History WMG / ThePenguinsOfMadagascar

* Porcupines: They're {{expies}} of porcupine family from ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'', hailing from the [[MinnesotaNice Minnesota Zoo]] (given they apologized to Private after accidentally stabbing him in the episode "Miracle On Ice" could mean that they're kind animals). The only difference between them and Penny, Lou, Bucky, Spike & Quillo is that they're African crested porcupines, while the latter were North American porcupines.

* Skunks: Although there are five skunks living in the zoo, a young couple from Elmwood Park Zoo gets most of the focus: a shy and kind male who's an expy of [[WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}} Flower]], and sassy yet caring female who's an expy of [[WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge Stella]] and serves as zoo's TeamMom. All five of them hate King Julien's guts not only due to his ego and jerkass behavior, but also for [[SmellySkunk using them and their infamous defense mechanism]] in his schemes in episodes "Operation: Plush and Cover" and "Out of the Groove".

* Porcupines: They're {{expies}} of porcupine family from ''WesternAnimation/OverTheHedge'', and hail from the [[MinnesotaNice Minnesota Zoo]] (because they apologized to Private after they accidentally stabbed him in the episode "Miracle On Ice", meaning that they're kind animals). The only difference between them and Penny, Lou, Bucky, Spike & Quillo is that they're African crested porcupines, while the latter were North American porcupines.

* Skunks: ???

* Porcupines: ???

** Subverted with the revelation that she's not only real, but [[spoiler: Blowhole's sister]].

** After reading this, I started to think that everything played out like this: Private mades a wish so that everything that had happened would un-happen, and while he explains his story to others, Burt discovers the magical power of wishing well and tooks a trip to Paris.

* to add to that theory, let's look at when Julien has sincere interactions with his Sky Spirits... Skipper is usually involved. Julien's doing a raindance to stop a drought? Skipper seeds the clouds with salt. Zoo is freezing cold? Skipper turns on the heat. Julien offers to help the sky spirits in return? Skipper sends him a radio because he needs help. Julien misses the thunderbolt? A Cloudburst happens. I'm sure there are other times too.

* Forest Ranger

*** Jossed, the [[Franchise/Madagascar series]] takes place after the events of 9/11. However, that doesn't meand that Alex, Marty, Gloria, Melman, penguins and chimps haven't notice it before the events of [[WesternAnimation/Madagascar1 first film]].

* ''AllHailKingJulien'' shows he inherited from another male ruler, but that doesn't necessarily rule this out. It's possible previous male rulers were placeholders till they had wives or daughters - the canonical lemur death rate means this could easily have happened twelve times.

** Subverted with the revelation that she's not only real, but Blowhole's sister.

All we know about Doris is that she's a dolphin, Kowalski records himself on DVD reciting love poetry about her and breaking into sobs, Skipper has had at least one dream about her which may or may not be based on reality, and Doris likes Kowalski but she doesn't "like him" like him. So, where is she, and why ''doesn't'' she "like" like Kowalski? Perhaps she's one of Dr. Blowhole's agents. (They're both dolphins. It makes perfectly logical sense.) She was sent to seduce the "smart one" of the penguins and get whatever info she could out of him. Her absence from the series could be for many reasons: maybe she found what she was sent to find and/or had to abandon the mission, and left; maybe Dr. Blowhole thought she was getting too emotionally involved and ordered her off the mission; or maybe she's currently involved in one of Dr. Blowhole's larger, more nefarious schemes. Quite probably the penguins have yet to learn that she's an agent, or else Skipper's "she doesn't 'like you' like you" line would have been something more like "she's ''evil'', remember?"
* Alternately, at least Skipper and maybe the other penguins found out the truth, but Kowalski didn't. Skipper may have decided that there's little to no danger of Doris coming back, and so he chose not to break Kowalski's heart by telling him. ("She just wants to be friends with you" is bad enough, "She just wants to use you for her boss's evil plots" is even worse.) Under that interpretation, maybe Skipper's suspicious "No Doris, Kowalski must never know" dream was actually him asking dream-Doris not to tell dream-Kowalski that she's an evil agent out to break his heart. (Dreams. They rarely make sense.)
When/if she shows up (and it's quite possible she will, as the show is very fond of taking earlier episodes' throwaway gags and devoting a whole episode to them), the plot could take one of two turns: either she'll secretly lead Kowalski on over the course of the episode and try to squeeze as much valuable info/tech out of him as possible, or she'll reveal her allegiance at beginning and attempt to bribe Kowalski over to the dark side. As an earlier WMG points out, Dr. Blowhole is more Kowalski's nemesis than Skipper's, by virtue of his complete freedom to do or make whatever he wants ForScience, and Kowalski is already jealous of that. If it suddenly reaches the point where making a FaceHeelTurn means not only getting unlimited scientific freedom, but also getting the girl...

