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5Although they were just a OneSceneWonder in the first movie, the penguins have proven to be {{Ensemble Dark Horse}}s to the point that their part in the movies escalated and then they received their own show, ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' and a solo movie that (debatably) tied the Madagascar canon to the series canon.
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7Note that this character sheet applies only to the TV series canon. For tropes related to the characters in the movie franchises (including ''WesternAnimation/PenguinsOfMadagascar''), go [[Characters/{{Madagascar}} here]].
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11!Penguins
12[[folder:General]]
13The titular BadassCrew of penguins.
14* AmbiguouslyBi: All four had a female love interest at some point in the show, but there are also some... [[HoYay scenes]]... that suggest they probably aren't completely straight.
15* AntiHero: Except for Private, all of them are mostly Type II or III. Kowalski also shows traits of Type I from time to time.
16* BadassAdorable: They are small, cute penguins and complete badasses.
17* BadassCrew: Of course.
18* BewareTheSillyOnes: All four can be incredibly silly in the funniest and weirdest ways. However, all of them can be quite dangerous when provoked.
19* BunnyEarsLawyer: As goofy and silly as they are, they do always end up getting their job done.
20* CloudCuckoolander: Every single one of them.
21* FourManBand:
22** OnlySaneMan: Skipper. He isn't really SANE, but he is the closest thing the group has.
23** TheSmartGuy: Kowalski, of the MadScientist type.
24** The Pervert: Rico, of the HeroicComedicSociopath type
25** ButtMonkey: When it comes to being a diversion, or bait, Private tends to get the short end of the stick.
26* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Early episodes portay them closer to their movie counterparts, with all of them believing Rico's doll is alive, unaware when the other animals express discomfort and being more LiteralMinded and a tendency to have CloudCuckooLander moments. As the show progressed, each of them developed their personalities, only Rico believed his doll was alive, they are more socially aware and only Skipper has bizarre thoughts mostly motivated for his paranoia.
27* FourPhilosophyEnsemble:
28** Skipper: TheCynic. Being constantly paranoid, Skipper always sees the worst in others, as well as the worst possible scenario.
29** Kowalski: The realistic. While more on the cynical side of the spectrum, Kowalski's goal is always to see the most realistic and rational side of things.
30** Private: The optimistic. Kind to everyone and always sees the good side of others when his teammates don't.
31** Rico: The apathetic. The oddball of the group, Rico doesn't really express himself that much and is more prone to just following Skipper's orders.
32* FourTemperamentEnsemble:
33** Skipper: Choleric. Always [[TheLeader takes the lead]], is strong-willed, passionate, determined, hard-working and confident, but also tends to be a bit of DrillSergeantNasty, stubborn, harsh, bossy, cynical, strict and prone to seeing the worst in other animals.
34** Kowalski: Melancholic. Analytical, loyal, witty, more of a follower despite his higher position but also tends to see the worst in people and seems to be kind of insecure.
35** Private: Phlegmatic. Cheerful, open-minded, optimistic, forgiving, polite, compassionate, but tends to be gullible, overly idealistic and timid.
36** Rico: Sanguine. Energetic, passionate, unpredictable, quirky and eccentric TheBigGuy of the team, but also emotionally unstable, hyperactive, impulsive and kind of psychotic.
37* GoodIsNotNice: They are openly heroic and have good intentions... even if they are usually [[HeroicComedicSociopath needlessly ruthless and have little concern for collateral damage]]. Only exception is Private, who fits the BewareOfTheNiceOnes trope more.
38* HeroicComedicSociopath: Aside from [[TokenGoodTeammate Private]], all of them fit this to an extent. Skipper always uses violence as his first resort, Rico is ''extremely'' AxCrazy and trigger happy and Kowalski does everything ForScience, even when it results in someone else getting hurt.
39* InterspeciesRomance: Well, it IS a Madagascar tradition when you think about it...
40** Skipper had a fling with a falcon named Kitka and has some ShipTease moments with Marlene, who is an otter.
41** Kowalski is in love with a dolphin named Doris.
42** Private once had a crush on a human nurse.
43** Rico's... "girlfriend"... is a human doll named Miss Perky.
44* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Except for Private, who is a straight up NiceGuy, these guys probably aren't the nicest animals in the Zoo and are prone to making selfish mistakes, but they are dedicated to helping animals in need and stopping evil animals and they care about each other deeply.
45** Skipper is a sarcastic, tough, cynical and paranoid leader who constantly sees the worst in other animals and he tends to be mean to his co-workers as well. That said, he cares for all of them - while he often dismisses Private as "naive", even when he is being the OnlySaneMan, he practically sees him as his son, he completely accepts Rico's quirks and while he isn't a huge fan of Kowalski's nerdiness and inventions that tend to end with disaster, he still respects him and is willing to help him out with everything.
46** Kowalski is an InsufferableGenius whose obsession with science tends to end in a disaster. He also has a trouble with expressing empathy, though that can be chalked up to him being socially awkward. That said, he might actually be the second nicest member after Private, as he seems to be quite polite to most animals in the Zoo, unless they do something he sees as stupid.
47** Rico may be the AxCrazy loose cannon of the penguins, but he is quite the softie once you get to know him. Also, don't hurt his teammates. Just don't.
48* ManChild: Mostly Private and Rico, who act more like teenagers at most than actual adults, but Kowalski is prone to throwing temper tantrums for stupidest things, and some of Skipper's thories can be... [[CloudcuckooLander questionable.]]
49* PintSizedPowerhouse: They are pretty small, [[AnimalsNotToScale even for their species.]]
50* PredatorsAreMean: Flips-flops between this and PredationIsNatural. In real life, penguins are predators that regularly prey on, kill, and eat krill, squids, and especially fish, and the show reflects this with the Penguins commonly eating fish, either that are still alive or have been made into sushi. Despite this, the worst they do to the non-fish zoo animals is [[DopeSlap Dope Slapping]] them. Besides their love to eat seafood dead or alive, the Penguins are still heroic at heart and are willing to do what's right, even if their means of doing so can get questionable. They [[FantasticRacism still label other predatory species]] such as [[FeatheredFiend Falcons]], [[BadOlBadger badgers]], and [[AnimalJingoism especially]] [[AlwaysABiggerFish leopard]] [[MonstrousSeal seals]] as dangerous.
51* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Thanks to the {{Flanderization}}, Skipper is now an extremely paranoid leader who has [[FantasticRacism prejudiced thoughts about mammmals]], Kowalski is a nerdy InsufferableGenius, Rico is their psychotic DumbMuscle who lives to blow things up and while Private may be the most normal of them, he is still prone to making silly and naive mistakes and is a CloudCuckooLander.
52* RudeHeroNiceSidekick: Skipper and Private in a nutshell.
53* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Skipper (a tough leader who slaps his teammates whenever they do something wrong) and Rico (TheBigGuy who loves explosions) are manly to Kowalski's (a socially awkward scientist) and Private's (a naive NiceGuy who looks on the bright side of things) sensitive.
54* TheTeam:
55** Skipper is TheLeader.
56** Kowalski is TheLancer, as he acts like a leader whenever Skipper is not around and the two are polar opposites in personality (Skipper prefers to act while Kowalski prefers to think) and appearance (Skipper is short and stocky, while Kowalski is tall and slim). He is also TheSmartGuy, being the resident scientist and strategist.
57** Rico is TheBigGuy, as he is generally the most violent of the group. He is also shown to be second most physically capable member after Skipper.
58** Private is TheHeart, as he is the most kind-hearted, open-minded and emphatic member of the group. Skipper even calls him the heart of the group in one episode.
59* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Fish, [[StockAnimalDiet of course]], but they also enjoy snowcones.
60* TrueCompanions: They stick together no matter what.
61* UndyingLoyalty: While they have their arguments from time to time, these guys are constantly loyal to each other.
62* VitriolicBestBuds: The four are very close to each other, but they tend to have arguments extremely often.
63* WhatYouAreInTheDark: The penguins often steal things from humans that they need, either being food, weapons or toys but often make sure the persons are compensated in some way, either in money or food, even thought the persons having no way of knowing they got stolen by penguins. DependingOnTheWriter, anyway, as in certain episodes, they don't really care about it.
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66[[folder:Skipper]]
67[[quoteright:286:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_Skipper_2_975.jpg]]
68-> '''Voiced By:''' Tom [=McGrath=]
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70The leader of a BadassCrew of Commando Penguins. He speaks in a crisp, hard-edged tone like a cool spy from a ''film noir'' movie. In the TV series, Skipper is somewhat abrasive with the other three penguins, often chastizing them and {{Dope Slap}}ping them to keep them in line.
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72* AFatherToHisMen: Genuinely seems to look out for and care about his men, and has even pulled off a one manned BigDamnHeroes more than once.
73* AfraidOfNeedles: In "Needle Point," he goes well out of his way to avoid getting a shot. He even lampshades this in "King Me".
74--> '''Skipper:''' Needles, I gotta get over that.
75* {{Angrish}}: In "Herring Impaired", Skipper notices that his ship from his ship in a bottle kit is missing part of its hull. Believing that a piece is missing, he loses his temper and resorts to using his "angry words", which is effectively this - only the word "bouillabaisse" is clearly audible.
76* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The leader of the penguins and the best fighter, having several times fought and defeated the other three all at the same time.
77* BadassAdorable: In "Rock-A-Bye Birdie".
78* BerserkButton:
79** He doesn't go berserk, per se, but Skipper really doesn't like it when you call him fat, or any of its synonyms. He likes to claim it's [[StoutStrength muscle]].
80** His entire team shares this, but he '''''especially''''' doesn't like Hoboken, UsefulNotes/NewJersey, even ranting on how he would rather mutilate himself by [[EyeScream pecking out his own eyes]] or rot in concentration camps than go to Hoboken.
81** Or UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}}, [[spoiler: considering it's heavily implied that he was blamed by Hans for being [[FugitiveArc an alleged wanted fugitive on the run from them.]]]]
82** He hates the lemurs going on solo missions.
83** He has a strong distain for HiddenDepths when it comes to the men under his command, verbally lashing out when he finds out that Private was once a professional Minigolfer.
84-->''"I like my men [[FlatCharacter One-Dimensional]], works better for me."''
85* BruiserWithASoftCenter: He might try to hide it behind a tough leader facade, but he loves his teammates to no end.
86* TheCaptain: He is the heroic commander of the penguins. His name, "Skipper", is a synonym for "sea captain".
87* CharacterCatchphrase: "Kowalski, analysis!" Used when a situation has become particularly bizarre and he needs Kowalski to explain it to him.
88* TheComicallySerious: He takes even his weirdest delusions extremely seriously.
89* DeadpanSnarker: Skipper has a snarky sense of humor.
90* {{Determinator}}: Skipper doesn't know the meaning of the word "surrender". When he puts his mind to something, nothing can stop him.
91* DopeSlap: Used often on his comrades. Sometimes all three in one swing. He also likes to order one of his men to do this when he is too far away or can't be bothered to do it himself.
92* DrillSergeantNasty: Has shades of this in "A Kipper for Skipper". He subjects his comrades to all sorts of difficult and impossible tasks.
93* FantasticRacism: He occasionally makes less-than-complimentary remarks towards mammals. He especially dislikes humans. [[BigotryException Despite this]], he genuinely respects Marlene, and has openly said that she's smart, despite claiming that mammals have low intelligence. Same with Mason and Phill, two chimpanzees that Skipper regularly goes to for [[MrExposition exposition on details he and his team can't read.]]
94* {{Flanderization}}: While the most unchanged of the penguins, his opinion of the main characters in the movies (referring to them as hippies) has been expanded to a low opinion of all mammals in general.
95* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Choleric. Always takes the lead, is strong-willed, passionate, determined, hard-working and confident, but also tends to be a bit of DrillSergeantNasty, stubborn, harsh, bossy, cynical, strict and prone to seeing the worst in other animals.
96* FreezeFrameBonus: In "Skipper Makes Perfect" when Skipper steals his file back from the Danes you can freeze on the file and learn some of what happened (most of which has been brought up at some point or other by Skipper already).
97* TheHero: Occasionally, he and the others ''do'' come off as [[JerkAss jerks]], but they almost always save the day in the end.
98* ItsAllMyFault: Done twice. The first time was when he poked a hole in Julien's bouncy house causing him to lose his crown (though he blamed part of it on Marlene for provoking him); the other, when one of the chimps causes him and the penguins to spin out and lose a race to the lemurs. In the latter episode, also he accepts full responsibility despite the fact he did nothing to cause it. He even said they would have his resignation in the morning because of his shame and guilt.
99* LargeHam: Lots of dramatic closeups and exaggerated gestures accompany his powerful paranoia and give the impression that Skipper has trained at the Creator/WilliamShatner school of acting. His tendency to clutch a flipper to his chest when upset gives one the permanent suspicion that he's suffering from some sort of heart condition.
100* TheLeader: He leads and commands the penguin team. He is closest to Type III, [[TheDeterminator Headstrong]].
101* LikeASonToMe: While he refers to Private as a brother, his attitude is much more like that of a strict but loving father (who's training his son to be a commando/ninja/special-agent).
102* LovesMyAlterEgo: He fell for Arlene (Marlene in disguise due to chlorine accident) and became kinda StalkerWithACrush.
103* MeaningfulName: Skipper is also the title of the captain of a ship or team.
104* NeverMyFault: The one time it was his fault, he pinned the blame on Private.
105* NobleBigot: Skipper has a rather condescending attitude towards mammals of all kind and constantly goes out of his way to put birds (penguins, specially) on a pedestal. Nonetheless, he and his team will always gladly help any animal in trouble, no matter their species, and also holds Marlene, an otter, in great respect and esteem.
106* TheNicknamer: He almost always refers to Julien as "Ringtail," Mort as "Sad Eyes" and Max as "moon cat."
107* OddFriendship:
108** With Marlene. They are certainly friends and honestly respect and trust one another. Even though Marlene's friendly and level-headed nature clashes with Skipper's raving paranoia.
109** With King Julien. The two were described as ''best friends'' by Dr. Blowhole and Skipper's fellow penguins end up more or less ''agreeing''.
110* OfficerAndAGentleman: Mostly Officer.
111* PersonaNonGrata: As stated above, he can't set foot in Denmark due to Hans the Puffin making him Public Enemy Number One.
112* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: He's rather prejudiced toward mammals and doesn't think highly of them, but still does everything in his power to aid them whenever they need his help.
