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Characters: Madagascar

This list applies only to the film franchise and its respective canon. For the character traits applicable to the The Penguins of Madagascar canon, go here.

Alex the Lion

Ambiguously Gay
Funny Animal: He walks on two legs and is more anthropomorphic than most other characters.
Heterosexual Life Partners: With Marty, though it may not strictly be heterosexual on his part.
Ho Yay: With Marty.
Keet
King of Beasts: In the first movie.
The Hero

Marty the Zebra

Anthropomorphic Zig Zag: He walks on his legs through out most of the movie but he stand up on two legs when he is excited .
Catch Phrase: "Crack-a-lackin!"
Ho Yay: With Alex.
Ink Suit Actor: Designed to look like his voice actor Chris Rock .
Jive Turkey
The Lancer
Undying Loyalty: In the first movie, he went to go save Alex despite the fact that he wanted to eat Marty.
You ALL Look Familiar:When he was with the Zebras in Madagascar 2.

Gloria the Hippo

Annoying Laugh
Big Girl: Even though she is a female, she uses more power than any character in the group.
Big Beautiful Woman: Intentionally designed as so.
Funny Animal:Always walks on two legs and she is very anthropomorphic .
Interspecies Romance: With Melman in the sequel.
Sassy Black Woman
Team Mom
The Chick: She's the only female in the group.

Melman the Giraffe

The Penguins

King Julien

Ambiguously Gay
Animal Gender Bender: Lemur colonies are matriarchal. Because of this, Wild Mass Guessing has pegged him as Ambiguously Transsexual.
Ensemble Darkhorse
Fat and Skinny: With Maurice.
Flanderization
Jerkass
Plucky Comic Relief
Nice Hat
Upper Class Twit
What the Hell Is That Accent?

Maurice

Closer to Earth
Deadpan Snarker
Fat and Skinny: The fat to Julien's skinny.
Hyper Competent Side Kick
Only Sane Man: among the lemurs, anyway.

Mort

Butt Monkey
Cloudcuckoolander
The Ditz
Fearless Fool: Mostly in Madagascar 2.
Older than They Look: According to the movie commentary, he's actually an adult - mouse lemurs all look like babies.
Ridiculously Cute Critter
Small Annoying Creature
The Woobie

Mason and Phil

Fake Brit: Mason
Four-Fingered Hands: Averted for the sake of Phil's sign language.
Never Learned To Read: Mason is illiterate. Phil, on the other hand, is the penguin's go-to translator for reading things.
One-Scene Wonder:in the first Madagascar .
Road Apples: Mason mentions throwing poo in the first Madagascar but is never seen doing it .
Shown Their Work: Phil's sign language is completely accurate.
The Speechless: Phil

Old Lady

Cool Old Lady

The Foosa

Expy:They are very similar to the Hyenas from The Lion King.
Hulk Speak: All of the fossas speak like this .
You ALL Look Familiar:All of the them look the same the only difference is there fur color .

Zuba

Alex's mother

Makunga

Captain Ersatz: Of Scar from The Lion King, with his manipulative nature played up for laughs.

Moto Moto

Big Handsome Man:Hippo style !
Big Ol' Unibrow.
Chubby Chaser:This is the main reason why he is attracted to Gloria.
Pec Flex
Sixth Ranger.
Soul Brotha: His voice actor Will i am wanted to make him sound like Barry White .