History WesternAnimation / ThePenguinsofMadagascar

** [[spoiler: [[PopGoesTheHuman But it had it's logical conclusion at the end.]] [[disneydeath Luckily, Skipper was still alright because it was just a layer of him the whole time.]] But still, isn't it quite disturbing?]]

** [[spoiler: [[PopGoesTheHuman But it had it's logical conclusion at the end. [[disneydeath Luckily, Skipper was still alright because it was just a layer of him the whole time.]] But still, isn't it quite disturbing?]]

** [[spoiler: [[PopGoesTheHuman But it had it's logical conclusion at the end. [[Disneydeath: Luckily, Skipper was still alright because it was just a layer of him the whole time.]] But still, isn't it quite disturbing?]]

* BalloonBelly: Skipper in "Action Reaction" Where whenever he gets stressed, he swells up like a balloon meeting this example accordingly.

* BrotherhoodOfManimals

** King Julian in Time out where he eats a hot dog whole and becomes quite round.

** Lampshaded by the Red Squirrel in "Our Man in Grrfurjiclestan" when he gets captured during his Big No!
--> "Nooooooo - " *gets caught by a lasso* " I really should have run away in stead of yelling."

** The cricket in "Mr. Tux".

* ChekhovsGun:
** In "Two Feet High and Rising," Mort overcomes his obsession with King Julien's feet, but then has to grab hold of said feet to rescue Julien later in the same episode.
** Rico's "mushy love sensitivity" in "All Choked Up." At the beginning of the episode, Rico swallows a time bomb, but is given anti-reguritation medicine. After several unsuccessful attempts to make him cough up the bomb, the other penguins tearful farewells repulse him enough to make him gag.

** Kowalski too [[spoiler: until it is pointed out to him]].
* {{Dissimile}}: From "Tangled in the Web": "They're watching us like hawks. Except for that swooping down and devouring us part."

* NoFlowInCGI: Compared to the films, the lemurs aren't visaily fuzzy, instead they're textured to merely look like they are. Similarly, the penguins' feathers have a lot less sheen to them then they do in the movies. Noticeably subverted however with the leaves on King Julien's crown, which realistically sway when he moves around.

[[TheMovie A feature]] [[RecursiveAdaptation film]] penned by the writers of ''{{Megamind}}'' is currently in the works.

In it, the titular penguins and other aforementioned characters are all residents of the Central Park [strike]Prison[/strike] Zoo. Led by Skipper, the penguins deal with various missions within the zoo. At times, they are at odds with IncidentalVillain King Julien, but at other times, he and the other two lemurs are needed to help in the missions.

** The fact that the closest thing to religion in this show (the lemurs' belief in spirits) [[UnfortunateImplications is generally scoffed at]] by the other characters.

** In "Cute-astrope", Private learns how to ramp his own cuteness factor [[UpToEleven 138%]], resulting in a ''weaponized'' CutenessProximity that makes everyone who witnesses it faint
from sheer sugar shock.

* BloodlessCarnage: "Endangerous Species" is basically 11 minute of Dodo massacre. Despite all the gruesome deaths, not a drop of blood is seen.

** [[HeroicSociopath The Pervert]]: Rico - the other penguins constantly comment on his perverted mind.
** [[ButtMonkey The Butt Monkey]]: Private catches a lot of suffering for being TheRookie.

* GenreSavvy: The Lost Treasure of the Golden Squirrel has so much {{lampshading}} they might as well have been reading [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife this very site]].

* GiantEnemyCrab: Two words: (''With deep dramatic voice'') '''CHROME CLAW'''.
* GilliganCut: "They had the initial advantage, but this time we are prepared, it won't happen twice." One cut later: [They run in panic towards the camera] "It happened twice!"

-->(''Private raises his hand'')

-->(''Private's hand goes down'')

*** Happened again when Skipper remarked about the 'poop deck' of his model ship.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: Rico. Skipper shows occasional tendencies... All in the name of the mission, of course.

** Almost Every time Fred appears, one or more ships are sunk. Skipper/Kitka, Julien/Marlene, Fred/Marlene and Marlene/Antonio... And usually, it happens due to Fred's stupidity.

* SpitTake: Kowalski does ''five'' in "Mr. Tux". He even lampshades it twice: first by saying that maybe he should set his cup down, and later on by spit-taking on the security keypad to see if it'll fix it.