113* ProperlyParanoid: Played with. His suspicions are so wild and irrational that no normal person would have them, ranging from robot clones to space-squids. He's always suspicious of new arrivals and has occasionally accused his friends of being brainwashed or enemies in disguise when they disagree with him. And yet he's often right. Then again, sometimes he isn't.
114* SmartPeoplePlayChess: He's shown playing chess with Marlene in "Crown Fools".
115* UnusualEuphemism: Skipper has loads of these. Hoover Dam! Lincoln's itchy beard! Gandhi's nunchucks!
116* TheUnSmile: Skipper has at least once mentioned that it hurts to smile.
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119[[folder:Kowalski]]
120[[quoteright:286:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_Kowalski_2_7104.jpg]]
121-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/JeffBennett
122
123The team genius and gadgeteer. Kowalski builds all of the crazy technology that the other penguins use, and a lot of the tech that causes a lot of trouble for them too. He helps to come up with plans - usually ones that are overly complicated - and is occasionally referred to as 'Lieutenant'.
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125Kowalski is certainly [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative the smartest penguin alive,]] but his sciencing has a bad habit of putting the entire world in danger, a source of never-ending frustration to Skipper. The solution? ''MORE'' science.
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127* AmbiguouslyJewish: Kowalski is a ''very'' common surname among Jewish immigrants, especially those originating from Poland. Kowalski himself manages to hit a few Jewish stereotypes, including his knack for over-analysis and lyrical exaltation setting him close to his compatriots from Eastern Europe. Oh, and the shape of his head looks a little bit like a Kippah.
128* ArbitrarySkepticism: Refuses to believe in anything supernatural despite having witnessed things that science just can't cover--although in Kowalski's defense, encounters with things of genuine supernatural origin are rare for the Penguins and such things are either mundane in origin or are ambiguous enough in nature that Kowalski can refute them because evidence to the contrary can't be found. However, he's surprisingly knowledgeable of anything concerning cursed and possessed objects.
129-->'''Kowalski''': I took an online course!
130* AdaptationalIntelligence: While he wasn't an idiot before, Kowalski is practically Jimmy Neutron here, building crazy inventions with largely unexplained means. He was also illiterate in the movies, but the show realized that this trait doesn't make much sense, and he's seen interpreting street signs and using a Speak N' Spell.
131* BadassBookworm: While not a bookworm (he [[NeverLearnedToRead can't read]], actually), he fits this thanks to the fact that he is highly intelligent, as well as TheSmartGuy of the penguin commando and is just as good at fighting as the rest of them.
132* BambooTechnology: Kowalski regularly builds amazing things out of elastic bands, coffee cups, lollipop sticks and duct tape.
133* BerserkButton: Skipper learned the hard way what that was in "Goodnight and Good Chuck" -- destroying his computer will get you attacked, even if you are technically his boss.
134* BunglingInventor: His inventions do have an AWFUL tendency to backfire, with Skipper showing skepticism of them working.
135* ButtMonkey: Often receives the brunt of AmusingInjuries, SanitySlippage and just being a BunglingInventor.
136* CannotTellAJoke:
137-->'''Private''': There's two of you! That's a great trick!\
138'''Kowalski''': Private, can you recall a time when I have ever played a trick or even told a joke?
139** He ''has'' attempted to tell jokes since that episode... but they tend to fall flat.
140* CaptainObvious: "Kowalski, report/analysis!" Followed by Kowalski making a blatantly obvious statement.
141* CharacterCatchphrase: ''Egads!''
142* TheChewToy: His massive ego always makes sure he has it coming to him every time.
143* TheComicallySerious: Acts all serious and intelligent, but it doesn't take much for this facade to fail.
144* CoolBigBro: This part of him doesn't appear often, but while Skipper acts more like a father figure to Private, Kowalski acts more like an older brother. Private is implied to [[BigBrotherWorship look up to him]], when he does something especially jerkish, Private is especially disappointed in him, [[BigBrotherInstinct he tends]] to [[CoverInnocentEyesAndEars cover Private's eyes and ears the most when something weird happens]], he is typically very calm and polite around Private (even if he does tend to get into InsufferableGenius mode around him as well) and the two generally seem to get along pretty well in their off time.
145* DeadpanSnarker: He has his moments of this.
146* DitzyGenius: Many of his inventions and plans are...questionable.
147* TheDogBitesBack: He was the one Dr. Blowhole more constantly mocked back in his first appearence, out of the superior technology he possesed and [[spoiler: he's the one that defeats him for good in "The Penguin Who Loved Me", while nitpicking his plan at that]].
148* DoggedNiceGuy: Yearns constantly for Doris ([[spoiler:whom he doesn't realize is Dr. Blowhole's sister]])
149* {{Flanderization}}: In the movies, he is serious, logical and analytical, playing the StraightMan to Skipper. Here, the serious part is restrained for a more dramatic and eccentric personality and the other attributes are exaggerated to MadScientist levels.
150* ForScience: He tends to do experiments that put his teammates in danger out of scientific curiosity.
151* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Melancholic. Analytical, loyal, witty, more of a follower despite his higher position but also tends to see the worst in people and seems to be kind of insecure.
152* GadgeteerGenius: The team's primary source of HomemadeInventions.
153* GeniusSweetTooth: As shown in "Happy King Julien Day!", he ''really'' loves candy.
154* GreenEyedMonster: He openly envies Dr. Blowhole for having better technology than him during "Dr. Blowhole's Revenge".
155* HiddenDepths: He can play banjo and sing really well. Also, despite his apparent social awkwardness and love issues (see Doris), "Mental Hen" shows that he (kind of) knows what works on females.
156* HomemadeInventions: His specialty.
157* IHaveNoIdeaWhatImDoing: Practically his catchphrase. Apart from, "For SCIENCE!"
158* InsufferableGenius: Kowalski is ''incredibly'' arrogant about how intelligent he is, bordering on narcissism.
159* InterspeciesRomance: He has a crush on Doris, a bottlenose dolphin.
160* TheLancer: He is Skipper's NumberTwo, contrasting him both in appearance (Kowalski's tall and skinny, Skipper's short and stocky) and personality (Kowalski prefers to think, Skipper prefers to act).
161* LargeHam: Not particularly to Skipper's degree, but he's keeping up.
162* LiteralMinded: Pops up from time to time. He seems to be confused by the phrase "listen to your gut" simply because guts cannot vocalize. When Dr. Blowhole uses the phrase "sleep with the fishes", he points out that fish technically do not sleep, and when Skipper says that he doesn't understand the meaning of the word "surrender", Kowalski defines the word for him.
163* LovableNerd: While his ego does tend to push him into the [[InsufferableGenius insufferable]] side from time to time, he is quirky and amusing enough to count.
164* LoveHurts: His one-sided love of Doris the dolphin.
165-->'''Julien''': Ooh, the dolphin-lady who broke him? Yes, he does go on and on about her.
166* {{MacGyvering}}: He can create awesome gadgets from the garbage he finds in the zoo.
167* MadScientist: He may not be the Evil version, but there's no doubt that Kowalski holds all qualifications for being as crazy a scientist as you'll get.
168-->'''Skipper''': Kowalski, have you ''ever'' invented anything that doesn't eventually threaten to destroy us all?\
169'''Kowalski''': Let me think. Uhhhhh... No.
170* MagicVersusScience: Is extremely skeptical of anything with a 'supernatural' bent. ''Can'', however, be convinced of its veracity if the problem persists long enough.
171* MeaningfulName: A 'Kowalski' is a nickname given to somebody who works in the background dependably, but never gets any glory or basks in the limelight, which was definitely applicable to Kowalski in the first movie.
172* {{Narcissist}}: Proof that the narcissist can still be a really nice guy. It's demonstrated most often in his intelligence, but also in his leadership skills, looks and dancing ability. Kowalski is so confident in his intellect that he will regularly use himself as a primary test subject. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it backfires rather horribly. And sometimes...
173--> '''Kowalski:''' I've just been perfecting a pain elimination helmet. As you'll see, ''(pulls cord, releasing heavy anchor)'' the neuron inhibiting matrix provides 100% protection from all forms of AAAAAAAAAARGH!!!! IT'S NOT PERFECTED!!!!
174* NerdsAreSexy: He's not shy on fans. You can blame his VA for that. Also, while he usually doesn't really count in-universe, there were two female characters in the show who seemed to be interested in him to some extent (Blue Hen after he [[DistractedByTheSexy distracted her by dancing seductively]] and Doris in the last scene of the show, where it's implied they actually became a couple), while Skipper and Rico had one (Skipper had Kitka and Rico had Shelly) and Private had none. That's kind of impressive for the socially awkward nerd of the group.
175* NeverLearnedToRead: His inability to read serves as a RunningGag.
176* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The things he does ForScience usually result in this, such as his KickTheDog moment in "Friend-in-a-Box" (taking the circuit board from Mort's video game) that earns him a WhatTheHellHero from the others.
177* NumberTwo: With the rank of Lieutenant, when Skipper goes AWOL, Kowalski does his best to take charge.
178* PapaWolf: To Jiggles. He swears vengeance against the kiddies after thinking they ate Jiggles.
179* PhraseCatcher: In early episodes, Skipper would often say "Kowalski, options." or "Kowalski, report." to him. This catch phrase has cropped up again halfway through season 2.
180* PuppyDogEyes: Sports a particularly huge pair in the animatic for "It's About Time".
181* RedOniBlueOni: The blue to Rico's red.
182* SanitySlippage: Is prone to this in most of his ButtMonkey instances.
183* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: For somebody who's voiced by Jeff Bennett, Kowalski sure does have a high-pitched shriek, and we hear it on a pretty regular basis too.
184* TheSmartGuy: He is the brain of the team.
185* SniffSniffNom: His usual method of handling evidence, including chameleon footprints and a strand of King Julien's fur.
186* StalkerWithACrush: Kicks off the events of "Loathe at First Sight" by attempting to divine Doris's location through studying dolphin migatory habits while planning to use his Love-U-Lator on her.
187* TechnoBabble: Is very fond of giving his inventions techno babble sounding names, to the point of taking offence when the other penguins suggest very straightforward alternatives.
188* VocalEvolution: Has a very subdued and deadpan delivery in the pilot and early episodes, emulating Chris Miller's delivery in the movies, but both the voice and the character become more dramatic as time goes on.
189* WouldHurtAChild: He was willing to shoot a bunch of kids because he thought that they were eating Jiggles.
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191
192[[folder:Rico]]
193[[quoteright:286:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_Rico_9011.jpg]]
194-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/JohnDiMaggio
195
196Rico is the team Demolitions Expert - and their storage unit. Gluttonous, big-bellied, and impulsive, he usually speaks in short grunts, but he can be fairly coherent when the situation calls for it. Rico's special skill is regurgitating pretty much anything the penguins need - and a lot of things they don't - from a simple paperclip, to a stick of dynamite, to fan blades and a toilet seat, all the way up to a self-assembling air-to-ground missile-launching platform. And the reason he can do it, as far as anybody can tell, is because he ate them first...
197
198To distinguish him from the visually similar Skipper, in the series Rico has a mohawk and a scar over his beak, possibly caused by hacking up too much stuff.
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200* AllergicToLove: Well, more to explicit scenes of affection. In one episode, it's stated that he has "mushy love sensitivity." Granted, this saved his life since the Penguins' touching laments on his supposed doom had him able to overcome the gag medication he was given and vomit the explosive. He is clearly capable of expressing affection and care.
201* AmbiguouslyBi: He's got a Miss Perky doll girlfriend that shows in a handful of episodes, but Rico also shows a number of instances of attraction to other males.
202* AscendedExtra: In the original films he was the least developed penguin character. Here, he got a more recognizable character design (a tuft of feathers on his head and a scar over his face), was established as the DumbMuscle of the team with an AxCrazy personality, and his StomachOfHolding gag is turned up to eleven.
203* AxCrazy: Skipper refers to him as "clearly a world-class psychopath."
204* BerserkButton: His berserk buttons are messing with his dolly or hurting his friends, especially Skipper.
205* BigEater: Rico makes no attempt to hide his gluttonous nature. He will eat rotting food, walks blissfully through a field of mouse-traps for a fish in "Untouchable", fires himself out of a torpedo tube for herring in "Herring Impaired", and once accidentally ''ate Kowalski'' because he looked like candy, as just a few examples.
206* TheBigGuy: Rico is dubbed the brute force of the penguins, predominantly being DumbMuscle. He contributes via physical strength, his BigEater tendencies, or his StomachOfHolding. This once even leads him to have a BrainsAndBrawn matchup against Kowalski one episode. Not only is Rico physically sturdier than the other three, in "Sting Operation" his block of ice melts significantly faster than either Skipper or Private's, showing he's heavier than them too.
207* BruiserWithASoftCenter: He's the group's token evil teammate, but he's also a big softie underneath.
208* ChainsawGood: As Private said in one episode, "Oh, Rico! Chainsaw's YourAnswerToEverything!"
209* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: The episode "Friend In A Box" has Kowalski make a mind-reading device. When the other two penguins are disgusted with Kowalski (and he with himself), Rico thinks only "Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiish". When the other two penguins are proud of him, Rico ''still'' thinks, "Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiish".
210* CombinationAttack: Is a component of the most common move in the Penguins arsenal, which is for another Penguin to carry him around and fire him like a gun.
211* DrivesLikeCrazy: Rico is usually the driver of the team, which can cause problems when he gets distracted.
212* DumbMuscle: There are many examples of Rico not being too bright...
213* ExtremeOmnivore: Not merely a BigEater regarding food, Rico is capable of eating absolutely anything and regurgitating it for later use.
214* FatBastard: The TokenEvilTeammate of the Penguins and he has a large gut.
215* FatIdiot: A chubby penguin who is not smart at all.
216* {{Flanderization}}: Probably got the worst of the Flanderization of the returning characters. In the movies, Rico started by choking up paperclips and matches, in number 2 he produces a switchblade from nowhere, but by the Penguins movie he was capable of eating Dave the Octopuses' entire snowglobe collection, and by the series he gained his full-on StomachOfHolding ([[TropesAreTools though this can be argued as a good thing to make sure the Penguins have something in Rico's gut for backup in case something goes wrong]] and since Rico himself doesn't appear to show much personality prior beyond his [[NightmareFetishist fetish for chaos, explosions,]] and [[TrademarkFavoriteFood fish]] that the movies established anyway).
217* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Sanguine. Energetic, passionate, unpredictable, quirky and eccentric TheBigGuy of the team, but also emotionally unstable, hyperactive, impulsive and kind of psychotic.
218* HyperspaceArsenal: Apparently his stomach contains a rare atom which can create absolutely anything.
219* IntelligibleUnintelligible: At times, his speech can be understood fairly easily, especially in later episodes. Either way, if what he's saying is important to the plot, the other penguins will usually [[RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear provide some sort of translation]].
220* LoveMakesYouCrazy: Or ''crazier''. See "Hello, Dollface" or "Kaboom and Kabust".
221* MadBomber: He has periods when his first response to ''anything'' is to cough up a stick of dynamite.
222-->'''Rico''': ''Kaboom kaboom kaboom?''\
223'''Skipper''': ''Rico, '''enough''' with the dynamite already.''
224* NightmareFetishist: When something unpleasant is happening to somebody else - or even to them - the other penguins may be horrified but Rico is more likely to stare with a big grin on his face. Sometimes it's just background but other times it's disturbingly obvious.
225** Like Rico serenely munching away on popcorn while watching a brutal NatureDocumentary with penguins getting gobbled up by leopard seals.
226** 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.
227** Upon finding Julien in hospice during the events of "Kingdom Come", the team are confronted with the possibilty of witnessing the lemur in a horrific state. Kowalski and Skipper bear looks of grim determination, Private is already recoiling in anticipation, and Rico is eagerly leaning forward with a huge, open-mouthed grin.
228** In "Roger Dodger", as Roger is being pummelled off-screen by the rats, Rico stares at said beatdown, a blank smile on his face, his left eye twitching, and licks his beak at the end.
229** In "Stop Bugging Me", it's revealed that his best friends outside the penguin squad are a trio of cockroaches who call themselves the "Broaches", much to Private's disgust.
230* NauseaFuel: In-universe example. The only thing that makes him gag is love - and Private's Anti-Cute attack.
231* NoodleIncident: He managed to pass the penguins' psych test. Somehow. According to Skipper, "how Rico slipped through is still shrouded in mystery".
232* OverlyLongTongue: Rico's tongue hangs out of his mouth a lot and is repeatedly stretched.
233* PersonOfMassDestruction: So very much.
234* PsychopathicManchild: Of the DumbMuscle type. He also acts like a disappointed child whenever Skipper doesn't allow him to use explosives.
235* RedOniBlueOni: The red to Kowalski's blue.
236* RuggedScar: The scar over Rico's beak wasn't there in the movies and has never been explained in the series, mostly existing so that he's easier to tell apart from Skipper, whom he otherwise closely resembles.
237* SanityBall: He takes hold of it in "Herring Impaired" when Skipper, Private, and Kowalski contracted Bacterial Pisces Dementia from eating overaged herring. He spends the episode preventing them from consuming fish of any kind, lest they remain fish-craving psychopaths forever.
238* SingingVoiceDissonance: Later episodes add a running gag of him randomly singing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fwOWv_gm4M "Fiiiiiiiiiissssh!"]] in a clear baritone voice.
239* SilentSnarker: Frequently.
240* SpeechImpediment: A pretty interesting example - Rico is only semi-verbal (he can talk, but it's usually just really short words and phrases) and when he talks, it's kind of muffled and raspy.
241* StomachOfHolding: He can swallow almost anything and regurgitate it for later use. He has coughed up things ranging from paperclips and lit TNT, to an Air-To-Ground missile and platform. He's even capable of ''swallowing and regurgitating other characters safely.''
242--> '''Kowalski:''' The things I have seen...
243** To say nothing of the episode where Mort is shoved into his gullet to find something, and the sound of an ''elevator'' is heard.
244** [[spoiler: Justified as during the {{Flashback}} sequence at the beginning of the Penguins movie, Rico swallows Private's egg to keep it safe from predators, much to Skipper, Kowalski, and even the predators' confusion and bewilderment. It's heavily implied that this particular scene was also the backstory of Rico attaining this ability due to the egg permanently distending his stomach to where he could hold anything in there without digesting it.]]
245* TokenEvilTeammate: The mischievous, psychotic, loose cannon of the penguins. That said, [[DownplayedTrope calling him "evil" might be stretching it]], he's mostly just ''[[AxCrazy unpredictable]]''.
246* TooKinkyToTorture: Rico generally doesn't seem to be so adverse to pain as the other penguins.
247* TrademarkFavoriteFood: ''Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiish!''
248* TurnTheOtherCheek: Rico tends to forgive people quite easily for anything, with the general implication that he's done something similar. When Marlene went feral and attacked him outside the zoo, he had to stagger back into the zoo with her tying him up with his own tongue. Upon receiving her apology for going feral, he replied simply, "Meh, what you gonna do?"
249* UncleanlinessIsNextToUngodliness: It is often suggested that along with his other bad habits, Rico smells bad or carries disease - in "Stop Bugging Me" he makes friends with cockroaches (they met him hanging out behind a dumpster) and in "Cradle And All" the penguins initially assumed that the smell of a soiled diaper was actually coming from him.
250[[/folder]]
251
252[[folder:Private]]
253[[quoteright:286:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_Private_2051.jpg]]
254-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/JamesPatrickStuart
255
256The youngest member of the team. He tends to be the most sane and logical — at least in comparison to Skipper's paranoid delusions, Kowalski's mad science, and Rico's love for explosions. Sometimes he's also got a little bit of childish naïveté. He has a tendency to get the sucker jobs.
257----
258* TheBabyOfTheBunch: The youngest member of the team, whose teammates appreciate his cuteness.
259* BadassAdorable: His cuteness is actually ''weaponized'' in "Cute-astrophe".
260* BewareTheNiceOnes: He's kind, patient and compassionate but boy does he have his limits. For example, in "When the Chips Our Down", Mort eats all of the supplies and Private ''explodes'' at him.
261* BigBrotherWorship: While they aren't actually brothers, Private seems to look up to Kowalski, as implied in ''Mask of the Raccoon'' and ''Brain Drain''. Out of all penguins, he is usually the one who is most disappointed and scared when he does something jerkish, probably for this very reason.
262* BishieSparkle: Parodied, his weaponized cuteness includes a spontanously generated ''rainbow''. In High Moltage where he was molting, it had the opposite effect of REALLY grossing people out.
263* ButtMonkey: He's the team rookie, after all.
264* CheerfulChild: The youngest of the penguins, Private is the most cheerful zoo animal.
265* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: While he's much more down-to-earth than the rest of the penguins, he's still pretty weird in his own right.
266--> '''Kowalski:''' Private, you think a tiny man lives inside the refrigerator and turns the lights on and off.\
267'''Private:''' One day, I'll catch him!
268* ComicallyCrossEyed: Private has [[FishEyes outward cross-eyes]], giving him a constantly goofy expression, which is in line with him being childishly naive. He's still TheHeart of the team, and considered the cutest one, and is often the OnlySaneMan compared to his AxCrazy comrades.
269* CompetitionFreak: He alleges that he was becoming this during his time as a professional mini golfer in "Mr. Tux", and dropped out after he cheated just to keep his winning streak going.
270* TheConscience: Though usually holding the moral high ground, he also tends to be rather timid when first voicing his concerns, gradually losing his patience as HilarityEnsues.
271* CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: Done to Private by Kowalski and Rico as Skipper uses his "angry words" in "Herring Impaired".
272* CutenessProximity: Honed to the point of becoming an incredibly effective weapon in "Cute-astrophe".
273* TheCutie: There seems to be an in-universe consensus on this, with both Skipper and Kowalski reassuring him of being "Adorable!" on separate occasions. They also use this trait as a tactic once in awhile, and it even features as a plot point in one of the episodes, wherein he becomes jealous that his "title" has been handed over to someone else.
274* DarkAndTroubledPast: Parodied when Private's {{backstory}} is revealed in "Mr. Tux". He used to be a hardcore miniature golf player in Florida, but when the Amarillo Kid threatened to break his winning streak, he cheated and destroyed a possum girl's ice cream to win. Ashamed of how low he'd sunk, he walked away from the sport and dropped the Mr. Tux alias altogether. The other penguins are quite confused by the gravitas with which he treats the events.
275* {{Flanderization}}: Less so than the other penguins, but his British accent is more pronounced.
276-->'''Skipper:''' You just stick to the cuteness and the hackney Britsh Slang. "Okay, guv'nor"?
277-->'''Private:''' Right Skipper. I'm a jolly pip, I am!
278* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: The cause of his crush on student nurse Shawna.
279* FourTemperamentEnsemble: The Phlegmatic. Cheerful, open-minded, optimistic, forgiving, polite, compassionate, but tends to be gullible, overly idealistic and timid.
280* TheHeart: Spelled out in "Command Crisis."
281* HiddenDepths: He likes Shakespeare and he used to be a professional mini golfer.
282* HisNameReallyIsBarkeep: Private is his name ''and'' his rank.
283* InnocentBlueEyes: He's naive and pretty childish and he has bright blue eyes to go with it.
284* LoveMakesYouCrazy: His crush on HospitalHottie Shawna in "LoveHurts" led him to deliberately injure himself. When the others threaten to come between them, he improvises a [[WoundedGazelleGambit Wounded Penguin Gambit]].
285* {{Manchild}}: While Private's actual age is left ambiguous, he's implied to be a young adult. He's also rather childish, obsessed with young children's cartoons, and often naive about the world in a similar manner to a small child.
286* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: He harbours deep regret for destroying the possum girl's ice cream in his final mini golf game. [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by the others, who point out he could have just bought her another ice cream.
287* NiceGuy: According to Julien, he's the nicest guy in the zoo. Private is generally the most pleasant, kind-hearted and friendly member of the penguin's crew and he is usually the only one who is willing to accept new animals in the Zoo without being paranoid about them.
288* OnlySaneByComparison: Private is a {{Manchild}} and a {{Cloudcuckoolander}} in his own right, but he's the most grounded of the penguins and the first to try and dissuade them from going off on some paranoia-induced ZanyScheme.
289* SanityBall: Most often, it's in his flippers. "Skorca!" inverts the situation by having him paranoid about the title character and the other penguins not believing him.
290* SweetTooth: Especially when it comes to butterscotch lollipops.
291* ThatManIsDead: When the Amarillo Kid comes to the zoo looking for his rematch with Mr. Tux, Private refuses to take him up, ashamed of the things he did under that alias. He's forced to take it up again, however, when the armadillo holds the entire zoo hostage.
292* TokenGoodTeammate: The most well-intentioned and unambiguously heroic member of the group.
293* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Peanut butter winky. Also butterscotch lollipops.
294* VagueAge: While with other penguins you can at least be sure that they are adults, Private, being the youngest and most immature, can be seen as either a young teenager or just an immature adult.
295* WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: He's afraid of badgers, and not fond of cockroaches.
296[[/folder]]
297
298!Lemurs
299[[folder:King Julien XIII]]
300[[quoteright:286:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_King_Julien_101.jpg]]
301-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/DannyJacobs
302
303A ring-tailed lemur and (apparently self-proclaimed) king. Egomaniacal and ditzy, he's the closest thing the show has to a recurring antagonist. But at the same time, the penguins tolerate him when he's not being ''that'' big of a jerk. Julien "rules" over a small empire also comprising Maurice and Mort (see below).
304----
305* AmbiguouslyBi: He likes to dance; he's obsessed with his own booty; he gives bedroom eyes; he's [[{{Crossdresser}} dressed in drag on occasion]] (though that may be even less significant to his actual sexuality than in RealLife crossdressers, as he normally wears nothing but his crown); despite his attempts at maintaining a ladies' man image, he was unfamiliar enough with females that he didn't know where mammal babies come from, and was disgusted to find out the truth (though that may just be simple CloudCuckooLander status); and one episode blatantly ships him with Rico. Oh yeah, and he even said that he has a GirlfriendInCanada. On the other hand, he "courted" Marlene twice and has hit on Rico's Ms Perky doll. WildMassGuessing has also pegged him as Ambiguously Transgender, thanks to the AnimalGenderBender mentioned below. Taken to its limits with Julien in "It's About Time," when he sees Skipper and Private wrestling over the episode's MacGuffin and begins poking Maurice.
306-->'''Julien''': Ah, look at them Maurice. Why can't we play affectionately like that?
307* AnimalGenderBender: RealLife lemur groups are ruled by females. Then again, now he's in a zoo with only two other lemurs, both of which are male, and he's probably the nearest thing they've got. Also, when he claims Eggy is his, Kowalski says mammals can't lay eggs and asks if he's part platypus, without mentioning that males don't lay eggs either. (Then again, see above.)
308* AntiHero: The closest thing the show has to a recurring antagonist - but he also repeatedly helps out the penguins when it benefits him.
309* AttentionWhore: He views himself as King of the zoo and loves to be admired.
310* BerserkButton:
311** Never, EVER touch King Julien's feet. Especially if it's cold.
312** "Friend-in-a-Box" suggests that a FreudianExcuse may be involved. After Mort becomes obsessed with a portable video game, Julien goes out of his way to try and force Mort upon his feet, claiming that he wants to experience the joy of kicking Mort off. Eventually, he even goes so far as to beg Maurice and the penguins to pay attention to the royal feet.
313** NEVER forget or ignore King Julien Day, for that matter... "Which forgetter is next for the whooping?! Come on, I want you to hurt LIKE I DO! [[EvilLaugh UAHAHAHAHAA!]]"
314*** Or tell him that there's ''no such thing'' as King Julien Day.[[note]]Fortunately, the cake on Skipper's head when he said that distracted King Julien.[[/note]]
315** He gets pissed off over someone badmouthing his royal family if "Command Crisis" is anything to go by.
316* BigThinShortTrio: The Thin to Maurice's Big and Mort's Short.
317* BuffySpeak: A normal part of his speech pattern, along with Malaproping; he frequently makes comments like "What is up with the unbig tiny-littleness of my royal estate?"
318* TheCaligula: Parodied by his existence.
319* CloudCuckooLander: Julien's thought process can be rather weird. For example, one episode has him claiming that he went on a spy mission with a bulldozer posessed by the spirit of UsefulNotes/WilliamHowardTaft... Yeah.
320* ComicTrio: With Maurice and Mort; he's TheLeader.
