneElse: About at the end of the sequel, we're lead to believe that Melman and Gloria are getting hitched. Then it pans down to reveal that its really Skipper marrying Lola, a bobble-head doll, which was an even weirder coupling.

** [[spoiler:We never get to find out what happened to Nana and Makunga after the former delivers a beat-down on the latter and takes him off-screen. WordOfGod says she took him home as a pet, implying the other tourists, who were last seen a couple minutes ago, returned home, aswell.]]

* Big Bad: Makunga and Nana are the two main antagonists of the movie. The former plans to overthrow Alex's father Zuba as the Alpha Lion, while the latter poses a threat to the animals of the reserve by building a dam which deprives them of water.

* BigBad: Nana is the main antagonist of the movie and her plan is to capture Alex.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: During her fight with Alex, Nana gives him a ''titty twister''.
-->'''Nana:''' Come in, Tokyo!

* Karma Houdini: The poachers who captured Alex as a cub. The last we see of them is them driving away in their truck, with Zuba in hot pursuit. Zuba says that when he eventually caught up with the poachers, he couldn't find Alex, and thought the poachers had killed him. It is unknown what happened to the poachers. (One can only hope that Zuba tore them to pieces off-screen).

* https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/KarmaHoudini: The poachers who captured Alex as a cub. The last we see of them is them driving away in their truck, with Zuba in hot pursuit. Zuba says that when he eventually caught up with the poachers, he couldn't find Alex, and thought the poachers had killed him. It is unknown what happened to the poachers. (One can only hope that Zuba tore them to pieces off-screen).

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: After Tiny defeats and humiliates Alex in combat, he is never once seen afterwards. Odd, since he was seen talking with Makunga beforehand, implying they were in cahoots.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:We never get to find out if Nana got punished for taking Makunga from Africa and her evil plan getting foiled by Alex.]]