* YouSayTomato: Dr. Blowhole pronounces "penguins" as "pen-gyu-ins". Kowalski theorizes that he does it just "to tick us off". In Blowhole Strikes Back, Kowalski replies by calling Blowhole a "dolph-er-in".

* Bloodless Carnage: "Endangerous Species" is basically 11 minute of Dodo massacre. Despite all the gruesome deaths, not a drop of blood is seen.

* Bloodless Carnage: "Endangerous Species" is basically 11 minute of Dodo massacre. Despite all the gruesome deaths, not a drop of blood is seen.

!!''ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' includes examples of the following tropes:

* CrossDressingVoices: TaraStrong voiced Eggy and at least one one-shot boy character. Of course, anyone familiar with more of her work would know [[{{FairlyOddparents}} this]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Ben10}} isn't]] [[FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends unusual]] [[{{Rugrats}} for]] [[AllGrownUp her.]]

** In "Cute-astrope", Private learns how to ramp his own cuteness factor [[UpToEleven 138%]], resulting in a ''weaponized'' CutenessProximity that makes everyone who witnesses it faint from sheer sugar shock.

* RalphWiggum: Fred the squirrel.

** While King Julien is the most obvious, many of the male characters have AmbiguouslyGay moments, showing attraction to other males as part of a gag. Others are more BiTheWay.

* AnimalsNotToScale: Everyone but Mort is unusually small for their species — no one seems to be over 2 feet tall.

* ArsonMurderAndJaywalking: In "Fit to Print", the penguins are concerned over a picture of the lemurs that also has the penguins doing their secret things in the background... but Skipper's even more concerned that the picture also shows him with toilet paper stuck to his foot.
** [[spoiler: When Skipper learned that the deranged zookeeper of the Hoboken Zoo would be working at the Central Park Zoo, he realized that everyone there would be replaced with bio-androids and imagined Marlene being thrown off a cliff by her double, Phil and Mason's doubles throwing them in a underground chamber, and...Julien's double using him as a punching bag, to which he stated "Eh, [[ICanLiveWithThat I could live with that one"]]]].

* ArtifactTitle: [[CaptainObvious I think that they actually aren't in Madagascar.]]
** Though it is possible they're actually "The Penguins of ''{{Madagascar}}''", something that's not too far a stretch given the stylization of the title's logo.

* BerserkButton: "NO ONE MAY TOUCH THE ROYAL FEET!" (Guess who?)

* BewareTheNiceOnes: Private sometimes shows elements of this, such as his reaction to TheReveal in "Mask of the Raccoon" or "Untouchable".

** In the first episode, Kowalski is suggested to have a crush on a dolphin named Doris. About 70 episodes later, Skipper mutters this in his sleep: "No, no Doris, Kowalski must never know...."
*** It's now become somewhat of a RunningGag, as she's been mentioned twice afterwards.

* CassandraTruth: Private has problems with this while trying to warn others about the titular "Skorca!"

* TheCastShowoff: Kowalski's "Graveyard Eight" song lets JeffBennett show off his singing ability.

* ChekhovsGun: In "Two Feet High and Rising," Mort overcomes his obsession with King Julien's feet, but then has to grab hold of said feet to rescue Julien later in the same episode.

* ClassifiedInformation: A frequently-used trope:

* ComicallyMissingThePoint: After Mort is accidentally made into a towering, muscular lemur in "Mort Unbound," Maurice takes note of this transformation immediately and asks King Julien, "Do you, uh, notice anything different about Mort?" Julien responds, "Well yes, he's obviously doing something different with his hair! It's nice, actually."

* ContinuityNod: In "Field Tripped," ''{{Madagascar}}'' is mentioned several times.

* CutenessProximity: Not even Skipper is immune from succumbing to his brooding instinct when the penguins are tasked with hatching an egg. Although he tried.

* DisabilityImmunity: Mort is actually ''too stupid to feel pain''.

* EarWorm: In-universe example, when "Hard Boiled Eggy" flashes back to Julien's "Me and My JJ" song from "Paternal Egg-Stinct", Skipper invokes this trope by saying that said song will be in his head all day.

* EekAMouse: Played straight with Burt the Elephant in "April Fools".

* ExpansionPackPast: Skipper has apparently been involved in every major conflict since WorldWarTwo, and more then few minor conflicts as well. Even though that is a biological impossibility, but then again, Skipper's never been one to let a little thing like reality stand in his way.
** He also believes in (and may have been to) Atlantis.
*** Also, Dr. Blowhole seemed to be a one-off gag... until the viewers meet one of his ''agents'' reporting in. He then appears himself in ''Operation: Blowhole''.
** At this rate, we may eventually learn about what happened in Denmark.