321* CrazyJealousGuy: Thanks to his believing that [[ItsAllAboutMe It's All About Him]], he quickly gets jealous when somebody/something else is getting the attention he thinks he deserves. He also doesn't like that Marlene is crushing on Fred rather than him. He doesn't give a reason ''why'' this makes him so upset, other than that Marlene was "in love with Julien" the whole time before... which was another lie.
322* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: Part of King Julien's regular speech pattern.
323* DistressedDude: He's this thrice: once with a feral Marlene, once with Savio the boa and once with the Red Squirrel.
324* EvilLaugh: Not as amazing as other Nicktoons, but pretty close. Usually PlayedForLaughs, much like most of the tropes on this page.
325* FatAndSkinny: Skinny Julien is the silly one, and fat Maurice is the StraightMan.
326* {{Flanderization}}: A bit more of a JerkAss than in the movies, but he still has his moments (such as saving [[spoiler:Skipper]]'s life in one episode). His dialect is also noticeably stronger.
327* FriendlyEnemy: To Skipper, bordering more toward VitriolicBestBuds. The two spend most of their shared screentime arguing and generally being annoyed by each other, but Skipper will go out of his way to help Julien, and Julien has gone to Skipper to have his problems fixed. They were actually mistaken as 'BFF's by Skipper's ArchNemesis Dr. Blowhole... and the other penguins said he had a point. Heck, Julien himself is excited by the notiona and even ''Skipper himself'' doesn't actually deny it.
328-->'''Julien:''' So I face danger and the adventure of a lifetime and nobody will ever know about it?!
329-->'''Skipper''': Welcome to my world. That makes you an honorary penguin.
330-->'''Julien''': Does that mean I am your BFF?
331-->'''Skipper''': Eehh... we'll keep that code on the QT.
332* FunPersonified: He's the master of boogies, singing and parties.
333* HiddenDepths: The Lost Treasure of the Golden Squirrel is both vast and cursed, causing intense greed in those that get near it. Only someone pure of heart is immune to this curse and that turns out to be Julien. Whereas everyone has grandiose visions of the dreams the treasure could pay for, Julien just sees himself hanging out at the zoo with Maurice and Mort. Julien is as surprised as anyone to learn he's already living his dream.
334* IAmNotWeasel: In one episode, he tries to tell a CrazyCatLady that he is not a kitty.
335* IncidentalVillain: Being a spoiled ego-maniacal control freak, he's the most common antagonist on the show, with his schemes often being the catalyst for larger plots or being the main threat of the episode. But, despite being something of a JerkAss, he is only casually disliked by the rest of the cast. The other characters tolerate him when he's not doing anything antagonistic, since he's not generally a bad guy, just a spoiled jerk who occasionally screws with people to get his own way.
336* InformedAttribute: The penguins decide to help King Julien keep the crown in "King Me", because he's "a buffon, but a relatively harmless buffon". Considering all the times King Julien has been the major cause of problems for the Penguins, is hard to see him as harmless.
337* InSeriesNickname: "Ringtail."
338* InsufferableImbecile: He is dimwitted and clearly not the brightest tool in the shed. He is also really selfish, annoying and often mean to others. Compared to his film counterpart, his negative traits are [[ExaggeratedTrope Exaggerated]] [[PlayedForLaughs for Laughs]].
339* InterspeciesRomance: A one-sided crush on Marlene, an otter.
340* ItsAllAboutMe: He is the King, and so ''obviously'' is more important than any non-kingly animals, right?
341* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: He has his moments of being... less mean to the others. Notably, King Julien Day is a holiday dedicated entirely to him, participation was mandatory and lack of participation meant severe punishment, but unexpectedly includes a closing ceremony where Julien rewards his subjects.
342* LargeHam: With a side of {{Keet}}.
343* TheLoad: Bringing him along usually does more to hurt the penguins than help.
344* {{Malaproper}}: He is a bit of a word mangler. Examples include "These stitions are very super!" and "No one will be sucking seed!"
345* ManChild: He has a tendency to throw childish tantrums, and on one occasion starts talking to his cuddly toys when he's depressed.
346* TheMillstone: When he tags along on the Penguins' missions, he occasionally helps, but usually ends up being more of an obstruction.
347* {{Narcissist}}: To the point that he has distinct ho yay with a robot copy of himself.
348--> '''Julien:''' That is not very interesting to me because it is not ''about'' me. See how that works?
349* NominalHero: In the second movie, he is selected for a musical onslaught against the monster [=MP3=] player.
350* PapaWolf: To save the baby Foosa from a snake. He even tells the snake to eat him first when they get cornered, hoping his fuzzy build will make it choke so it can't eat the baby.
351* SignatureHeadgear: His crown. He loves it a lot, but he has a spare for emergecies.
352* SingingVoiceDissonance: Nothing major, but the end of his short Congaga song in "Eclipsed"' is rather impressive, especially considering his usual voice is not all that pleasant.
353* SixthRanger: When the squad is lacking in numbers, Julien often comes in as a substitute.
354* TokenEvilTeammate: Not evil ''per se'', but a narcissistic {{Jerkass}} who often tags along with the penguins but only cares about himself.
355* TrueCompanions: Among himself, Maurice and Mort. Arguably.
356* UpperClassTwit: Considers himself to be king of the zoo, and isn't very smart.
357* UnstoppableRage: When one of the rats [[BerserkButton skates across his feet]] in "Miracle On Ice", he goes complete apeshit on ALL of them.
358* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: The same general quasi-African accent in the movie, only (as mentioned above) more exaggerated.
359* WholesomeCrossdresser: He dressed as a cheerleader in the episode "Miracle On Ice" and was jealous of Skipper's "pretty pink bow" in "Miss Understanding". The "wholesome" is debateable, but his un-wholesome characteristics are not related directly ''to'' the crossdressing.
360[[/folder]]
361
362[[folder:Maurice]]
363[[quoteright:286:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_Maurice_8740.jpg]]
364-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson
365
366An aye-aye who serves as King Julien's right hand man and advisor, although Julien rarely follows his advice. Although he seems easily annoyed by Julien's antics, Maurice isn't above saving his life.
367----
368* AdaptationalNiceGuy: In the movies, Maurice wasn't fond of Mort just like King Julien. In the show, he's a much kinder lemur to the guy and is often the one who disuades King Julien from going too far against him. He's only annoyed when his YesMan antincs get in the way of him trying to repose.
369* BigBrotherInstinct: He actually gets along with Mort better than with Julien and there are times where he seems to feel sorry for him.
370* TheBigGuy: Of the lemurs.
371* BigThinShortTrio: The Big to King Julien's Thin and Mort's Short.
372* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Gets like this in "Kingdom Come" thanks to a bad batch of lychee nuts.
373* CharacterizationMarchesOn: In "Gone in a Flash", he's legitimate terrified of being in the middle of the penguins operations and can barely keep up with them. Later episodes would portray him as very competent and not only completely calm when he has to help the Penguins but often delighted to have a chance to participate in the Penguins missions.
374* ChessmasterSidekick: Has shades of this. At times, it seems that he ''really'' doesn't want to be part of Julien's world, but for some reason he stays faithful. He also constantly uses reverse psychology every time he needs King Julien to do something.
375* CloserToEarth: He is easily the sanest of the three lemurs.
376* ComicTrio: The OnlySaneMan to leader Julien and fool Mort.
377* TheCreon: The right-hand man of King Julien.
378* FourFingeredHands: A strange aversion. Maurice has five fingers/toes, yet Julien and Mort each have four.
379* FunnyAnimalAnatomy: [[http://www.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&rlz=1T4ACAW_enGB342GB344&biw=1345&bih=481&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=aye+aye&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq= This is what a real aye-aye looks like.]] Eek.
380* OnlySaneMan: When you're working for someone like Julien, of course someone has to be there to rationalize with him.
381* ServileSnarker: Despite being aware how insane Julien is (and occasionally making snarky comments about it), he still follows his orders.
382* StealthPun: An aye-aye who is King Julien's YesMan.
383* StraightMan: To King Julien and Mort.
384[[/folder]]
385
386[[folder:Mort]]
387[[quoteright:286:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar__-_Mort_6622.jpg]]
388-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/AndyRichter
389
390A mouse lemur who is also part of Julien's companions. He is pretty much there to be the victim of physical comedy, although Marlene in particular seems to care for him.
391----
392* BadassAdorable: Although small, dumb and pathetic, he's shown to be capable of beating Skipper at arm wrestling. Another episode has him ''uprooting trees''.
393* BerserkButton: Not surprisingly, King Julien's feet, as indicated by his reaction to being separated from them.
394* BigThinShortTrio: The Short to Maurice's Big and King Julien's Thin.
395* TheChewToy: To the point where he's declared [[FeelNoPain too dumb to feel pain]]. Lampshaded in one episode, where he says, "Yay, I'm expendable!"
396* CloudCuckooLander: Mort doesn't seem to be in touch with reality often...
397* ComicTrio: The Fool to Julien's Leader and Maurice's OnlySaneMan.
398* CreepyChild: He's not quite a child, but he certainly has moments where he comes off as this. For example, he's way happier about being used as bait for a hungry falcon than he should be.
399-->"I'm tasty!"
400** There's also the fact that he is ''obsessed'' with King Julien's feet, which is creepy in itself.
401* DisabilitySuperpower: In "Sting Operation", it's revealed that he's literally too ignorant to feel pain because he doesn't understand it.
402* TheDitz:
403-->"Which of the colours is blue?"
404* FearlessFool: See above.
405* FeelNoPain: Also see above.
406* {{Flanderization}}: In the movie, the royal feet get merely a passing reference when Julien misinterprets Mort cowering in fear next to him. Here, Mort has a full blown fetish for Julien's feet.
407* ICallHimMisterHappy: Non-genital example. He's named his tail "Rodney".
408* InSeriesNickname: "Sad Eyes".
409* OlderThanTheyLook: WordOfGod is that he's actually the lemur equivalent of a thirty-five-year-old. Mouse lemurs simply [[http://www.google.co.uk/images?rlz=1T4ACAW_enGB342GB344&q=mouse+lemur&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1345&bih=481 look like babies their whole lives]].
410* PasteEater:
411-->"I'll get the glue."\
412"To eat?!"\
413"NO!"
414* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: He's cute enough to rival Private.
415* TagalongKid: Quite often.
416* TeamPet: He's either TagalongKid, this or both.
417* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: A completely unidentifiable one. It usually comes across as heavily warped BabyTalk.
418* {{Yandere}}: Mort is quite devoted to King Julien, and not just to the royal feet.
419[[/folder]]
420
421!Central Park Zoo
422[[folder:Mason and Phil]]
423[[quoteright:320:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_Mason_and_Phil_5765.jpg]]
424-> '''Voiced By:''' Conrad Vernon (Mason)
425
426A pair of chimpanzees. Mason is a stuffy British-accented one, while Phil is mute and communicates only through ([[ShownTheirWork completely accurate]]) sign language.
427----
428* DivergentCharacterEvolution: Thanks to greater focus on them (compared to their OneSceneWonder status in the original movies), Mason's NeatFreak nature and Phil's relaxed and slovenly behavior have been revealed and developed.
429* FourFingeredHands: Averted for the sake of Phil's sign language.
430* MrExposition: One of the reasons why Skipper tends to tolerate them more than the other mammals in the zoo considering they often give him valuable information.
431* NeverLearnedToRead: Mason is illiterate. Phil, on the other hand, is the penguin's go-to translator, with Mason translating his signing.
432* OddCouple: Phil is a total slob, much to NeatFreak Mason's chagrin.
433* RepeatingSoTheAudienceCanHear: While this is usually justified for the benefit of other characters that don't know sign language, Mason will do this even if Phil is the only other one around.
434* RoadApples: Mason mentions throwing poo a couple of times, though this is never seen on-screen.
435* ShownTheirWork: Phil's sign language is completely accurate.
436* TheSpeechless: Phil, who only speaks in sign language.
437[[/folder]]
438
439[[folder:Marlene]]
440[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_Marlene_4743.png]]
441-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/NicoleSullivan
442
443A perky female Asian Small Clawed Otter who is friends with the penguins. Playful and kind, she tries to see the best in others and is one of the only characters who cares for Mort's well-being.
444----
445* ActionGirl: Has saved Skipper and Kowalski's lives on separate occasions.
446* ArtisticLicenseBiology: She has a flat row of very human-like teeth. Otters, being carnivores and members of the mustelid family, naturally have a mouthful of sharp fangs. She does gain more accurate teeth while in her feral form.
447* BerserkButton: Never leave her outside [[NotUsedToFreedom or she'll go nuts]]!
448* BewareTheNiceOnes: Most of the time, Marlene is friendly and doesn’t engage in physical violence. However, at the end of “Crow Fools”, she has Rico spit out a crowbar for her, which she uses to chase Julien with when he reveals he had a spare crown the whole time. Not only was she mad he kept his spare a secret, but his actions also led to Skipper getting hurt while trying to retrieve the original crown.
449* DeadpanSnarker: Goes hand in hand with her [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Woman]] status.
450* {{Expy}}: Arguably, she's one for Gloria the hippo and/or Alex the lion.
451* HartmanHips: At the very least, she's obviously more curvy than your average otter.
452* JekyllAndHyde: If she leaves the zoo grounds, she becomes feral. Creator/DeeBradleyBaker voices her feral side.
453* NiceGirl: Snarkiness aside, Marlene is mostly a friendly and welcoming person who refuses to judge others before getting to know them.
454* NotUsedToFreedom: Marlene was born in captivity, so stepping outside of the zoo seems exciting and even fun... At first. Overtime, however, a feral emerges and she becomes a mindless, snarling beast that's incapable of reason. As the series continues, she turns beastly within a few seconds if she finds herself outside.
455* OnlySaneWoman: Along with Maurice, she seems to be the only one trying to reason with the main characters. She even tries to provide some stable ground when Skipper seems to be losing it.
456* PlayfulOtter: Love of clams? Check. Playful and cute? Check.
457** Interestingly, the show does acknowledge how otters, being members of the weasel family, can still be [[SubvertedTrope vicious and dangerous]], with Marlene’s feral form.
458* SlidingScaleOfBeauty: World Class Beauty as Arlene. Being that many male characters soon fell in love with her, and mentioned how beautiful she was.
459* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Shown playing chess with Skipper in "Crown Fools".
460* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only protagonistic female character.
461* StealthHiBye: Does this on occasion. Skipper even tells her to say something before surprising them once.
