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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 [[The Penguins of Madagascar/Characters|here]].


== Introduced in Madagascar ==

=== Alex the Lion ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Camp Straight]]
* [[Funny Animal]]: He walks on two legs and is more anthropomorphic than most other characters.
* [[The Hero]]
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]:
* [[Ho Yay]]: With Marty.
* [[It's All About Me]]: Although a less negative version of this trope.
* [[Keet]]
* [[King of Beasts]]: In the first movie.
* [[Took a Level in Badass]]
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]

=== Marty the Zebra ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[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!"
* [[Fearless Fool]]
* [[Ho Yay]]: With Alex.
* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]
* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: Designed to look like his voice actor [[Chris Rock]] .
* [[Jive Turkey]]
* Keet
* [[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 ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[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]]

=== Melman the Giraffe ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[The Chick]]: He's very sensetive.
* [[Gullible Lemmings]]
* [[Interspecies Romance]]: With Gloria.
* [[Lovable Coward]]
* [[The Medic]]

=== The Penguins ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Badass]]
* [[The Big Guy]]: Rico.
* [[Breakout Character]]
* [[Everything's Better with Penguins]]
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Killer Rabbit]]
* [[Magnificent Bastard]]
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Skipper.
* [[The Smart Guy]]: Kowalski.
* [[The Woobie]]: Private.

=== King Julien ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Ambiguously Gay]]
* [[Animal Gender Bender]]: Lemur colonies are matriarchal. Because of this, [[Wild Mass Guessing]] has pegged him as Ambiguously [[Transgender]].
* [[Ensemble Darkhorse]]
* [[Fat and Skinny]]: With Maurice.
* [[Flanderization]]
* [[Jerkass]]
* [[Plucky Comic Relief]]
* [[Nice Hat]]
* [[Upper Class Twit]]
* [[What the Hell Is That Accent?]]

=== Maurice ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Closer to Earth]]
* [[Deadpan Snarker]]
* [[Fat and Skinny]]: The fat to Julien's skinny.
* [[Hypercompetent Sidekick]]
* [[Only Sane Man]]: among the lemurs, anyway.

=== Mort ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[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 ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[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 ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Cool Old Lady]]

=== The Foosa ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* 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 .

== Introduced in Escape 2 Africa ==

=== Zuba ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''

=== Alex's mother ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''

=== Makunga ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Captain Ersatz]]: Of Scar from ''[[The Lion King]]'', with his manipulative nature played up for laughs.

=== Moto Moto ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[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 .

=== African wildlife ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''

=== The shark ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''

== Introduced in Europe's Most Wanted ==
=== Vitaly ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Broken Ace]]
* [[Commander Contrarian]]: At first.
* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]
* [[Papa Wolf]]

=== Gia ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''

=== Stefano ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''

=== Sonya ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Odd Couple]]:  {{spoiler|With King Julien}}.
* [[The Unintelligible]]: The only animal who's unable to speak.

=== Captain Chantel DuBois ===
'''A description of the character goes here.'''
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* [[Badass]]
* [[Big Bad]]
* [[Implacable Man|Implacable Woman]]
* [[Knight Templar]]
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: A Foreign badass woman with a grudge against Alex? Sounds like a certain old lady.
* [[Worthy Opponent]]: Sees Alex as this.

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