* Confirmed, [[RobotMe but not in the way you think...]]

[[WMG: Buck Rotgut, Nigel, and the Red Squirrel have a very complicated backstory that goes much deeper than "good vs. evil".]]

hence why every time he tells the story it's different, the re-spawn technology make sure they keep coming back to life after dieing in X way.

His agency is against the penguins, so when he saw them in the first Madagascar movie he knew he had to follow them to the zoo. He is constantly breaking into their habitat to keep an eye on them and ruin their plans. Maurice is an agent too, but he's not as good at pretending to be stupid, so he just pretends to keep Julien's stupidity in check.

Savio and Hans have become recurring villains, so the CoDragons, as well as TheBrute are already set, Clemson can be TheEvilGenius, given his proficiency at being a ManipulativeBastard and, despite the fact she isn't a villain, Lulu can be TheDarkChick and SixthRangerTraitor, realizing that being involved with Dr Blowhole is not a good idea, she has a HeelFaceTurn and helps the penguins stop him.

* In WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}: Escape 2 Africa, Marty calls Private 'Miss'. Does he know something we don't?

* Skipper's voice actor is a co-creator of the series and a Creator/DreamWorks animator that helped start the ''Madagascar'' franchise. Coincidence?

Would reduce the UnfortunateImplications mentioned above, and the whole Literature/MonstrousRegiment potential is fun. The way with the fewest Unfortunate Implications and/or the most potential for humour would probably be if all of them except Private, who fills TheChick role, were female.

I wouldn’t even call this WMG, since “Kanga Management” heavily alludes to this being the case in canon. When he briefly misconstrues the news of him getting a new roommate (Leonard) as him getting a “roo mate” (a girlfriend), the normally perpetually standoffish Joey perks up and is very excited at the idea. He even outright tells Private that it’s “lonely being the only roo at the zoo”. In [[TruthInTelevision real life]], male mammals usually experience a massive testosterone boost during the breeding season, which makes them much more aggressive, and those that don’t get to mate (usually by not being strong enough to be the resident alpha male) tend to vent their anger on any unfortunate animal (or human) that they come across. Add that to the show’s lengthy GettingCrapPastTheRadar resume.

Doctor Blowhole, therefore, represents temptation and the idea that MadScience [[EvilIsCool is AWESOME]], with [[TheUnfettered the freedom to do whatever one wishes]] [[ForSCIENCE in the name of SCIENCE!]] Something that doesn't faze Skipper ''half'' as much as it does Kowalski, because that's not something that particularly appeals to him the way it does his Idea Guy. Kowalski only ''wishes'' he had the sort of freedom the morally unchained and unhinged Blowhole enjoys -- but, being one of the good guys, he's not able to cross those lines. Simply put, Kowalski's ''[[GreenEyedMonster jealous]]'', fully aware of it, and ''pissed off'' because of [[NotSoDifferent all the uncomfortable lines of thought that raises]].

[[WMG: Julien is {{Transgender}}]]

* Alternately, for those who buy into the Julien-is-{{Transgender}} theory, perhaps he was supposed to marry a male lemur (assuming the lemurs let Julien get away with claiming to be male only because they still consider him to be a "her" and thus queen). The sheer amount of [[{{Squick}} squickiness]] he'd get from that idea might be enough to keep him from trying to get home, even though presumably he'd still be the one in power.

* Janitor X.

* Guinea Pig X.

[[WMG: The series is now related to the movie Canon]]
One of the tags of the movie Movie/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar is "How the Penguins became agents" or something. The penguins became members of the North Wind and now they're agents in New York. The zoo was remodelled once Alex and co were gone which is why they're the central exhibit. Rico also choked up larger objects in the Penguin movie in keeping with his series character. This also gives him a supply source for everything he chokes up.

* King Julien was so outraged when he learned about the attacks that [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome he calls to the sky spirits to punish the terrorists]].

Would reduce the UnfortunateImplications mentioned above, and the whole Discworld/MonstrousRegiment potential is fun. The way with the fewest Unfortunate Implications and/or the most potential for humour would probably be if all of them except Private, who fills TheChick role, were female.

[[CaptainObvious He is a]] [[ManChild manchild]].[[note]] maybe a {{Psychopathic Manchild}} too [[/note]] The fact that he was disgusted when Maurice told him how mammals ''actually'' give birth is enough proof.