462* SuperPoweredEvilSide: [[NotUsedToFreedom Due to being born in captivity]], whenever she leaves the confines of the zoo's walls she goes 'feral', which results in an increase in strength, speed, and ferocity, but a decrease in intelligence.
463* WomenAreWiser: In comparison to the penguins (save for Private). Often overlaps with OnlySaneWoman.
464[[/folder]]
465
466[[folder:Alice]]
467[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_Alice_6370.jpg]]
468-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/MaryScheer
469
470She is a zookeeper who doesn't seem to care too much for her job, and expresses annoyance at tour groups.
471----
472* ButtMonkey: She suffers a lot, though [[KarmicButtMonkey she deserves it]] most of the time.
473* CharacterCatchphrase: "Whatever."
474* DeadpanSnarker: Has moments of this.
475* HeroAntagonist: Zigzagged. Most of the time she's simply doing her job and in certain episodes she's actually doing what's right for the animals like controlling their diet or taking them to the vet, which is of course seen as a threat because the Penguins don't wanna do that. However, she's such a huge jerkass slacker, is very easy to understand why we shouldn't root for her.
476* {{Jerkass}}: And she usually [[KarmicButtMonkey suffers]] for it.
477* OutOfFocus: She was a recurring antagonist in Season 1, but as new villains are added to the Penguins' Rogue Gallery who are much more of a threat, she becomes less relevant and has less episodes where she has a role of importance, by the time of Season 3, she rarely appears.
478* TheSlacker: She puts the bare minimum of effort into her job, and frequently responds to suspicious occurrences with "ahh, whatever."
479* StarterVillain: She's the closest thing to an villain the early episodes have and is the main antagonist of "Popcorn Panic", the first episode made in production.
480[[/folder]]
481
482[[folder:Bada and Bing]]
483Two hulking, thuggish Western Lowland Gorillas living in the zoo. Bada is dark grey, Bing is a lighter shade of grey.
484----
485* AnimalsNotToScale: They are unusually large gorillas, not much smaller than Roy the rhino.
486* BrooklynRage: They speak with thick Brooklyn accents and have the standoffish tough guy personalities to match.
487* BruiserWithASoftCenter:
488** Bing secretly has a stuffed pink bunny which the penguins secretly catch him clutching in "Truth Ache". He's also a Lunacorn fan.
489** Both of them say in "The Penguin Stays In The Picture" that they are unwilling to hurt Mort because he is adorable. When Private thinks that they killed Mort after he expressed jealousy about not being chosen as the animal for the zoo's brochure cover, they actually hid Mort behind some bushes and gave him a huge supply of popsicles until the brochure would be printed with Private on the cover.
490* DubNameChange: In Polish dub, their names are Bolo and Lolo.
491* DumbMuscle: Neither of them is too bright, but they are incredibly strong.
492* KillerGorilla: Besides being characterized as shifty gangsters, they occasionally act like bullies to the other animals, and may go on a rampage if you steal their food.
493* MeaningfulName: "Bada bing bada boom" is a stereotypical mobster phrase, fitting their personalities.
494* ThoseTwoGuys: Seldom seen without each other.
495* TookALevelInKindness: They softened somewhat over time. In "Antics On Ice", Bing willingly helps Private to go to see the Lunacorns on Ice.
496* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Bananas.
497[[/folder]]
498
499[[folder:Roger]]
500[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_Roger_2579.jpg]]
501-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/RichardKind
502
503A large, friendly American Alligator. Although the others are terrified of him at first, they grow to like him once they find that he is pacifistic and friendly. Eventually he moves into a habitat in the zoo.
504----
505* AmbiguouslyGay: A friendly, sensitive, soft-voiced alligator who wants to sing Broadway tunes and bake muffins to placate his enemies…
506* ChekhovsGun: His singing in "Roger Dodger".
507* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: When he's in a confined space with the penguins, he becomes a menace simply by turning around.
508* GentleGiant: He has to undergo a mind-swap with Rico at one point because he's simply not aggressive, which makes him an easy target for the sewer rats.
509* GreenGators: He has green scales.
510* NiceGuy: Despite his fearsome appearance, he's friendly, soft-spoken and mild-mannered.
511* OutOfCharacterMoment: He seems genuinely annoyed at Julien's pranking in the "April Fools" episode.
512* ReluctantMonster: He is a terrifying alligator, but also a very nice and mild-mannered person.
513* SewerGator: Roger is a sewer gator who is good friends with the penguins.
514[[/folder]]
515
516[[folder:Burt]]
517[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/burt2_3.jpg]]
518-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/JohnDiMaggio
519
520The resident's Asian Elephant at the zoo. Though normally an easygoing guy, he's easily annoyed by anyone messing with his food. But if you ''do'' manage to set him off...
521----
522* AnimalGenderBender: He's a male Asian elephant, yet he lacks tusks. Only female asian elephants don't have tusks.
523* BewareTheNiceOnes: While generally nice, piss him off and he will have qualms about crushing you.
524* BerserkButton: Don't touch his food.
525* BigDamnHeroes: He defeats Savio at the end of "The Big Squeeze".
526* TheBigGuy: He and Roy are the zoo's biggest animals.
527* CruelElephant: Downplayed; Burt is zoo's resident GentleGiant, but he can be this when he's very angry or annoyed.
528** Subverted in "Elephant Never Forgets" when the apparent rampage he has on a kid that constantly annoys him with a kazoo [[spoiler: is just an attempt to give the stolen kazoo back.]]
529* CulturedBadass: Burt is a lover of Victorian (particularly Dickensian) literature, and an accomplished artist. He also admits to have always wanted to visit Paris. He's also a huge elephant, and single handily beat up Savio the giant boa.
530* ElephantsAreScaredOfMice: Savio exploits this by sending him a package containing a mouse.
531* ElephantsNeverForget: One episode features him enlisting the help of the penguins to help him escape from the zoo, so he can pay back a man who had tormented him with a kazoo as a boy. He persuades them by lampshading this trope -- "Let's just say... an elephant never forgets!" Said payback [[spoiler:turns out to be returning the kazoo Burt stole from the kid because, as Burt points out, while an elephant never forgets, "he always ''forgives''"]].
532* GentleGiant: Generally is a gentle giant lest someone pisses him off.
533* HonorableElephant: He's generally nice and friendly elephant.
534* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Peanuts.
535* InSeriesNickname: Long Trunks and Big Grey.
536[[/folder]]
537
538[[folder:Roy]]
539-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/DannyJacobs
540
541He is Central Park Zoo's only Southern White Rhinoceros. He's calm and friendly, but does get agitated easily.
542----
543* AscendedFanboy: He and Bing become characters in the Lunacorns after the events of "Antics On Ice".
544* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In "Misfortune Cookie", Julien has him run over Rico ''1000'' times in order to lift Rico´s "curse". The reason being that the zoo only has one rhino, and thus needed Roy to repeat the process 1000 times.
545* EarlyBirdCameo: He first appeared in the video game adaptation of the first ''Madagascar'' film, before being properly introduced in the series. In the series itself, we first see his stampeding legs crushing Rico before he makes his full proper debut in "Skorca".
546* HornAttack: He's a rhino, after all.
547* RealMenWearPink: Like Private and Bing, he's revealed to be a fan of the Lunacorns, and claims he likes its positive portrayal of quadrupedal horned mammals.
548* RhinoRampage: In the episode "April Fools", he spends a good deal of time angrily chasing Julien with the apparent intent of killing him because the lemur drew on his behind with a permanent marker. As it turns out, however, he was actually helping the Penguins to teach Julien to stop his rather harmful pranks.
549* ScareEmStraight: As revealed at the end of "April Fools", him chasing Julien and apparently trying to kill him was meant to help teach him a lesson about going too far with pranks.
550[[/folder]]
551
552[[folder:Leonard]]
553-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/DanaSnyder
554
555A paranoid koala who first appears in "Night and Dazed". He is rather afraid of the penguins in their attempts to be nice to him, mainly because he's often the target of unintentional injury.
556----
557* BondingOverDislikes: He becomes friends with Joey because they both hate penguins. Private [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this, saying that they became friends only because they hate their guts.
558* TheDogBitesBack: In "Night of the Vesuviuses", he leads the group going against the penguins.
559* DeepSleep: He is nocturnal to an absurd degree; he essentially goes into a coma the moment sunlight hits him and can't be woken until it sets.
560* ProperlyParanoid: You would be too, if the penguins accidentally blew up your habitat.
561[[/folder]]
562
563[[folder:Joey]]
564[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_Joey_6171.jpg]]
565-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/JamesPatrickStuart
566
567An ill-tempered, violent Red Kangaroo with a stereotypical Australian accent. Antagonist to both the penguins and the lemurs most of the time.
568----
569* AnimalGenderBender: He has a pouch.
570* BondingOverDislikes: He becomes friends with Leonard because they both hate penguins. Private [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this, saying that they became friends only because they hate their guts.
571* BoxingKangaroo: He will beat up anyone who has guts to enter his habitat.
572* BruiserWithASoftCenter: In "The Terror Of Madagascar", he fawns over after seeing Mort riding Baby Fossa and declaring "that mate got me all warm inside", [[{{Tsundere}} before saying he doesn't like feeling warm]].
573* HairTriggerTemper: He'll beat up other animals just for being in his habitat... and deliberately keep them there so that he can beat them up some more if they try to escape.
574* {{Jerkass}}: Joey is excessively violence prone and unfriendly.
575* KangaroosRepresentAustralia: He speaks with an UsefulNotes/AustralianAccent.
576* StupidEvil: When fighting the "skorca", he beats off the penguins first because he doesn't want ''them'' to win against it. Skipper calls him out on it, but Joey dismisses him on the grounds that "Joey doesn't share".
577* ThirdPersonPerson: Lampshaded in "Kanga Management".
578* {{Tsundere}}: He's revealed to be male variant in "The Terror Of Madagascar", when after seeing Mort riding Baby Fossa he declares that he didn't liked how they made him "warm inside".
579--> "Crikey, that mate got me all warm inside. (camera zooms into Joey's face) Joey don't like feeling warm! (kicks Julien into Fossa habitat)"
580* TheWorfEffect: Officer X and Eggy have pulled one on him.
581[[/folder]]
582
583[[folder:Randy]]
584-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/WillFriedle
585
586A sheep who lives in the Children's Zoo.
587----
588* AbsurdPhobia: His worst nightmare is apparently "a flying coyote with laser beam eyes".
589-->"When coyotes develop flight and laser technology... it's game over, y'know?"
590* BerserkButton: Tearing out a lump of his fleece was the final straw that caused Randy to snap.
591* TheDogBitesBack: When one kid horrifically bullies him, Randy loses it and attacks the brat. The kid then lies to Alice and had Randy MadeOutToBeAJerkass.
592* MadeOutToBeAJerkass: The penguins initially believe the child's lies and assume Randy attacked without provocation. Randy has to explain that he bit the kid in self defense.
593* TookALevelInBadass: Thanks to the Penguins, Randy develops martial arts skills to better defend himself.
594[[/folder]]
595
596!Animals Outside the Zoo
597[[folder:Fred]]
598[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_Fred_4217.jpg]]
599-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/FredStoller
600
601A not-too-bright squirrel who lives in the park. When the penguins leave the zoo, they often cross paths with him.
602----
603* AmbiguouslyGay: He seems mostly indifferent to Marlene when roped into dating her, and didn't seem too upset when she broke up with him, and is shown to live with [[spoiler: Antonio ("the otter bachelor of Central Park")]].
604* AmbiguouslyJewish: Has some traits of this.
605* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: His "fight" with Julien was initially interpreted to be this until he revealed he simply did everything accidentally and let Julien's clumsiness do the rest (which a humiliated Julien admits).
606* CuddleBug: "What am I gonna do, say no to a hug? I love hugs!"
607* DistressedDude: He gets tied up by the Red Squirrel.
608* TheDitz: Intelligence is not his strong point.
609* DumbIsGood: He's too stupid to be evil, as the Red Squirrel learned pretty quickly.
610* GeniusDitz: He actually does know the answer to the question that scientists have been trying to figure out for years; how much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
611* HorribleJudgeOfCharacter: He considers Archie his best friend (despite calling him a backstabbing liar and a cheat) and even allowed ''Julien'' to be his financial adviser when he became rich. In addition, he is prone to trusting complete strangers based on [[CuddleBug how well they hug]].
612* LiteralMinded: Spelled out in one episode where Marlene tries to date him. She asks him to show her the town and he answers by pointing and saying, "That way."
613* InSeriesNickname: Bushy Tail.
614* MadnessMantra: "Acorns! Jackpot! Acorns! Jackpot! Acorns! Jackpot!"
615* RagsToRiches: He becomes wealthy (at least in squirrel terms) following his mass acquisition of several hundred pounds of acorns. He's promptly exploited first by Julien and then by the Red Squirrel who want his money for their own selfish purposes.
616[[/folder]]
617
618[[folder:Max]]
619[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_Max_1399.jpg]]
620-> '''Voices By:''' Creator/WayneKnight
621
622A stray cat whom the penguins first meet in a failed attempt to fly to the moon. Max has reappeared in several episodes, often seeking help from the penguins.
623----
624* ArtifactName: The penguins are very aware by now that Max isn't a "Moon Cat", but keep refering to him like that, Skipper even admits is mostly because "the name just works"
625* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Max has being living on his own his whole life, the penguins being the only animals that ever showed him any kindness in the reason why they become friends, and why he decides to save them from Elmer.
626* TheCameo: He appears for about two seconds in "The Helmet".
627* ConscienceMakesYouGoBack: He briefly considers abandoning the penguins to their luck in "Street Smarts" before his conscience makes him go against that idea.
628* HeroicSacrifice: Pulls a non-mortal example in "Street Smarts" by distracting Elmer while the penguins rescued Mort, it ended up being the best outcome for him, as he ended up becoming best pals with Elmer.
629* InSeriesNickname: "Moon Cat". It's lampshaded by him when he points out that he's not really from the moon.
630* LovableCoward: Nearly always appears when fleeing a threat of some sort.
631* MistakenForAliens: Because the penguins thought that they were on the moon in Max's debut episode, they assumed that he is actually a moon cat. They found out that he isn't at the end, but [[TheNicknamer Skipper]] still calls him "moon cat".
632* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: Subverted, we know his name, but the penguins don't care about it and prefer to keep calling him "Moon Cat".