* {{Expy}}: Marlene the Otter is one for Gloria the Hippo.
** Marlene also exhibits some behavior similar to Alex the Lion (arguably). In fact, one could argue she's meant as an {{Expy}} for the entire original ''cast'' of the movies. She's just closest to Gloria due to her designated role as TheChick.
* FallingInLoveMontage: Skipper and Kitka have one in "The Falcon and the Snow Job."

* FantasticRacism: Skipper occasionally makes less-than-complimentary comments about mammals.

* {{Flanderization}}: King Julien has become a bit more of a JerkAss in comparison to the movies, but he still has his moments (such as saving [[spoiler:Skipper's]] life in one episode).

** The penguins slap each other frequently in the films, like the ThreeStooges. In this show, they almost never do that, unless they lampshade it as a callback or some other variation. This is probably abiding by childrens' network regulations so kids don't try to imitate it.

* FlowersForAlgernonSyndrome: Mort once had his [[FootFocus foot fetish]] cured, only to regain it while rescuing King Julien.

* FootFocus: Mort is ''crazy'' for King Julien's feet. There's even an episode dedicated to trying to cure him ("Two Feet High and Rising"). It succeeds... [[StatusQuoIsGod And then fails.]] To quote Skipper from the same episode: "That's not failure, that's 'redefined mission objectives'!"

* ForScience: Kowalski [[strike: gets away with]] justifies more of his dangerous and questionable inventions with this trope.

* HeroicSociopath: Rico. Skipper shows occasional tendencies... All in the name of the mission, of course.

-->'''Buck (to Phil and Mason)''': Read any good books lately? Read? Red....'''THE RED SQUIRREL!'''
-->*Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico all gasp*
-->'''Private''': That one dosen't even make sense!

* InterspeciesRomance: Played with in "Otter Things Have Happened". Kowalsky invented device which can locate the ideal mate for someone. When he tested it on Marlene, it turned out that her ideal partner is Fred the squirrel. However, their relationship didn't work out, and it was hinted in the end of episode that [[spoiler:her real ideal one is a male otter who lives near Fred's]]

--> '''Skipper''': (''waving flippers'') You didn't see anything.
** He manages to do this by telling Private that he should remember an important lesson, finishing with "you didn't hear anything..."

* {{Nakama}}: The penguins, arguably. Sometimes it seems that Skipper just keeps the others in line by means of MindControl and [[AsskickingEqualsAuthority open violence]]. Skipper beating Private is even a running gag in the series.
** And Julien's little kingdom, just as arguably.

* NegativeContinuity: Done frequently:

* NeverLearnedToRead: Despite considering himself more intelligent, Mason is illiterate while Phil is not.

*** Maybe he doesn't realize that he's basically writing when he uses it.
* NeverSayDie: Subverted:

* NightmareFetishist: Rico is perfectly happy with things that give the other penguins nightmares. Like serenely munching away on popcorn while watching a Brutal Nature Documentary with penguins getting gobbled up by leopard seals. And when Kowalski and Private are clearly horrified/nauseated at Skipper's broken flipper in "I Was a Penguin Zombie," Rico looks... a little ''too'' interested.
** In "Roger Dodger", as Roger is being pummeled offscreen by the rats, Rico stares at said [[CurbStompBattle beatdown]], a blank smile on his face, his left eye twitching, and licks his beak at the end.
* NightmareFuel: The giant, carnivorous death machine of a fish in "Snakehead!" {{Lampshaded}} in-universe by how it terrifies most of the cast, who go on and on about its various nightmare-fueling features. The penguins (minus Skipper) are also terrified by Kowalski's crudely drawn picture of the beast.

* NoodleIncident: Skipper [[BannedFromArgo can't go back to Denmark]] because of the Copenhagen Incident.
** Could be subverted in "Huffin and Puffin" where a puffin named Hans apologizes about Denmark.
--->'''Hans''': Skipper, I have brought you a hand-drawn greeting card. It says, "[[RosesAreRedVioletsAreBlue Roses are red, posies are green]], sorry about Denmark, I was too mean."
*** Still played straight, considering that we never learn anything about the "Copenhagen Incident." Only that Hans was involved. If anything, the incident has become even more noodly.
** In ''Kaboom and Kabust'', King Julien pieces together one of the penguins' shredded, highly-classified documents:

** In another episode, a one-shot walrus named Rhonda moves into Marlene's habitat. Rhonda has a sinus problem, which causes Marlene to get covered in snot at least twice.