633* SmallRoleBigImpact: He only appears in three episodes, but the penguins seeking him a hiding spot in "Cat's Cradle" is what kickstarts their rivalry with Officer X, one of the most recurring villains in the whole series.
634* TastesLikeFriendship: In his debut, he gives up trying to eat the penguins (who are unaware of his intentions) when they give him a can of sardines. He so rarely gets food on his own that he is grateful, and pretty much remains their friend after that.
635* ThrowTheDogABone: He's a huge ButtMonkey in each of his apperances but he usually gets a win by the end of the episode.
636** In "Launchtime", he gets gifted a can of sardines as a parting gift from the penguins.
637** In "Street Smarts", he forms a bond with Elmer, out of thinking he's a Lemur.
638* TrueCompanions: He'll occasionally try to abandon the penguins to save himself, but always come back when he realizes they are his only friends. He also seems to form this relationship with Elmer at the end of his episode.
639* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Max gets a chance to abandon the penguins and Mort to their luck, once they are struggling with Elmer, no one else was there and he doesn't know any of the other Penguins allies so it would had no consequences for him, but he quickly rationalizes that they are the only animals that had ever treated him with any kindness and decides to pull a HeroicSacrifice to save them.
640* YankTheDogsChain: In his introduction, he falls for SchmuckBait; a pigeon trolls him by pretending to be unable to fly. The pigeon then rubs it in his face and flies off, leaving a starving Max to wish for a bird that couldn't fly. He spends an awful lot of time being the ButtMonkey even after the penguins give him food.
641[[/folder]]
642
643[[folder:Eggy]]
644-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/TaraStrong
645
646An adorable little duckling whose egg came under the penguins' care during "Parental Egg-Stinct". After hatching and being returned to Mama Duck, he showed an innate talent for Skipper's style of leadership.
647----
648* AllYourPowersCombined: Thanks to being cared and trained by the penguins while still an egg, he has all of their skills. At the end, Julien teaches him how to dance, resulting in Eggy talking like Julien (see BuffySpeak above).
649* BadassAdorable: He's a cute little duckling, but he achieved powerful combat skills under the penguins' care. In "Hard Boiled Eggy", he curb-stomps every animal in the zoo except Julien.
650* BuffySpeak: He copies Julien's idiosyncratic speech patterns.
651* ChildSoldiers: Through accident, the penguins taking care of his egg made their personalities rub off on him, making him very interested in carrying out commando operations.
652* DefeatMeansFriendship: He finds himself unable to land a hit on King Julien (who just dances out of the way) after curb-stomping every other animal in the zoo, and decides to learn his ways. That is to say, learn dancing, which Mama Duck is satisfied with because dancing isn't dangerous like his previous behavior.
653* TroublingUnchildlikeBehaviour: How Mama Duck views his obsession with combat and commando operations. She requests for the penguins to try to solve his behavior in "Hard Boiled Eggy". It takes Eggy beating up every animal in the zoo except Julien for him to decide to focus on learning dancing over combat.
654[[/folder]]
655
656[[folder:Kitka]]
657-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/KariWalhgren
658
659A falcon who crash-landed in the zoo, setting off the events of "The Falcon and the Snow Job" and serving as Skipper's TemporaryLoveInterest as he fought to clear her good name.
660----
661* BrutalBirdOfPrey: What everyone except Skipper thinks she is. [[spoiler:She's not. The other falcon, however...]]
662* CarnivoreConfusion: Directly acknowledged and the root of the others' distrust. She tries to allay concerns by swearing not to eat anyone in the zoo. [[spoiler: She didn't know that they also had friends ''outside'' the zoo, like Fred.]]
663* ClearTheirName: Julien mysteriously disappears with falcon feathers at the scene of the crime, so everyone except Skipper suspects Kitka at him and ran off. [[spoiler:It turns out that Skipper was right; another falcon is the kidnapper.]]
664* FallingInLoveMontage: She and Skipper spend time together with one.
665* GirlOfTheWeek: Skipper's LoveInterest for one episode.
666* LoveAtFirstSight: Skipper immediately crushed over her at the realization it was the falcon was a lady, it seems to be mutual, given Kitka grows interesed on him while they are sharing their first conversation.
667* ShipSinking: [[spoiler: Kitka vomits Fred, which immediately makes Skipper lose interest on her, deciding they should see other people]].
668[[/folder]]
669
670[[folder:Doris '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
671-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/CalistaFlockhart
672
673A dolphin whom Kowalski still yearns after. Appears in the GrandFinale, "The Penguin Who Loved Me."
674----
675* BadassAdorable: She may not have as much experience as the crew, but holds her own during the GrandFinale.
676* CainAndAbel: The Abel to her Dr. Blowhole's Cain.
677* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: She's kind, friendly, and cares for her brother. It's not her fault that her brother is a {{Supervillain}}.
678* TheGhost: She is continually mentioned throughout the series, but doesn't appear until the finale.
679* InterspeciesRomance: Aside from Kowalski's crush on her, she's dated several others outside of her species.
680* JustFriends: She tries telling Kowalski that she likes him, but she doesn't ''like'' like him.
681* SapientCetaceans: Played with, given every other animal is sapient as well. But she seems fairly intelligent, even if not at the level of his brother.
682* TailfinWalking: Manages this by getting her fins on one of Dr. Blowhole's scooters.
683* UnseenNoMore: Doris was constantly mentioned as a dolphin who Kowalski has being crushed for, off-screen and she finally appears in "The Penguin Who Loved Me".
684* WalkingSpoiler: Not only she and Kowalski become OfficialCouple, but Dr. Blowhole turns out to be her brother.
685[[/folder]]
686
687[[folder:Uncle Nigel]]
688-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/PeterCapaldi
689
690[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Private's Uncle Nigel]] who comes to pay the penguins a visit. At first, he comes off as a complete fop [[spoiler:but his true nature is completely different.]]
691* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler: The tea and crumpets? The stories about flowers and doilies? Absolute rubbish! He's actually a dashing and fearless spy who works undercover for British Penguin Intelligence.]]
692* CassandraTruth: [[spoiler: He actually thinks Private's childish and effeminate characteristics are part of his own cover story to hide his true nature as a commando. By the end, Private rolls with it shutting Skipper up before he can tell the truth.]]
693[[/folder]]
694
695[[folder:Manfredi & Johnson '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
696-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/JamesPatrickStuart (Manfredi), Creator/DannyJacobs (Johnson)
697Two former members of Skipper's team, they are often name-dropped whenever some ill fate or accident is mentioned. They are ''finally'' seen in "The Penguin Who Loved Me."
698----
699* FatAndSkinny: Manfredi is large and round, whereas Johnson has roughly the same body type as Kowalski.
700* LastEpisodeNewCharacter: While "New" isn't the right word, they are only mentioned by off-hand comments by Skipper comparing the current situation to what happened to Manfredi and Johnson and are only seen during the GrandFinale to show that they're still alive.
701* NoodleIncident: Skipper frequently mentions them and how they end up in near fatal situations, but that's all we get. When we finally seen then, Manfredi (the larger sized penguin) has lost his left foot, now replaced by a stick while Johnson (the Kowalski-sized penguin) broke his right flipper and seems to have a burn on his body. We have no idea which of the stories (if any) led to these accidents.
702* PosthumousCharacter: Subverted. You will think that for all of the incidents they had passed for, we have heard, they will be long gone by now, but it turns out they were alive in an enclosure in Seaville
703* TheyKilledKennyAgain: All of numerous {{Noodle Incident}}s they've been involved in sound fatal. And yet, they show up alive in "The Penguin Who Loved Me".
704* ThoseTwoGuys: From what we know about them, which isn't much.
705* UnseenNoMore: Manfredy and Johnson's possible deaths are a RunningGag since the earliest episodes but we don't see them in person until "The Penguin Who Loved Me".
706* WalkingSpoiler: Just the fact that they're still alive makes them into one.
707* YankTheDogsChain: The penguins finally find them, but the two remain unnoticed despite their pleas for help and given how the group said they won't be back again and that the series is over, it looks like these guys are screwed.
708[[/folder]]
709
710!Villains
711[[folder:Dr. Blowhole]]
712[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_Dr__Blowhole_3797.jpg]]
713-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/NeilPatrickHarris
714
715A mad scientist and primary antagonist to Skipper. At first, he was only mentioned in passing by Skipper, leading to Marlene's belief that he didn't exist. The half-hour "Dr. Blowhole's Revenge" showed him to be real.
716----
717* AchillesHeel: He's a dolphin, meaning that he has fins instead of legs and requires a segway to move around. Without said segway, he's essentially immobile.
718* ArchEnemy: To the Penguins of Madagascar, especially Skipper. The penguins have made many enemies in both past and present, but none are more mentioned as often as Blowhole, with the penguins acknowledging him as their mortal enemy.
719* BadassBookworm: He might be an extremely intelligent scientist who doesn't fight often, but when we actually see him fight, he's able to go toe to toe with Skipper in a prolonged fight.
720* BadBoss: He doesn't show it often, but he ''really'' doesn't respect his lobster goons and even outright threatens to kill one of them in his second appearance.
721* BigBad: Dr. Blowhole is the main antagonist of the TV series, and the most threatening villain the penguins have to deal with by far.
722* CallingYourAttacks: All of his inventions announce themselves with the same dramatic voice whenever they are activated.
723* CainAndAbel: [[spoiler: The Cain to his sister's Abel.]]
724* CardCarryingVillain: He's an evil dolphin and he ''knows'' it.
725* DeviousDolphins: He's a dolphin who wants revenge on the humans for the humiliation that lead to his path of villainy. He fittingly provides the trope image.
726* DisproportionateRetribution: He tried to flood the world in revenge for being used as a show dolphin.
727* EarlyBirdCameo: He's mentioned in "Eclipsed" and "Roomies" by Skipper as his ArchEnemy, and you will forgiven for thinking it was another of Skipper's delusions before his first appearence.
728* ElectronicEyes: Has a cybernetic eye that [[EyeBeams fires lasers]].
729* EmbarrassingFirstName: Francis.
730* EvenEvilCanBeLoved: He's [[spoiler: Doris's brother and she seems to care for him enough to ask the Penguins to go on a mission to rescue him]]. Given how little they interact, is left ambiguous if it's mutual or not but seems to care enough [[spoiler: to hide his villanous activities from his family]].
731* EvilCounterpart: At least with the technology and science department, to Kowalski.
732* EvilGenius: He is a brilliant inventor with a grudge against the penguins.
733* EvilIsBigger: He towers over the penguins.
734* EvilIsHammy: He presents himself in an over-the-top, dramatic manner.
735* EyeBeams: Can fire a laser from his cybernetic eye.
736* FriendlyPlayfulDolphin: Subverted. Despite being a dolphin, he's vile and wants to destroy the penguins. [[spoiler: He temporarily becomes a straight example when he gets his memory erased.]]
737* GiantEnemyCrab: Has lobster henchmen, and also made Crome Claw, a giant lobster with a metal claw.
738* GoodScarsEvilScars: Has a scar over his right eye that's just barely visable under the metal plate covering it.
739* GreaterScopeVillain: Is mentioned as Skipper and the Penguins' ArchEnemy, but rarely appears or has a large effect on the series.
740* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[spoiler:Ultimately has his memory erased by his own machine.]]
741* InsistentTerminology: No, Julien, he's ''not'' a fish.
742* {{Jerkass}}: He doesn't hide how much of a jerk he is by ''any'' means and openly declares his desire to antagonize the penguins for his own amusement.
743* KnightOfCerebus: As goofy and comicbook supervillain-y as he appears, things become a whole lot more DarkerAndEdgier whenever he shows up with the stakes getting higher.
744* MadScientist: An evil inventor.
745* TheReveal: [[spoiler:He and Doris are siblings.]]
746* SapientCetaceans: He is a dolphin and an EvilGenius.
747* ShoutOut: His name and status as a MadScientist ArchNemesis seems to be a nod to [[Franchise/JamesBond Dr. Blofeld]].
748* TailfinWalking: He stands on his tail-fins on a segway.
749* UnseenNoMore: Skipper mentions him a couple of times through the first season among his delusions before he makes his first proper apperance in "Dr. Blowhole's Revenge".
750* VerbalTic: He has habit of pronouncing penguins as "peng-you-ens". According to Kowalski, he probably does it just to tick them off. While not exactly verbal, he also has a habit of having his computer dramatically announce the names of his creations.
751* VileVillainSaccharineShow: He fits it to a T, although half the main protagonists are [[HeroicComedicSociopath Heroic Sociopaths]] with little to no concern for collateral damage
752* VillainSong: Gets a few in "Doctor Blowhole Strikes Back" (ItMakesSenseInContext). It's actually a ''plot point'' that he gets the best songs. Most notable being "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b67O9qr8NXA&feature=related Brand New Plan]]", which is a pretty straight up VillainSong. Helps he's voiced by Creator/NeilPatrickHarris.
753* VocalDissonance: His squeaky dolphin voice conflicts with him being a supervillain.
754* WeHaveReserves: He's completely indifferent of his own troops dying.
755* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: Kowalski [[RunningGag complains about]] [[GreenEyedMonster bad guys]] ''[[GreenEyedMonster always]]'' [[GreenEyedMonster getting the coolest stuff]], but it's never explained where he gets the resources required for them.
756* XanatosSpeedChess: He normally has a plan to begin with, but is more than capable of improvising on the fly. Referenced in "[[VillainSong Brand New Plan]]", where he points out that, despite things having not gone as he planned, it'll work out perfectly for him and makes up a new plan on the fly.
757[[/folder]]
758
759[[folder:Officer X]]
760[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_Officer_X_5953.jpg]]
761-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/CedricYarbrough
762
763An animal control officer who has made repeated, failed attempts to capture the penguins while they're out on the town. After getting thwarted by the penguins in one episode, he loses his job and reappeared later on as an exterminator and so on.
764----
765* BaldOfEvil: Tries to capture the penguins and is bald.
766* BrokenAce: Was mentioned by his former boss in animal control that he was best officer on their staff until he went crazy obsessing over the penguins who ruined his life.
767* CassandraTruth: Officer X constantly tried to tell others that the penguins were responsible for multiple acts of destruction and mayhem, but was decried as a laughingstock and lunatic and fired from job after job. When the penguins antics were revealed worldwide in a news story, he was absolutely elated, but soon broke down into tears and sobbing when the story was mocked as a news hoax.
768* CharlesAtlasSuperpower: He's tougher, stronger, and more agile than any other human shown and has taken down the penguins and dangerous animals like Joey the Kangaroo with ease.
769* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Most people think he is, because let's face it, when you say you keep losing to penguins, it doesn't send the image of a sane person.
770* CombatPragmatist: Uses Kowalski as a boomerang to hit Rico and Private in "A Kipper for Skipper".
771* CoolCar: His animal control van features a laser, claws and a winch. He also gets angry when it gets destroyed in "What Goes Around".
772-->'''Officer X''': I loved THAT VAN!
773* CoolShades: He wears them all the time.
774* DeadpanSnarker: He fires off a salvo of puns in "The Officer X Factor."
775* TheDreaded: While the penguins are always wary of him whenever he shows up, he really cranks this up in "The Officer X Factor." After he replaces Alice as the substitute zookeeper, he repeatedly thwarts the penguins' attempts to escape, stressing them out more and more each time. By the time they hatch a desperate plan to escape with a flying pretzel cart, they're downright terrified that X might be hiding inside of it. They don't really 'defeat' X as much as knock him onto a departing taxi at the end of the episode. With that, he's joined Salvio and Dr. Blowhole as one of the few villains able to genuinely scare Skipper.
776* EvilSoundsDeep: Polish dub gived him very deep voice, courtesy of Mikołaj Klimek.
777* ImplacableMan: He will never stop chasing after his prey. Even Mason the Chimpanzee admitted that Officer was "not human" after pelting him with [[RoadApples animal feces]] because he wouldn't stop no matter how much he threw at him.
778* LeitMotif: Officer X has his own, instantly recognisable theme.
779* ManlyFacialHair: A macho man with a full beard [[spoiler:before it was ripped out by tape thanks to the penguins]]. It grew back though.
780* NewJobAsThePlotDemands: Because of the penguins, of course!
781* NoNameGiven:
782-->'''Alice''': X, eh? Is that the name your ''mommy'' gave you?\
783'''Agent X''': Mother never told me my real name. Said it was [[ClassifiedInformation classified]].
784* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Despite being clearly obsessed with the penguins and ridiculed by the public as a loon, he's the only human shown fully aware of and posing a threat the the penguins' schemes and plans. Because of this, he was capable of constantly out-thinking the penguins, and anticipating their plans when hired as their zookeeper.
785* OffscreenTeleportation: Does this four times in rapid succession in "The Officer X Factor." Skipper even lampshades this.
786* PungeonMaster: Easily notified by the penguins are his plentiful one-liner puns. Can even be a HurricaneOfPuns. Skipper turns this back on him at the end of "The Officer X Factor."
787* RealMenWearPink: His exterminator uniform is pink.
788* ScaryBlackMan: He's visibly of African-American descent and he's evil.
789* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Once he decides to track down his prey, literally nothing will stop him. He even managed to cage and restrain Marlene's savage persona when it was split from her by one of Kowalski's experiments.
790* ShockAndAwe: Wields a shock stick.
791* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Either that or the penguins are talking animals and he speaks to them in human.
792* TheNoseKnows: He can immediately sense the presence of the penguins by smell even if they're hiding.
793* TheWorfEffect: Pulls one on Rico, one on Joey, and one on Savage!Marlene.
794* YouShallNotPass: Parodied in "What Goes Around".
795-->'''Officer X''': Delinquent penguins! In the name of the Metropolitan Department of Animal Control and Pretzel Cart Regulation, You Shall Not Pass!
796[[/folder]]
797
798[[folder:Rat King]]
799[[quoteright:210:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Penguins_of_Madagascar_-_Rat_King_5961.jpg]]
800-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/DiedrichBader
801
802A large, muscular sewer rat with a heavy East-Side accent and a tendency to say "Dude!" and "Awesome!" a lot, who often antagonizes the penguins.
803----
804* DumbMuscle: A muscle-bound rat who isn't smart.
805* GullibleLemmings: In "Rat Fink", he blindly follows what he believes to be the true rat king, despite the PaperThinDisguise. He only becomes confused when the invasion plan is put into action.
806* HustlingTheMark: See ObfuscatingStupidity.
807* {{Mook}}s: The other sewer rats who follow him.
808* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Inflicts this on Skipper in "Crown Fools".
809* ObfuscatingStupidity: He and the rats pretend not to know the rules of ice hockey before the penguins challenge him to a game. It turns out they were hustling the penguins, and the rats curb-stomp them.
810* RatKing: He's not a literal "rat king" (which are several rats stuck together by their tail), but rather a gigantic, muscle-bound rat.
811* RecurringCharacter: So far, he's appeared in a total of eight episodes.
812* RodentsOfUnusualSize: Exaggerated; he's ''taller than the penguins''. This is because he's a genetically modified lab rat.
813** LargeAndInCharge: Duh. He's "The Rat King" for a reason. He's very tall.
814* TopHeavyGuy: He's got quite the build, only supported by a pair of stubby little legs.
815* TheWorfEffect:
816** He seems to exist only for the Penguins to have moments of awesome against him. He also inflicted this on Skipper in "Crown Fools".
817** Roy and Rico in Roger's body pulled the one on him in "Rat Fink" and "Roger Dodger".
818* YouDirtyRat: An evil rat.
819[[/folder]]
820
821[[folder:Hornets]]
822-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/DannyJacobs, Creator/JamesPatrickStuart
823A group of hornets who like stinging people.
824----
825* CharacterCatchphrase: "I sting your face!"
826* ForTheEvulz: They don't seem to have any reasons for stinging others besides their own amusement.
827* HuskyRusskie: They all speak with a Russian accent.
828* {{Jerkass}}: They are all unpleasant and like stinging others for no reason.
829* ScaryStingingSwarm: They are a swarm of hornets who frequently indulge in their desire to sting others for fun.
830* WickedWasps: They are hostile hornets who like to sting others just because.
831* WouldHurtAChild: In their debut episode they tried to sting a bunch of little kids. Fortunately they never get the chance when Mort destroys their nest and the hornets are forced to flee.
832[[/folder]]
833
834[[folder:Hans]]
835[[quoteright:312:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/paul_hans_puffin.jpg]]
836-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/JohnDiMaggio
837
838A puffin who has a dark history with Skipper. Whatever happened in Denmark is between Skipper, him and the Danes.
839----
840* AdaptationalSexuality: The Latin Dub adds a new spin on Hans kissing someone that wasn't Skipper's sister. Skipper answers he doesn't have a sister but he does have "[[UnsettlingGenderReveal a kinda of weird brother]]"
841* BitchInSheepsClothing: His first episode revolves around him trying to make peace with [[spoiler: Skipper, but it turns out to be an act. Double subverted, when that was also an act because he just wanted a home after being exiled and accepts the help from the Penguins.]]
842* DubNameChange: To "Lars" in the German dub. This is probably due to the pronunciation of Hans being a lot shorter in German than it is in English (the ''a'' is much longer in English). Lars is about the same length as the English Hans and looks similar in lip movement.
843* EarlyBirdCameo: In the episode "Tagged," Private has a book with information on Penguins, Pigeons, Puffins and Flamingos that he's using to try to play a convincing façade for a researcher visiting the zoo. The picture of the puffin looks exactly like Hans, but the episode aired a whole 22 episodes before Hans' debut episode in "Huffin and Puffin".
844* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Played with in the episode Smotherly Love.
845* KarmaHoudiniWarranty: [[spoiler: By the time we first met him in the show, The Danes had already discovered all the bad things he had and exiled him]].
846* MySisterIsOffLimits: Attempted to [[InvokedTrope Invoke]] this, [[EpicFail but]]:
847--->'''Hans''': --And I kissed your ''sister''! On the ''lips!''\
848'''Skipper''': I don't ''have'' a sister. And if I did, she wouldn't have lips.\
849'''Hans''': ...Oh. Then who ''did'' I kiss?
850* NationalAnimalStereotypes: A Danish puffin.
851* NoodleIncident:
852** As said above, whatever happened in Denmark is between him, Skipper, and the Danes.
853** He kissed someone who he confused with Skipper's sister. The Latin Dub implies it was actually his brother.
854* ShamuFu: He always (ray guns and [[ItMakesSenseInContext "capuccino gun"]] do not count) wants to fight using a fish, but he is terrible in "fish flynning"
855* ThirdPersonPerson: Sometimes he starts to talk like this:
856--->'''Hans''': [[WeWillMeetAgain Hans will return again!]]\
857
858* VillainousFriendship: In "Best Foes". When a Morality-Inverted Skipper confused him with a friend, he seems delighted of him being on his side and never considers double crossing him, showing he truly likes Skipper in his own way.
859[[/folder]]
860
861[[folder:Clemson]]
862-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/LarryMiller
863
864A lemur who was mailed from Hoboken Zoo to Central Park and back.
865----
866* EvilLaugh: Does this all too well and often.
867* StupidEvil: He puts way too much effort into stealing King Julien's title despite the fact his power is limited to two servants while the rest of the zoo only sees him as a annoyance.
868* SycophanticServant: [[spoiler: He comes off like this at first towards Julien, but it turns out to be a rather non-fatal version of...]]
869** [[spoiler:TheStarscream]]
870* ThinkingOutLoud: Does this so often even he thinks it's weird.
871[[/folder]]
872
873[[folder:Savio]]
874[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/savio_the_big_squeeze.png]]
875-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/NestorCarbonell
876
877A boa constrictor who was temporarily transferred from Hoboken Zoo to Central Park.
878----
879* DashingHispanic: Has a strong Spanish accent, and always acts charming and witty even when he's gloating about taking his revenge on his enemies by swallowing them one by one, regurgitating them and then swallowing them in reverse order.
880* DeadpanSnarker: Savio, being FauxAffablyEvil rarely snarks, but he is capable of delivering biting comments.
881-->'''Skipper:''' My, my, my. Someone looks ... plump!
882-->'''Savio:''' As do you. But do I make wild accusations?
883* DiabolicalMastermind: His intellect could possibly rival Dr. Blowhole's, since in each appearance he always managed to find ways to outsmart the penguins and take down previous threats. Not only did he figure out how to unlock the locks in his habitat in his first appearance, but the next episode "All Tied Up With A Boa", he took down the zookeepers at his enclosure, swam the Hudson River all the way towards the Central Park Zoo presumably on memory alone, got Burt the elephant (who beat him up in the first episode) out of the way by mailing [[EekAMouse him a mouse]], evaded every single trap devised by the penguins, and overpowered them by using said traps to incapacitate them along with Marlene, Maurice and Mort (who were also armed). He would have won if it weren't for Julien and a bucket of old popcorn butter.
884* DisproportionateRetribution: {{Lampshade}}d by Marlene when they learn Savio has escaped from Hoboken Zoo to take revenge on the animals for sending him there, even though most of them were just his victims.
885* TheDreaded: News of his escape in "All Tied Up In The Boa" sent the penguins (with the exception of Skipper) into {{Troubled Fetal Position}}s, even [[AxeCrazy Rico]].
886* EnemyMine: He briefly teams up with the penguins during the Hoboken episode.
887* EvilIsBigger: Savio is the most physically imposing villain.
888* FauxAffablyEvil: Savio always speaks in an impeccably polite manner (aside from the occasional bit of snark) and rarely raises his voice, even when he gloats in detail about his plan for revenge.
889* GeniusBruiser: Not only is Savio very strong, he's incredibly smart as well as shown in the first two episodes.
890* GratuitousSpanish: He drops in some Spanish during 'The Terror Of Madagascar', saying: "Yo quiero ese appetizer!"
891* HurricaneOfPuns: Always makes constant food related puns when he's about to eat someone. {{Lampshade}}d by Savio himself, when Julien makes fun of one his lamer ones.
892* KnightOfCerebus: Episodes in which he is involved are generally more serious.
893* LightningBruiser: Very fast, very strong and never actually taken down by the penguins themselves, Savio fits the bill.
894* MetronomicManMashing: Well, 'Snake Mashing', to be correct, but he is subjected to this at the end of 'The Big Squeeze' at the hands of Burt.
895* NationalAnimalStereotypes: A boa constrictor with a Hispanic accent.
896* PickyEater: Has a predilection towards mammals. However, he had no trouble eating Private disguised as a mammal.
897* RoaringRampageofRevenge: Goes on a truly epic one against the penguins when he escapes from the Hoboken Zoo. A herpetologist on the breaking news of Savio's escape even goes to state that his breed has a biological insatiable desire for vengeance, nursing a grudge for months before wreaking hideous retribution.
898* SnakesAreSinister: Very deceptive and sly.
899* SoftSpokenSadist: Savio rarely raises his voice when talking, including detailing his plan for revenge.
900* VillainousBreakdown: In "The Terror of Madagascar", Savio gets a taste of his own medicine when the baby fossa he was planning to eat uses him as a chew toy, forcing him to flea in terror screaming in fear and pain all the while.
901* VillainousGlutton: Savio's most consistent trait is his desire to eat, either out of hunger or revenge.
902* VileVillainSaccharineShow: Perhaps more so than Dr. Blowhole, given that the penguins were never able to defeat him by themselves and many of the zoo inhabitants being (understandably) scared stiff of him.
903* TheWorfEffect: Possibly the only villain the penguins were never able to defeat on their own. In the three times the penguins faced him, they only managed to gain an edge on him with the help of Burt the elephant, Julien and popcorn butter, and a baby fossa respectively. {{Lampshade}}d by the penguins in "The Terror of Madagascar".
904* WouldHurtAChild: Savio seems rather excited about eating a baby fossa.
905[[/folder]]
906
907[[folder:The Red Squirrel]]
908-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/JeffBennett
909
910An evil squirrel who longs to TakeOverTheWorld, but is experiencing problems getting any evil plans off the ground, mostly because he lacks {{Mooks}}.
911----
912* ArchEnemy: To Buck Rotgut and Uncle Nigel.
913* CardCarryingVillain: Is ''very'' up front about how evil he is. In "Nuts to You," he flat out says he wants the jackpot acorns "for [his] own evil purposes."
914* DiabolicalMastermind: Tries to be this but can't quite cut it, due to a combination of crippling overconfidence (his FatalFlaw) and WrongGenreSavvy.
915* EvilOldFolks: He is very old, having been out of retirement for over forty years, but he's still quite spry.
916* {{Expy}}: Of the Red Skull.
917* EyepatchOfPower: Concealing the button he uses to launch his missile.
918* FantasticRacism: He despises penguins more than almost anyone.