* OnlySaneMan: Private treads into this during episodes like "The Red Squirrel." Maurice and Marlene fit this trope as well.
** Rico, of all people, got a moment of this when the others came down with a disease that made them just about as crazy for fish as him.

* PhlebotinumInducedStupidity: "Sting Operation," the penguins use one of Kowalski's inventions to make themselves stupid so that they can't feel the hornet's stings.

* PlaceWorseThanDeath: Skipper views Hoboken as a living cesspool and has vowed to never end up there.
** [[spoiler: Unfortunately, he did end up there, but is subverted at first when it seems to be a nice place....then played straight again]].

* PowerEchoes: Julien declares a new law, and Maurice adds echoes for dramatic effect.

* PunctuatedForEmphasis: Alice in "Popcorn Panic," upon catching a boy feeding popcorn to the animals: "Do! Not! Feed! The! Animals!" It's punctuated with her slapping up a "Do Not Feed the Animals" sign on some object along with each word.

* RedEyesTakeWarning: The penguins' car's headlights took on a red glow in "Driven to the Brink" after it targeted Rico.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Averted. Roger is a humongous alligator who happens to be extremely friendly, to the point where he thinks the best way to deal with bullies is to bake muffins for them.

** Skipper warning his men against certain cicrumstances by saying some variation of "Just ask Manfridi and Johnson. Except you can't, because they fell for [situation]. We had to [horrible description]."
**** This might also be a shout out since Manfridi and Johnson were the two guys machine gunned at the start of Stalag 17.

** A character will do something destructive, such as cause an explosion, and a voice off camera screams "[[StockScream My car]]!"

* ShipSinking: What Kitka tried to do to Skipper/Marlene. It didn't work. Possibly lampshaded in that even Skipper acknowledged that it wasn't working out.

* ShipTease: '''''Lots''''' of it, in all sorts of directions. These are just a few:

* ShownTheirWork: [[WordOfGod Interviews]] state that they hired a consultant to make sure that all of Phil's sign language is accurate. They also go as far as to make sure that he makes the appropriate facial expression while signing.

*** In "Brain Drain", the fish [[spoiler: that restore Kowalski's brain]] actually DO contain omega fatty acids, even the drawing is correct!

* SubvertedSuspicionAesop: The penguins are suspicious of a walrus named Rhonda who moves into Marlene's habitat. They think that the walrus a spy bent on stealing their invention, but Marlene thinks she will be nice once she gets to know her. Once Marlene is upset about Rhonda's messiness, they have her PutOnABus. But, they realize that the bus is taking her to a polar bear reserve, and take the bus back and put her on a different one. It is then that they realize she has stolen the penguins' invention.

** Since Plan H involves fiddling with the underground power cables, one dreads to think what B through G were.

* ToiletHumor: Subverted in "Two Feet High and Rising." The episode opens with some farting noises, but it turns out it's actually a helium tank inflating balloons.

* TwitchyEye: Lampshaded in "Work Order"; Skipper's eyes keep twitching when he realizes how tenacious a worker is on repairing a water main close to their habitat. After a few twitches, he asks the other penguins if the twitching eye looks weird.

* TheWorfEffect: The sewer rats seem to exist mainly so the cast can have moments of awesome against them.

* InsaneTrollLogic: In the episode "The Red Squirrell", Buck Rockgut thinks that if any animal likes nuts, likes drawings of red squirrells, has a bushy tail, or reads a book with a red cover, they automatically work for the Red Squirrell.

In it, the titular penguins and other aforementioned characters are all residents of the Central Park Zoo. Led by Skipper, the penguins deal with various missions within the zoo. At times, they are at odds with IncidentalVillain King Julien, but at other times, he and the other two lemurs are needed to help in the missions.

-->'''Julien''': But what is this feeling I am feeling? It is not a happiness. It is a feeling that I have not done all I should have done. I do not like it. How do I make it go away?

* YouSayTomato: Dr. Blowhole pronounces "penguins" as "pen-gyu-ins". Kowalski theorizes that he does it just "to tick us off". In Blowhole Strikes Back, Kowalski replies by calling Blowhole a "dolph-uh-in".

[[TheMovie A feature]] [[RecursiveAdaptation film]], penned by the writers of ''{{Megamind}}'' is currently in the works.