919* GratuitousRussian: Says things like "Do svidaniya".
920* HairTriggerTemper: He gets mad ''very'' easily. Often it seems like the slightest thing will set him off.
921* {{Mooks}}: He has none and frequently laments the lack of them. But sometimes he forgets this, and shouts orders to henchmen who don't actually exist before remembering he's alone.
922* InSeriesNickname: "Red." Begun by Rotgut and sometimes appropriated by the other penguins.
923* SurroundedByIdiots: He doesn't think highly of his fellow squirrels, least of all Fred.
924* VillainousBreakdown: When his "ally" Julien sells all of their acorns (intended to pay for {{Mooks}}) to buy not just magic beans, but magic ''jellybeans''.
925* WhatTheHellIsThatAccent: He has a vague "European bad guy" sounding accent, despite the GratuitousRussian.
926* WrongGenreSavvy: He seems to think he's in a far more serious action thriller, but he exists in an illogical cartoon universe, and so everything he tries is doomed to failure because he approaches all his plans as if his enemies were from the same spy movie 'verse he thinks he's in, dooming himself to failure and rendering his towering intellect effectively meaningless.
927[[/folder]]
928
929[[folder:Jiggles]]
930-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/DeeBradleyBaker
931
932A gelatinous Green Cube creation of Kowalski that nearly destroyed the world. [[spoiler: Twice]]. Kowalski's attachment to Jiggles proves endlessly frustrating to Skipper and dangerous for everyone else.
933----
934* AsteroidsMonster: In its second appearance, it constantly duplicates itself when damaged. The resulting "Jiggli" end up nearly drowning the whole world in themselves.
935* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: Eating fruit made it grow larger each time. While it never gets exceedingly massive, it does get larger than Kowalski is able to handle.
936* BlobMonster: While it's more like sentient jello than a blob, it does fit.
937* CuteIsEvil[=/=]FaceOfAnAngelMindOfADemon: Jiggles is a tiny cube of sentient jello whos entire dialogue consists of cute, almost babylike chirps and noises, but Skipper certainly believes both these tropes apply to Jiggles. [[spoiler: [[ProperlyParanoid He's not wrong though.]]]]
938* CutenessProximity: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Kowalski has this reaction when he's around Jiggles, much to Skipper's anger and putting everyone else's lives in danger.
939* DubNameChange: "Flubbi" in the German dub.
940* TrademarkFavouriteFood: Eats fruit in its first appearance, and Kowalski modifies it to eat whipped cream instead later.
941[[/folder]]
942
943[[folder:Blue Hen]]
944-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/AudreyWasilewski
945An incredibly intelligent chicken from Delaware and Kowalski's rival, voiced by Creator/AudreyWasilewski.
946----
947* DeadpanSnarker: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] by Private.
948* DistractedByTheSexy: She was defeated because Kowalski was able to distract her with a suggestive song and dance. It happened again in P.E.L.T, but only for few seconds.
949* InsufferableGenius: Blue Hen is really proud of her genius IQ and she never misses the chance to shove it in somebody's face.
950* {{Seers}}: According to the gorillas, she is able to predict the future. [[spoiler: Subverted, she just has REALLY strong strategical thinking and is good at figuring out what will happen thanks to her knowledge of physics and psychology.]]
951* TookALevelInJerkass: By her second appearance, she is willing to freeze all zoo animals solid just to be the center of attention.
952* VillainousCrush: Kowalski WAS able to [[DistractedByTheSexy distract her by singing and dancing for her]], she silently giggled when he slapped his butt, complimented his dancing and KISSED HIM and in P.E.L.T, she straight up laid an egg and stared at him for few seconds when he tried to do it again.
953[[/folder]]
954
955[[folder:The Amarillo Kid]]
956-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/JeffBennett
957
958A nine-banded armadillo from Texas who harbours a grudge against Private, aka "Mr. Tux", from years ago.
959----
960* AbsurdlyHighStakesGame: Seems to be quite fond of these, as he made King Julien wager all his possessions (as well as Maurice and Mort) in a mini-golf game, and sets one up with Private to ensure he gets his rematch.
961* TheAce: Is a ''damn'' good mini-golfer, to the point where he gave ''Private'', who was already the best, a run for his money in their first encounter. Private had to resort to cheating (and destroying a young possum girl's ice cream) to beat him.
962* AnnoyingLaugh: Has a weird, snorting laugh that he frequently uses.
963* ArtisticLicenseBiology: The Amarillo Kid is a nine-banded armadillo, yet is shown rolling into a ball on multiple occasions, which only three-banded armadillos can do.
964* AxCrazy: Skipper considers him - and all armadillos - to be this. It's not too unfair an assessment, given how the Amarillo Kid openly talked about taxidermizing (i.e. ''killing and stuffing'') Mort and Maurice, then threatened to ''blow up the entire zoo'', all just to get a mini golf game out of Private.
965* BeTheBall: Rolling and bouncing around like a golf ball is his main mode of travel. Private turns this on him after finally defeating him in their rematch, sending him flying out of the zoo with a single swing of his golf club.
966* DisproportionateRetribution: His response to having his challenge rebuffed is to lock down the entire zoo and threaten to self-destruct the Penguin's thermonuclear reactor, taking the zoo and everyone inside with it, unless Private complies.
967* HeelFaceTurn: Has one of these during "Showdown on Fairway 18", needing Private's help and eventually becoming friends with him.
968* ItsPersonal: He shows up in Central Park Zoo to settle an old score with Private, aka "Mr. Tux" - specifically, a rematch in mini-golf.
969* {{Jerkass}}: He's initially this in "Mr. Tux", constantly badgering Private for a mini-golf rematch. When he doesn't get his way, he threatens Private's friends, and when ''that'' doesn't work, he essentially holds the entire zoo hostage to force Private's hand. He changes by "Showdown on Fairyway 18", needing the penguins' help, and pulls a proper HeelFaceTurn by the end of it.
970* KnownOnlyByTheirNickname: While "The Amarillo Kid" is clearly an alias, his proper name is never given.
971* NotSoHarmlessVillain: He at first seems like a small annoyance at worst who is only a threat to Private's reputation as TheAce is Mini-golf, then he manages to get the penguins' HQ to self destruct and locks down the rest of the zoo, unless Private plays one last game.
972* RevengeBeforeReason: The Amarillo Kid is so fixated on settling his score with Private, aka "Mr. Tux", that he won't even listen when ''Skipper'' tells him to back off. He goes as far as blackmailing the entire zoo with nuclear destruction just to get his rematch.
973* TheRival: To Private, whom he lost a mini-golf tournament to years ago.
974* SeriousBusiness: Mini-golf is this to him. Having lost to Private years ago, he goes to great lengths to get a rematch out of him, going as far as hijacking the penguins' base and locking the zoo down.
975* SouthernFriedGenius: Has a thick Texas accent, and is smart enough to hijack Kowalski's thermo-nuclear fusion reactor and take over the zoo's security systems.
976* TaxidermyIsCreepy: Implied - in "Mr. Tux", he openly threatens to do this to Mort and Maurice during his golf game with King Julien. He also considers sticking antlers on them akin to jackalopes and calling them "Lemur-lopes".
977* WildWestArmadillo: He's armadillo with thick Texas accent.
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979
980[[folder:Kuchikukan]]
981-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/ConanOBrien
982
983Known as the Destroyer of Worlds, he is a powerful, cataclysmic entity of sheer evil who was defeated by General Shingen and imprisoned within an urn in ancient times which was then housed within a museum. After Private mistakingly frees him from his prison, he seeks out to continue his mission of destroying our planet and every single world he comes across.
984----
985* AwesomeButImpractical: He can possess mortal bodies and give them his powers, and is even able to acquire their own, but is bound by mortal needs which can be used against him.
986* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: At the climax of "Lunacorn Apocalypse", while possessing Private's Princess Selfrespectra toy, he uses ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve to grow into a giant.
987* BigBad: Of "Lunacorn Apocalypse".
988* CripplingOverspecialization: As powerful as he is, he can only act directly by ussing a mortal vessel, whether it is a biological body or an inanimate object, and while he's able to imbue any vessel he uses with his unholy powers and even acquires some of his hosts' habilities, he becomes bound by mortal needs such as hunger and thirst, which can be surprisingly useful in dealing against him. Namely, Private defeats him by [[spoiler: tricking him into biting a billboard with electric illumination promoting sparkles for parties (sparkles being the main food of the Lunacorns), which, Kuchikukan, driven by his hunger, promptly does. His physical vessel is quickly electrocuted and destroyed, allowing the penguins to reimprison the demon in his urn.]]
989* CuteIsEvil: He possesses a Lunacorn toy belonging to Private and remains in this form until his defeat. He was originally planning to possess Private, which would have counted as well.
990* EldritchAbomination: His true form is an uncorporeal red mist, and he is a fearsome, ancient evil of apocalyptic powers that destroys planets ForTheEvulz.
991* {{Expy}}: Of [[{{Franchise/Ghostbusters}} Gozer]].
992* FauxAffablyEvil: As dreadful as he is, he's voiced by Conan O'Brien, who gives him a twisted sense of humour not unlike ComicBook/TheJoker's own.
993* GenericDoomsdayVillain: Zig-Zagged. While he is basically a cataclysmic threat that destroys planets, he does have quite an amount of personality, namely him being a FauxAffablyEvil trickster who enjoys toying with his food.
994* GoodPowersBadPeople: By virtue of possessing the body of a Lunacorn toy, he has access to the magical abilities of the ponies. Of course, he uses them to further his own malevolent goals.
995* GreaterScopeVillain: Has only appeared in a single episode, but succesfully manages to upstage all of the other villains the penguins have encountered by virtue of being a ridiculously ancient demonic god with massive dark powers.
996* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: Skipper mocks him at first, for having the body of a Lunacorn, a show that's dismissed in-universe as SickeninglySweet but given Kuchikukan is an adaptive spirit he can turn his harmless sounding powers of night light and imagination to gave himself a blinding flash of light nad turn himself into a giant. And since the toy Private gained happens to be the leader of the Lunacorns, he can command every single Luancorn toy to create an unbeatable army.
997* InvincibleVillain: In the end, the penguins [[spoiler:can only put him back in his prison, hopefully forever]].
998* MakeMyMonsterGrow: He uses ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve to grow into a gargantuan-sized Princess Selfrespectra at the climax.
999* NoodleIncident: The urn notably suggests Kuchikukan once possessed a piece of cheese and destroyed six worlds in two weeks, and came dangerously close to destroying Earth with an old foe of his expressing concern that they may have less than a day.
1000* KnightOfCerebus: Even if he has a few comedic moments (he is voiced by Conan O'Brien, after all), he is still an insanely powerful and deadly Lovecraftian demon who comes dangerously close to destroying Earth in the sole episode he appears in.
1001* LightIsNotGood: He winds up possessing Private's Princess Selfrespectra Lunacorn toy, making him look like an adorable pony with the body of a world-destroying EldritchAbomination inside. He also uses his newfound powers to command an entire army of Lunacorn toys which attack everyone in the world.
1002* MeaningfulName: His name means "Destroyer" in Japanese. However, ''Kuchikukan'' specifically refers to a type of warship, and not "One who destroys".
1003* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Is also known as "The Destroyer of Worlds". Definitely sounds like a friendly guy, huh?
1004* OurDemonsAreDifferent: He is an incorporeal entity and thus must search for a physical body or object which he can use as a vessel.
1005* PlanetDestroyer: His main schtick.
1006* SealedEvilInACan: Was originally imprisoned in an urn before Private accidentally set him free. [[spoiler: He is re-imprisoned after his defeat.]]
1007[[/folder]]
1008
1009[[folder:Parker '''(Unmarked Spoilers)''']]
1010-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/TyBurrell
1011A platypus who helps Doris contact Kowalski during "The Penguin Who Loved Me".
1012----
1013* TheAce: Kowalski can't help but be jealous of him, especially when he manages to impress Skipper with his fighting skills.
1014* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: Dr. Blowhole is the BigBad but Kowalski has personal business against Parker for being Doris's newest boyfriend and then turning up to be just an Dr. Blowhole's spy who just wanted her to guide the Penguins to Dr. Blowhole's location.
1015* PoisonousPerson: Has venomous spurs on his feet, which he uses to help take down opponents with ease.
1016* PunchClockVillain: He has no business against the Penguins nor loyalty to those who hired him, he's just a bounty hunter hired to recover Dr. Blowhole. As noted in the below trope, he has limits on what he's capable of doing for his job.
1017* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Immediately backs down when faced with Rico aiming a bazooka his way.
1018* WalkingSpoiler: Is impossible to discuss him without mentioning his role on bringing Dr. Blowhole's memory back.
1019[[/folder]]
1020
1021[[folder:The Red One]]
1022A lobster who's Dr. Blowhole NumberTwo.
1023----
1024* NumberTwo: He's always seen with Dr. Blowhole.
1025[[/folder]]
1026
1027!Other humans
1028[[folder:Chuck Charles]]
1029-> '''Voiced By:''' Creator/JeffBennett
1030A news reporter for Channel 1, that the Penguins frequently watch.
1031----
1032* AccidentalTruth: The Penguins actually believed Chuck somehow discovered that they were commandos but he just said that to some visitors as a sarcastic remark.
1033* AntiVillain: In "Goodnight and Good Chuck", Chuck only wanted to get his job back as news anchor even if it meant exposing the Penguins' secrets.
1034* BadassNormal: For a news anchor, he's actually pretty skilled. He even actually defeats the Penguins; not even Officer X, one of the human villains, couldn't do it.
1035* CharacterCatchphrase: "I am the Ninja".
1036* HowTheMightyHaveFallen: In "Goodnight and Good Chuck", Chuck got fired and had to work at the Central Park Zoo.
1037* IntrepidReporter: Chuck Charles is news anchor for Channel 1 and [[MrExposition one of the main sources of information the Penguins rely on.]]
1038* SecretKeeper: Chuck is the one of the few humans who knows about the Penguins' sentience but chooses to keep it as a secret as gratitude to them after they helped him get his old job back.
1039* YankTheDogsChain: Chuck discovered the Penguins' secrets and took the evidence to his old news station so he could get his old job back. He almost succeeded but his rival stole the evidence. Then it's {{Subverted|Trope}} when exposing it makes Chuck's rival into a laughingstock and fired, allowing Chuck to be rehired.
1040[[/folder]]

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